Explore the intricacies of populating schedules on sheets, with a specific focus on plumbing and mechanical schedules. Learn to create tables of your model, adjust appearances, and consistently populate tags, all while making sure everything fits and looks professional.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to populate plumbing and mechanical schedules on a sheet, highlighting the importance of keeping consistency when filling out tags.
- It emphasizes the necessity of adjusting appearances and aligning schedules for a professional look, as well as the ability to rename elements, such as changing the name of mechanical equipment to 'water heater' or 'gas meter'.
- Finally, the content underscores the power of using schedules as a tool for filling out data across a project, noting that schedules are essentially a table view of your model at any given point in time, filtered to show only specific elements like plumbing fixtures or mechanical equipment.
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We're ready to populate this on a sheet. I'm going to go here plumbing schedules. I can go ahead and go to my plumbing fixture schedule.
There we go. And we can just go ahead and drop it, like say right here. It seems like everything fits.
I'm going to go ahead. You can adjust it here on the sheet also. So I went ahead and adjusted that as such.
Again, obviously, there's probably a type, tons of different schedules we can do, but we'll go ahead and do one more, which will be a mechanical equipment schedule. So let's go here to schedules, schedule quantities. I'm going to go down and find mechanical equipment.
There we go. I'm going to hit. Okay.
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So let's go to type Mark. Let's go to family. Let's go to manufacturer.
Let's go to model and type comments. Okay. Again, I like to just get this populated.
We might have to change that name a little bit, but that's easy to do. So interestingly enough, this one's not using the type Mark. We populated tags for this.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to change, switch it out for Mark. And that's kind of a function of what the tag is showing. When we filled this out, we filled it out with the tag.
So I'm going to remove type Mark hit. Okay. And there it is sorting and grouping.
I'm going to sort by Mark. I'm not going to minimize every single instance hit. Okay.
If we wanted to, and then, Oh, I need to change my appearance. Let's get off the schedule default. So go to your appearance here.
And then I'll bring up this. Let's bring up the outline, give it a little bit of line weight. We use the line weight, three quarter inch aerial, three 32nd century, all three 32nd century.
Okay. There we go. I can go on here and type Mark.
I can type in a description and you factor model and comments, whatever you say, whether it be remarks, whatever, just always be consistent. And then I could change this to be capitalized mechanical equipment schedule. There we go.
Now you can't really change the name here. This is part of that. So what I can go ahead and do down though, is I can go down to my families and under my mechanical equipment, I'm going to change this name.
So I'm going to go ahead, right. Click, rename this. And I'm just going to name this water heater.
Boom. And notice how it changed there for the gas meter. I'm just going to go ahead, rename gas meter.
Boom. The other thing we forgot to do is to center all of this. So I'm going to go ahead.
I'm going to go to my formatting. I'm going to take Mark family and manufacturer model and change the alignment here to be center hit. Okay.
And there we are. If you want to go ahead, go ahead and pop in a manufacturer. They're popping a model number.
If you know enough top your head, I'm going to leave them blank for now. But if you know, some, maybe some typical comments, things like that, you know, this may be a not in contract that might be, have to be installed by the public utility. So I might be say, and I dot C and then installed by local utility.
And then that's a type. So it'll be applied to all the types there. And there we go.
I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go over to my plumbing schedules. I'm going to grab my scrub my hair, grab my mechanical equipment schedule, drag it over.
It will align. I do kind of like to make these line up. So you can always go ahead and you don't, and this is kind of a cool thing, but it's kind of a little trick.
What you can do here is you can grab this and it's only going to move left or right. If you move your mouse up and down, it's not going to change it at all. So what you can do is I could drag my mouse up here and go drag over a little bit and kind of align these so that the schedules are kind of reading the same way.
I know I have less fields here, so I might kind of cheat a little bit. I'll just make the comments a little bit longer. And there we go.
Now my schedules look the same exact way. Great. We've created a couple of schedules.
Again, that schedule is just a table view of your model at any given point in time. We're just filtering it. This one is seeing only plumbing fixtures.
This one is only seeing mechanical equipment. It's really nice. And it's a very powerful tool for filling out data across a project.
Sound good. We're going to stop this video here and we're going to finish up. We're going to do one pass through of the sheets, take a quick peek, make sure everything looks good, and then we'll print it for the final.
See you.