window & door schedules

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kohledfusion
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window & door schedules

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Is there an way to create window & door schedules that have the following:
* aligned text for each 'cell'
* bold header text
* each 'cell' of info is outlined
* entire schedule is double outlined
* the tag # has the hex or round shape I use on the floorplan?

I think the best comparison I can make is an excel spreadsheet with bold headers for each column, with every cell outlined & the whole 'table' double outlined. I haven't found an easy way to do this & our county planner mentioned he prefers it. For now, I justify info with whitespace (poorly) & only outline the entire block of text. If the planner had his way, my window/door markers would have the cirlce & hexagon on the tag in the schedule too, so that it's an exact visual match to the circle/hex tag on the floorplans.

I tried putting my schedule in Excel & snapshot it as gif, then plant the gif into HD, but that didn't work so well. Plus I had to repeat the process when the client changed a window.

Any advice on an easier way would be grand!

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Post by macitect »

Painful, eh?
For now I build them the old fashioned way:
Image

But if you want to insert images of your excel files then .tif is the best option for clarity. I get good results with 150dpi, but you can try 300dpi...

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Post by kohledfusion »

Macitect, is each piece of text a separate entity? If so, I really admire your alignment!!

Also, which font do you use? I've been looking for a good arch-handwritten font for the mac.

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Post by AJUK »

I was just about to ask the same question about the font. :)

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Post by macitect »

Yep, all seperate text entities... there is a great object alignment tool in the drop down menu when you choose multiple items and right (or CTRL+) click.

The font is GRAPHITE - but the credit there goes to Steven. It is nice, I like it, but it is funny in the way it aligns sometimes. The REGULAR sits higher relative to the the TEXT OBJECT vertices than does the LIGHT.

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I've given up on building a nice table like Derek did.... perhaps this is the tipping point for us to start sharing HD files in a similar fashion to the sketchup communities components and materials forums?

Anyone want to give and get?

I'm in...
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the strength of a community is measured by it's ability to share.....

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Post by macitect »

ybalx wrote:I've given up on building a nice table like Derek did.... perhaps this is the tipping point for us to start sharing HD files in a similar fashion to the sketchup communities components and materials forums?

Anyone want to give and get?

I'm in...
I know you had mentioned it a while back, ybalx but here it is again and I am sure we'll be sufficiently numerous to get this going.
See here
I will also check the timeline of phpBB3.0 and if it is still going to be more than a couple months I'll start my own sharing site.
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Post by kohledfusion »

there is a great object alignment tool in the drop down menu when you choose multiple items and right (or CTRL+) click.
Oh my. This is why I love the forum so much! Thank you!

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k- You get my email?

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