Turn off room bounding for just one view template?

[leuliss]

Hi all, we are working on creating some hvac space/zoning plans in revit (2022) but running into issues with the architects room bounding. They've got room bounding set up incorrectly, so sometimes you might go to create a space for a room but a chunk of the room is not included because of the architects wonky room bounding. I assume the easiest solution is to just turn off room bounding, however some of the other disciplines need it on for various things so I can't do that as it will effect the whole model. 

My question is, when creating spaces is there a way to ignore the architects room bounding and only go by the space separator lines that we have manually put in? Or, is there a way to turn off room bounding of an architect's model for just a specific view or view template? Ideally we would prefer that the spaces NOT be dependent on their room bounding, even where it's done correctly, because we want to be able to keep track of areas that have changed without us realizing and the best way for us to usually do this is by seeing if our room separator lines are still matching up with walls or not. 

TIA for any insight you can provide! 

[robert2JCCH · Accepted solution]

To my knowledge it's all-or-nothing in a shared model. If the other disciplines are separate, linked models, then each project file has the option to enable/disable room bounding on each linked file (the arch model).

Before you change your company's policy/strategy on model maintenance, the architect should be the first person to discuss any of this with. Specifically, why are the room bounds wonky? This suggests nonstandard practices, and if it's something they 'have' to do for their workflow, you need to be aware of what other side effects occur from doing so and disseminate to the other team members. Otherwise, they need to fix it.

[RobDraw]

Yeah, room bounding is a property of the link. You may need to add a copy of the link with room bounding off.

[leuliss]

I was told we need the room bounding for something to do with room tags. These sheets are just for internal use so I've figured out a way for now to make it not a problem for us. I started on this project about halfway through so I think it's probably a bit too late to talk to the architect about it, but in the future I'll be sure to check it in the early stages so it's not as big of an inconvenience to everyone. Thanks!

[iainsavage]

Just for future reference, turning off room bounding and adding your own room or space separation lines will become very tedious and very difficult to manage changes unless you've only got a handful of rooms. I would strongly recommend not using that method.

[robert2JCCH]

It's never too late to talk to another consultant about a specific practice, be it design or documentation. The worst outcome to bringing it up is that they get annoyed, hash out the details, and move on. The worst outcome to not bringing it up is discovering that that little oddity has caused an issue with someone's area calculations which propagates into either incorrect values for compliance or incorrect takeoffs for purchasing.