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Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters

Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Add length and width to a room tag using global parameters

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- [Instructor] This week we're going to do a continuation of the tip that we talked about last week and that was to add length and width labels beneath our room tags. So if you watched last weeks tip you recalled that we created shared parameters and applied those to rooms and then using the values from standard Revit dimensions we input those values into these manually created parameters for each of our rooms and then subsequently had our room tag report those values. The problem with this process was it was very manual, we had to input all the data one room at a time and then as changes occur in the model we had to go back and reimport the new values into those dimensions, in other words, there's no connection between these dimensions and the room that's being measured. So what we want to look at in this weeks tip is is there some way that we can go in and make a connection between those dimension values and the room…

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