Here in New South Wales, Australia, we have a planning requirement (SEPP65) to provide a certain amount of storage in multi-unit residential developments. Some of that storage can be in the apartment itself, and some can be in storage cages/cupboards in the basement.
The storage has to be calculated by volume per apartment – this means that we have to create schedules that combine the storage cupboards in apartments with the cages in the basement. Thus we need to create objects of different shapes and sizes in the model.
There are several ways to calculate the volumes from these objects, but surely the simplest way would be to use Revit’s automatic volume calculation properties?
System Volume Property
You would think that Revit would be able to report back the volume of any object in your model. It is a database, right?
It turns out that it can do so, to a very limited extent – and of course that leads to restrictions and frustrations.
It seems that only cetain category…