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I'm working on a project with a campus of 10 buildings. Each building has 4 floors. The walls were created in the architectural model. I'd like to create a wall schedule in my structural model that will tell me linear feet of all existing walls and all demoed walls by building and by floor. Does anyone know what parameters to add and how to filter a schedule to generate this information? I'm thinking a may just have to calculate it the old fashion way with pen and paper but I'd love it if Revit could do it for me. So if anything changes I won't have to recalculate. 

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You can't schedule it because you don't own the walls.   But you can open the Architect's model (detached) and create your own schedule there.  Walls will not schedule by floor.... That information is not available by default.   You could add a parameter to walls via project parameter that you would have to fill in to work in your schedule.

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Thanks for the quick response! It sounds like pen and paper is the way to go. But if I was feeling ambitious... In the schedule properties under Fields, there's a check box that says "Include elements in links". Doesn't that allow me to add the walls from the arch model? Then like you said I, would have to ask the arch designer to add some comment or parameter to the walls for floor level and building number (which I'm not going to ask them to do). Thanks for helping me understand schedules. 

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I always try to encourage users to users to try simple items for yourself.... In a matter of seconds, you can see the results so do that.

As far as "...I, would have to ask the arch designer to add some comment or parameter to the walls..." Why?  If you recall, I suggested for YOU to open the file DETACHED and to do your schedule..... Again, so easy to do and you don't mess with the linked model.  Then YOU can add the level parameter and fill it in.  For that process, read THIS thread

Revit's schedules are so easy - I would never do this manually.

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I'm definitely willing to try this out. Opening detached would separate my local copy from the central so I don’t change anything in their model. I got that but if the architects change what walls are demoed, I would have to do all of this again. Correct? Or is there a way to update my local copy with they're walls but retain the parameters I've added. 

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You are correct .... there is no way to catch updates other than re-doing the process. 

The scedule can be copied from your detached file to a new detached file but you would have to fill in the data again.  But so what?   What happens if they do that and you used a manual process?  You would still have to redo it .... or in either case, you could look at the changes and if they were simple, you could just modify your data.

BTW - Once you create your schedule in Revit, you can export to a txt file that can be opened in excel and modified as needed to 'publish' your results.

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Sounds great. Thanks

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