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AI Door and Hardware Schedule Drafting

A door schedule is a few hundred rows that have to agree with the floor plans, the wall types, and the hardware consultant's sets, and any one of them can drift after a design change. Nomic builds the schedule from the door tags on the plans, assigns fire ratings from the rated walls each door sits in, references the hardware set for each opening, and keeps the Excel file and the schedule on the sheet in step with the plans.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • Floor plans with door tags as DWG
  • The partition type sheet showing rated walls
  • Hardware sets from the hardware consultant or Section 08 71 00
  • Your door schedule template, door types, and frame types

Nomic hands back

  • Door schedule in Excel and drawn on the sheet as DWG
  • Door type and frame type elevations
  • A list of tag, number, and rating mismatches between plans and schedule
  • Plotted PDFs with changes clouded and open questions listed
DOOR SCHEDULEMARKWIDTHHEIGHTTYPEMATLFRAMERATINGHDWREMARKS2013'-0"7'-0"FHMHM1ADA PUSH PLATE2023'-0"7'-0"BHMHM20 MIN3CLOSER, SMOKE GASKET2033'-6"7'-0"AWDAL1204A3'-6"7'-0"AWDHM90 MIN12053'-0"7'-0"BWDHM42063'-0"7'-0"BWDAL62073'-6"7'-0"BHMHM20 MIN4CLOSER, SMOKE GASKET208A6'-0"7'-0"FWDAL22093'-0"7'-0"AWDHM22103'-6"7'-0"FALAL62113'-0"7'-0"BWDAL90 MIN2212A3'-6"7'-0"BHMHM20 MIN3CLOSER, SMOKE GASKET2136'-0"7'-0"BHMHM3ADA PUSH PLATE2143'-6"7'-0"AALAL12153'-0"7'-0"FWDHM6216A3'-0"7'-0"AALAL31ADOOR SCHEDULESCALE: NONE1234CONSULTING ENGINEERSREVISIONS1ISSUED FOR REVIEWPROJECTMAPLE RIDGE SCHOOLSCALENONEDATE08/22/2026KEY PLANSHEET TITLEDOOR SCHEDULESHEET NUMBERA-601

On the sheet

Door Schedule, annotated

A door schedule keyed to the plan, with sizes, materials, fire ratings, and hardware sets.

  1. 1Door mark keyed to the floor plan
  2. 2Fire rating for doors in rated walls
  3. 3Remarks with special requirements
  4. 4Revised row, clouded for the reissue

The problem

Three documents that have to agree on every opening

Every door on the plans has a row in the schedule: number, leaf size, thickness, door type, material, frame type, fire rating, hardware set, and remarks. On a 300-door building that schedule is usually typed by hand from the plan tags, then edited by hand each time a door is added, moved, renumbered, or put into a rated wall. The hardware consultant's Division 08 71 00 sets live in yet another document, and the set numbers in the schedule have to point at the right one.

The errors are predictable. A door tag on A-102 has no row in the schedule, two openings share a number after a room was split, a door in a 1-hour corridor is scheduled as unrated, a 90-minute door at a stair has a hardware set with no closer, or a pair of doors is scheduled as a single leaf. Contractors find these when they order frames, which is the worst time to find them.

01 / Schedule

Every tag on the plans becomes a row

Nomic reads every door tag on the floor plans, measures the opening in the wall, and builds the schedule row by row with size, type, material, and frame. Fire ratings come from the wall type each door sits in, using the opening protective ratings for that wall, so a rating change on the plan reaches the schedule.

  • Door number, size, type, material, and frame type per opening
  • Fire rating assigned from the rated wall the door sits in
  • Openings on the plan with no row, or rows with no tag, listed
02 / Hardware

Hardware sets referenced, and drawn on the sheet

Nomic references each opening to the hardware set your consultant wrote and draws the schedule on A-601 in your table style, with door and frame type elevations beside it. The same data goes out in Excel, so the hardware consultant and the contractor read the same rows the sheet shows.

  • Hardware set numbers matched to the consultant's sets
  • Door type and frame type elevations drawn beside the schedule
  • The Excel file and the sheet table generated from the same rows
03 / Check

Each opening checked against the code and its hardware

Nomic checks each opening against the code edition you name and against its hardware set: clear width, rating at the wall, closers and latching on rated doors, and panic hardware where the occupancy calls for it. Everything it changed is clouded on the plans and the schedule.

  • Clear width checked from leaf size and frame type
  • Self-closing and latching hardware checked on every rated opening
  • Panic hardware and lever height checked where they apply

Checked against

The code and documents behind every sheet

Name the editions the project is designed to and Nomic checks its own drawing against them before handing it back. Your engineer or architect of record makes the final call and stamps the set.

  • IBC Section 716 opening protectives
  • IBC Section 1010 doors, gates, and turnstiles
  • NFPA 80 fire doors and other opening protectives
  • 2010 ADA Standards Section 404 doors
  • The hardware sets in Section 08 71 00

How it works

From a sentence to a stamped set

  1. Step 1

    Ask for the drawing

    Say what the sheet needs to show and attach the backgrounds, markups, cutsheets, or photos. A sentence is enough to start.

  2. Step 2

    Nomic drafts it in CAD

    Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, on your layers and blocks, following how your firm drew the same thing before. It saves real DWG files to the project.

  3. Step 3

    Nomic checks its own work

    The drawing is checked against the code editions you name and the source documents. Everything Nomic drew is clouded, and open questions are listed.

  4. Step 4

    Your team reviews and stamps

    Your engineers and architects review the clouded changes, make the final call, and issue the set under their own stamp.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Nomic reads every door tag on the plans, measures each opening, and builds the door schedule with size, type, material, frame, fire rating, and hardware set. It hands back the schedule in Excel and drawn on the sheet as a DWG.

Nomic reads the wall type each door sits in from the partition types and assigns the opening rating that wall needs from the IBC opening protective table, such as 20 minutes in a 1-hour corridor and 90 minutes in a 2-hour shaft. Doors where the wall rating is unclear are flagged for the architect.

No. The hardware consultant or specifier writes the sets. Nomic references each opening to a set and checks that rated doors carry closers and latching, that panic hardware appears where the occupancy calls for it, and that lever heights fall in range.

When the plans change, Nomic rebuilds the affected rows from the new tags and walls and lists every opening that was added, removed, renumbered, or rerated. The Excel file and the sheet table come from the same rows, so the two match.

No. Nomic saves DWG files and Excel files rather than running inside either program. Teams that schedule doors in Revit get a change list a modeler can apply to the model.

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The table that defines every opening on the drawings.

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