Exporting schedule data for use by other applications

[Stryker]

I have a schematic in Archicad 27 which I need to export so that it can be used by an internal application but I need to export it with a python sciprt or some addon. Can someone guide me? Attached is an image of what I need to export so that the idea is understood.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Is there a reason you cannot just use Publisher?  You can publish in a variety of formats including numeric data file.

[Stryker]

I'm just starting out, could you guide me with publisher?

[Karl Ottenstein · Accepted solution]

If you are just learning Archicad, Python is the absolutely LAST thing to learn/ask about 🙂

With your schedule displayed as in your screenshot, you can save it as a tab delimited data file or an Excel worksheet simply with File > Save As and selecting the desired format:

 

When you have many schedules that you want to export for use in external software, Publisher is more convenient as you can include in a publisher set every required schedule and one click will produce the output files.  This example has 2 schedules being published as Excel files: