Creating Parking Schedule for specific Parking Area

[Anonymous]

I have a site plan laid out with all existing parking spaces for a College. I am trying to create a parking schedule for the parking spaces count by the building I am working on. When I create the schedule, it calculates all the parking spaces for the entire site plan. How can I get the schedule to calculate only the parking spaces near my building?

I tried editing the family like a type mark but it identifies all parking spaces as that type mar. I was thinking I have to duplicate the family of the parking space and change the name for all in my area but was hoping there is another way.

[lucdoucet_msdl]

@Anonymous 

There are several ways to go about differentiating the parking families that need to be scheduled as opposed to those that do not. I would suggest that the best way for you to do this depends on the reason you are scheduling/counting them.

Let's say the main distinction is existing versus new parking spaces, then I would suggest phasing the parking family instances and then filtering by phase. If, on the other hand, you have complexe requirements for differents sizes, reserved use, paying versus free, etc, I would suggest you create distinct types of the main parametric family that can then be sorted to show quantities of what you need and filter out the ones you don't. Maybe you want a schedule for a scope of work to show how much paint will be required and where to install signage for the names of the Dean, emeritus professors. See where I am going?

So can you be more specific as to the use of this parking schedule and maybe a quick enumeration of the parameters/columns your wish to display?

But I suspect you are going for something like spaces reserved for the building you are designing therefor you want new spaces versus existing.

-luc

[jvpantin2]

Hi, @Anonymous, another way to solve this is by creating rooms for parking areas in the project. You can create as many as parking lots you need to define separatelly in the project. With these room created and bounded by room separators, you can now create a schedule only to count or show any parameter you want from the parking spaces families. There are many ways to create the schedule:

1- Create a "Parking Space Schedule" from the category to which these families belongs. Add all the fields you need from the category, and then change the "Select available fields from...." drop down selector to "Rooms" and continue to add the Room fields you may need. With these, you can filter the schdule to show only the parking spaces located specifically in the room near your building (remember to name or asign an ID parameter to filter it from selected field). Finally, you can use the usual Sorting / Grouping and Totals features of Scheduling to order / total the Schedule as you need

2- Create a room schedule and embed a parking space category schedule. This will be usefull if you have rooms for several parking lots.

3- If there are different parking spaces categories use a Multi-category schedule to include them and pull Room parameters from the Field drop-down, as in option 1.

By this way , you will be able to change the boundary of the parking lot rooms and automatically include the parking spaces inside without changing parameters or phases in families. To make it works, don't forget to checkmark the Room Calculation Point in all the parking space families you want to schedule. Otherwise, rooms won't be able to recognize and schedule them.

[barthbradley]

1. Type a unique identifier into each of the Parking Space's "Comments" Field.  You can do this individually or select multiple instances and give them all the same "Comment" value. A unique identifier could be the name of the Building to which the the Parking Spaces are assigned (e.g. "Building A", "Building B"). 

2. Under the Schedule's Sorting and Grouping Tab, Sort by "Comments". 

3. If you want to calculate the grand total of the "Count" for each "Comment" grouping, go to "Formatting" Tab, select "Count" and pick "Calculate Totals" - then return to the "Sorting and Grouping Tab and check "Header" or "Footer" underneath  "Sort by: Comments", as well as check "Grand Totals" at the bottom.