Hi Everybody!
We've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to check off a long list of wishlist requests for the RefNote Schedule! It's now at a good point, but we'd like to try something new and open it up for Beta testing for users.
August 19, 2024 Edit: This feature is now out of Beta and live, moved over to the main RefNote Schedule button in the RefNote Manager. Thank you to all those who helped test this for the 3 months that it was in Beta testing, and provided valuable feedback so that we could make sure the new schedule options were as seamless to regenerate old schedules as possible. For anybody who'd still like to provide feedback, please open a new ticket in your Land F/X Portal to describe any further tweaks you think would be beneficial, ideally with before, after, and desired examples in a DWG file or screenshot. Please understand that we're past the beta testing period and won't be making a Legacy command for this based on the feedback we got during testing, but will do everything possible to accomodate your needs for this very valuable time-saving tool!
It's been reformatted to be more like the plant schedule options, and switches to the table-only format with or without gridlines plotting.
Key Improvements:
Otherwise, it should do everything the original schedule did.
Keep in mind that with these changes, your schedule might change slightly in dimensions, but we've tried to keep it as similar as possible.
These improvements also allow Refnote Division column widths to apply to even non-plot-gridline schedules now.
Please test this out on a copy of your plans with Refnotes already in them. You can provide feedback in this Forum post, or by creating a new ticket and specifically mentioning that you're Beta testing the REFNOTESCHEDULE_NEW command. Please screenshot errors and provide the steps you took to get it. Ideally, send in the drawing that gets the error in a ticket.
How to Submit a Technical Support Ticket
Even a quick test and specific feedback, positive or constructive, will really help us make sure the eventual transition to the main RefNote Schedule tool is successful.
Thanks!
- Amanda
Edit: More new hidden schedules for beta testing! They'll be live in update version 20.60 and newer. These all rely on the above primary Refnote Schedule as a base.
refnoteschedule_new
irrigzones_new
sheetindex_new
projectlist_new
spotelevschedule_new
northeastpointschedule_new
civilsurveylegend_new
zoningschedule_new
conceptgraphicsschedule_new
detailreport_new
keynoteschedule_new
lightingschedule_new
All the straight to Excel detail reports:
detaillist_new
detailcategoriesreport_new
detailprojectfolders_new
We've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to check off a long list of wishlist requests for the RefNote Schedule! It's now at a good point, but we'd like to try something new and open it up for Beta testing for users.
In the current update version 20.57 is a hidden command, REFNOTESCHEDULE_NEW.
Type this into the commandline, and you'll see the new interface.
August 19, 2024 Edit: This feature is now out of Beta and live, moved over to the main RefNote Schedule button in the RefNote Manager. Thank you to all those who helped test this for the 3 months that it was in Beta testing, and provided valuable feedback so that we could make sure the new schedule options were as seamless to regenerate old schedules as possible. For anybody who'd still like to provide feedback, please open a new ticket in your Land F/X Portal to describe any further tweaks you think would be beneficial, ideally with before, after, and desired examples in a DWG file or screenshot. Please understand that we're past the beta testing period and won't be making a Legacy command for this based on the feedback we got during testing, but will do everything possible to accomodate your needs for this very valuable time-saving tool!
It's been reformatted to be more like the plant schedule options, and switches to the table-only format with or without gridlines plotting.
Key Improvements:
- Symbol and Code now in separate columns
- Photo column now an option
- Lengths now have a symbol option, and it works with layer linetypes or railing blocks.
- Improvements to the alignment of cell contents, including correcting the issue with overlapping block callouts.
- MUCH better amenity block scaling, even for custom amenity blocks.
- Revised Speace below Description logic.
- New "Sort By" Division or Object option.
- Column Widths now in popout, allowing room for future improvments.
- Refnoteschedule_new with Work Areas now allows for an All Work Areas option, like plant schedules.
- Ability to Edit an existing schedule (created with REFNOTESCHEDULE_NEW - editing/regenerating old schedules with the old command is still pending.)
Otherwise, it should do everything the original schedule did.
Keep in mind that with these changes, your schedule might change slightly in dimensions, but we've tried to keep it as similar as possible.
These improvements also allow Refnote Division column widths to apply to even non-plot-gridline schedules now.
Please test this out on a copy of your plans with Refnotes already in them. You can provide feedback in this Forum post, or by creating a new ticket and specifically mentioning that you're Beta testing the REFNOTESCHEDULE_NEW command. Please screenshot errors and provide the steps you took to get it. Ideally, send in the drawing that gets the error in a ticket.
How to Submit a Technical Support Ticket
Even a quick test and specific feedback, positive or constructive, will really help us make sure the eventual transition to the main RefNote Schedule tool is successful.
Thanks!
- Amanda
Edit: More new hidden schedules for beta testing! They'll be live in update version 20.60 and newer. These all rely on the above primary Refnote Schedule as a base.
refnoteschedule_new
irrigzones_new
sheetindex_new
projectlist_new
spotelevschedule_new
northeastpointschedule_new
civilsurveylegend_new
zoningschedule_new
conceptgraphicsschedule_new
detailreport_new
keynoteschedule_new
lightingschedule_new
All the straight to Excel detail reports:
detaillist_new
detailcategoriesreport_new
detailprojectfolders_new
Amanda Marin
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Brian,
It's a little challenging to fully understand what you are after, as you only shared the After image. It would help if we could see the Before schedule, to see what all you are altering.
--J
It's a little challenging to fully understand what you are after, as you only shared the After image. It would help if we could see the Before schedule, to see what all you are altering.
--J
Is anyone else experiencing items duplicating in the refnotes manager after generating a new schedule? We've had two projects now where creating a new schedule has created what appears to be duplicates of each item. Each duplicate is then shown in the new schedule under the same code. Deleting any single copy of a duplicate item will result in all of those same coded items being deleted from the manager. See example screenshot of the manager side by side with original schedule and new schedule.
I read above that the callouts should appear the same size as the plan but we are not seeing that yet on ver. 20.74. This is also an example of the repetitive title/header compared to the old version. This is only an issue when you run a single division schedule (which we almost always do).
I read above that the callouts should appear the same size as the plan but we are not seeing that yet on ver. 20.74. This is also an example of the repetitive title/header compared to the old version. This is only an issue when you run a single division schedule (which we almost always do).
Joe, please submit a ticket with that drawing attached through the Portal. Link to Portal
That was a behaviour in a very early testing version but was fixed very early on. Is it still making new copies?
For the callout size, we'll need to see the drawing for more context to help troubleshoot that.
-Amanda
That was a behaviour in a very early testing version but was fixed very early on. Is it still making new copies?
For the callout size, we'll need to see the drawing for more context to help troubleshoot that.
-Amanda
Brian, thanks for the additional notes. In the meantime, noted for the stair and ramp handrail, but for the tree and plant protection that actually looks like it needs the LTSCALE of that drawing to be bigger to actually show the circles, and for that layer to be assigned a thicker plotting color.
Railing can also help all of these.
The background colour is interesting, we do the same to the bloom schedule to show white bloom colours. You should be able to save a change to your LAFX-SCHEDULE table style to add a fill color to all cell types.
In the meantime, you can also make the Schedule Header text size much smaller in General preferences while we work out what we can do there. Make the headers smaller text.
-Amanda
Railing can also help all of these.
The background colour is interesting, we do the same to the bloom schedule to show white bloom colours. You should be able to save a change to your LAFX-SCHEDULE table style to add a fill color to all cell types.
In the meantime, you can also make the Schedule Header text size much smaller in General preferences while we work out what we can do there. Make the headers smaller text.
-Amanda
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