Discover the process of setting up a finished specification schedule, starting from the manufacturer to the product type and color, and inputting other necessary data. In understanding this process, you'll learn how to navigate between the schedule and the specification legend, the importance of choosing a preference, and how to make your final sheet more readable.
Key Insights
- Creating a finished specification schedule involves inputting data such as the manufacturer, product type, color, finish, dimensions, and installation notes. You can either enter this data directly into the schedule or in the specification legend.
- There's no inherent advantage to filling out the data in the specification legend or the schedule — it's largely a matter of personal preference. To navigate between cells when entering data, use the right arrow key on the D-pad.
- To improve readability, you can add spaces in your schedule every time the material type changes, helping categorize the materials better. This aids in making the final sheet easier to read and understand.
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Now that we have the framework set up for our finished specification schedule, I can go in and start doing the data entry necessary to fill it out. We'll start with our manufacturer. And so for our carpet, we're going to go ahead and pick Shaw for the carpet.
And one thing I want you to keep in mind is every single time that we do this, it's going to ask that option. If we were to do this in, say, our specification legend here, then it won't give us that option because I can go through and say, pick my carpet, go to edit type, and then I can fill out that same information here. Or you can run through it at the schedule.
And so it's something that you just want to keep in mind. As you go through, it's a preference thing. And we'll take a look at what it looks like for both of them.
So first off, if we look at the carpet, and I start filling this out, so product type here, this is going to be like that next level of detail for that. And so this one doesn't have anything specific to it. So I can just put a dash into that.
And for our color and finish, we'll go ahead and pick sandstone. And the product type, we should actually add the name of it. And that's artistic presence.
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And we don't have any specific dimensions or any install notes here. And so we can just put dashes to fill those out and then hit OK. Now, if I pop over to the schedule, you can see it added that information.
And so now if I do the same thing with our LVT1 option, where I pop in, I can add the manufacturer name here. So this will be Patcraft. It gives me that option.
And to go to the next cell here, I just press the right arrow on the D-pad. And then the product type that we're looking at here is local reserve resilient plank. Same thing, hitting right on the D-pad and then enter.
The color and finish is going to be oat. And then ExoGuard finish. OK.
And then the dimensions, I'm just going to put the plank dimension, which is 7 × 48. And then I can add a note here. And so I'm just going to say install staggered to make sure we don't just get them all lined up, because you never know.
And then I'll just kind of expand some of this out a little bit. And this is just so we can see it better on here. But when we get to the sheet itself, it'll return any of these items as needed.
So you've seen kind of how these can be added both ways here. It's really just a matter of preference. I'm going to stick here so that I can just keep adding these in.
But it ultimately depends on how you want to fill this out. I don't think there's a benefit either way. So spec ceramics for the manufacturer downtown.
And then the color and finish is going to be ash natural. And our size is going to be 24 × 12, which we already knew because we created a pattern for that. And then I always put in here, if there's a pattern shown on the finish plans, we'll say pattern per finish plans.
Okay, so I'm going to go through and fill this out. And then you'll get to see a filled out version of this, I encourage you to pause the video and then fill it out. So that you can have all of this information on your project as well.
So I've got all of the materials filled out on the schedule here. And there's one more thing I want to do. And so right now, it's just everything's kind of squished in there together.
And so it's a little bit hard to read. And I think once we get it on the sheet, it'll be improved because you'll see the lines a little better. But I do want to show that when we go to sorting grouping, there's an option to where I see we have like material type here, we can actually put this blank line on and what it'll do is it'll add a space every time the material type changes.
And so it spaces things out a little bit. So it really helps to categorize it a little better, and it makes it easier to read. And so I'm going to go ahead and space this out a little bit more so you guys can see all the different materials that I've typed in there.
And then just give you an opportunity to take a moment and go through and input all this data into your schedule as well.
