Assigning components in complex profile walls.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how to assign separate components to the individual parts that make up a complex profile wall? For example, I'm using a complex profile with the wall tool to create my foundation wall and footing ( See Image). However when performing quantity calculations, I would like to be able to calculate the concrete blocks for the wall portion and the volume of concrete for the footing portion separately. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Please help!

[Anonymous]

If I get the idea, I think you would want a different fill for the footing and the wall.
If you have drawn it as one, you maybe able to use the split too to separate the fills and change their types, before you save.
If you don't change their types before saving, they will heal back as one.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply lec1212. The profile is actually comprised of two distinctly separate fills, with a closed contour line around each. By changing the fill type are you referring to drafting fill, cover fill or cut fill from the fill category?

[Anonymous]

I could be wrong about this, but my understanding is that it does not matter if it's has been assigned to cover, drafting, cut or multiples , it only maters if it is a different fill.
And does not matter if you have the line turned on around fill either, except for viewing/printing.
I have a tendency to use any of the vectorial fills because I have the most of these, but that is just the habit I'm into, don't think that matters either.
But someone may come along and prove me wrong.
Stay tuned.

[Rick Thompson]

I don't think there is a way to assign different property objects (PO) to different parts of a Custom Profile. If there is I would like to know, but it is basically assigning a PO to the whole thing in the wall tool, or via ID. This is a limitation with Custom Profiles.. calculation that is. This is the reason I use separate composites for the wall and the footing. I keep quite a few with different PO assigned to the composites vis the fill. I suppose you could figure out a PO in your situation as long as the wall stays the same height, but the multipliers would be challenging, to say the least.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the insight Rick
That helps my understanding be more complete.
Yeh, my C.P.s are already growing like genetically engineered bionics.
Understand this should accelerate that even further!
I think you talked about this once before somewhere?

[cmacd]

Can anyone tell me if anything has changed from Rick's remarks that there is no "way to assign different property objects (PO) to different parts of a Custom Profile"?
We are unable to get correct area quantities of the external face of complex profile brick veneer walls. The calculation of the area of the external brick wall includes the height of the internal stud wall (usually higher). The same problem occurs with the internal stud wall of the same complex profile. Can anyone suggest a fix? To further clarify... in a typical situation, the brick veneer is 155mm below the bottom plate of the internal stud. The internal stud wall is higher than the external brick by 300mm plus ( depending on various conditions). It seems that any Surface A and Surface B calculation can only recognise the overall ht. of the wall (bttm of brick to top of stud) and not each wall composite individually.
For Graphisoft... if a calculation can be made for the thickness of each fill in the complex profile, why can't we also get a measure for the height of each fill?