Area Calculation – Is it possible in Revit Structure?
The answer is YES!
In the past, Nicolas and I have received a few emails from some Europe or Australia/New Zealand structural users saying that they need to calculate Area in their project and asking how can they achieve that in Revit Structure?
It is possible to achieve, but users need to know how to find the Area tool UI as they can access the Area tool in Revit Structure ONLY from the top horizontal Menu Bar.
Here are the steps:
1- First user needs to go to View > New > Area Plan.
2- Choose the Level that you would like to calculate the Area.
3- In the following screen, for demo purpose, I will choose "No" so that I can show you how to manually sketch the Area Boundary.
4- Once you click Yes or No, if you take a look on the Project Browser, you will see a new category called Area Plans (Rentable) and you can simply double click on the Level 1 Area plan which you've just created.
Important to know: Unlike a regular Structural Plan view where user can go to View Properties > Edit/New and adjust the View Direction to "Down" or "Up". There is a limitation for Area Plan that its View Direction can only be looking "Down" and user cannot really change it.
5- In the Area Plan (Rentable) – Level 1, go to View > Visibility/Graphics to turn on the Annotation Categories for Area Tags.
6- Go to Drafting > Area Boundary in order to define your areas.
7- Using the Pen/Draw option, start drawing and defining the area boundary that you would like to insert and calculate the area.
8- Go to Drafting > Area in order to insert the Area element and find out the square footage.
9- Revit Structure will ask you to Load an Area Tags family and you can say Yes.
10- Select the Area Tag.rfa under Annotations.
11- With the mouse curser, click inside the Area Boundary in order to insert the Area element and its associated Area Tag.
12- You can rename each Area by clicking on the Area element which is the invisible "X" (not the Tag!). Go to Element Properties and rename it.
13- Once everything is done, you can then create an Area Schedule (Rentable) by using your Schedule knowledge :-)
Wai
Great post but a pity it's needed. I wonder why it's hidden in the first place.
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