topic Re: Door schedule problem in Revit Architecture Forum

Door schedule problem

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:02:25 GMT

Hello guys, I have the following problem. I want to create a schedule like this on the attached screenshot - with levels grouped by columns, not by rows. I tried to create a new parameter, but it was impossible to chosse "Level" type. Is there a possibility to to that in Revit?

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:04:00 GMT

Here goes:

Re: Door schedule problem

BIM_Dreamer — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:41:11 GMT

Hi ToanDN, Thank you for sharing this. Just want to ask you a question "how about if i want to add Room Name (location of doors). What could be the parameters? Please help. thank you

Re: Door schedule problem

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 08:19:34 GMT

Thank you very much. I don't know you've done this but it saved my life

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:18:10 GMT

See the screenshot and let me know if it answers your question from the PM.

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:34:03 GMT

@BIM_Dreamer wrote:

Hi ToanDN, Thank you for sharing this. Just want to ask you a question "how about if i want to add Room Name (location of doors). What could be the parameters? Please help. thank you

Re: Door schedule problem

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:34:45 GMT

Yes, now i think everything works fine 🙂 thank you again!

Re: Door schedule problem

BIM_Dreamer — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:10:07 GMT

hi ToanDN, Thank you for your reply. sorry for late reply. I followed your instructions but i dont get it right. I really dont know where i made mistakes.

When i add to " to room: name" my locations of door doesn't appear, followed your screenshot door schedule but if i changed sorting/grouping instead of " type mark" to " to from room: name: room names appeared but my problems the door schedule becomes individual and not groupings at all. any help can give is much appreciated. please see attached. thank you.

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:25:14 GMT

If you want to show Room fields then don't group the doors in your schedule.

Re: Door schedule problem

BIM_Dreamer — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:47:17 GMT

is there a way to group the doors with door locations? thanks

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:52:12 GMT

You can add door location to one of the grouping option from the schedule.

Re: Door schedule problem

BIM_Dreamer — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 02:29:01 GMT

hi, can ask you a favor, how i'm going to do that? thanks

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 03:11:37 GMT

Screenshot and 2016 Revit file attached.

Re: Door schedule problem

BIM_Dreamer — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 03:40:43 GMT

Hi ToanDN, i opened your file and look at your plan but i dont see any room number , where did you gent your room number. And we dont used room number we used room name here.

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 03:45:17 GMT

The rooms are there, I just didn't tag them. Same principle whether you sort by Names or Numbers.

Re: Door schedule problem

BIM_Dreamer — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 03:49:34 GMT

ok. thanks

Re: Door schedule problem

Keith_Wilkinson — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:52:53 GMT

A word of caution with this kind of approach. Unless all your users know how it has been set up and more importantly remember how it's been set up this can get out of control very quickly, the accuracy of your data output is reliant you remembering to update these fields.

If you are familiar with dynamo you could automate the completion of these fields but again you are reliant in people remembering to run the appropriate script once you have it written.

Personally I would be looking at finding an alternative way of setting out your schedule so that it uses the default level settings for the door families but I get that sometimes those higher up want things done a particular way.

Re: Door schedule problem

ToanDN — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:20:21 GMT

Totally agreed. This is a case of just because it can be done does not mean it should be done.

Sometimes I get this sort of request from the higher up of the food chain and I have to decide whether they are the right battles to fight. I personally would have fought this particular request to death.