Explore the numerous options for customizing door schedules in Revit, including font changes, line weights, grid lines, and outline options. Learn how to increase readability, add specific formatting, and place the schedule accurately on a sheet.
Key Insights
- The appearance of door schedules in Revit can be altered by drawing on a wide array of formatting options such as font changes, line weights, and the addition of grid lines and outlines.
- The readability of a door schedule can be enhanced by implementing minor adjustments like leaving blank rows before data and modifying the line weights for different sections.
- After customizing the schedule, it can be accurately positioned on a sheet using the project browser and directional pad, ensuring equal spacing and alignment.
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The last thing we'll do with this door schedule here is we're going to go ahead and take a look at the schedule appearance. We do have a lot of options with how we want to format our schedules, so I can change all the fonts. I can have heavy lines, light lines, medium lines, and pretty much any of these locations, and it's just a matter of me going in and messing with the settings to see if I can get a combination of things that I like.
We can first take a look at the appearance tab, and we can see some of our different options. So you can see here we have the option to have grid lines, which are what you're seeing here, these horizontal and vertical lines between. And then we also have the option to put an outline around the schedule.
So I'm going to go ahead and do that. I'll say outline, and I'm going to make it wide lines because I want to have a heavier line for that. And then you can have it add different things.
So I could have it do rows of colors and even to the point where we can additionally format where if something equals more or less of another parameter, it'll highlight it and all those types of things. But we're not going to worry too much about that for this exercise. We're just going to add those wide lines here, and then we'll go ahead and hit OK.
One of the things that I do want you to notice is this blank row before data. And that's what you're seeing here is this gap right here. If I were to uncheck that, it would just compress it a little bit.
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But personally, I think the little bit of space helps make it a little bit more readable. So I'll hit OK. None of that's visible here, but when we put it on a sheet, you'll start to see the differences.
The other thing I want to do is the door schedule, the title here, the font, I want to make that a bold font. So where it says door schedule, I've just clicked into this cell, and then I'm going to click on where it says font here at the top. And then I have your basic font options.
So I can make it a different size and I can make it bold. So instead of eighth inch here, I'm going to go ahead and increase that because it is a title to three sixteenths of an inch. And then the rest of the text in here is going to remain at eighth inch.
So I'll hit OK, and you can see this went bold and we get to see that preview, but we won't get to see the rest of it until we put it on a sheet, which is what we're going to do right now. So I'm going to navigate back to our sheet, the A2.1 unnamed here, and we'll get to renaming that in a minute here. And I'll go ahead and I'm going to start by putting the door schedule in right at top here.
To do that, I just need to find it in my project browser. So I'm going to look down until I find schedule quantities here, and there's door schedule. And it's just like any other view.
We just press and drag to bring it out of the project browser, and then we can place it in a good location on our sheet. And this looks pretty good. So what I typically will do is I'll define the width of the schedule based on not wanting to have a double line like you see there so that I can move this across until it kicks it into one single line.
And what's good is I can use the directional pad on my keyboard to kind of line it up, and I'm just looking for pretty equal space between these two. Now, when I zoom in on the schedule, you can see that we do have our larger and bold font for the title, and then we have a line outside the border because that's what we defined it to be with thin lines in the middle, which was the default. And that is our door schedule put on a sheet.
