Very Shallow Closets in Revit

By Heather Alley, IMAGINiT Building Solutions

*Revised*

We ran into a gotcha moment recently. When designing a residential storage closet that was 1’-3” deep, the Door Schedule would not read properly.

The Problem:

The door would not read ‘From Room: Name’ or ‘From Room: Number’ Parameters. No matter what we tried, the door refused to register its parameters!

The Solution:

It turns out doors need a minimum depth in the closet to “register” that the Closet exists. The Door Family needs 1’-6” from the centerline of its hosted wall (regardless of the wall’s type or location line) to the back depth of the room.

However, this was still a problem as we did not want to revise our closet depths to be 1’-3 9/16” as shown above. We decided as a team to divide the front wall of our closets into two separate individual walls, layered on top of each other, and joined together. The interior wall (composed of a stud layer and a layer of one sided gypsum board) was then set to be Non-Room Bounding. The exterior wall layer (composed of a single layer of gypsum board) remains as the Room Bounding Layer.

The closet then reads only the outside Gypsum Board Layer as the room bounding layer. Our schedule now works!

Please note: This solution also added Square Footage to the size of our closets, as the Room Area is now including the 4 1/4” depth of the front wall. In our case, it only added 1.27 SF, which we deemed to be acceptable.

 

1/26/2016 Revision:

In these kinds of situations, there are normally several ways to solve the problem. Via the comment section, what will also work is editing the family and moving the room calculation point closer to the door.

Comments

[Dmitriy]

To fix this problem you need not only open door family and activate the Room Calculation Point. Select one of the "point end" and move it close to the door.