Changing a Room's Level

Changing a Room's Level

It is often the case that Rooms within Revit are inadvertently created on the incorrect level for a multi-story building.  Depending on the stage of the project when this is noticed, simply deleting the room and recreating it could cause the loss of all data associated with the room (finishes, occupancy, department, etc.) since Revit does not allow you to simply change the level of the room from the properties panel.  This was recently encountered on the Housatonic project, when a schedule was generated that filtered rooms by level for the addition portion of the project.  The following is a step-by-step process of how to the level of these rooms were revised without loosing the associated data:

• The below is a screen shot of the properties of the room prior to changing the room level for reference.  As you can see this room has finishes, an occupancy, a department and an occupant load associated with it, all which we want to retain after switching the level to the correct level.

• Go into a floor plan and hover/tab until you select the room (the blue X in the image above) and delete the room.  Be sure to delete the Room and not the Room Tag.  
• When you delete the room, you will get an error message stating that the Room has been deleted from the view but still exists in the project (see below).  This is the correct message you want to see.  You can ignore this warning as we are going to eliminate the warning with the corrective measures outlines below.

• Go back to the same floor plan and enter the Room Command to place a Room.  When you enter the command you will see a green toolbar appear below your ribbon.  The first and most important step is to ensure you select the correct level for the room. This can be selected from the properties bar under upper limit.  Prior to clicking in the room location, use the pull-down Room: New (in the image below) and select the room you previously deleted.  Note: this pull-down will give you a list of all unplaced rooms in your model.  This is good opportunity to look at which rooms can be deleted from your project to help control file size.

Select the Room you wish to re-place

• Place the "new" room into the original location and check your properties to see that all of the attached information is still associated with the room.

• One thing to note:  You will need to re-tag the room in your other plan views.  This only replaces the Room and not all of the tags.