Controlling The Visibility Of Rooms; Room Boundaries; Rooms In Plan Views - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

When you select a room in a section view, you can visually check its upper and lower boundaries and use
the grips to adjust them, if needed. See
Graphically

Controlling the Visibility of Rooms

By default, rooms do not display in plan views and section views. However, you can change visibility/graphic
settings to make rooms and their reference lines visible in these views. These settings become part of the
view properties.
BEST PRACTICE Create view templates with the desired room visibility settings. Apply these view templates to
views in which you want to display and work with rooms. See
To display rooms
1 Open the plan view or the section view.
2 Type vg, or click View menu
3 On the Model Categories tab of the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog, scroll down to Rooms,
4 To display rooms in the view using an interior fill color, select Interior Fill.
5 To display reference lines for rooms, select Reference.
6 Click OK.

Room Boundaries

Revit Architecture uses room boundaries when computing the area, perimeter, and volume of a room. You
can check room boundaries in plan views and section views.
To check room boundaries, you can select rooms or change visibility/graphic settings for the view. See
Selecting a Room
TIP When working with rooms, open a plan view and a section view, and type wt to tile the windows. This strategy
allows you to see the perimeter of the room and its upper and lower boundaries at the same time.
Related topics
Room Area
Room Volume
Design Options and Rooms

Rooms in Plan Views

Use a plan view to visually check the outer boundaries (perimeter) of a room.
By default, Revit Architecture computes the room area using the wall finish as the outer boundary. You can
specify the wall center, wall core layer, or wall core center as the outer boundary. See
Area Boundary Location
on page 931.
and click to expand it.
on page 914 and Controlling the Visibility of Rooms
on page 926
on page 928
on page 1256
on page 928.
Rooms in Section Views on page 916 and
View Templates
Visibility/Graphics.
Changing the Room Height
on page 498.
on page 915.
Changing the Room
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