Roombook Extension for Revit

The Roombook Extension calculates the room-related surface areas of walls, floors and ceiling elements as well as room circumferences and furnishing elements for a complete material calculation of the interior finish.

Roombook algorithms detect room surfaces beyond what Revit calculates. For example, you can calculate how much plaster is needed for the interior finish of a room:

• Roombook calculates visible surfaces.
• Joining or overlapping walls, floors, ceilings, columns, beams, and other features are recognized and calculated.
• Openings in walls, floors and ceilings are detected to adjust the calculated surfaces and the material requirement.
• All materials of the surfaces are listed.

Different country-specific standards for calculating room quantities are part of the Roombook Extension :

• The International standard calculates actual quantities as the project is designed.
• The German VOB standard calculation allows for openings in walls, floors and ceilings depending on their size. You can edit or disable the predefined defaults to calculate real quantities.

Both standards use the following guidelines in association with other defined calculation rules:

• Each surface calculation is made transparent by a detailed listing of all sub areas.
• Apart from automatic detection of elements and subareas, you can manually add further elements. Additionally, you can illustrate situations without constructive equivalents in the project, by either numerical definition or graphical selection of detail or model lines (such as in the use of tile panels).
• Define a wall height reduction on a per-room basis to calculate the material requirements for reflected ceilings.
• All subareas can be modified (including materials) to handle exceptions and special situations.
• Surface material types contain material definitions for walls, slabs, ceilings and room circumference which are assigned to particular room types (such as bathrooms or living rooms). This allows for automated assignment of surface materials to rooms.
• Material requirements are listed by room and room group and in total.
  Note: Only room groups created by the Areabook Extension are compatible).
• Calculated quantities can be exported to a detailed Excel file, separated by
  • wall surfaces (including inner reveals and window area per room)
  • floor surfaces (including threshold areas)
  • ceiling surfaces
  • room circumference
  • furniture elements (optionally including pictures).
• Export to Design Web Format (DWF) to edit the data further with Autodesk Quantity Takeoff.
• You can export Roombook data to a csv-file.
• You can export data toRevit schedules.