Creating areas from rooms

Generate Revit Areas from Rooms by selecting an Area Schema and level, with options to create boundaries, link areas to rooms, and copy area types from Space Use Classes.

About this task

Areas and Area Tags require an insertion point that is within the bounding lines. To determine an insertion point, the tool first tests the center of the bounding box for the Room and uses it if it is within the Room. If it is not, it tests the anchor point for the Room Tag and uses it if it is within the Room. If it is not, an error is reported and no Area is created.

This image shows the Create Areas from Rooms form.

This table provides actions and notes for filling the Create Areas from Rooms form.

Area Schema

Select an Area Schema: Gross Building Area, Rentable Area, or a Custom Schema. To use this tool, the Area Schema must already exist in the model. Area Schema can be created with the “Area Plan” tool found on the Architecture tab.

Create Area Plan for Level

Select a level.

Area Plan Name

Select an existing Area Plan to reuse, or click New to create a new Area Plan. If New is selected, the New Area Plan field is enabled.

Create Areas boundaries and Areas

If this option is not selected, and an existing Area Plan is selected, existing Areas are deleted, but no new Areas are created. That is, it clears the Area Plan.

Link Area to Room

When selected, the steps that are manually performed in the Map Areas to Rooms tool are automatically performed as part of Area creation.

Copy Area Type from Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities Space Use Class

If a Room has a Maximo Real Estate and Facilities Space Use Class assigned, the Area Type parameter of the Area created from the room is initialized from the BOMA class of the Space Use Class using the following mapping:

Maximo Real Estate and Facilities BOMA Class: Revit Area Type
Building Common: Building Common Area
Building Shared: Building Common Area
Exterior Walls: Exterior Area
Floor Shared: Floor Area
Office: Office Area
Other Tenant: Office Area
Store: Store Area
Vertical Penetration: Major Vertical Penetration

Important:

If Areas already exist for the selected Area Schema/Level combination, you are prompted to delete the existing Areas. It is not required that existing Areas be deleted. However, if they are not, Revit issues a warning whenever an existing Area and an Area created by this tool overlap, and the new Area may not be placed properly. These warnings must be manually resolved.

If existing Areas are deleted, all information in the existing Areas is lost. New Areas are created solely from the Rooms. In addition, the new Areas have different IDs from the deleted Areas even if they occupy essentially the same space. Any references to the Area by ID will be broken. When existing Areas are deleted, links between Level and Area Plan, and Room and Area created by the Map Areas to Rooms tool are automatically removed.