Finishes not showing in Schedules

[case.devisser]

I've been having a heck of a time figuring out how to get my room finish schedule to actually show finishes. Right now, I'm placing floors with a 12x12 vct finish in the rooms, and I can't figure out how to get my schedule to reflect that. I'm trying to avoid typing in finishes into my schedule or making a 'room type'. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[chris.macko125036]

As far as I know, finish schedules cannot actually read the finish types of the walls/floor/ceiling they are in. They just report whatever is stored in the room parameters.
When you type the finishes into your schedule that is still editing the room itself.

[dgreen.49364]

Just add some new parameters (fields) into your finish schedule. It's easy. Make them text and instance parameters. For mine, I use:

Floor
Base
North Wall
South Wall
East Wall
West Wall
Ceiling

[Steve_Stafford]

A room schedule with finishes like the Revit default residential or commerical templates have is just "old school" data stored in the room element. A material takeoff will give you materials information but not room by room. A floor schedule filtered for "finish" floors will give you a breakdown of floor finishes but again not room by room. Unfortunately at this time Revit doesn't give us a way to aggregate this type of information into one cohesive schedule associated with rooms.