Troubleshooting Roombook

Troubleshoot common issues when working with Roombook.

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.
Roombook Materials.rfa is not found. See Edit Default Surface Material Types.

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.

Possible causes:

Excel export templates (*.xlt) are located in the wrong directory. Place them in the Export\Excel directory of the Roombook 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 Roombook.
If the exported file is empty, be sure that rooms and room groups are selected on the Calculate Room Quantities dialog. See Select Rooms and Room Groups.