Doors / Windows view in Interactive Schedules

[Achille Pavlidis]

Hi,

Is there a reason why if a door or window has a rolling shutter that appears correctly on the Front View of the object, this shutter does not appear on the Interactive Schedule?

[Barry Kelly]

Yes, it has probably been scripted so it ignores the shutter (and any other accessories) when viewed in a schedule.
So unless you want to do a bit of GDL scripting, you will be stuck with it as i don't think there will be a built-in parameter to allow you to show it in the schedule.

Barry.

[Achille Pavlidis]

Well, this is major BIM breakdown

[Daniel Kovacs]

Hi,

The axonometric previews in Schedules just isolate the listed element in 3D, and take a look at it from the given direction. What is special in case of objects though, is that the script is aware of what viewpoint you are looking at (whether it is 3D, floor plan, section, etc.), and can give you a different representation based on that (you can do that with the GLOB_PREVIEW_MODE global in GDL).

The most common workflow back in the day when schedules were designed, was that people wanted to list the window itself without any frames or accessories, so by design the script for doors/windows was written in a way that it wouldn't show frames and accessories, because the door/window manufacturer doesn't need that information.

Now, if in your case you need that, you can actually make a pretty simple modification in the macro that controls this, so that accessories would not be hidden in schedules. Here's how:

• Use the 'File>Libraries and Object>Extract a container...' command to extract the 'ARCHICAD Library 22.lcf' file into a folder.
• Go to this folder, and find the macro called "WallholeFraming.gsm", and open it in ARCHICAD for editing (double-clicking it while ARCHICAD is open should work)
• Go to the master script of the object, and delete the line highlighted in the picture (or you can just put a exclamation mark at the beginning of the line to disable it). Save the gsm file (ctrl+s).
• Now go to the Library Manager, remove the ARCHICAD library and load this extracted library folder instead. If you have done everything right, accessories should appear in the schedules now.

Of course, if you want to go on with this workflow, you would probably have to set up your own library (because you will need to also load the other folders in the default AC library folder).

It is indeed an oversight, that you can't list these accessories without this modification in any ways. The best solution would be if you could list accessories separately, just like you can do it with Curtain Walls for example (and also list the entire window as a whole). If the window/door tools were to be redesigned, this is definitely something to keep in mind!

Regards,