topic Re: Skin Thickness is not listed among Fields for Component Schedules in Project data & BIM

Skin Thickness is not listed among Fields for Component Schedules

KingaW — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:51:04 GMT

Hello Community!

I am trying to set up a wall schedule with skin thicknesses showing, and I only see the Component Thickness in the list of available Fields.

I'm on the latest 27 version, I checked it in 28 and it is missing there too. I opened 24 and I see it there.

Is this a setting I'm missing?

Thank you for your help, as always!

Kinga

Operating system used: Windows 11

Barry Kelly — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:58:05 GMT

Component thickness will list each skin.

Barry.

KingaW — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:35:50 GMT

Thank you Barry!

I assume the Skin Thickness (if available) would work the same way: on Composites only?

My walls are Complex Profiles, containing the skins only (no extra geometry), I do prefer the Modifier possibilities though.

I thought the Skin/Component Thickness would work, since the Skin Label does on this Complex Profile.

Either way, there are other issues:

1. The ID for each wall should be different to show a proper breakdown per wall.

2. If I Merge Items, that works for the walls, but it will merge 2 identical skins in one wall, as well.

3. You need a Custom Text field for sorting the skins from exterior to interior.

Are the above statements correct?

I think it's better to have the wall description as a manual input at this point, then.

Thank you for your help!

Kinga

Barry Kelly — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:51:45 GMT

Component thickness does not work with complex profiles because the fills used there can be any shape/size, not just a wall skin.

Thickness will give the overall wall thickness.

I don't know of a way to get the thickness of complex profile fills.

1. yes the ID of each wall needs to be different if you want quantities wall by wall.

2. yes the 'merge' will do exactly that, it looks for anything that is identical and it merges it.

There are other merge options for each filed, but I don't think they will help here.

3. the 'position' you show is the position as set for the entire wall.

Each skin (component) is simply listed alphabetically (ascending or descending).

I don't know of a way to list from external to internal.

Barry.