Window and door circumference in wall schedule

[DenisUser]

Hi,

Is there a way to add openings circumference data in wall schedules? There seems no field for that, but can it be created? Maybe someone can explain a bit or point in the right direction at least.

For example if I have a wall element and it has 2 windows in it which are 1m x 1m. Circumference of one window would be 4m and for two windows it would be 8m. Sometimes windows are not square also. I would need this 8m data to be added to wall schedule. We need this to approximate air tightness tape quantity for openings.

Operating system used: Windows

[Kamelite · Accepted solution]

Is this what you need?

This is made entirely by using expressions, and can easily be put in a schedule.  I have not been able to remove the last 40mm, it seems to be the space between the element and the stud.... Tried setting that distance to Zero, and the 40 disappeared.

Here is how its done:

Note that the datatype must be integer. 

Hope this was helpful!

.Kamelite

[DenisUser]

Hey,

Thanks.

I have not yet tried it, but just to clarify I made a picture of what I want. So I would need it to calculate windows in wall schedule. There is a field field for combined width of windows, but not circumference. Will this be able to calculate windows that have different shapes or just square shaped?

[DenisUser]

Thanks. This formula works, but only for windows. It is not exactly what I wanted. I was thinking that a formula would calculate all circumferences of all different windows in a particular wall and then add them up so I could display this in my wall schedule. But I can still use this formula to quickly manually add them up and add a custom text to a schedule. This formula will help. It would be even better if this formula could calculate all selected opening objects into one value. But this is ok too.

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

If you associate that expression to the classification that you use for both windows and doors, then you will be able to schedule those in window and door schedules and get results.

Will only be accurate for rectangular openings.

Unfortunately with wall properties, you can only get the 'combined width of doors' and 'combined width of windows', but there is no property for the heights it seems.

So you would have to get the values from door and window schedules.

Barry.

[DenisUser]

Thanks Barry. Yes I thought of that too. This will speed things up and I can add them up from the schedule and add custom text in my wall schedule with value I got from opening schedule. It is better than measuring all openings manually.