Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Creating Material Takeoffs

Creating a material takeoff is similar to creating a schedule. The only difference is that you're breaking components down and scheduling the smaller pieces. For example, as you know, you can make a schedule of all the doors in the model—you just did that. But with a material takeoff, you can quantify the square footage of door panels or glass within the doors. To take it a step further, you can do material takeoffs of walls, floors, and any other building components you want to quantify.

The objective of this procedure is to create three different material takeoffs: one for the walls, one for the floors, and one for the roofs. Let's get started:

1. On the View tab, click Schedules Material Takeoff, as shown in Figure ...