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Column schedule and rationalisation of your building

Turn your load takedown or analysis model into a column schedule: the load in every column on every storey, the type it uses and how much of its capacity it takes. Rationalise to fewer sizes in one step, then export it to Excel and Revit.
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A column schedule: each group of columns with its type, size and bars, storey range by storey range up the building
Column scheduleEvery storey

Why rationalise your columns?

An analysis model sizes every column for its own load at every storey. A tower with 50 columns over 30 storeys can come back with hundreds of different section and reinforcement combinations. Site teams need the opposite.

Group columns into types

Columns with similar loads share one type, designed for the worst in the group, so fifty columns on plan become a handful of types.

Step at the right storeys

Sizes change only where the load drop is worth a change of formwork, and you choose the levels where a change is allowed.

Build it repeatedly

The same formwork is reused floor after floor. You see the utilisation of every column, so you know what each saving costs.

Types
From your column sizes
Capacities
Typed, or from ETABS design
Rationalise
Every 2, 3 or 4 storeys
Exports
Excel, PDF, CSV for Revit

How it works

01

Open it from any project

Schedules is on the ribbon. Types are made from the column sizes you drew, so the schedule is full from the start. Right-click a column to find it in the schedule, and back.

The column schedule open on one level, columns coloured by type
Columns and loadsEvery level

02

Set capacities

Type the capacity of each column type, or take it from the ETABS design results. A type can have a capacity for each storey height, and taller storeys are flagged.

Editing a column type: size, bars, grade and a capacity valid to a storey height
Types · CapacitiesBy storey height

03

Rationalise

Choose how often the type may change up the height and the highest utilisation you accept. Rationalise drops sizes one at a time and steps the grade before the size.

The Rationalise step: every column on every storey, coloured by its type after rationalising
RationaliseFewer sizes

04

Export

Excel with a Schedule and a Types sheet, a CSV for Revit, and a marked-up PDF with one page per level.

The schedule step with Excel, Markup (PDF) and Revit (CSV) exports
ScheduleExcel, PDF, Revit CSV

What changes

Usually

  • Schedule typed up from the analysis output
  • Sizes rationalised by hand, storey by storey
  • Revit schedule rebuilt from the spreadsheet

With LoadTakedown

  • Schedule built from the model as you go
  • Rationalised to your step and utilisation limit
  • One export for Excel and one for Revit

What to know

  • Capacities are yours: typed, or from your analysis design results. We do not design columns.
  • Sizes come from your model or your own types. No sizes are invented.
  • The schedule on screen is free. Excel and PDF exports are on Pro.

Questions

Yes. The schedule is built from the takedown model, whether you drew it from PDFs, imported IFC or imported ETABS.

It removes one size at a time, the one whose loss adds least, until the next would push a column over your utilisation limit. Wall piers keep their size. Grade steps down before size.

The Excel Schedule sheet is a plain table, one row per column per run of one type, ready for a Revit import sheet.

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Related

Check analysis loads

Compare the column loads from ETABS with an independent takedown, column by column.

Reports and drawings

A full calc report, the architect's sheets marked up, Word, Excel and IFC.

IFC and BIM

Import an IFC model from Revit, Tekla or ArchiCAD. Export the takedown as IFC.

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Everything in modelling is free. Pro adds clean branded reports and Word, Excel and IFC exports.

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