Learn how to create a rentable area schedule, including sorting, grouping, and setting grand totals in this detailed walkthrough. The article provides step-by-step methods to format and align the area details and other fields in the schedule effectively.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to add the fields name, area type, area and level to create a schedule for rentable area. It further guides on sorting these fields by level and area type.
- The process involves setting grand totals, and using headers and footers to represent different levels and their respective totals. The formatting tab is used to justify the area to the right and to calculate the totals.
- The completed schedule contains a variety of area types such as building common area, exterior area, major vertical penetration, and office area. The article also provides instructions on how to format and adjust the columns for better readability before placing it on the building area plans sheet.
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To make our rentable area schedule, we need to go to the 'View' tab, Schedules, 'Schedules/Quantities.' And from here, we're going to schedule our rentable area this time. And we'll start by adding our fields.
We want Area Type, Name, Area, and Level. Now we'll jump to our 'Sorting/Grouping' tab. And I'm going to sort by level.
And I want to give this a header, so it has the title, you know, Level One, Level Two, etc. And a footer so that we have a title and totals for each one of those levels. We know what the Level One total is and the Level Two total is going to be.
I'll put a blank line to separate those a bit so it's easier to read. And then we're going to want to sort by Area Type. Because we want to calculate all the totals here.
We're going to set this to 'Grand Totals.' And I'll set it to 'Title and Totals' just like we have before. Now we need to go to our 'Formatting' tab.
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And we need to make some adjustments to area. So first off, we want to justify it to the right, similar to what we did here with our Gross Building schedule. And then we also need to tell it to calculate the totals of that value.
The next thing we'll do is we'll go to our Level field. And we'll make it a hidden field because we don't need to see it in the schedule, but we very much want it to be part of the schedule. Then I'll go to 'Appearance.'
And I'll add the wide outline, which is the graphics we're using for our schedules here. And then I'll go ahead and hit OK. And then we can take a look at our schedule.
We have our Area Type, which has our Building Common Area, Exterior Area, Major Vertical Penetration, and Office Area. And then we have the description that we gave it. And then we have the area that was generated through Revit.
So I'm just going to spread these out a bit. And you can see here by adding the footer to the level when we sorted and grouped there, you can see it's showing up at each level and also a grand total here. The last thing we do before we put it on a sheet is we're going to format the actual title here.
So I'll set the font to 3 16ths of an inch and make that bold and hit OK. And now we're ready to put it on the sheet. So I'll jump back over to our Building Area Plans.
Put my Rentable Schedule on the sheet. You can see this one's got a lot more information on it, which is good. And then I'll just adjust these columns here so that we have everything on a single line.
And we can kind of shrink some of these down, increase them a bit, whatever we need to do to make it look right. And then I'll have it line up with the Area Schedule for the Gross Building. And that's going to be our sheet for the Building Area Plans, which will be included in our final package.
