topic Re: Wall Label in Documentation

Wall Label

TracyGA — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:40:55 GMT

I am working on a foundation plan and wanted to use the new option for the NCS Wall Label 21 to reference the type of my wall composite/complex profile which I have placed after the ":" in the title. It worked great for the labels, but it seems that there is no way to then reference this number in my foundation wall schedule. Am I missing something or is this true?. If I cannot reference the type I've given in the name of my foundation wall and have to use the Element ID as I used before, it seems to me that there really is no benefit to this new feature.

Re: Wall Label

cmorel — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:39:54 GMT

Same exact question!
Did you figure it out?

Re: Wall Label

Steve Jepson — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:15:37 GMT

I do it by naming the Wall Types WALL TYPE-1, WALL TYPE-2, WALL TYPE-3.... and use the - as the Trimming Character for Wall Type ID.

I make a Wall Types Legend using a short section of wall/composite and save this at a large scale drawing I put in a Layout. The Walls in Plan View show as Core Only with a wall tag ( NCS Wall Type 21 )
Label the composites in the Wall Legend with NCS Wall Type 21 and Skin List 21.
The wall tag in Plan View showing simple two line core only displays the wall type number ( the part of the composite name after the - .

In the Interactive Schedule I use Composite starts with WALL TYPE and generate a schedule with the total length and volume of each Wall Type in the WALL LEGEND.

There are many options for this but the basic idea is to show walls in Plan View as simple 2 line/no fills/core only to keep the Plans clean. Add a Wall Tag that matches a large scale Wall Legend with the same wall tag, and also with the Wall Skins label.
And also include a schedule for the walls/composites that shows how many lineal feet of each Wall Type.
You can of course add other info like volume, surface areas....whatever you need.

Something like this I like to use the large scale views of the Wall Types / Composites even if I show all the skins and wall fills in Plan View like this +/- You can keep the wall/composite segments use for the wall types legend out of the schedules by putting them on a layer called WALL TYPES and then excluding that from the Criteria.

There are some unfortunate limitations with the Wall Skins Label for doing this exactly like I wish I could but that may be something they will fix in future versions. I would ask for those little fixes but they are too much trouble to explain in words. I hope the program developers will see what I am trying to do and get the idea of how they could facilitate this with some tweaking of the Wall Skins Label.

Re: Wall Label

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:44:50 GMT

Steve wrote:
I make a Wall Types Legend using a short section of wall/composite and save this at a large scale drawing I put in a Layout. The Walls in Plan View show as Core Only with a wall tag ( NCS Wall Type 21 )
Label the composites in the Wall Legend with NCS Wall Type 21 and Skin List 21.
The wall tag in Plan View showing simple two line core only displays the wall type number ( the part of the composite name after the - .

Where can I get this NCS Wall Label? I'm also tryng to make short tags on plans and sections which are based on the composites. Next to the drawing I would like to put a skin list of all composites based on the drawing. I really like Your type of presentation. Till now I made this by manualy renaming every walls ID based on the composite.

Re: Wall Label

Lingwisyer — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:34:26 GMT

I believe it is part of the US localised library...

Ling.

Re: Wall Label

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 05:03:00 GMT

Hi, Is there any other way to get access to this tool? we don't have this option on our (NZ) version of Archicad
Thanks

Re: Wall Label

Steve Jepson — Tue, 07 May 2019 18:35:17 GMT

these are the labels we have in the USA version