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    This document provides instructions for creating a material takeoff schedule in Revit 2018 that calculates total costs and volume percentages. The steps include: 1) Opening an example file, 2) Creating a material takeoff schedule for floors, 3) Adding relevant fields like material, area, volume, and cost, 4) Filtering for a specific material, 5) Setting the material cost, 6) Adding a calculated total cost field, 7) Formatting fields like total cost, 8) Adding conditional formatting for total costs, 9) Calculating totals, 10) Adding grand totals, and 11) Adding a calculated volume percentage field.

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    This document provides instructions for creating a material takeoff schedule in Revit 2018 that calculates total costs and volume percentages. The steps include: 1) Opening an example file, 2) Creating a material takeoff schedule for floors, 3) Adding relevant fields like material, area, volume, and cost, 4) Filtering for a specific material, 5) Setting the material cost, 6) Adding a calculated total cost field, 7) Formatting fields like total cost, 8) Adding conditional formatting for total costs, 9) Calculating totals, 10) Adding grand totals, and 11) Adding a calculated volume percentage field.

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    Revit Structure 2018 Intermediate and Advanced

    Creating Material Takeoff Schedule

    Exercise 14-3
    1. Start Revit 2018

    2. Open the file Exercise 14-3.rvt

    3. Create a Material Takeoff Schedule. Select Category = Floors, leave the name
    without changing

    4. Add the following fields: Level, Material:Name, Material:Area, Material:Volume,


    Material:Cost

    5. Go to Filter tab, and set the Material:Name = Concrete, Cast In Situ

    6. Click OK, to display the schedule. You noticed that Material:Cost = zero

    7. Go to Manage tab, locate Settings panel, click Materials button, search for
    Concrete, Cast In Situ material, go to Identity tab, and set the price to 100

    8. From Properties, click Fields tab, click Add calculated parameter button, type
    in “Total Cost” as the name. Discipline = Common, Type = Currency. Type the
    following formula: (Material:Volume/1) * Material:Cost

    9. Click OK, twice, to display the schedule

    10. To set the right format for Total Cost column, go to Properties, click Formatting
    button. From left select Total Cost, click Field Format button, click off the Use
    project settings checkbox. Set Rounding= 2 decimal places, Unit symbol = $,
    and Use digit grouping = on, click OK

    11. Click Conditional Formatting button, and set Total Cost < 10000, set the
    background color to be Cyan. Click OK

    12. Select Calculate Totals from the list

    13. Go to Sorting/Grouping tab, switch on Grand Totals, and set it Totals only.
    Click OK to display the schedule

    14. From Properties, click Fields, click Add calculated parameters button, name it
    “Volume Percentage”, it is Percentage of Material : Volume, By Grand total

    15. Move it up to be at the right of Material:Volume, and format it to look like:


    17.08%

    16. Save and close the file

    14-24

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