Combine schedules

[sblackburn]

Is it possible to combine my door schedule with the room finish schedule in Revit? We would like our Revit schedules to look like what we did in CAD - which was combining the two schedules into one on the same sheet. Of course we still want to have the schedules talk to the plans and update as we make changes to the doors or rooms. Ideally that would mean that you have the room finish info on the left side and as you read across you come to the door info for the doors in that room. I could just format the two schedules so that they line up across the page and then place them next to each other. That would work if there was only one door per room, but our old schedules got longer (vertically) as more doors were added in that room. So, for instance, if there were four doors in a room the whole room finish part of the schedule would get longer vertically for that room. We also had a sub-heading at the top of the door schedule for the different part of that schedule, and I'm not sure I can add this either. Quite a wish list, I know - but is this possible? Thanks.

Steve Blackburn
MPA Architects

[christo4robin]

Start with a door schedule. When you are adding fields, look at the bottom left of the dialog - you'll see a drop-down that you can switch to from room and to room. There you should see your room fields. You'll probably have to be careful with the swing / door family orientation to make sure that you are scheduling information for the correct room, but I think it will get you there.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Welcome to the forum Steve.
You can use a multi-category schedule to accomplish most of what you want. The doors are room aware so you can sort by room and the doors will appear beside the room they are associated with. The scheds still talk to the model so everything stays live.
You might be limited in terms of formatting options and you may have to add a number of project parameters to get all your door info included but it can be done.

The multi-category schedule will keep the room associations live but the door sched won't.

Christopher's suggestion is probably the better approach depending on which schedule needs to contain more information.

[sblackburn]

Thanks guys - I will try those ideas.

Steve

[clickermi735752]

Welcome to the forum Steve.
You can use a multi-category schedule to accomplish most of what you want. The doors are room aware so you can sort by room and the doors will appear beside the room they are associated with. The scheds still talk to the model so everything stays live.
You might be limited in terms of formatting options and you may have to add a number of project parameters to get all your door info included but it can be done.

The multi-category schedule will keep the room associations live but the door sched won't.

Christopher's suggestion is probably the better approach depending on which schedule needs to contain more information.

This works because door is already room sensitive family ... Am just wondering if it works for my case too. Area schedule and Room Schedule

I want to do an 'area schedule' with the 'Room Name' attached with each region ... I have the 'Room Schedule' with the total room area and an 'Area Schedule' with part(sub region) of each room. I have done the 'Area Schedule' from 'Rentable Area Plan'. I have used the Room ID for the Area ID to make it easy when I combine them in Excel(thats how i am doing it). If there is a way to combine those two schedules (may be using the Room ID) in Revit that would be awesome.

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[Dimitri Harvalias]

Welcome to the forums.
To my knowledge there is no way to automatically combine values from area and room objects. (I am sure there are possibilities using Dynamo)
Unless you need gross areas may I suggest that you use room objects and create your sub-divided spaces using room separation lines. A well thought out naming scheme or additional parameter would easily allow you to create a schedule that would summarize the smaller spaces based on the room name.
All that could happen in Revit which is where you want it to happen. Anytime you can avoid operations requiring sport into excel or other applications you are likely better off. Just