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Making a Simple Schedule (Rentable Area) |
| You can begin making a new schedule by selecting the View tab on the Design bar, choosing View New Schedule/Quantities or clicking the Schedule/Quantities button. When you begin a new schedule, you’re presented with a number of format and selection options. These will help you set the font style and text alignment as well as organize and filter the data shown in the schedule. Remember that Revit at its core is a database, so many of the same functionalities that are available in database queries are also available in Revit |
Sorting Your Drawing List
The drawing list can also be used as a sheet index to the documents. Because Revit sorts sheets alpha-betically, it’s typically not desirable to prepare the sheet index in the traditional fashion, with civilsheets first, then architectural, and so on. One way to customize sheet sorting is to add a field tothe schedule and number the sheets so civil is 1, architectural 2, and so on. You can then sort by thatnumbered column. |
| The process of creating a new area schedule is best demonstrated with an example. Take the following steps to create a new rentable area schedule for the Foundation model: |
- Open the Foundation.rvtfile for Chapter 13, found on the website.
- Navigate to View Schedule/Quantities or click the Schedules/Quantities button on the View tab.
- Choose Areas (Rentable) from the Category menu, name the schedule Rentable Area Schedule, and confirm with OK.You will see a series of tabs that allow you to specify the schedule’s graphic appearance and choose exactly what data you would like to show. Figure 13.17 shows you the dialog box for the rentable area schedule. As each grouping of elements within Revit is somewhat unique, the list of possible schedule values will change accordingly.
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Figure 13.17
Rentable area sched-uling options |
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Each tab controls different ways to sort and view the data within a schedule. Here is a basic understanding of their functions.
Fields The Fields tab lets you select the data that will appear in your schedule. For the wall schedule, it shows all the properties available in the wall family.
Filter On the Filter tab, you can filter out the data you don’t wish to show. You’ll use this tab, for example, to restrict displayed data so that only information about the concrete walls in the project appears in the schedule.
Sorting/Grouping This tab lets you control the order in which information is displayed. You can also decide whether you want to show every instance of an item or only the totals for a given family.
Formatting The Formatting tab controls the display heading for each field and whether the field is visible on the schedule. It’s possible to add fields that are necessary for calcula-tions or sorting but don’t show on the printed copy of the schedule. Additionally, this tab can tell Revit to calculate the totals for certain fields.
Appearance The Appearance tab controls the graphical aspects of the schedule, including the font size and type of text for each of the columns and headers in the schedule. It also allows you to turn the grids on and off or modify the line thickness for the grid and bound-ary lines. The following example walks through the different options in the New Schedule dialog box while you create a new wall schedule.
In this example, you’ll create the schedule, filter out all but the concrete walls, and calculate the volume of recycled content in the walls based on the assumption that you’re using 15 percent recycled content in all the concrete you pour on this project. |
- For our schedule, let’s choose the following fields from the Fields tab and sort them in this order:
Level
Name
Area
- Moving to the Sorting/Grouping tab, we want to give the schedule some parameters to sort by. First, let’s sort by level so we can see which floors we have the areas on, and then let’s sort by area name. We will also want to see a total of the areas by floor, so let’s include a footer showing totals only for the levels. Also check the Header check box so we can tell which floor we are on in each grouping. Finally, we want to see a grand total of all the areas in the build-ing. Your dialog should look like Figure 13.18.
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Figure 13.18
Set the sorting/grouping to match this |
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- Now, on the Formatting tab, we will also want to make a couple of changes. Highlight the Level parameter and select the Hidden Field check box. We don’t need to see a level heading for each item in the list, especially since we have one established already as a header for each floor. We also want to select the Area field and make two changes. First, right-justify the areas so they align properly, and then check the box to have the schedule calculate totals as shown in Figure 13.19.
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Figure 13.19
Set up the formatting to look like this. |
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- Hitting OK at this point will give us a schedule broken out by level and totaling each floor’s areas. Your schedule should look something like Figure 13.20
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Figure 13.20
The area schedule |
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- For our areas, we are concerned only with the rentable spaces and we don’t need to see how much area the cores take up in the building. By right-clicking on the schedule, you can view its properties and make some modifications. Choose the Filter tab this time, filter out any name that does not contain the word Core(with a capital C), as shown in Figure 13.21, and click OK.
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Figure 13.21
Filter the areas to remove the word Core |
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- Pan down to the bottom of the list and you will notice that we still have the name Restroom core in the list (see Figure13.22)
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Figure 13.22
Check the schedule to see the effect of the filter |
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- The name Restroom core is still in the list because the filter and fields in the schedules and families within Revit are case sensitive. The fields need to match exactly. However, there is an easy fix. By simply clicking within the cell itself, as you would do in Excel, you can modify the word core so it has a capital C and the name will then be filtered from the list. Our fin-ished schedule look like Figure 13.23.
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Figure 13.23
The finished area schedule |
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Keeping Building Area Schedules Updated
To most clients, building areas are a critical part to the development pro forma (the pro forma is typi-cally a spreadsheet that outlines the financial goals of the project or development). In practice, you willcreate area plans that coincide with how the owner needs areas computed for their calculations. Youkeep these in a schedule allowing the owner regular updates to the building areas so they can comparethose to the current pro forma. Since you can keep the schedules dynamically updated, you can set thisup once and know that the areas will always be up-to-date |
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