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automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:50:12 GMT

I'm trying to link the numbers that come up for area fills to an info sheet showing areas for different units and different floors. Is there any way to link the area fill number to another sheet? It's a multi fmaily project where the info sheet lists square footages for each unit, each floor, and total sq ft. I'd like a way to get that to automatically update when I adjust the fill. Or can someone come up with something else? I'm tired of adding up one million numbers every other day......thanks a lot

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Link — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:35:35 GMT

sanderarchitects wrote:
I'm trying to link the numbers that come up for area fills to an info sheet showing areas for different units and different floors. Is there any way to link the area fill number to another sheet? Or can someone come up with something else? I'm tired of adding up one million numbers every other day......thanks a lot

Sure, just set up a simple schedule and place it as a drawing on a separate layout.

sanderarchitects wrote:
Should our office pay a million bucks to upgrade to AC12?

Yes you definitely should. Tell you what, send me the million and I'll arrange it for you. I'll even come and install it for you. Bargain.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:33:26 GMT

thanks a lot!

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:58:45 GMT

I'm having some trouble with formatting the schedule. Can you insert totals in the schedule (eg adding up floor 1+2 of unit one above the info for unit 2?) and have a grand total below? I see there are options to edit characteristics for these over on the left side of the schedule options...Any suggestions?

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Link — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:05:54 GMT

Check the reference guide for sorting & totalling the schedue fields.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:35:46 GMT

Link wrote:
sanderarchitects wrote:
I'm trying to link the numbers that come up for area fills to an info sheet showing areas for different units and different floors. Is there any way to link the area fill number to another sheet? Or can someone come up with something else? I'm tired of adding up one million numbers every other day......thanks a lot
Sure, just set up a simple schedule and place it as a drawing on a separate layout.

sanderarchitects wrote:
Should our office pay a million bucks to upgrade to AC12?
Yes you definitely should. Tell you what, send me the million and I'll arrange it for you. I'll even come and install it for you. Bargain.

Cheers,
Link.

when doing this, say u have 10 fill areas on a floor plan but only 7 of them u want to show in the schedual.. is that doable? i cant seem to work out how to make it show only the fill areas i want listed and exclud others

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Link — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:59:03 GMT

Plenty of ways. One way is to assign the same ID to all the fills you don't want included and set that ID not to be included in the scheme criteria.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:10:15 GMT

sanderarchitects wrote:
I'm having some trouble with formatting the schedule. Can you insert totals in the schedule (eg adding up floor 1+2 of unit one above the info for unit 2?) and have a grand total below? I see there are options to edit characteristics for these over on the left side of the schedule options...Any suggestions?

Is this what you are looking for?
I added Floor to the listed parameters and made totals for the floors. The flag and the Sum sign are the key to that.

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:31 GMT

that's great laszlo thanks - what if i have two fills on different floors that i would like to add up? (eg there are 4 units each with two floors, how would I get those pairs of fills to add in the table?)

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:29:48 GMT

Then the two fills belonging to the same unit should have the same ID.
The ID should be first and it should be flagged, the Surface (Area) should have the SUM sign.

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:35:10 GMT

excellent!

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:18:35 GMT

thanks laszlo,

Is there a way to sum up the four fills for a floor on just one line? Instead of it reading:

first floor
first floor
first floor
first floor

it would just read:

first floor #

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:22:59 GMT

also can't get the SQ FT to show up?

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:14:24 GMT

If you check the Use Headline checkbox, then the first parameter will be used as a headline as shown in the attached image. It will list the value that you set in the Story Settings Dialog so if you change that to Story #1 then that is what will be listed.

I am not sure about the 'sq ft' thing, for me it appears for Totals and the Grand Total, but not for normal values. I did not see any place where it could be set or influenced. I think this might be a bug, or even a feature.

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:20:13 GMT

thanks a lot laszlo - looks like the sq ft is something that got added in the newer version you have. No problem. Thanks

Re: automatically use area fill number elsewhere?

David Shorter — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:58:54 GMT

You may find it much more productive to use the Zone tool for this purpose. It is after all what the Zone tool was designed for.
Its a single click and will place the room name on the floor plan and use this the schedule the area by any number of different criteria