finish plans instead of finish schedules?

[Justin Marchiel]

I am thinking of creating finish plans instead of finish shedules. I could tag walls and materials in each room which would do essecially the same thing as a schedule and maybe be a little more bim like.

What is everyone else doing? Any short falls with the plan method?

Justin

[brd]

We do both actually. We've found it's just easier to show our floor patterns in plan (including blow ups when we need them) as well as finish tags for the walls, base and floor. However for many rooms, the room itself is not big enough to fit all the tags in, so we use a finish schedule that has a column for each room, all four walls, and the rest of the finishes that apply to the room.

My firm has a pretty sizeable interior design department though, so our finish plans are usually pretty busy. This wouldn't really apply to firms who don't do ID.

[Justin Marchiel]

how are you tagging the finishes on the wall? Are you creating a finish parameter on the wall? what happens if there is a different finish on the other side of the wall? do you have a finish inside and finish outside parameter?

I would like to have the finish information reside with the walls, but i can't see how to schedule the finish on the walls to relate to the room in which they occur.

Could you shed a little more light on your process.

Thanks

Justin

[phyllisr]

Any short falls with the plan method?
You mean other than complaints about "we always did it with a schedule before" or "why are we changing this" or "I liked it better the old way?" :)

We are using only finish plans. We created a tag that still draws it's information from the room that reflects only the floor, base, walls and remarks. If there is complex information like floor patterns or carpet border or multiple colors, the tag just has dashes and the information is indicated on the plan with keynotes.

We found it too difficult to put the parameter in the wall and tag the material that way (for example) because then we would be forced to have individual sections of wall just because a paint color changed. But we thought about it before bagging the idea.

Ceiling finishes are tagged on the reflected ceiling plan using actual ceilings. Laminate colors are indicated in the elevations as part of the casework family.

Seems to be working so far - even made this work in some of our legacy ADT projects still on the boards using Spaces instead of Rooms. Perfect for our medical projects.