Martin P
2005-07-22, 04:20 PM
Have done quite a few window schedules now, but am about to try something I havent done before.
We have about 10 house types that I have to create schedules for. What we want to achieve is say a 1050mm X 600mm window thats in maybe 6 different house types will be called type A in all of the schedules. I will do a schedule per house type.
I then plan to export it to excel as we will have 5 of this house, 3 of that one etc - and get totals for the entire project, there are also phases to the project so we may need 40% of the "type A" at phase 1 and the rest at phase 2 - is excel the best way to do that? - The windows will not be changing so it is not a big problem for us to take the schedules out of Revit at this stage.
The type mark does not appear to be something that I can get at in the family editor - is the solution to simply add a new paramater in the family called type mark, and type it in there for each of the different sizes? (which sounds pretty easy - so probably is the solution!) or is there a clever way to do this with shared paramaters etc? - which I havent used yet, and what would the advantages be over just adding a type mark per size in the family.
Any advice appreciated..
We have about 10 house types that I have to create schedules for. What we want to achieve is say a 1050mm X 600mm window thats in maybe 6 different house types will be called type A in all of the schedules. I will do a schedule per house type.
I then plan to export it to excel as we will have 5 of this house, 3 of that one etc - and get totals for the entire project, there are also phases to the project so we may need 40% of the "type A" at phase 1 and the rest at phase 2 - is excel the best way to do that? - The windows will not be changing so it is not a big problem for us to take the schedules out of Revit at this stage.
The type mark does not appear to be something that I can get at in the family editor - is the solution to simply add a new paramater in the family called type mark, and type it in there for each of the different sizes? (which sounds pretty easy - so probably is the solution!) or is there a clever way to do this with shared paramaters etc? - which I havent used yet, and what would the advantages be over just adding a type mark per size in the family.
Any advice appreciated..