Linked Revit Model Floor Finishes

If you try to place a room between walls in the host model and walls or other elements in a linked model revit does not automatically recognize the room bounding elements of the linked model.

Linked revit model floor finishes. We re going to adjust this to include the wall finishes. On the properties palette for fields click edit. How to control the visibility settings of multiple revit linked files in a host file. You can adapt the name to match your existing standards.

Revit floor finish workflow thin floors type selector showing several floor finish elements. Revit floor finish workflow thin floors i created a design option set called floor finish legend and renamed the primary option empty. This workspace is set up to find the floor finishes inside of the model and set those finishes to the room s finish parameter. A level s primary floor does not have a good way to host multiple floor finishes and when the floor is coming from a linked structural model it is not possible at all.

Add the desired fields from the available fields list to the scheduled. See this post on creating floor finishes in the project itself. 1 model additional thin floors and walls. Create a new wall and floor type with a thickness of about 12mm 1 2.

To include project information from a linked model for select available fields from select project information. One solution is to use a thin floor element sitting on top of the main. Yes that does sound a little daft i know but honestly i think its going to work a treat and here s why. For example the following floor plan shows rooms being placed using.

However you can force revit to use the room bounding elements of a linked model. Select include elements in links. So my cunning plan is to model the floor finishes in each room like the floor type method but this time using ceilings instead of floors. Open the schedule in the host project.

When using the ceiling tool revit has the great feature called automatic ceiling. Call these elements int finish floor and int finish wall. Model these elements where you want to indicate a specific finish in your documents.