Print Door and Window Schedules on Letter Size Paper X16

[Steve_Nyhof]

A few of the builders I work with have asked me if my software can produce door and window schedules. I have typically always showed the label by the door or window, but in some cases when someone wanted a schedule I would put it on an additional page in the plan. However, I never liked this because larger format printing is expensive and just not very handy.

 

So what I am doing is setting up a CAD Detail with my door and window schedules and then linking them to their own .layout file setup for Letter Size Paper.

The door and window schedules exist in my main .plan template, and the Doors-Windows Schedule.layout is linked to this my default template.

 

You can learn more about how to setup your default .plan and default .layout below, but basically, you set up a .layout plan for your doors and/or windows that is linked to your default .plan template by using a different name and then renaming the .plan file to something different.

 

1. I made a copy of my defaulttemplate.plan (for example) and called it Select Your Plan File.plan (you will see why when you test it)
2. You make your CAD Details pages in this Select Your Plan File.plan file with your Door and Window Schedules. (You can make separate pages or put them into one, side by side)
3. Make a new .layout file, go to the Drawing Sheet Setup and set up your page details for Letter (We will name it Doors-Windows Schedule.layout)
4. Send your Door and Window Schedules from Select Your Plan File.plan to the this Doors-Windows Schedule.layout file.
5. Once I had my Layout Box sizing set to match my door schedule (for example), I made a copy of the Layout Box and sent it to the next page in the .layout
6. So this will be page 2 of the Doors-Windows Schedule.layout. Now you need to  Pan/Zoom Layout Box the schedule vertically within the view to the next number of rows in your schedule. Page one shows rows 1-6. Page two shows rows 7-12. I made six pages this way so that all 36 rows of my schedule were setup and showing the consecutive rows in the schedule.
7. Once you have all your Layout Boxes in place on each page, save as the Select Your Plan File.plan to your defaulttemplate.plan. (Now this file called Select Your Plan File.plan no longer exists - this is important that it cannot be found when you open your new Doors-Windows Schedule.layout file)
8. Save your Doors-Windows Schedule.layout file in some folder where you can grab it when you create a new project.
9. Now when you start a new drawing, it will bring in your new defaulttemplate.plan that holds the new schedules. Give it a name (My New Drawing.plan for example) and draw some walls, windows and doors in the plan.
10. Then open your Doors-Windows Schedule.layout, and because it was connected to a plan called Select Your Plan File.plan (which no longer exists), it will ask you to link the file. Link it to your newly named My New Drawing.plan file for the project. You will see the door and/or window schedule show up on the pages in the Doors-Windows Schedule.layout file.

 

 

Example Result: 
XXX0000 Doors-Windows Schedule.pdf

 

Here is an example of my plan and Doors-Windows Schedule.layout to see how it is working

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OKVdF5kr6LYLDES5Vvzsn6nWqU1sxUMF/view?usp=sharing

 

 

[Steve_Nyhof]

One thing I want to add. If you want to see the door and window labels on the plan while you are working on it, turn the schedules into blocks in your template, and then when you are ready to use the schedules explode them.