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Schedules are lists of entities and objects within the model. They enumerate items, including build-ing objects such as walls, doors, and windows; calculate material quantities or areas and volumes; and list the number of sheets, textnotes, keynotes, and so on. Giving you the ability to dynamically create and update schedules is a core aspect of BIM and Revit.
Creating schedules of objects, areas, or material quantities in a project is usually one of the most painful (if not boring) but necessary evils for architects. Needless to say, performing a manual cal-culation takes a long time and can result in errors. Using CAD tools can partly automate this pro-cess, but when it comes to calculating numbers of objects, the calculation can only count the number of blocks that are predefined in a file. In Revit, all elements have information about their physical properties, and you can add information to individual elements. For example, doors can have properties like size as well as material, color, fire rating, and exterior/interior.
Revit lets you schedule any element based on properties of the element. In effect, this means that almost anything placed in a Revit model can be scheduled and quantified. Additionally, because the schedule is linked to the objects in the model, you can use the schedule to locate objects within the model or to change their types and properties. This ensures that in any view, regardless of type,the count and properties of all elements are always synchronized. As we often state, the view in which you add or change something doesn’t matter. The changes will be reflected in all the views.
If you’re unfamiliar with database concepts, don’t worry; we’ll explain the options in the New Schedule dialog box. The following types of elements can be scheduled: |
Casework
Ceilings
Curtain Panels
Curtain Systems
Curtain Wall Mullions
Doors
Electrical Equipment
Electrical Fixtures
Fascias
Floors
Furniture
Furniture Systems |
Gutters
Lighting
Mass
Mechanical Equipment
Parking
Planting
Plumbing Fixtures
Property Line Segment
Property Lines
Railings
Ramps
Roofs |
Rooms
FixturesSite
Slab Edges
Specialty Equipment
Stairs
Structural Columns
Structural Foundations
Structural Framing
Structural Trusses
Topography
Walls
Windows |
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There are also some other schedules you can create that are not limited to specific types of elements:
Multicategory This type of schedule is for objects that don’t normally share family types or categories. For example, you may want to create a list of windows and doors in the same sched-ule. You may also want a schedule showing all the casework and furniture in a project. A mul-ticategory schedule allows you to combine a number of different items in separate categories into one schedule.
Area (gross building) This schedule lists the gross building areas created with the area plans.
Areas (rentable) This type can be created with a rentable plans schedule. Later in this chapter, we’ll walk through an exercise demonstrating how to create a simple schedule showing the pro-gram areas we created in our area plans.
Although we’ve listed quite a few, we haven’t included all the schedules available in Revit. There are still a few more worth mentioning. These schedules can be accessed only from View New
Material takeoff This type of schedule can list all the materials and subcomponents of any Revit family and allow an enhanced level of detail for each assembly. You can use a material takeoff to schedule any material that is placed in a component. For example, you might want to know the cubic yardage of concrete within the model. Regardless of whether the concrete is in a wall or floor or column, you can tell the schedule to report the total amount of that material in the project. As we will show later, you can use this schedule type to make some preliminary sus-tainable calculations around the use of recycled materials in the project.
View list This schedule shows a list of all the views and their properties in the Project Browser.
Drawing list This schedule shows a list of all the sheets in the project, sorted alphabetically.
Note block This schedule lists the notes that are applied to elements and assemblies in your project. You can also use a note block to list the annotation symbols (centerlines, north arrows) used in a project
Keynote legend This schedule lists all the keynotes that have been applied to materials and objects in the model. You can either use this list as a complete index of all the notes in the draw-ing set or filter it by sheet. The legend can then be placed on multiple sheets. |
| These schedules are separated from the main list of schedules because they aren’t commonly used in building documentation. They are primarily for data coordination that happens outside of the project documentation. |
Standardize Your Schedules
You will find yourself making the same schedules for each and every project. Take the ones you find themost universal and make them a part of your default template. |
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