Revit MEP 2019 Essentials
Creating Spaces
Exercise 10
1. Start Revit 2019
2. Open Architecture_Model.rvt
3. Go to 00 Ground floor plan view. Notice the definition of the rooms,
naming, and numbers as well.
4. Select one of the rooms (make sure to select the cross, you can use [Tab]
key), using Properties, you can see different types of information. If
Volume is not computed, then go to Analyze tab, locate Spaces & Zones
panel, click the drop-down list of panel title, click Area and Volume
Computations button, make sure Areas and Volumes option is selected.
Click OK, check the Properties again, you will find Volume is calculated
5. Save and close the file
6. Open the file Exercise_10.rvt
7. You are at Mechanical / HAVC / Floor Plans / 00 Ground - HAVC view
8. Right-Click the view, and Duplicate with Detailing, rename the new view
00 Ground – Spaces. Make sure nothing is selected, click Edit Type, click
Duplicate, and call the new type Coordination.
9. Click Mechanical Plan button. From the left, click Duplicate, and name the
new template Coordination, click OK, from the right using Include column
turn off the following: View Scale, Detail Level, V/G Overrides Model, V/G
Overrides Annotation
10. For Discipline set it to be Coordination, and for Sub-Discipline type in
Coordination. Click OK twice to end the command
11. From Properties, locate View Template, click the button, and select
Coordination. From Properties, change the Discipline to Coordination, and
Sub-Discipline Coordination. You will notice that a new node is added to
the list of the views called Coordination.
12. Select 01 First – HAVC, Duplicate with Detailing, rename the new view
01 First – Spaces. From Properties, locate View Template, click the
button, and select Coordination. From Properties, change the Discipline
and Sub-Discipline to Coordination. From Type Selector, change the view
to Coordination
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Chapter 5: Creating Spaces and Zones
13. Go back 00 Ground – Spaces, select one of the Elevation symbol,
Gridlines, and Sections using Hide Category. Select one of the pieces of
furniture (hover over it, press [Tab] until you see it selected), and Hide
Category as well
14. Select the RVT Link, from Properties, click Edit Type button, turn on Room
Bounding on
15. Start Visibility / Graphics command, find Spaces, click the plus sign
beside it. Turn on Interior
16. Start Space command, and define the left Manager’s Office to be your first
space. Don’t change the name and the number
17. Define the second Manager’s Office to be your second space, leave the
default name and number
18. Start Space command, from context tab; click Place Spaces
Automatically. It will report that 24 spaces were created. Click Close
(Since some Rooms in this project were defined using Room Separators,
Spaces used the same separators i.e. Corridors)
19. Rename the chase space at the top to be C00-01, and the lower one to be
C00-02
20. Click Space Naming button, keep the default options, and click OK. You
will notice that all spaces were named and numbered based on the
definition of the rooms
21. Do the same thing for First floor. As for chases call them C01-01, and
C01-02
22. Rename the space at the right, near the staircase to be Reception and
give it number 226
23. Select one of the spaces, check the Properties for Electrical Lighting,
Eletrical Loads, Dimensions, Mechanical Flow, and Energy Analysis
24. Save and close the file
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