Scheduling Slabs

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Are slabs (used as building masses in a Master Planning Study) able to be read by a Zone? It doesn't seem to be working and I'm baffled as to why a Zone can't itemize slabs contained entirely within them.

[Podolsky]

Yes, this is known problem - slabs are not seen by zones. I had such a problem - I needed to model floor and ceiling and make schedule of them in relation to rooms (i.e. this room - this floor type and area, another room - another floor type etc.). So I was not able to do it!
The only solution I have found - use roof with 0 inclination instead of slab.
I can imagine this happens because originally ArchiCAD was designed the way that you need to extract floor type and area from zone tool. But that was ages ago - when 3D models was not so detailed (and couldn't be).

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Thanks Podolsky. Hey GS. Please change this. Placing roofs is more cumbersome than placing slabs. Especially when you're using slabs as something other than a slab.

Morphs perhaps?

[Podolsky]

I don't think morphs are the solution. For example you need to place a floor that is composite - floor finish, underfloor hearing electrical matt, some resilient layer... Morph cannot manage this - because it cannot give you area in plan and thickness of the layer. It can give you only volume...

In general I think that is would be a great idea to have floor tool - separated from slab. As it happens in Revit.

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

Aaron wrote:
Are slabs (used as building masses in a Master Planning Study) able to be read by a Zone? It doesn't seem to be working and I'm baffled as to why a Zone can't itemize slabs contained entirely within them.

I don't think the slab knew which zone it was in before, but they do now in 24.

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=26946&p=322174&hilit=zone+slab+schedule#p3...

Barry.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Thanks Barry, will recommend migrating the project in question from v22 to v24. straightaway.