Applying color schemes to room volumes

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So now from the project browser, we'll open up section B

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and this is going long ways through the building.

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And again, as we move over here, we can see we have the room so I can select the lounge,

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the hallway and the kitchen are here too.

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So we'll add tags to these rooms so that we can see the information about them.

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And to do this from the architecture ribbon tab on the room and area panel,

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we'll click the tag room tool.

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We can see we have the room tag with volume selected.

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So we just need to go around and we can click on

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each of these rooms here so we can grab the lounge,

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the hallway and the kitchen.

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And then we'll also add in the rooms on the second floor here. So

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the bedroom, the landing and the other bedroom.

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And now that we've got those placed,

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we'll also assign in a color scheme to make it easier to identify the rooms.

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So to do this, we'll go to the annotate ribbon tab

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and from the color fill panel or click the colorful legend tool.

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Now, we can see we have the legend attached to our cursor. So

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I'll click to place this by the side of the view here.

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And now we need to change the space type from spaces to big rooms.

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And then the scheme is set to be by name. So we'll click. Ok.

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And then we can see straight away that we have colors assigned to each of those rooms.

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And the legend has also been updated to match.

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And actually with this color scheme applied,

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it becomes obvious that we need to adjust the heights of these rooms

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via the limit offset parameter to fill the volumes of the room.

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So I first select the kitchen

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and then holding down the control key, I'll select the hallway too

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and we can see that the second floor level is at 12 ft.

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So in the properties palette here, we'll change the limit offset to be 12 ft or so.

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When we apply that we can see those rooms filling

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the space to the under side of the second floor.

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Now, with the lounge, we can see it actually goes full height up to the roof. So

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using the height controls here will drag this up to the underside of the roof.

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And once we've set this,

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we can now see that as it goes past the second floor on the upper level here,

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it's inset slightly

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and this is because the second floor is room bounding

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and that's therefore controlling the shape of the room from a vertical standpoint

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we can also see now that we have the volumes updated on the tags of these rooms

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with the one in the lounge taking account for the double height space that we have.

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And that completes placing the rooms and calculating the volume for this model.