Space Scheduling & Data Linking - 2015 Architecture

[Anonymous]

My progress so far:

I've managed to get my head around Space Styles, Property Set Definitions, Custom Tags and Custom Schedules.

You can see by my attached drawing that I'm using the space's 'NAME' to input Room ID and space styles to denote the 'users' of each space.

I'm hoping to apply more data to the rooms that doesn't seem to be provided through out of the box means (please correct if wrong)

Data such as:

Clinical Department, Room Use, Number of Workstations etc.

I'd like to Data Link to an Excel spread sheet and populate the above data via Excel.

I know similar can be achieved with tables but can it be done with schedules?

Are there alternative methods to get the same outcome?

I assume the limiting factor would be maintaining an association between each defined space and the data being attributed, but as you can imagine, this is exactly what I'm hoping to achieve.

Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Tom

[Anonymous]

David,

I found another discussion string from 5 years ago that looks like it's asking my same question.

"Linking Schedule Data to Excel"

Have you tried using this plug-in? "ACA_db for AutoCAD Architecture database connectivity"

 http://www.jtbworld.com/aca_db.htm

Thanks,

Randi

[leothebuilder]

You can add as many manual properties as you like.

Say for example you can add manual properties for a piece of equipment as follows:

Manufacturer

Make

Model

Model Number

Color

Cost

This will allow you to extract all this information into a schedule.

Automatic properties are limited.

Automatic properties for a Space Object can be:

Length

Width

Volume

Square Feet (or meters)

When you change the shape of the Space Object, these values will automatically update.

You can also add as many manual properties to a Space Object such as:

Name

Wall finish to north wall

Wall finish to east wall

Etc.

Etc.

The difference between manual and automatic properties is that a manual property has to be entered manually (like an attribute) and an

automatic property is as the name suggests, automatically extracted from the object.

[David_W_Koch]

I have not used that particular add-in, but I am familiar with Jimmy Bergmark and JTB World, and he has a very good reputation.

If you need to make the exact same edit to the same property on multiple Spaces, you can select all of those Spaces and, on the Extended Data tab of the Properties palette, you can change that property value on all of the selected Spaces with one edit.  (The Property Set has to be attached to all of the Spaces.)

[Anonymous]

He has a free trial that I'm going to test out.

Thanks for your feedback.

~Randi

[Anonymous]

Gentlemen, I am also very interested in this topic and will be chiming in. Autocad Architecrure and Spaces are a veritable passion of mine 🙂