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Michael Wilson/4 min read

Creating a Simple Gross Area Schedule for Building Plans

Gross Area Schedule Workflow

1

Pick Area Scheme

Gross Building scheme for total enclosed area.

2

Create Area Plan View

One per level for total building area calc.

3

Add Boundaries

Pick walls or sketch boundaries for exterior face.

4

Build Schedule

Architecture > Schedules > Schedule — Areas (Gross Building).

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Our next step here is to create that Gross Area Schedule, and this will be a quick schedule that we'll put together here.

Our next step here is to create that Gross Area Schedule, and this will be a quick schedule that we'll put together here. And these are simple because it's very similar to what we've done in our previous lesson, and it has a lot less going on. So it's a very simple schedule to put together, and it's the same exact process we've been using in the previous lesson.

We'll start from Schedules/Quantities, and we're going to pick Area, Gross Building, because that's what we're going to schedule here. We'll click OK, and we're going to go with name and area, and that's it. We'll go to sorting and grouping, and these are one of those things where we want to make sure it's totaling up, so we can change that to Grand Totals.

You can use Title, Count, and Totals, and what that'll do is it'll give you the title, which is what's shown here, the count, which is the number of elements within it, and then finally the totals. So in our case, it would say Grand Total, two, and then whatever the total area is. A lot of times I'll just use Title and Totals because the count's not going to be super relevant here.

Then we can go to formatting, and to see the total, we need to tell it to calculate the area. Right now you can see the formatting is set to no calculation, and then we can change that to Calculate Totals. We can also go to appearance, and we'll use the same graphics we used on our other schedules.

We had a Wide Line Outline, and then we took care of the rest of the graphics in the schedule itself. So once we've got it all set up here, we can hit OK, and it's sorting by name, which is good. I'm going to go ahead and stretch this out a bit so we can see what we're looking at.

The last thing we'll do is we'll just adjust the Area Schedule Gross Building, the title, to use the same font that we used. We had 3 16th inch, and I think we made it bold as well, so we'll stick with that, and hit OK. And now our schedule is ready to go onto our sheet.

So I'm going to go ahead and close this window. Takes me right back to my Building Area Plans, and in schedule you can see we have our Gross Building Schedule. So I'll just go ahead and move that over, and we can set that on our sheet.

What I'll do here is I'll just adjust this so that it's kind of sitting under my Level One plan, since it works for both of them. And then I'll spread this out a bit, just to make it look a little bit more graphically pleasing. Now my first reaction when I look at this is it's really weird to have the numbers left justified like that, so I'd like to adjust those.

To do that, I will right click on the schedule and go to edit schedule. All we're doing is just opening up the schedule again. You could have also gone to the project browser and double clicked it as well.

We'll go to our Formatting tab, and then area, instead of alignment left, we'll go ahead and change that to right. Hit okay. It'll be right justified now, and we'll look at it on the sheet, so I'll just close this view.

Looks much better, and it's definitely easier to read. And that's all we have to do for Gross Area. Our next step is going to be to work out the Rentable Area.