topic Re: Archicad and Calculation menu in Collaboration with other software

Archicad and Calculation menu

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:53:11 GMT

I wonder how many ArchiCAD users really need/use the calculation menu.
I myself ,although i know how to use it (it took me 2 days to learn it), i have never really need it or ,even more, use it.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

TomWaltz — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:04:17 GMT

we use is daily. It's great for door and room finish schedules.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:09:49 GMT

Most firms I know are at least using the IS to generate preliminary door and window schedules.

The calculate functions offer much more of course, but the learning curve is steep.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:12:04 GMT

We, too, use it in our office regularly.
I actually wrote custom Listing Templates (TXT files) to fit our needs. Its syntax is documented, it is about as complicated as a more complicated GDL object.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:30:03 GMT

tom waltz wrote:
we use is daily. It's great for door and room finish schedules.

Do you know where to look, or can you provide a step by step example of how to do this?

Thank you

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

TomWaltz — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:52:17 GMT

jocontreras wrote:
tom waltz wrote:
we use is daily. It's great for door and room finish schedules.

Do you know where to look, or can you provide a step by step example of how to do this?

Thank you

Try this:

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

TomWaltz — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:08:02 GMT

...and continued here:

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

TomWaltz — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:11:02 GMT

This assumes a simple company template that has all the font & color stuff preset, which is referenced here as "KA-Blank" schedule. The attached screen shot shows the screen you can set that up in. It's for formatting and appearance only, there is nothing else in the template file.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:42:10 GMT

Thank you Tom Waltz
"Senior" helper!

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:42:51 GMT

I use the interactive schedules to show cost analysis and schedules for finishes and windows and doors. i also do wall schedules to figure the amount of sheetrock and trim is needed in a house. it works well for me and i just modify the info that is there already to help me do what i need.

Re: Revit AND Archicad can communicate in expot and import.

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:42:39 GMT

I am using Revit and Archicad . How can Revit import and export into Archicad ? also Archicad ? Some of Archicad tool is the difference in Revit Tools have some problems.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:37:30 GMT

IFC is the most potent option.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Peter Bennison — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:39:25 GMT

Struggling with the Interactive Scheduler, not sure even what it's called exactly in my French copy, see comparison my menu screen shot and menu from Tom Waltz's very helpful Scheduler notes (though I see that these date back to 2005).

Regards from Paris

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Peter Bennison — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:49:35 GMT

With attachments I hope

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Peter Bennison — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:14 GMT

Oh I see only one attachment per reply

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:21:15 GMT

Bon Jour, Peter,

When introduced in AC 8, they were called Interactive Schedules. Now they are simply called Element Schedules, Component Schedules and Project Indexes (Indices for those of us who spell it that way).

If not in your menus, you can add them via the Work Environment, but I typically find, create and modify schedules via the Navigator/Organizer.

I do not know what it will say in French, but the attached screenshot shows the icons that you should see. Right-click, then click Scheme Settings to create a new schedule, or edit the settings for an existing one. Otherwise, existing schedules can be viewed double-clicking on them in Project Navigator / Organizer.

Karl

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Peter Bennison — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:23:03 GMT

Thanks Karl, hard to keep up with each AC version sometimes !

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Peter Bennison — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:38:06 GMT

OK, getting places with the interactive scheduler. But how best to transfer schedule schemes from one project to another ? I know that you can use the organiser to go and get layouts etc from other pln files, but the schedule schemes live in the project map itself, which is always greyed out when in the organiser window ? Have to do a project merge to get hold of this info, or even some interesting default lists found in templates supplied by Graphisoft ?

With thanks,

Peter

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:08:39 GMT

In the scheme settings dialog, you'll see export and import buttons.

You can only export one schedule XML at a time... but when you go to import them into another project, you can select all of the ones that you want and import with one click.

Re: Archicad and Calculation menu

cmacd — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:54:50 GMT

Is anyone actively using ArchiCAD for complete quantity takeoffs for costing and ordering for residential homes?
I've been using schedules for windows and doors etc. but need to go a whole lot further and attach costs and properties to cover all construction costs and quantiites.
Should be easy, eh?!