Schedule Overview

A schedule is a tabular display of information, extracted from the properties of the elements in a project. A schedule can list every instance of the type of element you are scheduling, or it can collapse multiple instances onto a single row, based on the schedule's grouping criteria.

Example

You can create a schedule at any point in the design process. As you make changes to the project that affect the schedule, it automatically updates to reflect those changes. You can add a schedule to a drawing sheet. See Add a schedule to a sheet.

You can export a schedule to another software program, such as a spreadsheet program.

Schedule Updates

All schedules update automatically when you modify the project. For example, if you move a wall, the square footage updates in a room schedule accordingly.

When you change the properties of building components in the project, the associated schedule updates automatically.

For example, you could select a door in the project and change its manufacturer property. The door schedule would reflect the change to the manufacturer property.

Types of Schedules

You can create different types of schedules:

• Schedules (or Quantities)
• Key Schedules
• Material Takeoffs
• Annotation Schedules (or Note Blocks)
• Revision Schedules
• View Lists
• Drawing Lists

Panel Schedules

Graphical Column Schedules

Formatting Schedules

You have several choices available for formatting the look of the schedule. You can

• Specify the order and type of properties to display.
• Create totals
• Create your own custom properties, which you can then include in the schedule
• Apply phases to a schedule
• Set conditions to apply background color to cells in the schedule in order to verify design parameters are met.

Schedule Tips

• Mouse-wheel scrolling is available in schedule views. Move the mouse wheel to scroll vertically. Hold Shift and move the wheel to scroll horizontally.
• You can select an element in a non-schedule view from a schedule view. This works best if you are tiling windows. (To tile windows, click View tabWindows panel Tile.) To view an element in a non-schedule view, click in the element’s cell in the schedule, and then click Modify Schedule/Quantities tabSchedule panel Highlight in Model. The Show Elements in View dialog displays. You can continue to click Show in this dialog to open other views that show the element.