Egan Room Area Tools
Egan BIM ResourcesEgan Room Area Tools
Egan BIM ResourcesThis app facilitates room area comparisons, automates and displays occupant load calculations on room and area tags and calculates and displays major room dimensions on room tags.
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This app facilitates room area comparisons, automates and displays occupant load calculations on room and area tags and calculates and displays major room dimensions on room tags.
What you can expect from the Egan Room Area Tools application:
Room Area Comparisons: Reliable Area
This app supplements the Autodesk® Revit® room area with a “Reliable Area,” so that rooms “Not Placed” and rooms “Not Enclosed” are given a zero area instead of a null value. Now these rooms can be included in calculations like program area comparisons. See screenshots below for more information.
Occupant Load Calculations
This app provides an occupant load calculation for Rooms and Areas that is always up-to-date and displays on room and area tags in real time. No more convoluted workarounds for code information. For rooms or areas with fixed occupant loads, the automatic process can be skipped and entered manually. See screenshot.
Room Dimensions and Room Dimension Tags
Provides for a room dimension tag. Uses the distance apart of the two longest boundary lines and places this information on room tags. For unusually shaped rooms, the automated dimensioning may be skipped and entered manually. See screenshot.
Batch Updating
Provides a Batch Update Process to bring your projects up-to-date.
Sample Room and Area Tags
Provides sample tags for you to load into your project.
Details
Operating system
Release date
May 3, 2017
Last updated
Apr 20, 2026
Version
2027.0.1.10079
Language
Compatible with
RVT
2025, 2026, 2027
Certifications
Digitally signed
Capabilities
Architectural design
Annotation tools
Tags
Scheduling
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
What else should I know about this product?
This app adds a few shared parameters into your project the first time you open your project with this app enabled. The app uses these parameters to store the room information. You may add these shared parameters to your room tag families or you may modify the sample families to suit your needs.
When you make the decision to use this app permanently, you can load the shared parameters into your template by opening and saving your template while this app is enabled. Then the app will not need to load the shared parameters into every new project.
In addition, the app adds and deletes an area on project startup to initialize area processing. You may want to add at least one area to your Project Template so the starter area will not need to be loaded into every new project.
This app is licensed by application, not by version. Your license will allow you to use any year’s version on your computer at any time, so the use of this app will not affect your Revit upgrade schedule.
Previous versions of the app are available on our website https://eganbimresources.com
Are there any known issues with this product?
This app responds to events in the Revit database, and must respond to all eligible events to remain up-to-date. Therefore, to get the most value from it, each computer working on a given project must have the app installed.
To avoid Revit permission and ownership issues in a workshared project, this app regenerates room tags in the active view only. While you would only notice this issue if you have two views of the same room open side by side – for example, an overall view and an enlarged stair plan – be assured that the Revit database does contain the updated room information.
For room dimensions, circular and non-orthogonal rooms may give inconsistent results, but you can override the automated room dimensioning for any room.
On workshared projects, when opening a project for the first time, the app may have difficulty adding the necessary shared parameters due to file permissions issues, which may appear as odd error messages like "Central File Unavailable." If this happens, make sure everyone else is out of the project, open the central file, save, exit and reopen your local file. The shared parameters should now be loaded and ready to use.
Is there additional support information provided?
For software support, contact us at support@eganbimresources.com.
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