Calculating volumes and surfaces on object type elements?

[Anonymous]

Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to calculate volumes and surfaces on objects in ArchiCAD based on their fill type. This is for example if I have a roof construction of wood but made with roof wizard. This tool uses elements from the Object tool and it seems that ArchiCAD does not calculate that in the All Components schedule. I know that I can make a different criteria for objects only but why doesn't it calculate objects with the given criteria already? Thank you

[Anonymous]

seriously? no one knows this one?

[Karl Ottenstein]

The All Components schedule that you see in Navigator is related to scheduling "components" which in this case takes on one of the three or more meanings that Graphisoft has given to this word throughout the application.

In this case, "component" means the skins of a composite structure, or the various fills of a complex profile. As you can see by looking at the predefined schedule criteria (which are just an example - hard to see how they would be useful as-is) - this filters only those elements that can have a composite fill or a complex profile assigned to them.

You want to generate an Element schedule instead, with proper criteria to get all of your roof elements.

That may be challenging, too, as the fields will not necessarily 'match' for the roof construction objects vs the roof surfaces. In that case, you can either generate several independent schedules to gather up the pieces (e.g., one schedule for the beams/rafters/etc from the object tool and another for the roof surfaces from the roof tool) - or if you must have a single schedule, you'd need to look at using the Calculate Menu and a List Scheme.

Cheers,
Karl