Creating a Detailed Door Schedule in AutoCAD Using Table Commands and Organized Workflow Steps

Now let's go ahead and create our door schedule. To begin, we're going to start in our sheet notes document and scroll down to page 10. We're looking for the I3 door schedule.

Then over in AutoCAD, we'll go back to our table command. This time we want to update our columns and rows. We have seven columns and five rows of data.

We'll change our columns to seven, data rows to five, and click OK. Now before we click to place this schedule, I like to line them up. So I'm going to click and snap to the bottom left corner of the finished schedule.

So I'll click one time there. Now I'll give it a name and I'll call it door schedule and enter locks that in. Now I want to click away and give it some breathing room from the finished schedule.

So I will select the whole thing one time. I'll click and I'm going to do move. Whoops, I accidentally clicked in one cell.

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I want the whole thing selected. There we go. And M for move.

I'm going to click one time and drag it down and I'm going to do one inch. Put an inch between them and that'll work for now. We'll clean it up some more at the end.

Now we need to add in our column headings. We'll click in the first column and we want door marked and then location. How am I moving so quickly from column to column? I can click the tab key on my keyboard, type it in, click tab.

So return goes row by row and tab goes column by column. Finish hardware and notes. And that's it.

Now I can zoom in to make this easier to see and we'll do all of our door marks. The first one is D-1, D-2, and so on. Now our size or our location.

We'll type this one in too. Powder room. Enter goes down row by row.

Pantry. Upstairs. Bathroom.

Enter. Walk-in closet. And upstairs closet.

All right. That looks pretty good. Now we have our size and a lot of these are 32 × 80.

So I'll do 32 X for by and then 80 and that's 32 inches wide on those doors. And I'll copy it and then I'll paste it. Enter.

Let's see if I can enter. Click enter. Go down.

Down. And the last one's a little bit unique. It's two doors of 24 × 80.

Okay. Now we have our door type. And the first one is refinished single panel.

And I'm going to select and copy that because we have several of those. I'll click enter. Second one's different.

The third one gets that same note. And the fourth one. Okay.

Then we'll go back up here. And our second one looks like single panel with full light glass. That looks good.

And then the last one is a little bit different as well. It's new double doors out swing. New double doors out swing.

Perfect. And then our finish. This is easy.

It's all the same. We're going to do painted and go with our white dove color. Copy this.

Click enter and paste it all the way down. Super quick. Hardware just as easy as well.

All the doors are going to get matte brass. Select it and paste it all the way down. Control C. Enter.

Paste. Paste. Paste.

And paste. And now we have our notes. And these will be existing door to be salvaged and refinished all the way down except for the bottom note.

Oh, I'm sorry. There's also the pantry door is new. Okay.

So existing door. That's the first one. And the third one gets that as well.

And door four gets that. The D2 is special. It's a new door with solid glass insert.

I'm going to copy paste it from my document. And our double doors have their own note as well for D5. So I'll paste that in as well.

All right. So that's looking pretty good. Now I need to make a few updates.

Let's start with our finished schedule. Well, notice that column B is getting some overlapping text. And if I click on column B. I can make some adjustments.

So double click on column B. And I can move this dot on the right to the right to give it some more space. The blue dot. You can see it now doesn't have that overlap.