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Wrong Storey in Schedule

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:38:01 GMT

Hi everyone,

Please see attached screenshot.

I have 2 windows W102 of exactly the same dimensions.

Both are on the First Floor.

One of the walls, in which one window sits, starts 600mm higher (Its a split level house), and this is causing the STOREY of that window to show as FF CEILING and not FIRST FLOOR.

Is there anyway possible to get both windows to read as being on FIRST FLOOR?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:47:41 GMT

I suppose that the Anchor of the Windows is the Wall Base.
What happens if you Anchor them to the desired Story instead (First Floor in this case)?

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:06:56 GMT

Thanks Lazlo, but no luck in this one!!! Still showing incorrect storey.

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:20:17 GMT

It may be that because your FIrst Floor is 2700 high and because that Window's Sill is 3000 above the First Floor, ArchiCAD considers it to be in the range of the next Floor and this is why it is scheduled like this.
I would schedule a User Defined listing parameter instead of this and provide the values manually (select all Windows and modify parameter value in one step). You can also modify the Header of the User Defined parameter in the Schedule so it reads "Story".

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:27:25 GMT

You are confirming all of my worst nightmares Lazlo!!

I had assumed exactly what you said about ArchiCAD reading it as on the storey above because of the split level building.

And I had thought about going manual in the schedule. But I just hate to leave things to human error.

I was just really hoping someone had a more automated work around.

Thanks again for your ideas mate.

Mike

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:50:23 GMT

Sorry I couldN't be of more help.
By the way, I looked at it a bit closer and it looks like that it decides what the Floor will be based on which Story more of its vertical height falls to.
So if you have a 1000 mm high Window and it vertical height is 500 mm or more above Story 2, the Floor field will display that instead of Story 1.
So it is not in which Story's vertical range the Sill falls to, but where more of the vertical height falls to.

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:18:40 GMT

Thanks for that.

It does make sense.

I had another window doing the same thing, and if I changed its height by just 1mm, and made the sill that 1mm lower, then it would schedule on the correcr storey!!

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:05:48 GMT

Mike

How is your GDL mate?
If you can slot the code below in your master script of the windows and create a parameter named "home" you can schedule that and it will call the home story of the window no matter what height you put them at.

nn = REQUEST ("Home_story", "", index, story_name)

values 'home' story_name

Re: Wrong Storey in Schedule

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:07:53 GMT

Cheers Kristian,

the object code is actually locked as part of a purchased extra library.

But I will shoot that code off the library creator and see if he can help us out.

Huge thank you to you mate.

Mike