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2004-01-04
10:19 PM
- last edited on
2023-05-17
07:45 PM
by
Gordana Radonic
archi_00 wrote:To be sure we’re all clear: the problem with property objects, as I’ve mentioned in the past, is that they can generate any information, regardless of the physical characteristics of the object that they are associated with. Archi_00 notes this in his comment that the wrong property script could cause a brick wall to generate takeoff data as if it were made of glass instead. A 2x6 wall with a script written for 2x4 walls will generate a list with 2x4 studs instead of 2x6 ones. Etc.
I have win98 and ArchiCAD 6.5, English version.
I make sets of plans of houses and I make a personal database to obtain:
Amount of work,
Prices of the jobs,
Quantity and prices of bricks, iron, wood, concrete, and others.
For this reason, I LINK PROPERTIES to each wall, column, beam, window, door,
object, slab and roof in my projects and designs.
I make link properties INDIVIDUALLY in each one, because I give different
uses to the wall tool for example:
The wall tool is good for make a wall or for make a beam, or for make a
glass, so I have to check, all the time, that the wall tool have the right
PROPERTY LINKED.
With the slab I can do something similar. I use the slab tool like foundation, or like a floor, or like a ceiling.
If I choose a mistaken PROPERTY, I will have glass for a brick wall.
Everything could be wrong if I choose a wrong property.
And, when I have helpers in my work, I spend all the day checking the right
properties in each tool, inside ArchiCAD.
So, in this order of ideas, my work could be very complicated.
Well, I write to you because probably you can give me some ideas to make all
this easy.
I am looking for a procedure, or for a GDL object, or for a utility that
lets me check in an easy way WHAT IS THE PROPERTY LINKED to each wall, column, beam, window, door, object, slab and roof in my work.
Now, I have to select each element on the screen, and then open the TOOL
SETTINGS DIALOG to check the correct property. Is a big work, overall in a
big project.
I am dreaming now, and I think could be a new tool, GDL tool probably, that
you can put inside of the "object wall, slab or another", and then it will
print the Linked property in a few seconds.
2004-01-04 10:21 PM