Calculation Schedules

[Anonymous]

How can a calculation schedule really helpat the end of a project if there is so many work-arounds that several things are not even drawn with the tool they would need to be drawn with. For instance, I used the profiler to create a bell shaped roof and it doesn't show up on the roof schedule for the purpose of pricing for cladding and other things. How can this be done?

[TomWaltz]

I think there are a lot of situations like this where you can use the Scheduler to create the raw data but end up having to assemble it all in Excel or manually.

[Rakela Raul]

for sure constructor of gs does it, cause estimator wouldnt be able to produce an acurate estimate without all correspondent elements
accounted for

[Karl Ottenstein]

jcude wrote:
How can a calculation schedule really helpat the end of a project if there is so many work-arounds that several things are not even drawn with the tool they would need to be drawn with. For instance, I used the profiler to create a bell shaped roof and it doesn't show up on the roof schedule for the purpose of pricing for cladding and other things. How can this be done?

First, no tool in ArchiCAD is intended to draw just the things corresponding to the name of the tool. Using tools for other things is not a workaround, it is how one works. So, e.g., there is no way that all possible walls could ever be made with the wall tool, and there is no way that all things made with the wall tool should be walls.

I assume you're talking about the Interactive Scheduler and not a list scheme.

It sounds like your schedule is filtering only roofs - so of course the profiled object will not be included.

Change your filter as in the attached screenshot - to include roofs as well as objects, and only those whose ID begins with Roof (for example). You need some kind of ID, material, etc. that is used to uniquely identify the elements modeled with various tools that are supposed to be 'roofs'. (Constructor/Estimator has this same requirement, AFAIK.)

Now, each element type has its own parameters, so the resulting table can be made to have the data you want, but some post-processing in Excel will still be needed to clean it up. For example, you can get the area of the roof from a roof field - but that has no meaning for the profiled object. You can get the surface of the object from the object fields, but that has no meaning for the roof. And, I'm not sure without testing exactly what that area would be - perhaps the sum of all surfaces, which isn't what you'd want - hence, back to Excel.

There really isn't any way this could be automatic.

Karl

PS In the future, try to post these kinds of questions in the Calculate forum. Thanks. 😉