BIMIO Room Studio — Room finishes, both directions.

How Room Studio works · input → output

Hold the standard once. Let the rooms answer to it.

Room Studio has two halves. The mapping set holds the finish standard — that is the input. Analyse reads every room against it and Apply corrects the drift — that is the output. Here is the loop, top to bottom.

Isolate:

INInput · the mapping set

The standardWhoever owns the finish standard, once

Rules: bounding type → finish value…and the type to buildTwo reading heights per wallExport as one JSON

OUTOutput · the rooms

✓Up to date · greyed out and unticked

!Outdated · arrives pre-ticked — Apply is the fix

✕Unmapped · fix the mapping, not the room

–Never built · something to write or build for the first time

outdated rooms corrected in one transaction — floors, linings, ceilings, parameters, one Ctrl+Z

Tap Input or Output to isolate a half — the other collapses.

INThe input · the mapping set

One decision, held once — and it travels.

A set pairs your project's types with finish values, in both directions. Name it, duplicate it per phase or per client — and export it whole.

Who does this: whoever owns the finish standard

Writes the rules once; the rooms answer to them.

The set

One decision, held once — and it travels.

Mapping sets pair your project types with finish values in both directions. They are named — Fit-out GB, Shell only — duplicable, and exported and imported as one JSON that carries the rows, the options and the rules together, ready for another machine or the next project.

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Mapping setFit-out GB ▾Manage setsImport setExport set

Mapping sets

Rules

A rule says what a wall means — and what to build for it.

Ordered rules read the bounding element — its type name, or any parameter — and write any of the four room finish parameters: a fixed text, or whatever a parameter of the element says, so one rule can carry a whole keynote catalogue. The same rule names the type to build. Order is priority per element: the first rule that matches a wall decides that wall — and two rules matching two different walls both write, joined by the set's separator.

New to Revit: a finish standard that reads the model's own types — instead of a spreadsheet someone retypes.

Room StudioBIMIO

Rules — Fit-out GB

✎ Edit● Enable○ Disable⧉ Duplicate✕ Delete▲▼New rule

#	Active	Rule	Looks at	Writes	Builds	Reads	Found
1	Active	Blockwork means paint	Wall	Wall: Paint, emulsion · Base: Skirting, MDF	Wall: GYP Lining 62.5	Family type	38 el · 14 rooms
2	Active	Wet rooms tile	Wall	Wall: {Keynote}	Wall: Tile Lining 40	Function	12 el · 6 rooms
3	Active	Structural slab → screed	Floor	Floor: Vinyl, sheet	Floor: Screed + Vinyl 65	Family type	61 el · 61 rooms

Order is priority, per element: the first rule that matches a wall (or floor, or ceiling) decides that one. ▲ ▼ move the ticked rules.

Join values with/When nothing is mapped, write

Honest reading

It reads the wall the room actually sees.

Walls are read by ray, at two heights — 500 mm catches the dado, 2000 mm the paint above it — so the scan reports the lining standing in front of the structure, and the real wall above a low upstand, not the blockwork behind them. Every correction is reported, never silent. Floors and ceilings come from a ray grid over the room; a roof answers for the ceiling only where the room has none. What the scan cannot resolve, it counts — it never drops it quietly.

New to Revit: a finish reading that sees what a person standing in the room would see.

Scan noteBlockwork 140 → GYP Lining 62.5 (500 mm)

Two heights per wall — the first wall each ray meets wins, and the correction is reported.

Analyse reads every room in scope and writes nothing — every room is classified, and the outdated ones arrive pre-ticked.

Up to date fades back. Unmapped points at the set, not the room. A room the scan could not judge is never passed off as clean.

OUTThe output · the rooms

Analyse says which rooms drifted. Apply corrects them.

Nothing is written until you press Apply — and then it is one named transaction, in the order a builder would work.

Who lives this: whoever keeps the model honest

Analyse often, Apply when the drift is real.

One Apply

Built in the order a builder would.

Floors first, to the structural boundary, running through door thresholds — interior absorbs, exterior absorbs, or wall centre, per door. Linings seated on the new floor's top. Ceilings from the re-read, lining-bounded boundary, so the ceiling-versus-lining clash cannot exist. Parameters written last, honouring every value you edited in the table. All of it one named transaction — and the window stays open and rescans.

New to Revit: finish construction built room by room, in one gesture — with the build order thought through.

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Up to date · 61Outdated · 14Unmapped · 3Never built · 9Could not judge · 289 of 89 room(s)

Room	Level	Scan found	Floor finish	Ceiling finish	Wall finish	Base finish
1.04 — Office	L01	W: GYP Lining 62.5 · F: Screed + Vinyl 65 · C: —	Vinyl, sheet	Plasterboard, painted	Paint, emulsion	Skirting, MDF
1.07 — Meeting	L01	W: Blockwork 140 · F: Screed + Vinyl 65 · C: —	Vinyl, sheet	Plasterboard, painted	Paint, emulsion	Skirting, MDF
2.02 — Ward	L02	W: Tile Lining 40 · F: Screed · !	Vinyl, sheet	Plasterboard, hygienic	Tile, ceramic	Cove, vinyl
2.09 — Plant	L02	W: Precast 200 · F: — · C: —

Analysed 89 room(s): 61 up to date · 14 outdated · 3 unmapped · 9 never built · 2 could not be judged. Outdated rooms are pre-ticked — Apply is the fix.Re-analyseApply

Already written

A value that is already there is a decision, not a blank.

Three write modes — leave alone, refresh ours, overwrite — with every overwrite visible before it happens. And when a typed value disagrees with what the model says, a per-room chip flips the direction: model wins rewrites the parameter, parameter wins retypes the studio's own construction in place, so tags and annotations survive.

New to Revit: drift resolved in either direction — the model to the data, or the data to the model.

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Outdated · 33 of 89 room(s)

already written:leave alonerefresh oursoverwritedisagreements:model winsparameter wins

		Room	Level	Scan found	Floor finish	Ceiling finish	Wall finish	Base finish	Direction
		1.07 — Meeting	L01	W: GYP Lining 62.5 · F: Screed + Vinyl 65 · C: —	Vinyl, sheet	Plasterboard, painted	Paint, emulsion	Skirting, MDF	model → params

Analysed 89 room(s): 86 up to date · 3 outdated · 0 unmapped · 0 never built. Outdated rooms are pre-ticked — Apply is the fix.Re-analyseApply

What it owns

It knows what it built — and asks about what it didn't.

Provenance lives in extensible storage, never in Comments. Finishes modelled by hand that match the rules are adopted quietly; the right-type-wrong-geometry ones — a lining stopped short of the rule's height, a floor at the wrong offset — are put to you once: accept them as they are, bring them in line, or leave them alone. The answer sticks in the model, so nobody is asked twice.

New to Revit: a tool that can tell its own work from yours — and respects the difference.

Finishes already modelledBIMIO

2 finish(es) already modelled in 2 room(s) do not match the rule

Nothing is touched until you choose. Your answer is written into the model, so the same element is never put to you twice.

1.12 — Store · Wall 'GYP Lining 62.5' — top 2400 mm, the rule asks 2600 mm.

2.04 — Corridor · Floor 'Screed + Vinyl 65' — offset 0 mm, the rule asks 50 mm.

Accept as they areBring all in lineLeave all aloneApply these decisions

Room finishes, both directions.

The finish schedule and the model tell two different stories.

Hold the standard once. Let the rooms answer to it.

One decision, held once — and it travels.

One decision, held once — and it travels.

A rule says what a wall means — and what to build for it.

It reads the wall the room actually sees.

Analyse says which rooms drifted. Apply corrects them.

Built in the order a builder would.

A value that is already there is a decision, not a blank.

It knows what it built — and asks about what it didn't.

Both stories, one truth.