Revit making spaces all the same color

[leuliss]

Creating spaces in revit 2022 and all of a sudden it's giving every space the same color. Could it have to do with me changing the numbering? I started with numbering as 05-XX (05 being unit number) and have now moved to 03-XX for the next unit, and they are all this same shade of red. When doing the spaces for unit 05 it was giving each space a different color (though some were still very similar to each other, they were all technically different). Any ideas how to get it back to applying different colors to each newly created space? 

TIA

[iainsavage]

What is your filter criteria?

[leuliss]

It's number by value. (The tag I've got uses number not name to label the spaces)

[iainsavage]

Doesn't matter.

When you change the criterion for colour you should see this message:

Ok that.

Then change back to your number criterion and you should see the warning again and all colours should be reset to defaults.

[leuliss]

That just changed which spaces are the same color. Now instead of my 03 spaces, it's half of the 05 spaces that are the same shade of pink. (When I say same shade, I mean the RGB values are the exact same, I know sometimes revit will give very similar but technically different colors but here they are all the exact same). 

Edit to add: And making new spaces after doing that they are all the same color still

[iainsavage]

It works for me.

I renumbered a few rooms spaces with a hyphen in case that was causing the problem but it still works for me.

I've not seen your problem before but to be honest I've never tried to colour so many individual items.

Maybe you've exhausted the amount of colour choices available to Revit, or something in your settings is only seeing the 03 part of the criterion?

[leuliss · Accepted solution]

It does look like it's over a certain number of spaces when it starts to become a problem. This is a known issue in my office but nobody has ever figured out how to fix it so I thought maybe I'd ask here. I would be a bit surprised if revit truly could not handle coloring over a certain number of spaces, you'd think it would just repeat the pattern it used for the first XX amount of spaces. 

Maybe until I can find a solution I'll just color them by their unit numbers rather than individually. 

[iainsavage]

I would say that colouring spaces individually by number is unusual and probably pointless because I doubt if the human eye would be able to distinguish such subtle shade differences and relate each space to a colour key.

Normally (in my opinion) you would distinguish them by say space type, some aspect of the HVAC data (cooling load, air flow etc).

You can always change the colour choices manually

but then don't ever change the filter or you'll lose the colour setup and then have to do it all over again. Save any manual changes into a new schema to avoid this.

[leuliss]

Hi - I was not looking for criticism on how I am doing my work but thanks for your attempt at help. I will come up with my own solution since I've not had luck finding anything online. 

[iainsavage]

---

@leuliss  wrote:

Hi - I was not looking for criticism on how I am doing my work but thanks for your attempt at help. I will come up with my own solution since I've not had luck finding anything online. 

---

It wasn't criticism, it was constructive advice.

Good luck for the future.

[lleblancSBBXJ]

Reopening this issue.  Has anyone come up with a solution for this?  It's really frustrating that Revit runs out of colors. 

[RLY_15]

Until Color Schemes are accessible through the API, there likely won't be any solutions (no add-in development or Dynamo scripts to forcibly inject more colors/change color strategy)