Learn how to create efficient and accurate door schedules for construction documents using software tools. This article will walk you through the step-by-step process of adding and modifying type parameters, selecting and applying door and frame materials and finishes, and making changes in your project that automatically populate the schedule.
Key Insights:
- When creating a door schedule, begin by using letter designations for door types. This is also where you distinguish between single and double doors with respective designations.
- After marking the door types, move on to indicate door material and finish, as well as frame material and finish. These can be added directly into the schedule or within the model itself, depending on what is more suitable for your work process.
- To improve efficiency, use the software capabilities to auto-fill most of the information. For instance, selecting all instances of a certain door type in your project allows you to input material and finish information once and have it automatically populate the entire schedule.
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Now let's start adding the information into our doors here. So what I'll do is start with the type mark. So I want to use letter designations instead of numbers here.
And so door 101 is our entrance storefront, and that's a double door. So it's going to be door type A, but I'm going to give it two A's just to signify that it is a double door. And I know this because we left the family column in here, and that helps us to make sure that we're giving the right designations to the door.
So you can see I'll enter in double A there, AA, and hit ENTER. It's a type parameter, so we're going to get this every time we modify a type parameter. We'll hit okay.
The next door we're looking at here is going to be door B, and that's 102 or the single flush. And so I'll go ahead and enter that one as well. So B, enter.
And then door 113 here is going to be a single storefront door. We'll type A for that one. And then door 211, we're going to go ahead and add.
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And that one is going to be door type C. And so that was kind of hard to see within the C of B's there, but it was an eight on 211. And we'll make that type C. Now that we have the type mark filled out, we can go ahead and move on to door material and finish and frame material and finish. And so the way we can fill this out is we can go through and we can add all the information into the schedule here, or we could use the model itself to add the information as we see fit.
So I'm going to go in and start in the schedule. So my material for my door here is going to be aluminum. My finish for that, we'll just type FF for factory finish.
And then my frame material and finish are going to have the same thing. Now when I get to the door material for the single flush door, those are going to be wood doors. So this is a type parameter that we're entering, and you'll see it'll populate a good chunk of the schedule here.
And then the same thing with frame finish, we're going to go ahead and designate a paint finish for that. Now that was a parameter that was a instance parameter, and so it will only fill out each one individually. Now that's perfectly fine, and we can go through and we can just add those in like that.
Or we can go in to say level one or level two, and I can pick one of these doors, which is the single flush door. And I can right click and I can say select all instances, an entire project, and it'll select all of those doors. And you can see here I've got frame material, and I've got frame finish here, which are both in my schedule, and I can enter that information in here.
So my finish for my door finish is actually going to be PT1, like we talked about already. And then my frame material is going to be wood. And so we'll have it populate the entire schedule just by doing a change in our project.
And so if I go to door schedule, you can see the schedule looks totally different now, because I added that information in to the project through here. Now frame material was filled out, but frame finish wasn't filled out, because that is the parameter that we created. And so we'll just make that one paint one as well.
So a couple doors didn't get picked up, and that's because they are different types. We didn't get those selected. So the frame or the door material for the door 113, which is the single glass storefront will be aluminum.
And then we'll make that a factory finish. So FF, same thing here, it'll be aluminum frame, and FF. And then our door double glass, which is the door that goes into our conference room here, is all the same parameters as our other door.
But I just didn't make the cut because it is a different family and type. So it wasn't under that select all instances that we did before. So that's how we can go through and fill out our door schedule.
And obviously, this is a reduced version of what you might find on a full set of construction documents. But it does give you the idea of how you can add new parameters and fill them out pretty quickly and efficiently. The wonderful thing about this is you're not having to go through a project and collect all the doors and create all the rows and everything manually because the program is going to manage all that for you.
We really didn't have much work to do from column E through A because the software really took care of most of that. And even going this direction here, we were able to allow the software to fill out most of this information. And honestly, it's a more accurate way of doing it.
We've created this system for ourselves to be able to create schedules that work both efficiently and accurately.
