Rooms Spanning Floors Or Levels; Room Tags; Tagging A Room - Autodesk 256B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2010 User Manual

To use room boundaries in a linked model
1 In a plan view of the host project, select the linked model symbol.
2 Click Modify RVT Links tab
3 In the Type Properties dialog, select Room Bounding.
4 Click OK.
Now you can place rooms in the plan view, using the boundaries defined by room-bounding elements in
the host project and the room-bounding elements in the linked model. See

Rooms Spanning Floors or Levels

Rooms can span multiple floors or levels. For example, a building that has a public space or atrium that
spans multiple floors can be represented with a single room. Use the Upper Limit and Limit Offset parameters
to define the upper boundary of the room. See

Room Tags

Rooms and room tags are separate but related Revit Architecture components. Rooms are model elements
in Revit Architecture, like walls and doors. Room tags are annotation elements that can be added and
displayed in plan views and section views. Room tags can display values for related parameters, such as room
number, room name, computed area, and volume.
Related topics
Creating Sequential Room Number Tags
Room Tags for Design Options

Tagging a Room

Before you can tag a room, you must add the room to the project. See
do not use the Tag on placement option when creating rooms, you can use the following procedure to tag
rooms later.
NOTE As an alternative, use the Tag All Not Tagged tool to tag all untagged rooms in a view. This tool can be
useful, for example, when you place and tag rooms in a floor plan view, and you want to see tags for the same
rooms in a reflected ceiling plan (RCP) view. See
The status bar displays the following:
RVT Links: Linked Revit Model: <model name>.
on page 1324
Element panel Element Properties drop-down
Defining the Upper Boundary of a Room
on page 1130
Tag All Not Tagged on page 1126.
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Type Properties.
Creating a Room on page 977.
on page 993.
Creating a Room on page 977. If you