topic Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules in Modeling

Expressions for quantity in schedules

Kaspars — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:53:19 GMT

Hello,

does somebody know, is there a way to make expression based property which would calculate, for example, all Right orientated specific door type in story? Conventional way of doing this in schedules isn't good as it will allways make second row foor the same door type, because the program perceives it as new type by dividing left and right orientation doors.

Thx,

Kaspars

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Rico — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:44:49 GMT

You can set the schedule criteria to show only right oriented doors, as in the attached screenshot.

I'm using the french version so substitute the 'D' (droit = right) for whatever it would be in your language.

Rico

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Kaspars — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:09:20 GMT

Yes, i understand this easy workflow.

But is it possible to make expression to calculate quantities?

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:53:13 GMT

I am not quite sure what you are trying to achieve, but properties (with or without expressions) are only applicable to one element.

They can not get information from other elements.

So you could create a property to determine if a door is right handed and you would get a value of 1.

Then you could schedule that property to sum the number of right hand doors.

But it is just as easy (if not easier) to simply schedule all right hand doors as rsuleyman1 showed.

Barry.

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Kaspars — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:50:26 GMT

The problem is - the doors with the same attributes have to be scheduled as the same type, whatever they are right or left orientated. All I want is the quantity of left and right doors written in schedule column. Conventional way of scheduling doors with door orientation attribute shows by duplicating the door type row to show the orientation -

But I do not want "useless" second row, I would like the schedule to look like this -

with or without 3d view.

wich makes much more sense to me and saves paper space 🙂

Hope this explains my needs, although i'm starting to be quite aware that, sadly, this is not possible to achieve.

Kaspars

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:30:36 GMT

Are you using version 25 update 2 (build 4013)?

There is a new option to help control the way the fields can be merged.

Barry.

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Kaspars — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:48:25 GMT

Wow,

this i didnt know. I'm working on AC23 right now because our teamwork server doesnt support AC25 bimcloud server. So the option is to migrate as soon as possible 🙂

Thx a lot!!

Kaspars

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:53:14 GMT

This is very new development, it just came out at the beginning of November with AC25 Update 2. Check out this short clip about its options:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT1KPLNxzt0

Re: Expressions for quantity in schedules

Eric Bobrow — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 05:28:49 GMT

Wow this new feature is very useful, it resolves a serious limitation in schedule organization. Thanks for sharing this @Barry Kelly and @Laszlo Nagy