Hello everyone!
I've been developing my template for ArchiCAD lately. The process is tedious and time consuming and often confusing. The whole goal of that template project is to adress as much routine parts of the design processes as possible.
My issue is that for a long time I've seen in Building Material's manager part where I can add Classification but never touched the subject. I've decided to start with insulation materials as a relatively simple and complex at the same time.
The idea was to create extended properties like additional thermal conduction values and other parameters as weight and so on. My naive approach was to make those variables automated. For instance Insulation slab has it's sizes hence based on that fact I could manually type in the data and automatically get the volume, mass, quantity, quantity of packages, cost estimations and so on.
Nothing works. I can't just assign those properties because label tool can't show that data. For instance, I have such properties as "Type of material", "Manufacturer" and "Model". I do the "Naming" property with CONCAT operation which is simple to begin with. Those properties are assigned via special class Stone insulations to a Building Material where I manually type in the data provided by manufacturer. This is example of simple use of string properties whereas I simple-heartedly thought I could derive more complex data.
Even simple Building Material ID are not available. I've explored forum and stumbled upon discussions concerning the BM ID topic alone. But as I figured out problem is bigger.
On a first glimpse it seems everything should go straightforward but I can't find a workaround how to show the data in labels and schedules.
Where did I get it all wrong? Is there viable solution?
Operating system used: Windows 10
