Autotext Labels to display Building Material/BM Properties of a single skin of a Composite

gdford
Advisor

I know I post this every 6 months, but I am really trying to make a point.

I am sure this is a difficult challenge, but we really need to be able to place an autotext label on a single skin of a composite wall in plan and sections so that we can:

1)  call out exactly the building material is for a "single" selected skin of the composite

2)  be able to drill down with autotext to custom building material properties for the selected skin.

 

Moderator 2024-06-11: To better express the exact wish, I have modified the title of the topic from:

BIM BIM BIM - composite skins are so un-bim!

to the following:

Autotext Labels to display Building Material/BM Properties of a single skin of a Composite

14 Comments
Ruben V
Advocate

We recently created a label for a client, allowing them to display Building Material properties (ID, Description, Name) of the 'contents' of a composite - in a Detail. The label is associated with the (building material) fills in the 2D Details, derived from the 3D model. Some improvement to be added (scaling text for example...), but very "BIM" as the contents of the label do update when a Composite definition or Building Material definition is altered...

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James B
Graphisoft
Graphisoft
Status changed to: On hold

Thanks for the feedback and input into this area.

This is the direction we'd like to go, but have many technical challenges to get there. For example, accessing existing building material properties for basic single skin elements, or expanding data to more attributes.

I've moved this to 'on hold', but will continue to invest into this area,

Tim Ball
Expert

There are a couple of users who seem to be making progress on this. Why not collaborate with them?

James B
Graphisoft
Graphisoft

Hi @Tim Ball , GDL can read the skins but only via the composite, not at the point where the label is explicitly pointed at (label can only attach to an element). This is where we plan to go for sure, to allow labels to exactly point to a skin or surface, and in turn read the data.

Status
On hold

with 77 Votes

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