CAD and BIM: Workflow for Rooms in Facilities Management

- [Shaun] In this CAD and BIM course for rooms in Revit, we're going to be looking at how we work with rooms in a Revit model. But more importantly, you need to be aware of the CAD and BIM workflow for rooms as well because you might have taken the rooms from, for example, a linked CAD file and then generated your Revit model from that linked CAD file. Now if I zoom in closer here you'll see that we've got various rooms already marked up. You can see there's workstations, break room, et cetera and everything's highlighted nicely and we've got all the room boundaries and so on. I'll explain all of that later as we go through the course, but what you need to realize is, obviously, as you're developing this model from perhaps a linked CAD file into Revit, you're developing all these rooms so that you've got a workflow between them. So ideally these rooms would also be marked up on the linked CAD file, but the problem you've got is you cannot take that information from the CAD file into the Revit model. It might just be, for example, a polyline, a closed polyline in the CAD drawing, but you need to start adding room bounding and room areas and so on in Revit. So what I'm going to try and get across in this course today is the ability to work with that workflow. Now I'm not going to show you how to link or import a CAD file into Revit. You should know how to do that already because this is more of an intermediate Revit course where we're looking at rooms only and how the rooms work in the Revit model.