Hi,
Is there a way to create a new Area Scheme?
I can’t find it anywhere…
you can start here
Hi if i remeber right…genius loci have some nodes 
Just to revive this thread, even following Jacob’s thread, it ends with the same question I still have: “Has anyone figured out a way to generate the initial colour scheme associated to the newly created Area plan / Scheme?”
I managed to copy an existing Area Scheme with a Duplicate element node, but the new Area Scheme has no Colorifll and there seems not to be any way to create one in the UI, since everything is grayed out (let alone Dynamo).
Genius Loci nodes can help with Colorfill properties, and to set or get colorfill from Area Plans, but nothing on managing Area Scheme, or assigning Colorfill to Area Schemes
Thank you
Hi @Giovanni_Succi Which revit version are you in ? probably something here
works nice here in 25
Thank you Sovitek.
So, the issue is not to apply a colorfill scheme to a area plan view, but to an Area Scheme.
Autodesk seems to suggests (in your links) that Area Schemes with a blank colorifll panel need to be removed and re-created.
Let’s step back to the root of the problem, and the tool I am trying to make for my team.
- We make Area plans to study program distribution and building sizes.
- THE INSTANT an area plan is done, another option is discussed and needs to be studied.
- A new area plan needs to be drawn for the new option, with the new Option setup in the visibility settings.
- Areas and Area boundaries do not have an Option parameter (whaaa??) they only live in the Main Model.
- Areas and Areas Boundaries behaves like model elements within the same Area Scheme (they show and schedule), and like detail elements across different Area Schemes (they do not effect each other, views or schedules).
- The only way yo draw a different Area Plan option is to create a new Area Scheme (say, “option 2”)
- Now we can draw different Area boundaries and Areas on the same level, in two different Area Plans showing different Options.
- The ColorFill from Option 2 is now different form option 1 because they are coming from different Area Schemes.
- So, we need to create a blank project, Transfer the ColorFill Scheme, rename the Area Scheme, transfer it back to the project.
- Repeat 30 times a week.
I thought I would create a tool that duplicates Area Plans (and maybe even sheets) into a new Area Scheme, so to avoid this brain damage.
Easy right? Nope.
I used a “Duplicate element” node to duplicate the original Area Scheme, but the ColorFill Schemes do not come with it. As a matter of fact, the new Area Scheme has no Colorfill at all, and it is therefore useless.
I believe there are still no methods to create a new Area Scheme, with a default “Scheme1” ColorFill, correct? This is the crucial point.
After this, I can create the New Area Plan and transfer to it the Color Fill properties, no problem.
As of today, all I can do is this last step, but I was hoping to provide a more powerful “Copy this area plan into a new option” kind of tool.
I believe your example will work nicely, but the two Area Plans will belong to the same Area Scheme, right? Unless the Duplicate.View node allows for the new Area Plan to be from a different Area Scheme…
At the end, not being able to duplicate an Area Scheme, with its ColorFill Schemes, is quite huge lack of functionality.
Even a larger issue is the fact that Area Schedules and Area Plans are forever locked to their Area Scheme, and cannot be copied and then made to “look” at a different Area Scheme.
(A Corollary of this issue is that Area Schedules, incredibly, do not show what Area Scheme they are looking at).
Thank you again.