Group of zones

[Tinou]

Hello, Was the issue of zone grouping solved in AC 26 ?

As far as I know it wasn't.

So I suppose millons of architects are waiting for this possibilitiy with AC, when they are like me projecting collective housing bildings.

Now I use zone numbers to collect all rooms of one flat in schedules. But I need a way to write the total area directly and automaticly on the plan wiew.

[thesleepofreason]

No. GS doesn't seem to consider higher level entities such as groups, systems and zones to be something worth developing - you can always use the IFC manager!

[Yves]

Hi,
A solution in this post by Mathias with python and a property

But not automatic we must restart the python script to update

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Developer-forum/PYTHON-Sum-area-script/td-p/371704

[Tinou]

Thanks (merci !)

This should be directly included in next AC !

[runxel]

In the German version we have the integrated "Wohnungsstempel" add-on (apartment stamp).

It kinda does what you want. But it is horrible and everybody hates it.

Then there is the great add-on by @bschwb.

But I agree that there should be a hierarchical order given in the system and something like this should be working out-of-the-box.

[KB-at-CWA]

ArchiCAD really should just replace the Zone tool with a "Space" tool that allows you to group Spaces together into Zones. This would align it with IFC standards. They could remove a lot of the junk that is in the Zone tool right now as well

[Jarrod Phillips]

Hi Tinou,

A good workaround for this is to use the selections palette. You can save a selection of zones and give it a name. Then, if you need to reselect the same zones again, you simply click on the saved selection in the palette. You can find it by clicking on Windows > Palettes > Selections.

Cheers!

Jarrod