In this click saver I want to discuss how to create a generic schedule in Revit 2014. We can do something like this in earlier versions of Revit when using a Schedule Key but with 2014 you can now do it with just a regular schedule instead of resorting to a Schedule Key.
Got to the View tab, pick on the drop-down for Schedules, and choose Schedule Quantities. Pick a category that you don’t use in your project, or you can be creative and filter a duplicated schedule so nothing displays in the body of the schedule. Either way, you must have at least one Field in the schedule for this to work, I used Comment when I create the new one.
Now go to the Appearance tab and take the check mark off of Show Headers and pick Ok to finish.
Now pick in the title cell and select the Merge/Unmerge button. Next, use the Clear Cell tool to remove the default schedule view name so you can type in whatever you want.
Now add one row and set up your cell sizes before adding any additional ones. Doing it this way the new rows will use the previous row for cell number, size and formatting.
To best do this drag and drop the generic schedule onto a sheet and use the one grip to resize to overall length of the schedule. Once this is done go back to the schedule and starting adding the additional columns and resize them accordingly.
You can now start adding additional rows, text, parameters, images, shading, and more. Hope this helps in thinking out of the box with this method. See you in class, Jarod