Archicad 22 New Calculation Capabilities

[poco2013]

FYI:

Today Archicad added 6-7 YouTube videos which describe the use of formulas in properties and therefore Schedules.

This makes obsolete the necessity of using the difficult and quirky List Schedules to achieve the same functions. Well worth viewing and worth the upgrade!! There are a few obvious deficiencies but a great start. Hopefully enhancements in this area will continue.

[Barry Kelly]

I have been liking this in testing.
The formulae can get a bit complicated (depending on what you are trying to do of course) and the matching of calculation units to the data type I am sure is going to cause a few problems.
But overall this is a huge step in not needing the old listing scheme any more.

Barry.

[Laszlo Nagy]

I think Expressions in Properties is potentially the biggest new feature of this release and people will only realize in time how many scenarios they will be able to solve with their use, especially because in these expressions there are functions that do data conversion and string manipulation. With these expressions they will be able to create Properties that contain the exact piece of data/information they need and then these Expression-based Properties can be used in Labels, Schedules, Find & Select, Graphic Overrides, and Collision Detection. Lots of potential there, in my opinion.

[Laszlo Nagy]

poco2013 wrote:
Today Archicad added 6-7 YouTube videos which describe the use of formulas in properties and therefore Schedules.
This makes obsolete the necessity of using the difficult and quirky List Schedules to achieve the same functions.

I suppose by that you are referring to the old Listing functionality, not the Interactive Schedule functionality, right?

[poco2013]

LaszloNagy wrote:
I suppose by that you are referring to the old Listing functionality, not the Interactive Schedule functionality, right?

RIGHT -- Not completely happy with the functionality seen in the interactive schedules formulas but far superior to the listing method. Hopefully Archicad won't let this one lie idle for the next 20 years?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Yes, I hope so, too, that further developments will be happening in this area.