Walls type schedule

[silvermat]

Hello everyone!
I am looking for the best way to create a schedule/legend with all types of walls I use in the project (or only for selected ones).
My goal is to create a table with ID, 2D view, and multiline custom text where I can write materials with detailed information about them.

I usually make it in the model on the lowest level, but I want to remove everything that is not my building from my model.
I moved the rest of my legends into Independent 2D view, but it doesn't work with walls.
There is an example of what I want to get (or something close to it)

Operating system used: Windows

[Rastko Pecar]

Hi,  @dfks,

everything is done in the model in order to minimize switching btw model and layout view which can be annoying.

You need two things: a dedicated design option where you put your slabs, roofs and walls and a dedicated section placed outside of your working area.

You need the dedicated design option because you want to exclude this model elements from your quantity schedules. You can also place them in a dedicated renovation status. You could also have them in your model and exclude them from quantity schedule via custom property and schedule criteria, which takes more work than exclusion via design options/renovation status where exclusion is achieved on the level of schedule view settings which is easier.

I recommend placing the dedicated section somewhere in where you wont be doing any modeling. My template is set up in such a manner that our projects always start near the origin point and are always modeled to the right & up, never to the left&down. I have my dedicated section placed 10 meters to the left of origin point and my model elements. Think twice (or more) where you put the section in your template because you don't want to rearrange later because it gets messy.

I choose to work in sections, because the walls will be vertical and slabs horizontal on paper. Just make sure you do the section settings so that level lines and other similar things are turned off and that the model elements used for this purpose are unlinked from stories. This way they will stay on the same place if story settings are changed project to project.

Another thing to keep in mind is that when you will be arranging the composite thumbnail (model element) and specification text (labels, keynotes, static text) keep in mind that labels associated with model elements move together with the element but not the other way around. So first arrange the thumbnails so that they fit on page and then micro adjust the labels, keynotes and headings.

all the best!

[Davor P]

https://smart.macinteract.com/wall-schedule-label/
You still need to place the wall as element somewhere, and then label is the table with all info around the wall.

Another way that I started working on is to create the wall types schedule with a GDL object. Problem is that you can't get information about composites directly from Archicad with request commands. A way around this is to export a list of walltypes via a schedule to a list (.csv) file, then read that csv with GDL and recreate the composites. Once you have this GDL allows to format output however you want.