First Steps – Planworks Support Center

Create your first floor and ceiling with Rubia, step by step.

In this article

Preparation
Creating a floor
Creating a ceiling
Several rooms at once
What happens afterwards

Preparation

You need at least one suitable floor or ceiling type. You can see whether one exists in the drop-down of the Floor Type column. If not, create it via Layers › Edit as described in Creating and managing finishing structures.

Tip

For a first try, two or three rooms on one storey are enough, ideally in a copy of the project.

Creating a floor

Load rooms

Open the floor plan of the storey, start Rubia and click In Current View. The rooms appear in the room list.
Floors tab

Stay on the Floors tab. New rooms show Not yet available in the Status column.
Pick a floor type

Click the Floor Type cell of the room and pick the build-up.
Reference level and offset

Set Floor Reference Level and Floor Offset. The offset defines the height of the finished floor relative to the level.
Door profile

If the floor should run into door openings, switch on Door Profile. Where it ends at the door (outer wall edge or a reference plane in the door family) is set in the Settings. If it's off, the floor stops at the room boundary.
Check the preview

Select the room and click Preview. Check the outline, especially at doors and projections.
Apply

Click Selected. Rubia calculates the profile, creates the floor and shows a report, e.g. “floor created”.
Check the result

The status changes to OK. Show in Model takes you to the room in Revit.

Creating a ceiling

Ceilings work the same way. The loaded rooms stay, you don't need to load them again.

Ceilings tab

Switch to the Ceilings tab.
Pick a ceiling type

Pick the build-up in the Ceiling Type column.
Reference level and height

Set the Ceiling Reference Level and, in Height offset from level, the ceiling height, e.g. the clear room height.
Lateral offset (optional)

If the ceiling shouldn't end exactly at the room boundary, e.g. for a shadow gap, enter a lateral offset.
Apply

Select the room, check the Preview and click Selected.

Several rooms at once

If many rooms share the same build-up, select all rows and open Multi-Edit. It lets you set floor and ceiling in one dialog. Then apply with Selected or All.

What happens afterwards

Applying again: if you change type or offset later and apply again, Rubia updates the existing elements instead of creating new ones.
The floor plan changes: the status changes to “Update necessary”. The update commands in the Revit ribbon, e.g. All Floors and Ceilings, adjust the outlines.
Elements edited or deleted by hand: Rubia detects this and shows it in the status. See Status and keeping things up to date.