In this post, I’m going to cover using Images in schedules, incorporating Design Options into your schedules, and using schedules with Phasing. Images in Schedules You can include images of your elements in your schedules. There are two ways to achieve this. Method #1 – Embed the image in the family This is my preferred …
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I have a few best practices that I follow to help me keep my schedules organized and easy to understand. They aren’t complicated but can add a lot of information and really help to clarify what a schedule or parameter is for and how it’s supposed to be used. I recommend having an office standard …
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All drawing sets have a sheet list somewhere that is an index of the sheets in the drawing set. Along with having that schedule, a working sheet list schedule is invaluable in aiding with sorting and grouping the sheet properly, showing revisions, and providing a template for consultants to use so that you can link …
Have you ever wondered what a view list is for? It’s not like you’re going to put it on a sheet in your set, right? So what good could it be? Well, I’m here to tell you that a view list has a lot of uses on the model management side of things. A view …
Welcome to Part 4, where I will be explaining the wonderful world of Note Block schedules, and how you can use them to create “dummy” schedules in your projects in a way that’s much better than using a key schedule. Note Block Schedules Note block schedules are a great way to create a “dummy” schedule …
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Now that we’ve talked about how to make our schedules look pretty, I want to dig deeper into the real meat of schedules, the information in them, and what you can do with it. Calculated Values You can create custom parameters within your schedules to calculate values based on other parameters in your schedule. This …
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Welcome to Part 2 of our Schedule Series! I’m going to start with how the schedule looks because I often use graphics to help me with a variety of things. I utilize shading to differentiate different types of parameters. Shading Color is a powerful tool within schedules. It can be used to differentiate between different …
Did you miss my presentation at BILTna in St. Louis this past August? Well, have no fear! In this 10-part blog series I will recap that presentation, adding in some additional information that I’ve learned since then. Glad to have you here! I LOVE SCHEDULES!! I love collecting data together, sorting it, filtering it, and …
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I am a huge fan of loadable components both 3D and 2D. So today, I’m going to take this post and talk about detail components (the 2D ones) inside Revit and why you should be using them. First of all, I am 100% a keynote person, and not just keynotes in general, but element and …
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You’ve been told to ALWAYS link a CAD file into Revit, never import and DEFINITELY never explode. This is how you keep CAD junk out of your Revit model, right? Turns out that the answer is yes…and no. While linking doesn’t bring in the layers and linetypes, I just discovered recently that it does bring …