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.
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.
Roombook 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 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.