Describe how doors and windows are keyed to schedules on a drawing.

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Answer 1

Doors and windows are commonly described in schedules and items are keyed from the floor plan drawing to the schedule. The key can be to label doors with a number and windows with a letter and enclose the letters or numbers in different geometric figures. Windows can be labeled with letters and doors labeled with numbers inside hexagons on the floor plan. The correlated letters and numbers are displayed in the schedules along with the information describing each item. The symbol column of the schedules can show the related letter s and numbers with or without the identifying geometric shape depending on the specific practice used by the architectural office. As an alternative method, you may see a divided circle for the key, the letter D for door or W for window above the dividing line, and the number of the door or window, using consecutive numbers, below the line.