How to schedule a Revit model not made by your standards?

[semi]

Hi all,

I'm currently making a schedule list of a revit model for cost etc

The problem is the model was not designed by myself and is entirely different.

There are no keynotes, no assembly codes used, so I cant link them to my normal way of scheduling and exporting to Excel based on a database made by keynotes.

How would you guys handle this? Could you show me a workflow? Because adding keynotes to every geoemtry and family in this revit model would take a lot of time and clients dont want to pay for this.

[HVAC-Novice]

I think you have to explain more what your normal workflow is. You use keynotes and then somehow export them to Excel and perform cost calculations in Excel? 

I assume you have a template and that is what you mean by "your standards". You basically have to re-create in that  project whatever makes your template perform as you wanted. 

[semi]

see below

[semi]

Exactly,

I link my cost schedule to a Word-Excel file via Keynotes:

For example "steel beams" have keynote 27.11

This translates into my template txt file:

Which then schedules in Revit as:

And exported with a dynamo script to txt 

And finally exported in Excel for the calculations:

So without this workflow I can't do anything with any form of Revit model without integration of my own template.