Graphic Door and Window Schedule

[bpayne]

Does any firm out there show door frame, door type, and window graphics adjacent to thier schedules? Could someone post a screen shot of this done in Revit and an explanation? What I would like to do is set up a legend of sort that we could use for detail callouts.

Thanks

See attached example in ...yes...Autocad....I'm sorry! :(

[luigi]

I am sorry my post doesn't answer your question....BUT.....


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[bpayne]

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[Allen Lacy]

Something like this. This is a small design/build church project where I can get plan, schedules, door types, details on one page.

[J. Grouchy]

Something like this. This is a small design/build church project where I can get plan, schedules, door types, details on one page.

That's essentially what we do as well, putting the details and types into drafting views.

[Scott D Davis]

We would love to have two things to make schedules/legends nearly perfect!

1. Put detail callouts in a legend view

2. Put detail references in a schedule (parametrically of course! not just typed in)

[bpayne]

Allen, that makes sense....but am i right in understanding that the door types ane not parametric? It would be nice if they were!

[Allen Lacy]

Yeah, that's correct unfortunately. Just a legend with door types used in project.

One thing that I find to make it easier to create legends is to delete/purge all unused door types before creating the legend. Even if you need to change a door type, you don't need to search through a bunch of unused ones to find the new one. A wishlist item would be that when putting a type in a legend, it would show up in the list again like views on sheets.

[trent59822]

One thing I noticed on your window schedule, which I wish we could do today, is to generate a graphic window schedule legend for Curtain wall windows. As far as I know, you can only schedule individual panels. Most of our projects would take advantage of this option. Anyone else?

[bpayne]

For me, this is a must. I usually don't treat windows and storefront systems differently....actually ALL the windows above are storefront.

[luigi]

One thing I noticed on your window schedule, which I wish we could do today, is to generate a graphic window schedule legend for Curtain wall windows. As far as I know, you can only schedule individual panels. Most of our projects would take advantage of this option. Anyone else?
As far as I am concerned, this is the only real problem I have with legends and I don't use this function because of this....many of my windows are curtain walls because of the ease/flexibility during design...

[dalewww]

I realized that I could make a window style legend on my first project I am currently working on. I have set some of our windows we use to an instance for all variety of sizes with the same frame. I have also reloaded one of my other window families since it changed.

What I need to know is 2 things. First, can i get the elevation view of all the various sizes of the instance window? If not, what is the best alternative to that?
Second, how do I get the elevation view of the window style legend to change? I have dimensioned the window in the legend but then changed it in the family and re-loaded it into the project. It did not change. Can I get it to change? How?

Thanks for the help.

[trent59822]

As far as I am concerned, this is the only real problem I have with legends and I don't use this function because of this....many of my windows are curtain walls because of the ease/flexibility during design...


Should we put a poll wishlist on this item. It sounds like there is enough interest in this item.

[neb1998]

Not 100% sure what you need but here is a screenshot with how i have organized the doors. The Schedules then link the different door types.....

This is just my standard door types, i have others to use for other projects.

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Here is our typical stuff, using legends. At least in V8 you can dim the legend components.

[dalewww]

Neb and Zeds,

Thanks for the images. What do you use for the style letter? Is it just normal text, or is it a tag of some sort? I just tried to use a tag yesterday but it did not link to anything.

Thanks again.

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Hey theres a thought! A legend view tag that could pick up the Family, type or mark parameter. As I said, at least we can dimension the legend components now. "Baby Steps". At this stage, Paul, it's just normal text. Lets face it schedules are, the most tedious of tasks. But Legends do make a hell of a difference in the time normally spent, creating any schedule and kicks any other software's BUTT!!

[neb1998]

Neb and Zeds,

Thanks for the images. What do you use for the style letter? Is it just normal text, or is it a tag of some sort? I just tried to use a tag yesterday but it did not link to anything.

Thanks again.
Yeah i just use simple text. It looks like zed does more detail than we do for storefront. We typically just show that information on elevation views, but i do like how that looks. May have to look into that on future projects.

[crarchitect]

Boy I guess I am in the Revit stone age. We are finishing up a big project 6.1 and were afraid to adopt the new versions. To get the graphics of each door added to the door schedule sheet, I followed an AUGI tip to place extra doors in a MANAGEMENT phase, and created individual elevations for each door.

Just my $.02

[Scott D Davis]

Don't be afraid! Revit 6.1 is Stone Age BIM at this point! I think you could update this project with confidence....everyone else agree?

[beegee]

>>....everyone else agree?
Lay down misere.

[ryan.87191]

f you create a legend then click "Legend Components" under the "Drafting" tab. With this you can add Components and Families. I don't know, however, how you would add a component schedule for your windows.

It's been a while since your last post so you may have figured this out already. But I was trying to find out how to create a legend of window elevations myself and felt I had to reply with my answer.

Ryan