How to Create the Finishes Schedule from the Revit Room Data.How to Start Correctly so you can Create your Finishes Schedule in Revit.
It is embedded below if that is your preferred learning format, so I hope you enjoy! If your prefer a more linear, methodical approach of how I created the Room Finishes Schedule with manual fields proceed below to video for a step-by-step account. Note: I have created an accompanying video that illustrates the steps listed in this post on How to Create a Simple Room Finishes Schedule in Revit. So, in order to help out anyone else who may be wondering how to quickly generate a Room Finishes / Material Schedule in Revit I decided to quickly put together a short tutorial, the full breakdown of which continues below. The Text parameters that the Finishes Schedule needed to report were quite rudimentary – Wall Finishes, Wall Skirting Finish, Floor Finish and Ceiling Finishes.
The solution I put forward was this In order to create a simple Room Finishes Schedule in Revit quickly you must Create a standard Revit Room Schedule and populate the fields with manual “Text” based parameters that can be infilled at speed by the user. So, what did my advice consist of? What was the most straightforward and simplified way to generate a Room Finishes Schedule within Revit so that she could meet effectively meet her obligations? This is due, thankfully, to the fact that she was still in the pre-tender stage of the project and had no IFC model reporting requirements at that point. I think my response may have suprised her somewhat, as I merely suggested she abandon the preferred BIM workflow in favour of a short fix so she can meet her commercial obligations and issue on the agreed upon date. I had a specific query from one such follower who was under the cosh on a large project, where she was concerned about generating her Revit Finishes Schedule for close of business on that very day and she was spending an enormity of effort trying to model the various families and elements so her Finishes Schedule would report the components within the Revit File. I always endevour to live in the real world when generating content for the 8020 BIM followers, which sometimes means putting aside the preferred/idealised workflows from the BIM Purists perspective (a difficult thing to stomach sometimes I admit) in favour for a more approachable solution.