MATERIAL COMPONENT SEQUENCE VS REAL COMPLEXE PROFILE WALL SEQUENCE

[Polar Bear]

Hello All,

I have made some complexe profile wall for which i'd also need to get the quantity to reflect in the wall material schedule.

For normal walls, no problems, the material appears in the same sequence as on the wall: from ext to int.

For complexe profile wall, the sequence isn't the same: attached: complexe profile section and wall list of material.

Is it normal?

Thanks a lot

Kind Regards

Martin

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

@Polar Bear , I feel we need a special forum for scheduling cuz I feel Archicad is the best tool dealing with this point between all BIM apps and filtering schedule feature is so great but really this point exactly complex profile walls made me stop using scheduling for extracting quantities, I tried many times but failed.

[Barry Kelly]

The problem probably is that complex profile walls are not like a composite wall with skins next to each other.

A complex profile can be any shape and have materials next to, above, below or all around other materials.

Although you may create a complex profile wall that has simple skins next to each other, this does not have to be the case.

And so Archicad probably just lists the materials as it sees them.

I have not tested to see if there is any method into the order they are listed.

i.e. order they were drawn in the profile, or distance from origin, index number of fill, etc.

Barry.

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

@Barry Kelly , can’t we have a reference book describes how Archicad works? I mean a reference makes you aware of how elements like columns, slabs and beams deal together with PBC ( Priority Based Connections ) all time or it’s the default but you can change as your case or it can’t be changed but you have to work around and how to do all this together, then deep inside details like components and surfaces how all these are modeled, documented, calculated, and visualized inside Archicad, all this before we say stair tool has enhancements and others say it’s not intuitive anymore, others say which is better Archicad or Revit?

do we have a reference like this?

[Barry Kelly]

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@Mahmoud Qenawi wrote:

do we have a reference like this?

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If you mean in addition to the 4000+ page reference guide, I am not aware of any that explain the inner workings of Archicad.

Barry.

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

@Barry Kelly , haha yeah more than 4000 pages and I like it very much and appreciate all efforts behind this wonderful guide, really it’s the best between all BIM apps reference guides, but maybe the quarterly users groups and Building Together events conclusions and announcements even The Community posts and replies can be evolved into a dedicated reference guide which make user understands the Archicad philosophy.