topic Re: major zone bug . . . or me? in Modeling

major zone bug . . . or me?

__archiben — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:35:40 GMT

i'm just doing a floor tile take-off for the client - all of my tiled areas are zones. before i started i 'updated all zones'.

upon reviewing the data i noticed a few values that just didn't look right - so i put the fill tool over the same, identical area (as much as i evangelise archiCAD, i simply don't trust it either!). what i found was the following:

see the attached screenshot:
the zone stamp (din calc off or on) displays 16.25m2

the fill area text (in black) is just below it and shows 18.88m2

the 'update zones' dialogue is displaying an error, but more tellingly 18.66m2

zone preferences are set to neither add nor subtract anything from the zone area. everything has been rebuilt, open, closed, etc and i'm tired.

so which do i believe? what am i doing wrong? or is it an extremely big bug?

~/archiben

Re: major zone bug . . . or me?

Aussie John — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:48:00 GMT

Zones can read the gross floor area and the net area depending on settings and then particular zone. Maybe you have mixed them up somehow

Re: major zone bug . . . or me?

__archiben — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:12:13 GMT

right - i sorted out the minor discrepancy between the 'update zones' value and the fill area. i figured that must've been my error and a walk around the block for some fresh air helped resolve that one.

but there is still a discrepancy between the value shown in the 'update zones' dialogue and the zone stamp itself. the only setting that i can see would make a difference is the use 'DIN area calculation' . . . but i get the same result whether or not this is ticked.

i can only think that there is an error in the zone stamp GDL somewhere.

i have to be somewhere in 20 minutes and have to get this out to the client before i go. why is it that this shit always happens at crunch time???!!!

~/archiben

Re: major zone bug . . . or me?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:45:27 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
i have to be somewhere in 20 minutes and have to get this out to the client before i go. why is it that this <b>[censored]</b> always happens at crunch time???!!!
~/archiben

Because if it happened when we had all the time in the world (and when does that ever happen) life would just be too easy

Re: major zone bug . . . or me?

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:14:16 GMT

Could you copy-paste this area of the project into a new file and post a PLA so we can look at it?

Re: major zone bug . . . or me?

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:41:44 GMT

when does life begin:

i have to be somewhere in 20 minutes and have to get this out to the client before i go. why is it that this [censored] always happens at crunch time???!!!......