How to Show Door and Window Areas in a Revit Schedule

Displaying door and window areas in a detailed schedule (using the door schedule as an example):

After creating a new door schedule, you may notice that the schedule does not directly calculate the area of doors and windows in Revit.

At this stage, you can add a Calculated Value to process the data, resulting in two different area statistics, as shown below:

Additionally, the main text display in the schedule often appears in the following formats:

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The steps to create new text types are as follows:

1. Create a new door schedule.
2. Add calculated values.

3. Add the area parameter.

4. Edit the properties of the schedule to achieve different results.

A: If the Total Area option under the formatting command is disabled, the area statistics will display as individual door or window areas, as shown below:

(Window) Single frame area

B: If the Total Area option is enabled under the formatting command, the schedule will calculate the total area of doors or windows:

C: By adjusting the sorting method under the Sorting/Grouping command, you can achieve different display results:

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How to create a new Appearance text type in the tab options:

1. Click on the Annotation tab, then go to the Text panel.
2. In the Type Properties dialog box, select the desired text type from the list.
3. If needed, click Rename to change the type name, or click Duplicate to create a new text type.
4. Set the properties related to the display of text annotations.
5. Click OK to confirm.

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