Now, the issue is: I need to eventually produce a cutting list, complete with the angle of cut for non-square ends. The plan view of a joist represented with a polywall looks like the image attached.
The question is, can I, and how do I extract a value for the cut angles at each end of a polywall?
Thanks for any help!
Pete.
350 views. That's a lot of people interested in the answer. But alas, does no-one know it? 
I agree with Samovar. Even though it technically 'may' be possible to do something like this natively in ArchiCAD, the number of billable hours you would waste setting up the components and then manually building the timber framing (which would be horrendously labour intensive), you might as well get the cadimage solution and get on with doing some proper billable work! 
Cadimage Wall-Framing isn't suited to horizontal members, only vertical members (i.e.walls) as far as I can see. I'm after a horizontal framing member solution.
I'm not on the clock, so hours spent setting up and learning stuff isn't an issue. I've given myself a year of ArchiCAD self-study, and being a programmer and a builder, I'm happy to wrangle with difficult problems, in the name of getting to know the inside workings
Even so, I'm not wanting to waste them, so hours travelling down a dead end is something I'm hoping to avoid.
I'm not on the clock, so hours spent setting up and learning stuff isn't an issue. I've given myself a year of ArchiCAD self-study, and being a programmer and a builder, I'm happy to wrangle with difficult problems, in the name of getting to know the inside workings
Even so, I'm not wanting to waste them, so hours travelling down a dead end is something I'm hoping to avoid.
Hi again, Peter.
That will teach me to speed-read your original post. I didn't see the bit that mentioned the floor joists!
ArchiCAD will do what you need, but you may find you will have to use library parts rather than walls, as I don't believe walls store the information about their end angles.
Investigate using the purlin12.gsm object found in the roof construction section of the library. This has the end cut angle parameters built in already which can be listed on a schedule. I have customised mine further by adding a drop-down list of common standard sizes, and also adding different cross-sectional symbols. Remember to change the subtype to beam and give the object a new name. Be aware if you mirror the object on plan, the cutends will become reversed in the schedule.
There are other objects that would do a similar job but I found all were lacking a particular feature I wanted, so I started with purlin12 and added the extra bits I needed.
There is actually a joist beam object in the US library (it's not in the INT library for some reason!) which has various cross sectional symbols, but doesn't have end angle adjustment. There may be something similar in your localised library, so check it out to see if it does what you want first.
Good luck!
That will teach me to speed-read your original post. I didn't see the bit that mentioned the floor joists!
ArchiCAD will do what you need, but you may find you will have to use library parts rather than walls, as I don't believe walls store the information about their end angles.
Investigate using the purlin12.gsm object found in the roof construction section of the library. This has the end cut angle parameters built in already which can be listed on a schedule. I have customised mine further by adding a drop-down list of common standard sizes, and also adding different cross-sectional symbols. Remember to change the subtype to beam and give the object a new name. Be aware if you mirror the object on plan, the cutends will become reversed in the schedule.
There are other objects that would do a similar job but I found all were lacking a particular feature I wanted, so I started with purlin12 and added the extra bits I needed.
There is actually a joist beam object in the US library (it's not in the INT library for some reason!) which has various cross sectional symbols, but doesn't have end angle adjustment. There may be something similar in your localised library, so check it out to see if it does what you want first.
Good luck!
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