Zone Calculation - Inherited Material

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to create a Finish Schedule. I was hoping to get a Zone Schedule to return to me the "inherited" material of the Walls, Floor and Ceiling. The material option in the Zone Schedule only returns the material of the Zone not the inherited material of the surrounding elements. Does anyone have any tips??

[Laura Yanoviak]

I believe you can do this with Zone Lists, but it's not easy. It is a bit tricky to have walls correctly linked with a zone -- it depends on whether or not the reference line is on the zone edge. Also, having one long wall that traverses several zones may confuse ArchiCAD. It will typically pick ONE of the zones and fix to that. In order to overcome this, you'll need to break the wall at the corners such that each wall belongs to only one zone.

We just manually type in the finishes within the Zone Stamp listing parameters, and create our finish schedules with an Interactive Schedule. Not really BIM, but by far the easiest way to accomplish what we need (at this point in time).

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the fast reply. Funny enough if you have a look at the Zone in 3D it picks up the material of each one of the walls correctly - so the information is in its data base. I just dont understand how to get a schedule to return that information.