How much time have you spent trying to recreate or build
schedules? What about trying to find or share a
schedule? With UNIFI’s newly released support of Revit
Quantity Schedules, you can easily set up or retrieve a
schedule in seconds and you don’t even need to open Revit to view it.
Learn how this time saving, headache-free solution that will enable you to
focus on what you do best – designing and building
structures.
The Value of Schedule Support Inside UNIFI
Schedules are data-centric views of a BIM model and are critical to a firm’s documentation workflow. The manner in which firms create and deploy schedules is similar to how content is managed, since schedules are the tool for the reporting of quantities and attributes of content.
UNIFI built our Schedules feature based upon input from our user community and we focused on what mattered most to our users - ease of use, efficiency and business value:
- Hassle-free set up - While other folks still debate how
to best organize, maintain and distribute schedules inside of
Revit project files (optimal balance of quantity, organization, etc.),
UNIFI allows you to free your schedules from these painful workflows! Set
up is extremely easy and matches the familiar upload process, versioning
and revision process used for other elements, saving considerable time.
- Easy access - Individual schedules are immediately
indexed and accessible through our powerful search system without any extra
effort to manually meta-tag or parse data out. Our analytics show us that
80% of inserts made by customers were displayed in the top 10 search
results.
- Fast - Don’t bother anymore with the time
consuming task of opening a container Revit project file every
time you have to access a schedule! With UNIFI, schedules are
stored as small, individual, versionable elements – fast to preview and
fast to add to your project.
- Instant Previews - In UNIFI, you can immediately
preview the schedule. Our platform does the heavy lifting for you by
analyzing the schedule structure, then rendering the schedule header for
you. You can even cycle through previews for each base file.
Schedules support is a great addition to UNIFI’s already supported Revit element types of Families, System Families, Drafting Views and Groups.
How Does this Feature Work
Uploading:
Schedules can be added to UNIFI by opening a project and then opening the ‘Batch Export’ dialog. Schedules will appear there as a parent type and expanding this will reveal all of the available schedules. Choose the schedules you want to store in UNIFI and click “Export”. This will queue them up in UNIFI for upload – just like any other element, you can choose your tags and libraries before uploading and following upload they follow the same approval process that you’re familiar with already.
Accessing:
In Browse mode, schedules will appear as their own folder after choosing a library. Schedules will also appear in your search results if your search term matches against tags, the category of the schedule and of course, the name. You may also apply a filter for ‘Schedules’. Inserting schedules works like other elements; simply click ‘Insert’ to load into your project. To assist you in making a selection, a view of the column headers is even conveniently located on the Details page.
Managing:
Schedules are managed like every other element type. Tagging, renaming, library management, custom preview images, revisions, etc. are all handled the same way.
UNIFI’s new Schedules capabilities provide even greater value to leading architectural, engineering, construction firms who use UNIFI to create and manage their building content.
Find out more information here: http://unifilabs.com/seamlessly-create-find-share-schedules-cloud-unifi/
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