Template:Revit Create Rooms Basics

You can define rooms in your plan. This is useful in your Plan Views, as each room gets a Room Tag that can be used to identify the room. But it is also used to create Room Schedules: an overview of all rooms in your project. You can list all kinds of additional room properties in a Room schedule, such as area or volume.

1. Open your Floor Plan.
2. On the Architecture tab, in the Room & Area panel, click (Room)
3. When you move your mouse pointer to your floor plan, Revit highlights each room in your drawing as it detects it. Rooms must be closed regions, bounded by model elements (walls etc) and Room Separation Lines.
4. Click for each highlighted area that you want to create a Room for. Note that each room is identified by a number and a text (defaults to 'Room'). The number is automatically incremented by Revit.
5. In the Ribbon, click (Modify) to end the command.

If Revit doesn't recognize a room, make sure it is closed entirely by walls, windows and doors and that the enclosing walls have set Room Bounding set to 'on' in their properties. Retaining walls have this option set to 'off' by default.

To add Room Separation Lines: On the Architecture tab, in the Room & Area section, click (Room Separator).

Revit creates Room Tags in each room. Double-click the 'Room' text of each Room tag to rename it to something useful. Each name results in a different fill-color. When you use the same text twice, both rooms will have the same color. If you don't have a Color fill Legend you won't see any colors yet, you will need to create one to be able to see the colors (see Room Legend ).

Make sure to set the Visual Style of your Plan View to Hidden Line (using the View Control Bar). When you use Wireframe, the room fill color will run to the centerline of the walls, effectively overlapping your walls.