Learn how to effectively create and manage a multi-category schedule in Revit, using categories relevant to a broader scope. This will enhance your efficiency in handling FF&E schedules, which cover most furniture and equipment.
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- The article guides on setting up a multi-category schedule in Revit, where one can select broader categories relevant to the project scope instead of individual categories.
- The process also involves filtering out categories scheduled elsewhere, like doors, windows, and curtain panels. This aids in streamlining the schedule and avoiding redundancies.
- It suggests ways to sort categories and input price values. This helps in better organization and readability of the schedule, making it easier to manage costs of different elements in the project.
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Now we're going to start our second of three different schedules that we're doing here, and that's going to be a multi-category schedule. So to do that, what we'll do is we'll go back to our view tab, just like before, schedules, schedule quantities. And instead of picking a category here, we'll just leave it on multi-category.
Very similar to before with the door, but this time we're going to go ahead and pick categories that are relevant to this broader scope. And we're looking for more of a FF&E schedule, which is going to give us most of our furniture and equipment in here. And so we will pick some broad topics.
We're going to go with type mark. And then there's another one here. It's called family and type.
Category, count, because that'll tell us how many we have in the project. And then cost. We'll keep it pretty simple with just these few.
And then we'll go ahead and hit OK. As you can see, there are a lot of different things in here. And the reason is we are scheduling pretty much all the different categories.
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And so when we go through and do this, one of the things that we want to make sure we do is we also want to be able to filter out. So this is one of the tabs in that schedule properties we haven't quite looked at yet. But we're going to want to go ahead and filter out things that would be scheduled elsewhere, like doors and windows, curtain panels.
Those are all going to be placed in different locations. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that filter tab. And then we can filter by category here.
So I can say filter by category. And if we said equals, that's kind of a definite statement. If I said category equals the four things that we want, like furniture, furniture systems, plumbing fixtures, et cetera, then it would zero out all the other ones.
We need to use a negative here, which is does not equal, which means it can equal all those other things. So I'll say category does not equal. And then I can pick one that it doesn't equal.
So in our case, it's doors. And you will notice that this is not necessarily in alphabetical order. It is in a form of alphabetical order, but not one that any of us are very accustomed to.
So it's kind of hard to find everything. We don't want it to equal doors. So category does not equal windows.
And I saw that down at the bottom here. And then we can do category again, does not equal. And this one will be curtain panels.
All right, so let's do those three and hit OK. And see what our schedule looks like. And so I'm just going to scroll through.
And if there's anything in here that I don't want, then we're going to take it out. So I can already see one that we don't want to schedule here, which is the toilet partitions. And that was under specialty equipment.
That's the category there. We're just scrolling through to see if we can find anything. And then casework.
So there's two more that we need to filter out. We'll filter. So category does not equal.
And we're looking for casework. So all the architectural ones are down at the bottom here. So there's casework.
And then category does not equal. And we're looking for specialty equipment. So I will say that in previous versions of Revit, there were only three, maybe four of these options here.
And so now you have a whole bunch to work with. And it makes it a lot easier to customize this type of schedule. So I can hit OK.
And now you can see we've got all of our different elements within here. Quite a bit of stuff. So the next thing we can do is sort this a little bit better.
So I'll go to sorting and grouping. And what we want to do is we want to go ahead and sort by category and give it a header because category is kind of like our overarching theme here. So it's by category.
And then we'll allow it to sort by mark. Or in our case, type mark here. And we'll just leave it at that.
And we'll hit OK. And now you can see all of our chairs. Everything's kind of sorted in a way that's much easier to read.
Now, that being said, there is still a lot of information on here that is making it pretty difficult to read. We're going to go through and add in some of these values. And then we're going to look at a way that we can go ahead and condense this schedule.
So instead of showing every single instance, we can dial it back a little bit. So for the lavatories, we're just going to enter in a price. And this is pretty arbitrary, but we'll just say they're $250.
And then the urinals, those are going to be $400 apiece. The water closets will go with $550. And then we've got the workstations, which those will be, we'll say $2,500.
And then we've got our standing desks, which those we'll call $900. So these are going to be some nice desks. And then we've got our file cabinet, which would be about $150.
And then looks like we have the tables don't have a price for those yet. We'll call those $500. OK, so you may have noticed that some of these had price already built into them.
And that's pretty common. You'll download Revit families from different vendors, or you'll have them already built into the project with the price already associated. Or it might have other parameters that are associated with it as well.
So it's not an uncommon thing to see something like that. And the last one here is our C3 chair. And that one's going to be $350.
And looks like we got all the costs associated. And so the next thing that we'll do here is we will compress this considerably, because this would take up a couple sheets with all this information here.
