topic Re: making smart issue sheets in Collaboration with other software

making smart issue sheets

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:21:14 GMT

hi guys.
I have been playing with creating an issue sheet in archicad for the first time.
I have to create a issue sheet similar if not completely identical to my companies existing issue sheet.

i have been able to create most parts in the issue sheet but the one problem i have bumbed into is, when i want to create a smart entry for issue date, that works fine but i need to insert this twice in my sheet layout.

I have no idea how I can insert this element twice and keep both elements SMART ?

I know i can insert my own text. but is there an option where i can copy in some smart equations like in Excel to make these new cells SMART ?

any advice would be super.
Thank you.
Ian

Re: making smart issue sheets

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:25:31 GMT

i found this interesting article about creating issue sheets but sadly it does not address the question of creating new SMART cells in the table ?

Ian

http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2007/issue15-archicad.html

Re: making smart issue sheets

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:38:23 GMT

here is what i have got done.
but i am still walking against the problem, HOW DO I CREATE NEW SMART COLUMNS like excel and these clever little equations.

Ian

Re: making smart issue sheets

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:39:17 GMT

no ideas.
i was curous, could this excell table be hacked from outside the program,with the needed forumals ?

Ian

Re: making smart issue sheets

Barry Kelly — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:13:19 GMT

Any schedule can be exported as an Excel file and then you can do what you want with it.
But you can't send the information back to the original schedule - purely a one way street.
Although you could save it as a PDF and then link it back in as a drawing.
But updating would not be automatic.
You would need to export the Excel schedule and then re-apply the formulae and then save back as the smae PDF.

Sorry I can't help with your initial problem as I have never had to use drawing issue sheets.

Barry.