Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014: No Experience Required

Chapter 11

Schedules and Tags

To begin, I want to clarify something specific for the people who have been using Autodesk® AutoCAD® Architecture software: you don’t need to tag an item in order for it to appear in a schedule in the Autodesk® Revit® Architecture platform. You can’t really just draft a schedule either. But this isn’t a bad situation to be in. Say, for example, that you have a typical door schedule. Wouldn’t it be nice to add a door to the model and have that door automatically show up in the schedule?

• Creating schedules
• Creating material takeoffs
• Creating key legends and importing CAD legends
• Adding tags
• Creating custom tags
• Keynoting

Creating Schedules

Revit allows you to schedule an item instantly based on a database. A door, ...