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CAD Shack: Everything about Revit Schedules

CAD Shack

Everything about Revit Schedules. The Schedule tool is found on the View tab of the ribbon and includes five types of schedules; Schedule/Quantities, Material Takeoff, Sheet List, Note Block, and View List. Schedule/Quantities. The Schedule/Quantities type produces a schedule of a selected family category.

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What to Look for in Construction Design Software

Lets Build

AutoCAD: Best overall construction design software. Construction professionals worldwide have used AutoCAD construction design software since the ‘80s for 2D and 3D drafting. AutoCAD comes with a comprehensive toolkit with thousands of objects, styles, etc. AutoCAD is also quite pricey at $235 monthly or $1,185 annually.

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How to use AutoCAD for generating bar bending schedule

Construction Cost Estimating

This construction video tutorial is the continuation of the video that focuses on bar bending schedule – stair reinforcement details theoretically. link] In this present video, one can learn how to use AutoCAD to produce bar bending schedule of staircase.

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Use of excel and AutoCAD for detailing Steel Reinforcing (Rebar) Bending Schedules for Concrete

Construction Cost Estimating

Walls explicitly narrates detailing Steel Reinforcing (Rebar) Bending Schedules for Concrete with the use of AutoCAD and Excel. Definition of a bending schedule? Process for drawing a schedule in AutoCAD ? Process for generating the schedule in Excel and send it into AutoCAD.

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Schedules Basics & Tips

Revit Beginners

Need to identify what type or category of schedule you are looking at? In the Properties of the Schedule, edit “fields.” The type of Schedule is in the title of the window and the categories is often in the "Select from available fields" dropdown. Key Schedules will not support them. This post is a small fraction.

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AutoCAD MEP Clash Reports

CAD Shack

Revit products have had the ability to report all interferences in a schedule since they came out, which has made them fundamentally better than looking all over the place to red lines hidden in a busy drawing in ABS/AutoCAD MEP. Well, here's a gem of an undocumented command for AutoCAD MEP. Now that's awesome!

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AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems

CAD Shack

Digital Drafting Whether you liked AutoCAD, MicroStation, or whatever. (I Instead of digital lines, new entities called objects were introduced on the AutoCAD platform that contained specific properties to the object type. The minute you draw it twice in AutoCAD or ABS somebody changes one of two and now, there’s a disconnect.

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