Explore the process of managing formatting, specifications, and data entry for floor plans using a scheduling tool. This in-depth guide will explain how to adjust hidden fields, manage material types, and organize formatting, as well as how to add additional specifications and double-check your finished work.
Key Insights
- The article provides guidance on how to manage formatting and specifications in a scheduling tool, including how to adjust hidden fields and manage material types.
- Additional specifications such as floor type materials, product types, colors and dimensions are also detailed in the guide.
- The importance of double-checking all the changes made to the floor plan and ensuring all specifications are correct before finalizing and printing the plan is emphasized.
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From our schedule sheet, I'm going to go ahead and just double click on my finish specification so I can open up that schedule. And then I'm going to go to my formatting because we've got a hidden field, which is just the type here. And so if I uncheck that temporarily, you can see we've got our different options that were hidden.
So this is showing it as flooring. And so we're going to go look at our formatting again. And we've got material type, as well, that we can adjust.
And so this one's just set to dash. And so I'll put this on paint. And it's going to change all of them, which is totally fine, because that's what we wanted to do.
And now it's got them all organized the way that we want them to. And then we can go to our finish specifications drafting view. And I can add, just so we're being comprehensive here, I want to make sure I add the P4 to this one.
And then we've got more flooring to add here. We've only got a T1 over here. But if we look at our fitness center finish plan, we've got ourselves a resilient flooring, we've got two more tiles that need to be added.
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We're going to jump back over to that finish specifications sheet here. And then I'll go ahead and add these. So this will be I'm just going to number them now.
We got T1, T2, T3. And then this will be our RF1. We'll go here, I'm going to change it to T1.
And then I'll do edit type, duplicate. And we'll call that one T2. And then name it accordingly.
Kind of get the gist here. I'm starting with a tile one because it makes it a little easier for the data entry. And then to duplicate this is T3, T3.
And then this last one here doesn't matter as much because it's a totally different material. But we'll duplicate this is RF-1. And so that gives us the flooring that we have within here.
And so when we go back to our finish specifications, you can see that we've now got the T1, T2, T3, and the RF1 entered. And now we just need to go through and update our different specifications for each one of those floorings. We'll start with our resilient flooring here.
This is going to be by a company called Mondo. And then we'll change the product type here. So this is a sport impact flooring.
And the color, we're going to go with the dark gray, the S018 dark gray. And the dimension on it is 24 × 48. And for T2, we're going to change this to doweltile.
And the product type is going to be the Vertuo. I probably pronounced that incorrectly, but that's okay. And the color we'll go with is called Composer.
And the number is 3803 if you're interested. And then the size here, it's an 8 inch by 48 inch tile. And this one is in a chevron pattern.
And then for T3, we'll go with another doweltile. This one's called Gaineswood, color's Elm. And the tile size that we created, if you recall, was 8 inch by 36 inch.
And then we'll just say staggered, or we actually use the term for that already, we should be consistent. We'll say install staggered. And so that's all the finishes that we've added for that.
And so now if we jump back over to our 301 sheet, we can take a look at how the schedule looks. And you can see it's all blown up because added many rows back or columns back so that I could get this all adjusted accordingly. And so what I'll do is I'll go back to formatting.
And then I'll pick the two, the hidden field here for type and for material type. Those get shrunk back down. And so now when I go back to that sheet here, you can see it's back to the way that it should be.
The other thing I'm going to check here is when I look at my different schedules, I can see that the room finish schedule for the condo only includes condo rooms. And then the fitness center room finish schedule only includes the fitness center rooms. And so we can jump into this one here, and we can add the tags.
So RF-1 for the flooring, the base finish, we don't have a wall base on there. And then the wall finish is paint. And I want to be consistent here.
So I'm going to peek back and see what we put here. We just typed in paint for that because it's shown everywhere else. And same thing for our ceiling finish will be paint.
Ceiling height is going to be 10 feet. And I'm actually going to change our fitness center to paint. And then fitness centers are a lot of times open to structure there.
We'll change that. This is probably looking for a dimension. We can just leave it at 10 feet then.
And then our classroom is going to have all the same stuff as well. No base. Paint.
And we can kind of just burn our way through here. This one will be nine feet dash zero inches. And then I'll just finish these off.
So our flooring in our locker rooms is tile. And so I'm just going to type in tile because we have multiple tile finishes in both of these. And then the wall finish will be paint.
Ceiling finish will be paint. Ceiling is going to be a little lower in there. And so we'll just wrap this up and get the data entry going.
Okay. And then we'll pop over to the sheet, make sure everything looks good here. Got our equipment, finish schedules, finish specifications all set up.
Everything looks pretty good. And then we'll double check our sheets. And so whenever we do something like this, we want to go through and double check the entire set, make sure everything's good to go before we do our final print PDF.
