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Schedule Tools
The software provides default tools for basic wall, door, and window schedules on the Scheduling tool palette and in
the Content Browser. Selecting one of these tools that has a style and other properties predefined, lets you quickly
place a schedule table in your drawing. You can also apply the properties of a schedule table tool to existing schedule
tables. You can create schedule table tools from schedule table styles. For more information, see “
Adding Schedules
Using Schedule Table Tools ” on page 2027.
Schedule Styles
A schedule table style specifies the properties that can be included in a table for a particular object type. The style also
controls the table formatting, such as text height and spacing, columns, and headers. Display properties in the style
control the visibility, layer, color, linetype, lineweight, and linetype scale of table components. For more information,
see “
Working with Schedule Table Styles ” on page 2039.
Options in schedule table styles let you create both regular and matrix schedules (also called dot schedules). You can
also specify a matrix format for individual columns in a regular schedule.
Property Data
Property data is information about properties of an object. For example, width and height are typical properties of a
door. The data collected on these properties might reflect 3'-0" for width and 7'-0" for height. This property data is
contained within a property set. For more information, see “
Property Sets and Property Set Definitions ” on page 2024.
NOTE Property data values are not contained in the schedule or schedule tag, but on the object itself. The schedule and
schedule tag simply displays values retrieved directly from the object to which it is anchored.
Property Sets
A property set is a user-definable group of related object properties. When you attach a property set to an object or a
style, the property set becomes the container for the property data associated with the object. Property sets are specified
using property set definitions (see below). For more information, see “
Property Set Definitions ” on page 2069 and “ Property
Set Data ” on page 2062.
Property Set Definitions
A property set definition is a documentation object that specifies the characteristics of a group of properties that can
be tracked with an object or style. For example, you could create a property set definition named DoorProps that
contains property definitions for DoorNumber, DoorWidth, and FireRating. Each property has a name, description,
data type, data format, and default value. For more information, see “
Property Set Definitions ” on page 2069.
Property Data Formats
A property data format is specified for each property definition within a property set definition to control how the data
for that property displays in a schedule table, in a schedule tag, or on the property palette. For example, you can use
property data formats to display a door that is three feet wide, with a raw value of 36 units in a drawing, with inch
units as 3'-0", or 3', or 3 ft. Property set definitions and schedule table styles use property data formats to control the
display format of values for each property. For more information, see “
Property Data Formats ” on page 2057.
Schedule Tags
You can use schedule tags in your drawings to graphically display the property data of an object. By linking the schedule
tag to a property in a property set, such as the width of a door, you report property data of the object, such as 3'-0''.
When you anchor the tag to an object to which the property set is applied, the value of the property displays in the
tag. The information in the tag is updated if the object or property change. For more information, see “
Schedule Tags ”
on page 2030.
Process Overview: Using Schedule Tables
If you create schedule tables from schedule table styles that are provided, the property set definitions and property data
formats are already created for you, and you can begin the process of adding a schedule table to your drawing from
Step 4.
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