Delete multiple holes/rooflights

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swilson
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Delete multiple holes/rooflights

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Can I delete multiple holes in one go?

Problem is I'm having my first attempt at using a revit model for IES and it isn't going great.
I've deleted all mullions and columns within revit (I made a local model and dettached from central 1st) and deleted all spaces with geometry errors so I can rebuild them. However every single space seems to have been unbounded at ceiling level. all my ceilings are holes. obviously I can go in each room level and delete these holes but there is around 100 hundred of them.
I was wondering if there is a function to delete all holes.

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Complex Potential
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Re: Delete multiple holes/rooflights

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None that I know of, sorry.

I've never found a single example where importing a model worked out as less hassle than simply building it myself.
swilson
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Re: Delete multiple holes/rooflights

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Well I found that it was easier to edit in revit,

It was a case of ensuring all the rooms were bounded by the upper level/roof and ensuring there was no offset.

Then ensuring all the roofs/floors walls were room bounding.

Still I got the model to work, but it was a major hassle, strange inner volume representation which caused strange internal conduction gains.

moral of the story i will be building my models from scratch from now on.

So much for BIM.
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Re: Delete multiple holes/rooflights

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The command "rmopen=1" will delete all openings with an area less than 1m2. "rmopen=5" will delete all less than 5m2, etc. etc.

Perhaps you could have used that?
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Re: Delete multiple holes/rooflights

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I'm with CP on this. Its easier to use ModelIT. Hell architects cant even be relied upon to draw on the same plane let alone get a whole 3d model correct with no leaks.
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