Drawing Schedule

You can create a drawing schedule of the project drawings, either in a text file or an Excel worksheet. The schedule data is collected from the project's FILEINFO database, in which the design data of the drawings is defined.

  1. Do either of the following:
    • Select Output | Drawings | Drawing Schedule.
    • Select the function in the project's document browser:
      1. Move the cursor on the title Schedules.
      2. Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
      3. Select Drawing Schedule.
  2. If necessary, edit the data in the Drawing Schedule database view. The changes will only be saved in the drawing schedule, not the FILEINFO database.
  3. Confirm by clicking OK.
  4. Select the file format from the list:
    • Txt - The drawing schedule piclist.txt is opened in the text editor defined in the settings. The file is saved in the project folder.
    • Excel - The drawing schedule pic_list.xls is opened in the application linked to the file extension. The file is saved in the project folder.

Note

  • You can open the FILEINFO database for editing by selecting Archives | Buildings | Edit Data Edit Document Data. You can browse the documents by using the cursor keys, Arrow up and Arrow down. Alternatively, you can open the data of an individual drawing by clicking the right mouse button in the window of the active drawing and selecting Active Document Data from the menu.
  • The generation of a drawing schedule in an Excel worksheet requires that the ../user/SETUP file contain the keyword set.vxtoxl.tmpfile= "./VertexToExcel.txt".
  • The XLS file contains macros that must be run in order to open the file in Excel. The default method of opening the files in Excel depends on the macro virus protection level: the macros can either be automatically run or removed from use or the program may prompt the user to select whether or not the macros are run.