Zone calculation

[Anonymous]

I have a request from my contractor to calculate wall areas for wallpaper and painting.

I would like to calculate a rooms wall surfaces and have them listed in a schedule. Ok this I know how to do with a zone but if a wall is divided in parts it's listed by the parts.
I wish to have this wall that consists of three different wall types calculated as one.

Suggestions anyone?

[Anonymous]

Hi Krippahl
We use Vico Office, but im not sure how VO interacts with the zone tool?
Do you have any experience working with archicad zones published to takeoff manager?

Best regards

Nicolaj Hvid

[Anonymous]

Hello Hvid,

Yes we have, a lot. We use them to extract finishes. For most ceilings and floors it is direct.

The main problem with that methodology is that these zones do not take into VICO the area of windows and doors associated. Therefore, you have to do that operation in ArchiCAD, find out what the relationship is between net area and gross area, and use that as a percentage through formulas.

One of the best things about using zones for finishes is that you can do Control by compartment (provided your Zone name and ID are the same).

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply.
It sounds interesting. When I publish a zone from Archicad it pops up in vico as an individual 3D objct i.e. the size of the bounding box of the zone. How do you relate the 3D objects to the zones?

Nicolaj

[Anonymous]

Through the ID. The Zone's ID is the same as it's name in AC, so when you activate the model in VICO you include layers AND IDs as filters.