Window & Door Schedule

[jwallace2T8CK]

Hello,

I'm trying to streamline the current method we use for creating Window & Door Schedules. For example, currently we are working on a housing project that has 13 blocks, with 4 house types (A, B, C, D with variations of each for gable left & right, including and excluding windows in the gables). Our current strategy is to create a Window & Door Schedule for the worst case house type....for example....House Type A - Gable with Windows. The only problem with this is that it only captures one gable type (Gable left for example), whereas Gable Right might have different window types due to the internal layout.

Is there a way of creating one combined Window & Door Schedule that captures all house types? 

Just for additional information, we model each house individually (e.g Type A, and its gable variants), link these house types as required into each block, then those blocks are linked into the site plan.

If there is any advice as to how we can streamline our current workflow, to ensure we are not missing Window or Door types, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

[luisPDAN6]

Are you obliged to document the exact door quantities and configuration? We have been using mostly schedules with separate sheets as legends (plans and elevations). In simple projects the contractors only want plain schedules (lists) of all doors with all the features, including fire, sound, wind direction, etc. For the swing direction of doors and windows we are using the xDoor plugin from the Revit app store.

[jwallace2T8CK]

Hi, no we are not obliged to document the exact door and window quantities. I'm just trying to streamline the process to ensure all windows and doors are captured, and if that can be done in a single schedule rather than as separate schedules per house type. 

[luisPDAN6]

The linked document doors and windows can be captured on the main Revit document door schedule when you enable the “Include elements in links” in the schedule settings.

[jwallace2T8CK]

Hi, thanks for that little tip. I guess the remaining part of my initial question is does it make sense to do a window and door schedule that way (via the site model with everything loaded into it). I'm looking to understand if others have an alternative workflow for a similar situation?