Adding Space Separators and Modifying Room Bounding Status in Revit

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WOMAN: Adding Space Separators and Modifying Room Bounding

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Elements in Revit.

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In this video, we're going to fix some issues with the 3D

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volume of a space by adding space separators where the room

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may not be correctly specified.

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Then we'll modify the room bounding status of some ceiling

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elements in the linked architectural model

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and see how that impacts the spaces.

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I'm working in the small Medical Center building

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and I have the space section zoomed in on the reception

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area and the upper lobby.

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There are two issues that we need to deal with now.

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First, the space is extending outside the building.

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This is most likely because of the angled windows

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you can see here.

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There could be a break in the room bounding elements

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around this window.

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To fix this, I'm going to open the O2 second floor space plan

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and I'm going to zoom in on the window.

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And you can see here when I select the space

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that it actually is reaching into the window.

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So there's some problem with the room bounding status there.

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To fix this, I'm going to go into the Analyze tab, Spaces

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and Zones panel, and click Space Separator.

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This lets me draw a line for the space.

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I'm going to draw that line and you can see

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it cleans up the information.

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I had to Escape to finish the command.

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I'm going to scroll down a little bit.

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I'm going to run the same command.

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I want to draw my space separator across the window.

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It doesn't really matter how long it

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is just so it's covering it up.

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I'm going to go to my space section

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and you can see that that space has been cleaned up there now.

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One more thing needs to be done to the space.

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In the architectural link there are

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some ceilings that keep the space

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from filling out the area.

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And it's important to calculate this area between the ceilings

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and the roof.

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Because the ceilings are sloped there

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could be some added complications

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to applying a space if we try to do use a plenum.

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But there is an easy answer if the architect will cooperate.

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You can ask the architect to change these elements so

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that they are non-room bounding.

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Let's take a look at how that would be done.

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I'm opening up a copy of the architectural link.

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I'm using a copy for demonstration purposes.

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And I'm in my longitudinal section

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and that's a good view for what I need to work on.

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So I'm coming over to my longitudinal section

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and I find those ceilings.

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So here's the ceiling and you can see in Properties

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that it's set to Room Bounding.

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I'm going to click that Off and then

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I'm going to do the same thing for the other ceiling.

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Again, it's Room Bounding.

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I'm going to turn that Off.

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Then I'm going to Save and Close this file.

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Right now this link is not part of my project.

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So I need to select the existing link and then in the ribbon I

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click Manage Links.

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Go in to Manage Links and change from Small Medical Center A

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and reload it from the one I just changed which was A2.

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I'm going to click Open and I'm going to click OK.

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And you can see that my space now fills this area.

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So now my next step is to go ahead and add the plenum

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spaces.