topic Re: Exposed surface for beam give twice the area!? in Documentation

Exposed surface for beam give twice the area!?

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 23:13:08 GMT

I think I once knew the reason for this but I've forgotten...

/Mats

Barry Kelly — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:19:31 GMT

I was going to suggest it could be the schedule criteria.

You have to choose 'beam' or 'beam segment' other wise you will get both and it counts twice.

But that is obviously not happening for the green one.

So is there the possibility there are actually 2 blue beams?

Turn off the 'Merge Uniform items' or add a 'Quantity' field to see if there are 2 blue beams.

Barry.

runxel — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:24:41 GMT

Green one is actually a wall and the schedule criteria right now most possibly is set to "all elements" or "all 3D elements".

So you're right:

Always exclude beam (and column) segments. Otherwise they will contribute as well.

Barry Kelly — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:56:07 GMT

@runxel wrote:

Green one is actually a wall ...

I should have looked closer at the image. 🙄

So yes Mats, you have to specify if you want a beam or beam segment in the criteria.

Barry.

Mats_Knutsson — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:17:26 GMT

Of course. thx.