What is on a room data sheet?
A Santix room data sheet (mahal künyesi) holds identity, dimensions, finishes, openings, fittings, work items and notes in one panel: beside the plan on iPad, as a bottom panel on iPhone, or full screen from the room list.
| Group | Fields |
|---|---|
| Identity | Room code, name, type (room, living room, kitchen, bathroom, WC, corridor, hall, balcony, storage, plant room, stair, common area), block, floor, unit, wet room |
| Key figures | Net area, clear height, wall area, perimeter, ceiling area |
| Geometry | Gross area, skirting length, storey height, suspended ceiling level, floor level |
| Finishes | Floor and thickness, floor item code, skirting and height, walls (optionally north, east, south, west), ceiling and ceiling type, waterproofing, insulation, paint code |
| Openings | Doors: number, type, net size, leaf, swing, frame, lock, threshold. Windows: number, type, size, sill height, frame, glazing, sill |
| Fixtures and services | Basins, WCs, showers, counters and more; sockets, switches, lights, radiators, fan coils, sprinklers, data points, water and drain points |
| Work and progress | Work items in the room and how far each one is complete |
| Sheets and record | Floor, ceiling and wall sheets showing the room; read confidence, approver and date |
In the sample project "Ataşehir Blok B", the bathroom Z-03 on sheet A-101 shows 11.47 m² net area, 2.60 m clear height, 13.60 m perimeter and 33.68 m² wall area, marked "openings deducted": 13.60 × 2.60 = 35.36 m² minus the 1.68 m² of the 80 × 210 cm door.
How is the room list built from the drawing?
While processing a DWG or DXF, Santix reads room labels and boundaries; each label becomes a suggestion. Where the boundary can be traced, net area and perimeter come from it; otherwise the room arrives with the area written on its label. Rooms are read only from floor-plan sheets, never from structural ones. Suggestions stay "proposed" until the architect, field engineer, site manager or project manager approves them on the review screen, in four steps:
- Layers: Santix classifies layers as walls, doors, windows, room labels, room boundaries, fixtures, height text, finish text, dimensions, grid, floor hatch, furniture, services or ignore. Most come from rules; uncertain ones are suggested by AI and marked as such. You correct what is wrong.
- Rooms: merge rooms that were split, delete extras, add missing ones and fix code, name, floor, area and height inline.
- Finishes: enter floor, wall and ceiling finishes, or import the architect's room schedule (below).
- Approve: optionally create default work items, and the rooms become approved and tappable on the plan.
In November 2026 tests on real files, a 7-storey construction drawing set produced 267 room suggestions in about 11 minutes, 175 of them with traced boundaries; a 26-sheet architectural set gave boundaries for 49 of 50 rooms, and its mm-versus-cm unit error was caught from the label areas.
What do the source labels mean?
Every value carries a source badge: read from the drawing (paftadan), entered by the architect (mimar), or edited later (düzenlendi). A spreadsheet cell cannot tell you whether 11.47 was measured or typed over; Santix can. When an accepted revision is applied to the sheet, the source becomes the architect.
Can I use the room schedule I already have?
Yes, in the finishes step, three ways: pick an Excel or CSV file, which is read on the device with the header row found automatically; paste a table copied from a PDF; or, for messy tables without a recognisable header, read it with AI through Santix's own server layer with storage turned off. You then choose "fill blanks" or "overwrite" and select the rooms. "Copy from another room" fills every identical bedroom in one go. See our room schedule guide and where Santix uses AI.
How is the data sheet used on site?
- Open A-101, turn on rooms and tap Z-03 Bathroom.
- The tiler reads the net floor area (11.47 m²), the wall area (33.68 m²) and the finish lines.
- The plumber reads the fixtures and service points; the joiner reads door K-04, 80 × 210 net, and its swing.
- The ceiling sheet is one tap away under "Paftalar", with the room still selected.
- If what is built differs from what is specified, press "Sapma bildir" (report a deviation).
What does "report a deviation" do?
It opens a revision request tied to the room, listing which data sheet value should change and to what. For example, Z-04's clear height was measured at 2.60 m but the sheet says 2.70 m: the engineer adds the change, the site manager approves, the architect accepts, and the request offers "apply to the room data sheet". The value becomes 2.60 with the architect as its source. See revision tracking.
How do work items and progress connect?
"Add default items" suggests work items from the room type and finishes: dry rooms get floor finish, skirting, wall paint and ceiling paint; bathrooms get waterproofing, floor tiles, wall tiles, a wet-area suspended ceiling and ceiling paint, with no skirting. Quantities come from the sheet, so wall tiling in Z-03 is 33.68 m² without anyone typing it. Completed work is marked on the plan or as a percentage; see progress tracking.
Who sees and edits what?
Architects, project managers, site managers and field engineers can edit and approve; site managers and field engineers also enter progress. Subcontractors and viewers read the sheet but cannot change it. Every change keeps its source. See the architect role.
How is this different from an Excel room schedule?
| Question | Excel schedule | Santix data sheet |
|---|---|---|
| Where do the areas come from? | Measured and typed by hand | Read from the drawing, approved by the team |
| Was a value overwritten? | No way to tell | Shown by the edited badge |
| Openings deducted from wall area? | Depends on the formula | Yes, and labelled |
| Finding the room on site | Search by row | Tap the room on the plan |
| Built differs from specified | A phone call or a message | A revision request attached to the room |
See Santix instead of Excel and WhatsApp and the quantity take-off guide.
What does it not do?
- It does not extract rooms from PDFs; rooms come from DWG and DXF. On PDF-only projects you add rooms by hand.
- It never approves suggestions by itself.
- Rooms without a traced boundary take their area from the label, and progress there is entered as a percentage.
- It does not produce official quantity measurements; contract measurement rules still apply to payment quantities.
Frequently asked questions
Who approves the suggested rooms?
The architect, field engineer, site manager or project manager, on the review screen. Until then rooms stay proposed.
Does Santix suggest rooms on structural sheets?
No. Rooms are read only from floor plans. In a November 2026 test a 58-sheet formwork and reinforcement set was split into 58 sheets with no room suggestions, which is the correct result.
What if a value on the sheet is wrong?
If you have permission, correct it and it carries the edited badge. If what is built differs from the drawing, use "Sapma bildir" to open a revision request for that room.
Are doors and windows deducted from wall area?
Yes. Unless a wall area is entered, it is perimeter × clear height minus openings, labelled "openings deducted".
How do I import a PDF room schedule?
Copy the table from the PDF and paste it. If the header row is recognised it is read on the device; otherwise you can read it with AI. Excel and CSV files are picked directly.
Can subcontractors see the data sheet?
Yes, read only. Budget and price information is not shown on the room data sheet.