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How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

dhaval7shah — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:23:45 GMT

How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically from the prepared drawing?

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Shivang Rajvir — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:45:28 GMT

Can you be more specific ??

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

dhaval7shah — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:44:56 GMT

Legend means, Table of 'Preview of wall type' and 'its description written aside'. I want to generate this from the already prepared ArchiCAD plans.
I have generated schedules and lists but those don't show previews.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Erika Epstein — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:45:11 GMT

Dhaval,
This would make a good wish; a preview image of wall types in schedules similar to door and window schedule previews that can be annotated.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

dhaval7shah — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:31:44 GMT

Yes Erika, lets's hope this to come in AC14.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

KeesW — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:34:45 GMT

Use Cadimage KeyNotes.
If you tag the wall types where they are used, Keynotes will automatically produce a schedule of them.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

dhaval7shah — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:27:41 GMT

Kees, Can you please explain what is CADimage keynotes ?

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:05:51 GMT

It is a commercial Add-ON available for ArchiCAD.
Here is a link:

http://www.cadimagetools.com/tools.aspx?id=2

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:24:19 GMT

I'm not sure if this question is still actual, but adding an answer for anyone else looking for a solution.

I managed to find a way around it by making an 'off-layout' 'sample list' of walls, zooming in to this, then Document -> 'Save view and place on layout'.

Then one can use the usual in-layout text-tools to annotate each sample.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Barry Kelly — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:43:43 GMT

In version 20 you can add section, plan and 3D previews of the 3D elements (i.e. not for 2D fills) right there in the schedule.

Barry.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:37:58 GMT

Barry wrote:
In version 20 you can add section, plan and 3D previews of the 3D elements (i.e. not for 2D fills) right there in the schedule.

Barry.

Could you please specify how you select which elements (only those in use in the project) to show, and only once? Every wall shows up as an independent line in my schedule (AC 21).

Thanks in advance!

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Steve Jepson — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:27:10 GMT

You may not be able to get exactly what you want automatically.
I use a pre-modeled assembly of Wall Types that can be pasted into the project as a Wall Legend.
The idea being to have a Wall Legend in large scale detail with full annotation, and the Walls of the Floor Plans as simple 2-line walls with a corresponding Wall Tag.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:11:46 GMT

mattiasdh wrote:
Could you please specify how you select which elements (only those in use in the project) to show, and only once? Every wall shows up as an independent line in my schedule (AC 21).

Thanks in advance!

The schedule will include every wall in you model unless you start to do things like add a unique ID to the wall and then add criteria to schedule only walls with that unique ID.

However if you are just doing an index where you want to show the preview and the name then just tick the 'Merge Uniform Items' when you open the schedule.
You can include some fields like quantity (total number of walls) and they should all still list as one item - as you are not listing any unique information.
But as soon as you try to schedule unique information (such as length or height) then you will start getting multiple items again if these values differ.

Barry.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Steve Jepson — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:38:05 GMT

Yes mattiasdh, The ID Manager is an important tool for scheduling but it is not always necessary for scheduling the information you need about the wall in a schedule. The walls can be on a layer where the layer extension is the number of the wall type. Something like these walls don't have any ID's assigned.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Steve Jepson — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:42:06 GMT

other times I put an ID on almost everything

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:48:01 GMT

Barry wrote:
'Merge Uniform Items'

Argh why didn't I see that before!!
Thanks a lot, that solved it!

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:56:46 GMT

Steve wrote:
YI use a pre-modeled assembly of Wall Types that can be pasted into the project as a Wall Legend.

Don't they get included in your total quantities that way? Or are they 2D representations?
Sorry for the maybe dumb questions, still a newbie in AC.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

DGSketcher — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:17:35 GMT

Steve, How are you annotating your detailed wall type views?

In AC21UK (5010) I am finding using labels for schedule view annotation generally crashes the prog. Adding a description in Cats & Props doesn't allow line breaks, so you can't list the skins there line by line.

In a ideal world I would be using the Axonometric view in the schedule and either labelling with a description or with numbers linked to keynotes but I can't seem to do either.

Re: How to generate 'Wall Legend' Table automatically ?

Steve Jepson — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:43:06 GMT

DGSketcher wrote:
Steve, How are you annotating your detailed wall type views?

In AC21UK (5010) I am finding using labels for schedule view annotation generally crashes the prog. Adding a description in Cats & Props doesn't allow line breaks, so you can't list the skins there line by line.

In a ideal world I would be using the Axonometric view in the schedule and either labelling with a description or with numbers linked to keynotes but I can't seem to do either.

That sounds great.
If I understand the question correctly, my Wall Types Legend is not a schedule. It's just a saved View of some Walls with Labels.