Calculate surface area of a composite wall skin

[Steve Jepson]

Is there a setting I can choose for showing the surface area of a composite wall skin on the outside face of it?

[Anonymous]

Steve

If you use a component schedule you can use the Conditional Surface options.
Am actually using it at the moment myself!

[Steve Jepson]

There are two conditioned surface options. One for inside and one for outside.

I am wanting the surface area of a skin in a composite which will be less than the outside surface and more than the inside surface.

[Steve Jepson]

What exactly does conditioned and conditional mean in the Available Parameters for Walls ?

Does it me per the conditions of the Filters above ?

[Anonymous]

The conditional options remove any openings in that wall.
The inside and outside options replace the reference line and opposite ref options.
In that building material what surface are you chasing mate?

[Anonymous]

Oh and the criteria/filter area means that is purely what that schedule is looking at.

[Anonymous]

I've just seen that even when the criteria is just for a certian building material, it returns the surface area for the complete wall.

[Steve Jepson]

The surface area of the Mortar Bed material will be the surface area of the 2.5-lbs Galvanized Diamond mesh/lath.

I change the name of that quantity in the schedule.

I am exporting these schedules to Excel where that same surface area is used in a formula to derive the number of special fasteners for the lath.

What I have done is just made another wall as thin as possible and I am using it to find the surface area I need. Not great but it can be done quicker than figuring out how to get the surface area of a composite skin into the schedule.

I would think finding the surface area of a composite skin would be easy. I am almost certain I have done it many times before. I just can't remember.

[Anonymous]

Ahhhh now I see.
I tend to use volumes of building materials and also schedule heights and thickness so I can apply the math functions in excel.
This way I can use one schedule for multiple take-offs.

The thin wall is a quick solution though.

[Steve Jepson]

I need to know if an Interactive Schedule can show the surface area of a component skin or not.

If not, I will probably model all of the component skins separately for the sake of the schedules.

This is not a typical project. It is strictly for producing a material list for the wainscot (manufactured stone) only of a rather simple building.

The architect requires Masonry shop drawings anyway so I thought I might just as well draw it up with ArchiCAD and generate the necessary material lists all at the same time.

As always, it is all due yesterday. I have 12 hours to finish it.

It will look something like this but with seven schedules for the items they want in the schedules.