Emergency egress planning is crucial in building design, and Revit’s Path of Travel tool simplifies the process to ensure safe evacuation in your floor plans. This blog covers setting up and adding travel paths, identifying obstacles, and updating them in the view.
Creating Clear Exit Strategies with Revit's Path of Travel Tool
When designing buildings, it’s essential to incorporate emergency evacuation plans that clearly indicate the safest routes out of the structure. Building regulations specify exact measurements for exits, making accurate data capture in the architectural model vital. The Path of Travel feature assesses distances between key points, allowing users to add or remove checkpoints, identify barriers, and modify routes as needed.
Once a path is established, users can add or delete waypoints and enable Reveal Obstacles to avoid interference from objects. The path lines can be tagged for inclusion in schedules, and the start and end points can be adjusted using grips. Should any geometry in the model change, simply select Update to refresh the path.
How to Set Up and Add a Path of Travel
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To see what obstacles are in the view, in the Analyze tab>Route Analysis panel, click Reveal Obstacles.
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In the Analyze tab>Route Analysis panel, click Path of Travel.
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In the Modify | Place Path of Travel tab>Tag panel, click Tag on Placement if you want to add a tag.
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In the Modify | Place Path of Travel tab>Line Style panel, select the line style from the drop-down list.
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Select the start point for the line of travel.
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Select the end point for the line of travel. Notice how the path of travel ignores any furniture in the room.
- To update the path of travel so it does not ignore any objects in the view, click the Route Analysis tab, and in the Route Analysis Settings dialog box, uncheck the In addition, do not consider these model categories as obstacles, even when visible option.
8. Select the path of travel line in the view and click Update in the Modify | <Path of Travel Lines> tab>Analysis panel to update the view.
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