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The ‘Horizontal Hardware Schedule’ columns, available in the AVAproject Openings Schedule (pictured below), have long been popular with detailers and estimators that wish to have door, frame and hardware information appear on a single schedule. Industry veterans will recall a time when scheduling hardware for a project on the Openings Schedule was commonplace, while others have found it to be an efficient way to list hardware without the complexity of a full Hardware Schedule.
AVAproject automatically extracts hardware from the groups associated with a given opening, separates it by DHI’s established ‘Master Categories’ and populates the ‘Horizontal Hardware Schedule’ based on the categories of the individual products. This is another example of how the additional information content offered in AVAware’s architectural hardware catalogs is used in a practical application. The industry-standard hardware category and sub-category applicable to each and every product contained in the catalog library is pre-loaded by AVAware’s catalog team. As such, hardware products taken from the catalogs can be automatically positioned in the correct columns. At the user’s option, products can be identified using their full ‘Product Codes’, or to save space, their assigned ‘Short Codes’.
The 'Horizontal Hardware Schedule' operating interactively with pull-down menus
In the 2016 version of AVAproject, the ‘Horizontal Hardware Schedule’ columns can be made to operate interactively. When selected, the background color changes (as seen above) to indicate this mode is active.
Within each column, products in the ‘Hardware List’ that are identified with the corresponding hardware category are offered in a pull-down menu, allowing the user to identify the hardware used on each opening – without ever having to create a ‘Hardware Group’.
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