Learn how to efficiently include schedules in your overall project with the use of sheets. This piece walks you through the process of creating and renaming sheets, as well as aligning and placing schedules onto your sheets.
Key Insights
- The article starts by teaching you how to create a new sheet, rename it, and place panel board schedules onto it. All these steps can be accomplished within the project browser.
- Next, the article shares valuable information on creating a new view template for your schedules, which helps categorize them in an organized manner, rather than being stuck in the 'None' category due to a nonexistent view template.
- Lastly, the article offers insights on how to adjust the columns of your schedules to make them fit nicely on a sheet, using alignment tools for neatness and accuracy.
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Now that we have our awesome schedules, we can place them onto sheets to include in our overall project. So let's get started making some sheets. If we look in our project browser, we can scroll down closer towards the bottom and find the Sheets category.
We'll right click and say New Sheet and we want the VDCI 30x42 and click OK. That creates a new sheet. We'll find it here under Sheets and we'll want to right click and select Rename.
And the first one we want is called E610 for the number. E610 for the number and the name, we want to give it our name Panel Board Schedules. And you guessed it, we're going to place our panel board schedules onto this sheet.
We'll find our panel schedules over in the project browser as well and drag and drop them onto the sheet. Starting with PB1, drag and drop and I'll click. PB2, drag and drop and before I click, this time I'm going to use the alignment tools.
We get this green dashed line to help us align our schedules. We'll do the same thing for 3 and 4. Look for that dashed green line to help us line things up. And finally PB4 in that bottom right corner.
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And just like that we have our panel board schedules all on a sheet. Now let's go ahead and create a new sheet. Look for our sheets, right click, New Sheet, VDCI 30x42 and click OK.
We will right click and rename it. This time we will call it E600 for our number and our name this time will be Lighting and Device Schedules. And we'll click OK.
Now let's find those schedules that we created. We'll zoom up here and we're looking for our Schedule Quantities category in the project browser and there's one called None. We'll want to expand that and there are our schedules.
Now I don't love that they're in the None category. Well why are they in that category? That's because their view template is set to None. So I'm going to start by right clicking on Electrical Equipment Schedule and I want to create a new view template.
I'll select Create View Template from View. It takes all of its properties and makes a new view template. And we'll call this Electrical and we have a couple of categories here.
We have Lighting and we have Equipment so we can just call this Electrical Devices. And we'll say OK. And so there it is.
We just click OK to accept all of the settings. We already set them up so it's OK. And you can see nothing happened.
That's because I still have to click on it and now assign the view template. So I click on Electrical Equipment Schedule, View Template set to None. I want to change that to Electrical Devices and click OK.
And now it pops up into its own little category called Electrical Devices. Let's pick the next one, Lighting Fixture Schedule. I select it and apply that same view template, Electrical Devices, and click OK.
Now it can feel good that they're no longer unnamed. They are here in our scheduled quantities under Electrical Devices. And all we have to do is drag and drop to place them.
Let's start with the first one. And we can see if we zoom in, it's a little bit crazy. Why is that? That's because we picked that large text for our column headings.
We want to expand those out a bit and get those to drop down. We're going to repeat that across. If we start moving too far to one side, we can move our schedule over.
Try to make these apparent power columns about the same size. That'll look nicer. And then level is good, location.
This title itself is kind of long, so we could update that or be OK with it. Manufacturer and the URL. All right, that looks pretty good.
Now it fits on the page pretty well. We can move it into place a little better. There's our Electrical Equipment Schedule.
Now let's repeat the process for our Lighting Fixture Schedule. Drag and drop, place it. I'm going to use that Align tool, the little green line, to align it with the upper schedule.
I'll select it. And now we'll start to adjust these columns, getting everything fitting a little better. Make all of these adjustments all the way down, just making it look nice.
And there we go. Now we have our two schedules set up on this sheet. And they're looking really good.
Nice work.
