CAD and BIM: Workflow for Rooms in Facilities Management

Learn how to use Revit to develop room plans and schedules from CAD models.

Revit offers a workflow that’s uniquely suited to facilities management, particularly room and area design. You can take a linked CAD file and generate a detailed room schedule by defining room-bounding parameters and areas. In this course, you can learn how to use Revit to develop room plans and schedules from CAD models. Discover how to retrieve room data from the model, create a room floor plan, tag rooms, add new rooms and departments, and associate spaces with occupancy. Instructor Shaun Bryant also explains how to generate detailed room schedules from your design for sharing with clients and colleagues.

Introduction

• The CAD and BIM workflow for rooms in Revit
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Using RVT files and version compatibility

1. Exploring Rooms in Revit

• Exploring the Room & Area panel on the Revit ribbon
• Working with a project with defined rooms
• Room properties: Identity data
• Room number
• Room name

2. Creating a Room Floor Plan

• Duplicating a floor plan
• Setting the visible elements in the plan
• Creating a new room-only room tag family
• Changing existing room tags

3. Adding New Rooms to the Floor Plan

• Adding rooms to the floor plan
• Adding room separators in the floor plan
• Tagging rooms in the floor plan

4. Adding New Departments to the Floor Plan

• Adding departments to the floor plan
• Showing departments using a color fill legend

5. Working with Room Tags

• Editing room tags
• Editing room numbers and room names
• Changing room tag types in the floor plan

6. Generate Room Legends in the Floor Plan

• Creating a new color fill legend for room names
• Editing the color fill schema to highlight specific rooms
• Editing room names on color fill legend

7. Adding Occupants to Rooms

• Adding occupants to rooms in the properties palette
• Checking occupants
• Creating a color fill legend for occupants

8. Creating Room Schedules

• Creating a new room schedule
• Adding the schedule to a sheet

Conclusion

• Next steps