Wall Label That References Wall Surface

[Anonymous]

I was wondering if anyone knew where to get or how to customize a Wall Label so that i can have it displaying the Surface of that wall. These would mainly be used in elevation views where i want to document the claddings being used.

Currently i have labels with custom text which i edit and manually input the surface that it is pointing too. I have tried making a few with the some of the preloaded labels but couldn't get the desired outcome.
This image shows my desired label but with manually edited text.

[David Maudlin]

Laszlo:

Very clear working method, thanks for taking the time to illustrate this workflow.

David

[Laszlo Nagy]

I am glad you guys find it helpful.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Here is also Nathan Hildebrand's video about IFC Mapping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LiZh9NSEo

[Link]

And of course Rob Jackson's take on IFC Mapping. The more people that see this stuff and start implementing it, the better.

http://bimblog.bondbryan.com/archicad-18-join-the-ifc-and-cobie-flow-part-2-data-mapping/

Cheers,
Link.

[Brian Spears]

Thanks for the clear instructions, laszlonagy! That helps so much! Thanks, Link for the link too!

[DGSketcher]

laszlonagy wrote:
I am glad you guys find it helpful.

Very helpful thanks!!!

[David Shorter]

this looks like exactly what I'm looking for but I don't see the option for Outside surface in the dropdown list.
Obviously I am missing something basic

[Brian Spears]

@David, read through ALL of the posts by lazslo in this thread. He covers it in his step by step instructions. It is pretty cool once you get it working!

[David Shorter]

thanks Brian, found it.
most unintuitive. It shouldn't be this difficult.
Does it work for the Shell tool and the Roof tool?

[fuzzytnth3]

Thanks for the tutorial Laszlo, it worked as described.

However I wish to use the Generic Label to extract a little more information from the model.

We have a few Projects where instead of numbering the doors with a unique ID we have used the the ID field to state what Type of Door is to be used ie Type A or Type B.

What I would like to use the Generic Label 18 to do is display a user added unique number which has been entered into the Door's "Parameters for Listing" User Defined 1 as well as the Zone Number of the Room the Door is associated with.

Only trouble is I couldn't see in the list of available Properties either the associated Zone Number or the User Defined 1 parameter from the Door Object