The Go to Room tool, available in the right-side toolbar, allows users to navigate model environments in a first-person view.
This tool provides an intuitive way to explore spaces such as rooms, areas, or environments directly within the model.
Requirements
For the Go to Room tool to be available:
- The environments must be modeled in the authoring software.
- The model must have extracted data.
Using the Go to Room Tool
Environments are organized in a hierarchical structure:
Model -> Floor -> Environment
To navigate to a room:
- Open the Go to Room tool from the right sidebar.
- Select the desired environment.
- Click Apply.
You will be automatically directed to the selected environment and placed in a first-person navigation mode, allowing you to explore the space freely.
Why Use Go to Room?
This tool helps users:
- Gain a better spatial understanding of environments
- Inspect elements within a specific room
- Analyze systems and components by hiding or isolating elements
For example, you can hide walls or finishes in a kitchen to visualize the hydraulic or mechanical systems behind them.
Important Notes on Rooms Import
Some environments may not be imported correctly. This usually happens when:
- Rooms were defined using closures from linked models
- For example, a room is created in the architectural model but is closed using elements from a linked structural model
Since BIMWorkplace does not import linked models, environments that rely on linked elements for closure cannot be fully recognized.
Recommendation
Use the Room Separator tool in Revit to correctly delimit environments within the same model, ensuring they are imported and recognized correctly in BIMWorkplace
