Tile Studio

Ribbon: BimSpeed.ARC → Tile Studio (Vietnamese ribbon label: Ốp lát gạch). These screenshots come from the real Revit 2027 window.

These are full-screen Revit 2027 captures. Click a crop to open the original screenshot.

① Open BimSpeed.ARC; ② in Model, click Tile Studio on the second row below Finish Rooms Settings.

Download the three practice models (.zip) — use 03-Tile-Studio-Revit-2027.rvt for this exercise.

1. Choose a surface

1. Open the practice model in Revit 2027 and save a working copy. Click BimSpeed.ARC → Tile Studio.
2. Click Pick Room for an interior room floor, or Pick floor / wall face for an outdoor floor or wall surface, then click the element/face in Revit. Surface at the top of the window shows the current target and lets you switch surfaces.
3. If the practice view has no suitable Room, pick a floor face directly. The Tile Studio window remains open as you switch surfaces.

① current surface; ② tile SKU/size/thickness/batch; ③ pattern and joints; ④ origin tile and auto-choice; ⑤ result tabs; ⑥ color-coded layout and cuts.

2. Set up the layout

1. Under TILES, select a SKU and verify Width / Height / Thickness, production batch, and Rotate 90°. Dimensions are in mm and affect quantities and cut combinations.
2. Under PATTERN & JOINTS, select a pattern and enter joint width, perimeter joint, saw kerf, and minimum cut. Drag the ✚ on the layout or enter X/Y to move the origin tile. Auto-select best option searches for a favorable origin. Center joints on door becomes available when applicable.
3. Open Layout to inspect whole tiles and color-coded cut types. Click a tile to see the selected piece on the right. Under COMBINATIONS, select a grouping scope and optionally reuse scraps with the same SKU and batch. The Deep optimization (CP-SAT · Worker) button is disabled in this version; the visible quick combination is available.

What each setting changes

Control	Purpose	What to inspect after changing it
Surface / Pick Room / Pick floor or wall face	Selects the boundary and Revit host for the 3D tiles.	Surface name and area chip at the top.
SKU, Width, Height, Thickness	Defines tile size/type used for layout, cuts and 3D output.	Tile count, boxes and cut sheets; dimensions are mm.
Production batch	Separates materials; scraps are reused only with matching SKU and batch.	Inventory and selected batch.
Rotate 90°	Swaps the long-edge direction.	Layout and waste before/after.
Pattern	Sets aligned or offset rows.	Appearance and edge cuts at doors/corners.
Joint / Perimeter joint	Gaps between tiles and along wall edges.	Row/column count and cut-piece sizes.
Saw kerf	Material lost to each cut.	Cut-sheet combinations and waste.
Minimum cut	Avoids very narrow pieces.	Warnings and alternative layouts.
Origin tile X/Y or drag ✚	Moves the starting point of the layout grid.	Left/right edge balance, tile count and boxes.
Auto-select best option / Center joints on door	Searches a favorable origin; aligns a joint with an eligible doorway.	Review candidates in Layout before writing 3D.
Combination scope / Use scrap inventory / Retain offcuts from	Controls cut-piece matching and which offcuts enter inventory.	Cut sheets, inventory, new tiles and waste.
Write 3D / Export CSV	Writes tiles to Revit or exports the construction cut list.	Writing the same surface again replaces that surface's Tile Studio tiles.

Example: change a 600 × 300 tile to 300 × 300 with a 2 mm joint, click Auto-select best option, and compare boxes and waste in the footer. Then move the ✚ origin, inspect edge pieces in Cut sheets, and only then Write 3D to Revit.

3. Inspect cuts and write to Revit

1. Open Cut sheets to see every source tile, factory edges, saw cuts, and retained scraps. Cut list summarizes codes, sizes, counts, and positions. Scrap inventory lists reusable pieces. The bottom status bar shows new/whole/cut tiles, purchase boxes, and waste.
2. Scroll the left panel to EXPORT and click Export cut list (CSV) if needed. Review warnings on the right, especially curved boundaries and pieces below the minimum cut.
3. Click Write 3D to Revit to create tiles in the model. View them in 3D · Revit or the Revit window. Writing the same surface again replaces Tile Studio tiles previously written for that surface; save a model copy before comparing options.

① Cut sheets tab; ② source tiles and saw lines; ③ material and waste summary. This image uses a different surface in the same test set, so its counts differ from the layout above.

Practice safely

Open each RVT with the Revit version in its filename and use Save As before creating bars or 3D tiles. The ZIP contains input models for all three exercises.

Additional controls and evidence scope

By cut type / By nesting group changes drawing colours; Fit reframes the surface. Select a tile to inspect the selected-piece panel. In Scrap stock, Import plan offcuts records eligible scraps; Reload rereads stock and Open stock folder opens stored inventory. Check SKU, lot, factory edges, status, location and the in-plan column. Stock data exists outside the RVT, so saving the model alone does not verify it.

The older practice inputs and captures are retained. The Revit 2024 example below adds genuine English controls, committed tiles, saved-model readback and same-surface rewriting. A preview alone is still not evidence of committed geometry.

Existing English ribbon capture

① BimSpeed.ARC tab; ② Tile Studio in Model. These ribbon captures are separate from the Vietnamese tool-window captures.

Saved 600×300 example on a native floor

These are genuine English controls; the Vietnamese SKU description is catalog data. ① Width/Height/Thickness are 600/300/10 mm. ② Grid, Joint 2 mm, Perimeter joint 3 mm, Kerf 3 mm, Min cut 60 mm; Origin X/Y are 3/3 mm. ③ Layout is a proposal; Cut sheet/Cut list explain stock cutting/combining, and 3D · Revit is distinct from a model 3D view. ④ The footer separates material and piece counts.

Example quantity	Meaning
Selected face 19.998 m²	One native floor face, not every project floor.
104 Full + 22 Cut = 126 pieces	126 laid-out pieces committed as family instances.
New tiles 115; From scrap 0	New stock demand after cutting combinations; not the family-instance count.
15 boxes, 8 tiles/box, +3% breakage	Purchase rounding for this SKU and allowance; confirm the actual batch before ordering.

① in the model image shows committed tiles in a floor/output isolation view, read back from the saved result. It is not the tool's preview tab. All 126 new IDs persisted. Rewriting the same face created 126 replacements and removed all 126 previous pieces, rather than accumulating 252.

Select one tile: ① type BS_Tile_Rect_600x300x10, Host Hs=150, and displayed Volume 0.002 m³ at the project's rounding; ② Comments identifies the piece/source; ③ the selected tile is blue. One selection is not the face total. Save a copy before writing the face again if you have manually edited individual instances: the rewrite replaces earlier tiles.

The educational practice input linked above remains available. The project RVT used for these images stays local. When repeating with that educational input, pick its own floor face: its dimensions/boundaries determine the piece count, which need not be 126.