Selecting A Room - Autodesk 256B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2010 User Manual

5 Click in the drawing area to place the room.
6 If you placed a tag with the room, name the room as follows:
If you place a room inside bounding elements, it expands to the element boundaries. You can also place a
room in a free space or one that is not entirely bounded, and then draw room-bounding elements around
the room later. When you add bounding elements, the room expands to the boundaries. See
on page 979.
Related topics
Controlling the Visibility of Rooms
Room Tags
Room Properties
Color Schemes

Selecting a Room

You can select rooms in plan views and section views. Select a room to check its boundaries, change its
properties, remove it from the model, or move it to another location.
To select a room, move the cursor over the room until its reference lines display, and click. You can also
place the cursor over the room perimeter, press Tab to cycle through choices until the reference lines display,
and then click.
A selected room in a plan view
978 | Chapter 16 Rooms and Areas
Revit Architecture highlights all room-bounding elements in gold, and displays a warning. To
see a list of all room-bounding elements in the model, including those that do not display in
the current view, click Expand in the warning dialog. To exit the warning and remove the
highlighting, click Close.
NOTE Revit Architecture will not place a room in a space that is less than 1' or 306 mm wide.
a Click Place Room tab
b In the room tag, click the room text to select it, and replace it with the room name.
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on page 1003
on page 1019
Select panel Modify.
on page 979
Room Boundaries