windows and doors are listed on the wrong stories

[Bobby_ja_tt]

good day all

I'm having a problem with my schedule,
my windows and doors are being listed
on the wrong floor(story).
I had a look at the wall setting for each and
it is set to show on own story but when i
change that to automatic it disappears.
does this mean the floor the wall is on is
not its home story? and is this the root of the
schedule problem.
if so can anyone offer me a solution?
thanks in advance

best regards
ps

Arch-cad 10
power pc mac

[Srinivas]

Yes the root cause of the problem is with walls not on its home story as per the story settings, walls will display on home story based on the story you draw them when you set their display setting to show to "Own story", since the walls are not visible when you change them to Automatic, it shows the walls are on a different story as per its elevation and height, the schedule will get fixed if you fix your walls based on your story settings or fix your story heights in the story settings.

Hope this helps.

[Barry Kelly]

There is also a "glitch" where if your window has at least half of its height above the storey level above (even when it is placed in a wall on the lower storey) it will schedule as if it belongs to the storey above.

Barry.

[Bobby_ja_tt]

@Barry Kelly and @Srinivas thanks very much for your replies
my next question now would be, Is there anyway to create a 5th custom
field in schedule the so i can list the floor(story) manually?
right now the schedule only allows 4.

regards

[Srinivas]

You can add custom column.

[Bobby_ja_tt]

hi guys now i have 2 new problems
i've been trying to solve with no success.
1. when i generate my schedule the elevation of
of my windows or doors are missing although the field is
there for it.
i'm guessing the file my be corrupted but I'm hoping its not
any ideas?
and.
2. i use the solid operation menu to do a subtraction with upwards extrusion
on a mesh(site) and slab(floor) but it does not work on some parts of the model or when it does work every time i re-open the file i have to do it again.
any ideas on this as well, I'm out of ideas myself..
thanks a lot for your help so far, really appreciate it thanks

[JaredBanks]

Anyone ever found a work around to this? I'm dealing with it today. Kind of impressed, I've never had this issue until this project! But more annoyed.

[Erwin Edel]

Not a 'live' workaround, but I find myself going back to ye olde 'lists' and copy pasting from that to a worksheet and just 2D draft touch up to my liking whenever the schedules are misbehaving.

It's not ideal, but luckily once we get to the contract documentation stage (and are making schedules) things aren't changing that much anymore.

When making changes, you can make a 'list' of just one window/door that changes and copy paste that etc.

It's not very BIM , but sometimes it gets the job done faster than forever tweaking schedules with workarounds.

[DGSketcher]

Jared, The 5005 build of V19 has made some changes to the schedule preview options which are worth looking into! I only realised when I came to update my schedule and all the images had shifted. I think it's possible one of the options may place an object outside the preview window if you choose an inappropriate base alignment.

[JaredBanks]

Thanks for the comments. This issue is happening in 5005 as well, unfortunately. And I agree, sometimes a little fake is okay in the grand scheme of things. But since this issue puts the windows in the wrong group, I couldn't figure out a good solution. So I've just removed story from my organizational method in the schedule and found something else I can live with.