How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

[scbunker]

I often get models from the architect that have overlapping rooms. See below:

Does anyone know how to tag rooms that are "under" another room? For example, that Unit J room is "under" the unit's Kitchen and Living rooms, so if I use the Room Tag command I can only tag the Kitchen or Living room.

The only way I know how to do it is to Tag All Not Tagged, then go delete all the tags that I don't want. This is annoying. I'd like to be able to Tab through the rooms (like you can with other things) and tag just the one I'm looking for, but it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[L.Maas]

If they are above each other you might change your view range so that you only see the top or bottom ones

[ASCunningham]

Sometimes I end up selecting the tab button until I get the correct room selected then using tag all to get the tag placed in the view.

[scbunker]

@L.Maas, thanks. I checked in section and the rooms are filling the same vertical space. So the room on "top" is probably just the one that was created second in the model.

@ASCunningham, thanks but no amount of tabbing in no location that I can find will switch to the other room.

[ASCunningham]

Make sure you have the select links box checked under your modify button. That may help?

[scbunker]

That also didn't work @ASCunningham. Same behavior no matter how selection toggles are set.

[ASCunningham]

If all else fails I've just copied the room/rooms from the architectural link and paste aligned into my project. You can then tag the room but the name/number would have to be manually updated if it changes.

Kind of my last resort option

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Why don't you show the Architect your screenshot indicating the overlapping rooms and ask him to fix them?

[svajk]

Asking the architect to fix it is not a robust solution to an obvious flaw in Revit. This issue is not "solved".

There are a miriad of reasons why, here's just a few:

• The "rooms" intersect because they do not have horizontal ceilings, or a multi-story atrium with side rooms at half-story levels that bump-out into the space, etc. I've encountered NUMEROUS situations where the vertical room bounding capabilities of Revit are insufficient.
• It's 10pm Pacific, and your package is due tomorrow. The architect is in New York. Good luck getting them to fix it!
• The architect is so bad at their job, that they are in the process of being fired by the overall client, so they aren't going to lift a finger to help fix their mistakes

[RobDraw]

Obviously, it is the solution. Your worst case scenario has little merit as it should be caught during coordination. You are doing coordination, right?

[steenvoordena]

The best way to solve this is to just select the room you want to tag FIRST.  Then go into the Annotate -> Tag All option and it should be automatically checked off to only tag your selection.  From there, if you select Room Tag it will tag that room that you wanted.  This is the best work around that I found, although there isn't a way to do this for bulk rooms at a time.