Hello everyone, I would like to know if it is possible to obtain the sum of all the inner surfaces of a room (including,ceiling,beams,walls) in order to estimate the the amount of interior plastering required for the walls.The functionality is already provided by revit room book extention but I wou…

@SouravGanguli Below is a definition that provides results that match your Roombook values for Walls, Floor and Ceiling. Haven’t extracted Door and Window areas, but it should be relatively simple to work out. Roombook.dyn (24.9 KB) [Roombook]

Hi @SouravGanguli Show us your attempts. Where did you got stuck. [image] SouravGanguli: I would like to acess it from within Dynamo to get more control over it. What are you looking to control?

To be honest I have no idea how to obtain this information with dynamo. I normally use to the room book extension to obtain this information,I was searching for a way to calculate the information within dynamo itself so that I can write the values into custom parameters of the rooms. Since it is a p…

Could you drop your dummy rvt file here.

Hello, I have uploaded both the revit file and the excel file obtained by using the Room Book extension, What I would like to do is total the values marked in red in the excel (that is the surface area of the ceiling and Wall,column surfaces) and write it to the project parameter plaster area added…

@SouravGanguli Please use the search tool with your keywords and come back with something you tried and specific issues around it that we can clearly identify. You could also be interested in reading the guidelines first: [image] How to get help on the Dynamo forums FAQ O…

Hello, My sincere apologies if I have not stated my question properly please forgive me. What I wanted to know was if there was any way to access room book like functionality from within dynamo such as custom node packages etc. I tried searching google for it but nothing turned up.

We could give you some clues indeed, there are tons of related information already online. So let’s say we don’t know how Roombook works: how would you describe the workflow you need with existing Dynamo functions? […] Here are some of the related links that could help to get started on such a pro…

@SouravGanguli Try the clues given by @Yna_Db . It will help you get started. Then come back here if you get stuck with your graph and error images.

Hello, Thanks for taking the time to look into my questions and for your suggestions. I will try the the suggestions given by you then revert back to you. I have attached below my attempt at achieving the goal with dynamo but the problem is the values obtained are not matching those obtained from …

Running Revit Room Book from Dynamo

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Wall Plaster.rvt (2.0 MB)
Roombook.xlsx (33.6 KB)

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Running Revit Room Book from Dynamo

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