Walking Distances tab

The distance tab allows you to calculate the distance from room A to Room B, while checking the accessibility at the same time. This is particularly interesting for designing maximum walking distances between patient rooms in e.g. hospitals, between gates at airports or comfortable adjacency of printers and coffee machines in office buildings. You can select, create, edit or delete a person profile with the dropdown menu and the buttons in the upper left corner. Read more on setting custom profiles>> To add a new distance between room A and room B you can add a new path by clicking the plus button in the lower left corner. A new window will open where a new distance rule can be created.


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Creating a new distance rule Room to Room

  1. Click the "new" (plus +) button in the lower left corner.
  2. A new window will open.
  3. In this window "From" and "To" categories are by default set to Room(s).
  4. Select the desired rooms "from" and "to" by clicking the dropdown menu and selecting the room.
  5. Enter a maximum walking distance.
  6. Click OK.



Creating a new distance rule Room to Object

  1. Click the "new" (plus +) button.
  2. A new window will open.
  3. In this window "From" and "To" categories are by default set to Room(s). Click the dropdown menu and change "To category" to Family Type Instance(s).
  4. Select the desired rooms "From" and the desired "To" object by clicking the dropdown menu and selecting the room and object.
  5. Enter a maximum walking distance.
  6. Click OK.



If the actual distance is longer than the maximum distance (Required Walking Distance), a red indicator will appear at the left of the table. If the actual distance is shorter than the maximum distance the indicator at the left of the table will be green. 


Creating a new distance rule from a Room type to each Object

  1. Click the "new" (plus +) button.
  2. A new window will open.
  3. In this window select "From" Room(s) and for room name with you keyboard enter a roomtype such as "office".
  4. In the "To" section select Family Type Instance(s) and select an object e.g. a toilet.
  5. Enter a maximum walking distance.
  6. Click Ok
  7. The plug-in will now calculate every path from every office to every toilet.
  8. You can visualize the paths in 2D and 3D as demonstrated below.


Visualizing walking paths

In order to visualize the walking paths in 2D click the Calculated Walking Distance button. The walking paths will be drawn with a green line in your Revit floorplan.


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In order to visualize the walking paths in 3D click the Average Walking Distance button. The walking paths will be drawn with a green line in your Revit floorplan.



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Distance rule calculation method

The app will calculate the distance from every [A] to the nearest [B]. From this the longest distance and an average will be taken. This method is used to calculate the longest distance to the nearest printer, toilet, coffee machine, cash register, reception, bin etc.



Accessibility rule calculation method

The app will calculate the accessibility of the floor plan from the mid-point of one door to the other by calculating the shortest distance required, although this is mainly true for simple regular geometries (Example 1). Although for irregular geometries as seen in Example 2 a point (red star) needs to be defined by the Revit family. 


Example 1:
 Example 2: