Square foot Schedule

[BerthaLee]

I'm using CA15 I know I've seen a video somewhere that shows how to make a square foot schedule for the layout. I've seen it and done it before, but cannot find it anywhere - I've searched for two days now! Just a simple schedule showing Heated, Garage, and porch square footages.

 

Thanks!!!

[Joe_Carrick]

It's just a "Room Finish Schedule" with only appropriate rooms and columns

[BerthaLee]

I cannot seem to get it to populate like this. I remember before I had to use polylines somehow. When I use the Room Finish Schedule, it separates the individual rooms even if I set it to Group similar or set each room to the specific schedule.

 

Susan

[TeaTime]

It's been a bit since I've touched X15 but I want to say being able to add CAD Polylines to Schedules was introduced then.

But you should be able to create Room Polylines or Standard Area Polylines based on the rooms, then set those to be included in a schedule.

 

I'm not seeing a specific video on the topic but there was a webinar they have recorded : https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10286/schedules.html

I scrubbed through it and found a bit about polyline schedules for terrain at around the 1h 29m mark.

[BerthaLee]

On 1/31/2025 at 5:37 PM, TeaTime said:

It's been a bit since I've touched X15 but I want to say being able to add CAD Polylines to Schedules was introduced then.

But you should be able to create Room Polylines or Standard Area Polylines based on the rooms, then set those to be included in a schedule.

 

I'm not seeing a specific video on the topic but there was a webinar they have recorded : https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10286/schedules.html

I scrubbed through it and found a bit about polyline schedules for terrain at around the 1h 29m mark.

Leaving this comment and final solution so others may find it helpful as well.

 

Thanks! With the use of this video segment (I think maybe I scrubbed through a little too fast!) and this article (https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00309/calculating-the-living-area-or-square-footage-of-a-plan.html), I was able to get the square footages I needed. Once I got the polylines done to the correct layer (It wanted to include siding to begin with), I went through an added them to custom schedules.

 

It now looks like this. The only issue I have, but can certainly deal with, is the same items aren't totaled together. I know there is probably a way to do it, but It's not a make or break thing.

 

Thanks! 

 

P.S. Maybe I'll move to X16 soon! I had JUST purchased 15 when 16 came out, but I look forward to being able to put porch posts where I want them!

[Renerabbitt]

2 hours ago, BerthaLee said:

P.S. Maybe I'll move to X16 soon! I had JUST purchased 15 when 16 came out, but I look forward to being able to put porch posts where I want them!

Sum totals on a given row was introduced in X16

[DRAWZILLA]

4 hours ago, BerthaLee said:

Leaving this comment and final solution so others may find it helpful as well.

 

Thanks! With the use of this video segment (I think maybe I scrubbed through a little too fast!) and this article (https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00309/calculating-the-living-area-or-square-footage-of-a-plan.html), I was able to get the square footages I needed. Once I got the polylines done to the correct layer (It wanted to include siding to begin with), I went through an added them to custom schedules.

 

It now looks like this. The only issue I have, but can certainly deal with, is the same items aren't totaled together. I know there is probably a way to do it, but It's not a make or break thing.

 

Thanks! 

 

P.S. Maybe I'll move to X16 soon! I had JUST purchased 15 when 16 came out, but I look forward to being able to put porch posts where I want them!

just be careful to check and verify that the schedule and the actual square footage are correct with what you want, they can be different. they really don't calculate the same way.