Row/Col Table in Archicad

[chitecture_x]

Cant find anything online or chatgbt to make row/column table on layouts... anyone?

Operating system used: Windows 11

[runxel]

Maybe you can a bit more specific what you're after? 🧐 Perhaps with screenshots, that helps too.

[chitecture_x]

Yup fair enough @runxel 
Basically, ive researched online but cant conclude ways to do a simple table like shown in screenshot attached.
Any help would be great! 

[karsten_bauschert · Accepted solution]

If you mean schedules like door list then put the schedules on the layout.
If you mean excel like spreadsheets with calculations... no native solution in Archicad.
An Austrian Archicad distributor has a speadsheet like object in its portfolio, but not for free .

[runxel · Accepted solution]

I guess you are fairly new in the Archicad world? Well, welcome!

As Karsten said, there is not really a "table" solution in Archicad right now, but honestly that is not needed either.

Have a look at "Schedules" in the manual – those are really powerful can be placed on a layout, too! (Just drag&drop in the navigator)

If you need free text, that is possible with a "custom text"-column as well. But mostly you would want for every information to come straight from the model anyway.

[chitecture_x]

Thanks

[chitecture_x]

I get you now. Schedule not for windows but more for building key, loads of text and what not. Didnt know i could drag em on a layout, ive tried em but not familiar and time ticks quick haha. New about 2 months or so, and can use it as a base model only, and draft on top of it in detail or section. Any better way of doing details in 3D? Is morphing details in section view the best way to go about it? (cant screenshot the model due to sensitive nature)

[runxel]

If you have a lot of text or info that is not derived from the model it might make sense to rather export a PDF from e.g. Excel. You can place external PDF sheets on your layouts as well! They will luckily also export just fine, so text is still text in the final PDF export (meaning it does not get rendered into a pixel mush).

But that really depends on the content, and what you want to do with it in the long run. Many paths lead to Rome.

Of course you can also just fake a table with lines and text. 😄

You could also have a look at the new keynote tool – you can generate a table structure with the fitting object.

Regarding details:

I usually model everything up to 1:50 in 3D, anything else lives as lines and fills in my details.

But I can see the value in a nice 3D peel-away/cut model too. I'd not model to that detail level everywhere, tho. With the Design Options I found a rather nice way to deal with it. You can put 3D stuff into a DO and use it locally. When dealing with SEO there is the nice side effect that these only takes place when the DO is active, so you might bypass the need to morph everything. Proceed by generating a 3D document from your view, those can be enriched by 2D documentation and dimensioned.