? Bug with Complex Profiles and Interactive Schedules ?

[Steve Jepson]

I don't remember seeing this before. In the case where we could split the fill to get the X mark in lumber or a beam, it now creates (4) times as many walls when you schedule it.

Is there some way to stop it form doing that or is this just price you pay for trying to use that method for getting the X or / mark by splitting the fills ?

[Barry Kelly]

Is it because you are doing a 'Component' schedule rather than an 'Element' schedule?
If using Component have you set 'Merge Uniform Items' on - may still not work as it may consider the components as being unique.

Otherwise we would need to see your schedule settings.

Barry.

[Steve Jepson]

That's it. Same schedule for Elements is fine to split the fill or use as many fills as you like to make a single Complex Profile.
If you schedule it as a Component it will show a quantity of as many fills as there are in the Complex Profile.

I have always been a little fuzzy on the difference between a Component and an Element and why they are different.

I think its a bug since if you are using an Element Schedule or a Component Schedule - you are sill scheduling Complex Profiles - not the number of fills used to make it. Has it always been like that? I don't remember it working that way. Hard to say how many schedules I made that were wrong because of this. ?

I don't have any older versions of ArchiCAD on this computer to test it on.

[Steve Jepson]

The Solution is not to split the fils to make that x mark. Make it with just one fill.
That is a little tricky but I can be done. You can see how this works in some the sample Complex Profiles found in the default ArchiCAD Template. If anyone has an older version of ArchiCAD installed, perhaps you can tell me if it has always been the case that if you slit the fill to make an x that you would get pieces in an Interactive Schedule for not.

Also, I thought I saw an object ( rafter, beam, joist...something) that does display the X mark in section. Any one know of an object like that?

[ChrisB]

Maybe it was the MasterScript Joist object you were thinking about...see attached.

Not available on their site anymore & hasn't been updated for a while but still works with ArchiCAD 22...

[Steve Jepson]

Thanks ChrisB