Tracking Which Area Scheme a Schedule Belongs to in Revit

Typical project browser names

Have you ever opened a Revit project and tried to understand the naming conventions (or lack thereof) for Area Schedules?  And then tried to figure out which Area Schedule belongs to which scheme?  Unless people leave the Area Scheme in the schedule title it is almost impossible – unless there is a trick that I don’t know?

When you create a new Area Schedule, it puts the Area Scheme in brackets at the end of the schedule name.  Many people rename it and remove that suffix because it shows up on the sheet, or they just don’t realise how important it is for identifying the Area Scheme it belongs to.

Area Schemes

Area Scheme names and descriptions are things that people are often very casual about – and it soon gets very messy.  In many cases, people just leave the default description.

Badly named Area Schemes

The first step in solving this issue is to train people to not only name the Area Schemes sensibly, but to give them a proper description so…

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