Surface Material Types in Roombook

Learn how to create, edit, and apply surface materials in your project.

Surface material types are a set of materials which are applied to walls, floors, ceilings and circumferences of a particular room type. Use these types to link rooms in the project with predefined surface materials. For example, a hospital with 100 identically equipped bathrooms can have materials applied to each by applying a single corresponding surface material type. For example:

Surface Material Type	Wall surfaces	Ceiling surfaces	Floor surfaces	Room circumference
Bathroom	Tiles; Plaster	Plaster; Wallpaper	Tiles	Skirting Tiles
Habitable Room - Parquet	Plaster; Wallpaper	Plaster; Wallpaper	Parquet	Skirting Parquet
Side Room - Screed	Paint; Plaster	Paint	Screed	Standard

This global assignment of materials can then be easily changed by either editing the surface material type or individually editing the surfaces of the room.

If you do not link rooms with surface material types, then the room surfaces are calculated with the materials that are assigned to the element type (wall, floor etc.) by Revit. You have any freedom. See also the option "Consider materials (when by element is used)" on dialog page Calculate Room Quantities.

By default, predefined surface material types are loaded in any project with Roombook calculations.

Surface material types for a project are defined as a Revit family.

• Surface material types are stored in the family Roombook Materials.rfa which is located in the Revit defined directory for families.
• Define your own project or office standards for surface material types and load these into any project.
• Surface material types are language-independent. You can use different surface material type definitions with different languages in one project.
• When changing the project standard, you can choose to keep the assigned surface material types.