Make a schedule for door openings

[hosam1archi]

Welcome
My name is Hossam, I work as an architect with the team, I ask about a method
To make a table of length, width, height and thickness of the construction openings to manufacture  doors .
How can this information be collected before drawing families  doors, knowing that other contractors only draw the holes without inserting doors in them?

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Use Loadable Families for this.  You can find Openings in the OOTB Content Library.  Make the Parameters for Height and Width Shared and Instance-kind.  

For Wall Thickness pull Dimension between faces of the Host Wall geometry in Family and label it to a Shared Parameter of the Instance kind.  

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

If you are trying to create openings, schedule them, then insert doors in the openings, then it is not a recommended workflow in Revit.  

- Check your door family for Rough Width, Rough Height (built-in parameters), and Wall Thickness (reporting shared parameter)

- Insert doors normally

- Create a door schedule showing Rough Width, Rough Height, and Wall Thickness

- Turn off Doors category in your view if you only need to see the opening

See example:

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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@hosam1archi wrote:

How can this information be collected before drawing families doors, knowing that other contractors only draw the holes without inserting doors in them?

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FWIW: That's an irregular workflow. Typically, the Architect is the one who decides where the contractor puts the openings.  Not the other way around.  And before the "opening" can be sized per manufacturer specs, the Architect needs to decide which Manufacturer specs govern.  That means the Door comes before the opening. Not the other way around.  

[MichaelWarwick7522 · Accepted solution]

I could see this workflow being required on a refurbishment where all the doors are being replaced, but the walls are existing - happens in heritage work every so often. Ideally @hosam1archi , you would get the contractor to create the openings in the model as @barthbradley suggested, then you can schedule them by checking the include links box (assuming the contractor model is linked into yours).

If they have used something horrible like cut-profile or this is an IFC with missing classifications then you could create a simple opening family (use the generic model template and change type to doors). Make it so you can stretch height and width to fit the openings and then schedule it. You can then replace it with real doors later BUT they will have to be built the same way as they will not have a host.

[hosam1archi · Accepted solution]

Thank you, of course, the architect is responsible for designing doors and openings
But our problem is that the model we are working on in partnership with several contractors with various specialties and we want to adjust the measurement of the openings for all of the time when all the doors models are finished drawing
It is nice to work the model in conjunction with the construction stages

[hosam1archi]

Thank you very much, there are several proposals as you preferred
Currently, we created a borrowed door with (LOD 200) details to get a schedule with the openings and then we will replace it .