Session 3 · Document it

About two hours. Start from pavilion_s2.rvt. Until now Revit looked like a modeller with a good print dialog. This session shows the other half: every wall, door and room carries data, and the drawings can read it. A tag is not a text label. A schedule is not a table you type into.

The result

The pavilion with named, numbered rooms, a dimensioned and tagged plan, and a door schedule placed on the sheet next to the plan. Saved as pavilion_s3.rvt. This is the file you bring to the first class.

Workflows, in order

1. Place Rooms and Tags That Report Name, Number, and Area — Every enclosed space carries a Room whose tag shows its computed area. (clip)
2. Rooms & Area Calculation — Room boundaries and areas that stand up to checking. (clip)
3. Annotate a Plan with Dimensions, Text, and Tags — A dimension string, a text note, and door and window tags reading data from the model. (clip)
4. Build a Door Schedule That Fills Itself In — A live schedule: Mark, Type, Width, Height, Level, placed on your sheet. (clip)

Optional, if you have half an hour left and want to see why the course spends a whole class on views:

5. Selecting by Type, Filtering, Isolating, and Hiding Elements — Select by type, filter, isolate and hide with intent. (clip)

Checkpoint

• Add a partition wall that splits the pavilion in two. Two rooms appear and their tagged areas add up to roughly the original. Delete the wall again if you like.
• Rename a door's Mark in the schedule. The tag on the plan changes. Rename it on the plan. The schedule changes.
• Every door and window on the plan has a tag, and the tags are not sitting on top of the dimensions.
• Reprint the sheet. The PDF now carries plan, section and schedule, and the title block has your name on it.

If it went wrong

• The room tag says "Not Enclosed". There is a gap in the walls somewhere. Go back to the Session 1 checkpoint and hover the corners.
• The room area seems too large. Check whether the room is being measured to the wall centre or the wall finish. The area-calculation workflow shows where that setting lives.
• The schedule is empty. It is filtered to a level with no doors, or the doors were placed on a different level than you think. Remove the filter first.

You are done

You have modeled, printed and documented a building. In the course you will do this loop again, twice, each time deeper: real sites, Rhino geometry coming into Revit, multi-storey walls and stairs, view control, diagrams and a final visualisation. Save pavilion_s3.rvt somewhere you will find it in September.

Questions along the way go to Ask Archidemy. And if a step in a workflow was unclear, say so there too; the library gets better because people ask.