https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/How-to-show-total-wall-area-instead-of-individual-wall/m-p/268552#M35083 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>I am facing an issue with my paint schedule. Instead of showing the total wall area of a story, it's showing the individual wall area (See Fig-1). Which made my schedule too long. (See Fig-2)<BR /> I created this wall area using expression ( Net inside area + net outside area) (See Fig 3)<BR /> <BR /> N.B- I have already merged Unifrom items. but the result is still the same.</T></DIV> Wed, 05 Aug 2020 06:08:14 GMT Anonymous 2020-08-05T06:08:14Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/How-to-show-total-wall-area-instead-of-individual-wall/m-p/268552#M35083 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>I am facing an issue with my paint schedule. Instead of showing the total wall area of a story, it's showing the individual wall area (See Fig-1). Which made my schedule too long. (See Fig-2)<BR /> I created this wall area using expression ( Net inside area + net outside area) (See Fig 3)<BR /> <BR /> N.B- I have already merged Unifrom items. but the result is still the same.</T></DIV> Wed, 05 Aug 2020 06:08:14 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/How-to-show-total-wall-area-instead-of-individual-wall/m-p/268552#M35083 Anonymous 2020-08-05T06:08:14Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/How-to-show-total-wall-area-instead-of-individual-wall/m-p/268553#M35084 You are scheduling the cost which I assume is a property calculated via an expression.<BR /> Because you have created it as a text property, the schedule will not sum them (can't sum text) and it assumes each wall is 'unique' due to this different value in each wall - therefore they will not merge as one item in the schedule.<BR /> <BR /> I am not 100% sure, but if you change you property from a text value to a number, then it may ignore that they are different values and merge them all as one surface.<BR /> <BR /> Also you may need to use a surface schedule rather than an element schedule.<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> Barry. Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:08:29 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/How-to-show-total-wall-area-instead-of-individual-wall/m-p/268553#M35084 Barry Kelly 2020-08-05T09:08:29Z