Settings

Rubia Overview›Settings & mapping›Settings: tailoring Rubia to your project

Door thresholds, rooms without finishes, type filters, warnings and logs: all settings at a glance.

In this article

• Door thresholds and floor ends
• Skip rooms
• Limit floor types
• Parameter mapping
• Warnings and notices
• Logs

Open the settings from the main window under Miscellaneous via Settings.

Door thresholds and floor ends

Define how Rubia determines where the floor ends at doors:

• Floor ends at the outer edge of the wall: works with any door family.
• Floor ends at a reference plane of the door family: more precise, but needs suitable families. Rubia looks for the given reference plane in the door family and uses it as the boundary of the floor.

For the second option, enter the name the reference plane has in your door families under Reference plane name.

1. Check reference plane

   Click Check reference plane. The “Select Door Reference Planes” dialog opens.

2. Analyze door families

   Click Check. Rubia analyzes all door families and shows per family whether a matching reference plane was found.

3. Assign a reference plane

   Choose the right reference plane for each family. The diagram below shows the door panel edges, which tells you which plane is the right one.

 

Skip rooms during creation

Shafts, voids and similar rooms usually shouldn't get a floor or ceiling. Select a Yes/No parameter (instance parameter on the room) for each:

• Skip floors if …
• Skip ceilings if …

If the parameter is set to “Yes” on a room, Rubia leaves it out during creation. The room list then shows the status “Ignored by Generation Parameter”.

Limit the floor type selection

If the project has a lot of floor types, you can narrow down the choice. Select a Yes/No type parameter under Filter floor types by. The drop-down then only lists types where this parameter is set to “Yes”.

Parameter mapping

Edit mapping rules opens the mapping dialog. The option Always apply parameter mapping makes sure the rules also apply to existing elements. Details are in the Parameter mapping article.

Warnings and notices

Define how Rubia handles warnings that occur during creation:

• Collect warnings in the Rubia report (recommended)
• Show warnings directly in Revit

Logs and troubleshooting

Rubia logs important steps as well as notices, warnings and errors, If something goes wrong, the log usually says which room and why.

• Show log opens the current log file.
• Open log folder opens the folder with all logs. You can send them to support from there.