Skylight Markers?

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to place a marker for a skylight? Seems like skylights are merely roof slab windows. It would be nice to be able to include them in our window schedule (or, if necessary, a skylight schedule as second choice).

Can't see where we can do this...

Bill Randall
ARBOR SOUTH ARCHITECTURE, PC
Eugene, Oregon

[TomWaltz]

You could use the Label Tool.

[Stress Co_]

TomWaltz wrote:
You could use the Label Tool.

Tom:
If you select the skylight and open the "Listing and Labeling" tab...... and select "Label Skylight" ..... shouldn't the "Label Settings" become active? I get'em grayed out and no label. I assume you mean,.... like you say..... "use the label tool", but how does it become associative to the skylight?

arborsouth wrote:
It would be nice to be able to include them in our window schedule

Bill:
I was unable to get skylights in my window schedule...(since they are objects), but created a separate schedule just for skylights. Maybe someone has a better solution

[TomWaltz]

Stress wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
You could use the Label Tool.

Tom:
If you select the skylight and open the "Listing and Labeling" tab...... and select "Label Skylight" ..... shouldn't the "Label Settings" become active? I get'em grayed out and no label. I assume you mean,.... like you say..... "use the label tool", but how does it become associative to the skylight?

The Label Settings button is only active if you have not placed an element yet. If you have something selected, the button is greyed out.

I'll take "Things Only Tom Knows" for $2000, Alex....

[Stress Co_]

TomWaltz wrote:
The Label Settings button is only active if you have not placed an element yet. If you have something selected, the button is greyed out.

But, But, ........ i guess a skylight isn't an element.

Thanks Tom.

[TomWaltz]

Everything in Archicad is an element (doors, walls, windows, lines, labels, etc).

A skylight behaves like an Object, I believe.

I just meant that once you have something placed, you have change its Label Settings though the Label Tool, not the "Listing & Labeling" tab.

[Anonymous]

I use skylights infrequently and generally in small number. In a recent project where I did use skylights, I did not create an automated schedule. You can label them automatically pulling up the ID as the label and using the label tool. One of the problems seems that skylights are on the layer that your roof is on and the label will only show when the roof layer is on. This works OK for labeling on the roof plan, but in my case I had the roof on a story above,showed them dashed a story below, and wanted to label them in my floor plan view. The end consequence was manual labeling and a manual schedule . Certainly some additional thought needs to go into how skylights are implemented.

[Erika Epstein]

Mike wrote:
I use skylights infrequently and generally in small number. The end consequence was manual labeling and a manual schedule . Certainly some additional thought needs to go into how skylights are implemented.

It is easy to set up an automated schedule for skylights. I use the ID and start all my skylights with SK. Skylights being a library object as well as an add-on you can then add additional parameters; additional parameters can include curb heights, curb widths, roof slope etc.

Attached is a quick one I did.

HTH,

Erika

[Stress Co_]

Erika wrote:
It is easy to set up an automated schedule for skylights. I use the ID and start all my skylights with SK. Skylights being a library object as well as an add-on you can then add additional parameters; additional parameters can include curb heights, curb widths, roof slope etc.

Attached is a quick one I did.

Hi Erika:
Would you post a screen shot of your skylight schedule's settings? To be more specific..the parameters list under the "fields" tab.

Are all the fields you created interactive?

I created a "Notes/Remarks" field in my skylight schedule .... but was unable to make it interact with the skylights. I had to manually insert text "over" the schedule.

Mike wrote:
This works OK for labeling on the roof plan, but in my case I had the roof on a story above,showed them dashed a story below, and wanted to label them in my floor plan view. The end consequence was manual labeling and a manual schedule.

You could manually label the skylights on the story below the roof.... but let the schedule interact with the unlabeled skylights on the roof story (above)?

Thanks
Marc

[Erika Epstein]

Marc,
Only parameters available in an object have the potential to be interactive. In the schedule I posted, I placed one each of all the types of skylights in the AC9 library. As you can see, not all skylights have interactive parameters and between them they vary as to what is available.

The other parameters would need to be filled in manually, or the object saved anew with the desired parameters added to the objects. I thought someone else posted this some time ago, but a quick search did not find it for me. Perhpas someone else remembers?

Like Mike, I don't have many skylights in my projects, and if all I have is the general sizes,and the roof slope, this is usually enough. All skylights tend to have the same glazing, curbs etc,. and/or these kinds of items can be handled with notes below the schedule.

I've posted a screenshot of the ' Fields' tab as requested

The SE library also still has limited parameters available for its skylights. Hopefully this will change/be corrected by AC10.
OK, so I'm a dreamer.

HTH,
Erika