topic Re: Schedule Problems in Collaboration with other software

Schedule Problems

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:55:10 GMT

I have a Interactive Schedule that we have created to list out our doors and windows with some custom parameters. This worked OK. I have two problems I need help with.
1. I have some D&W that I don't want listed at all. Even if I leave the ID field empty it still gives a quantity. Is there a way or check box to exclude this from being listed.

I want to include Skylights in the schedule without making a seperate one.

2. The attached shows my scheme settings. Why is there not an Element type available for Skylights? When I add parameters to look for the skylight object also, the D&W's don't show. Any ideas on how to get this working? It looks OK to me.

Chris

AC10-1010
AMD Athlon 64 Dual x2 4800+ 2G ram

Re: Schedule Problems

TomWaltz — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:06:03 GMT

I usually give elements I do not want to include an ID of "skip", then set the schedule to use Element ID <> "skip"

I cannot say about the Skylights. I never realized they were not listed and don't have an immediate thought....

The reason your doors & windows do not show is that you are telling Archicad to only include doors & windows with a certain object name.

Re: Schedule Problems

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:57 GMT

Thanks, Tom

I'll edit my sched as you suggest. I wasn't thinking like that but it makes sense.
I thought it may be working like that but the criteria says "window or door or object...the way I read it. I'll keep trying to see if it can be included in my list. I should be so much easier than this.

Chris

Re: Schedule Problems

TomWaltz — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:41:59 GMT

Chris wrote:
Thanks, Tom

I'll edit my sched as you suggest. I wasn't thinking like that but it makes sense.
I thought it may be working like that but the criteria says "window or door or object...the way I read it. I'll keep trying to see if it can be included in my list. I should be so much easier than this.

Chris

Look closer. It's actually:

Element Type = (Window OR Object OR Door)
AND
Object name = "Skylight top hung 10"

It's sad to say. but schedules are not terribly inclusive. They often work better if you include a little too much, then tell it how to back off.

Re: Schedule Problems

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:25:21 GMT

Look closer. It's actually:

Element Type = (Window OR Object OR Door)
AND
Object name = "Skylight top hung 10"

It's sad to say. but schedules are not terribly inclusive. They often work better if you include a little too much, then tell it how to back off.

I am trying this now, but this doesn't work either. there seems to be no way to get a skylight to list in a door and window schedule.

Oddly, a skylight is not even in the list of tool types to schedule.

Anyone work around this without manually adding info into a proxy opening in the schedule?

Re: Schedule Problems

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:18:55 GMT

Yes, you're right. Tom's suggestion does not work - it would only list elements whose name is that particular skylight.

Given the limited logic options in AC 12 and earlier, it is not possible to get windows and skylights in the same schedule without other tricks, such as filtering by the ID field (one example). If only windows and skylight ID's start with W, for example (perhaps WS for a skylight), then filtering by elements whose ID starts with "W" kind of works...to get a mere list/quantity. But, it will not display the sizes the way one would want because skylight objects use different data fields than window objects. See attached.

Cheers,
Karl