Troubleshooting Areabook

Troubleshoot common issues when working with Areabook

Cannot calculate area

Possible causes:

• There are no Revit rooms in the project. See Create a Room.
• Revit rooms are grouped with the Revit Create Group tool instead of the Areabook Add Room Group tool. See Add Room Groups.
• Areabook tag families (*.rfa) are not found.
• RoomAssignmentType.rfa is not found. See Room Assignment Type by Project Standard.

Values inaccurately report

Project unit settings are likely incompatible. See Project Settings.

• If no decimal positions are set, decimals will report as 0. For example, 0.10 will report as 0. Define the number of decimals.
• Decimal places are different. Revit allows to define different decimals for length, area and volume. Set the number of decimals to uniform values.
• If no units for area or circumference are displayed in a tag, be sure to define the appropriate suffix.
• Be sure rounding is set correctly for your needs.

Areabook data will not export to Excel

Possible causes:

• Excel export templates (*.xlt) are located in the wrong directory. Place them in the Export\Excel directory of the Areabook installation path.
• Excel must be installed for exporting to an Excel file.
• The export template was customized incorrectly or is corrupt. See About Excel Templates for Areabook.