Calculations and formulas in Schedules

[Erik Bjornhage]

So, this is perhaps a bump from previous topics but the full functionality has not yet been solved.

My wish is for spreadsheet style calculations in Schedules.

As a simple example:

A big residential project - with a number of different apartment types (1 bed, 2 bed, 3 bed etc.) which is of course a part of a total number of apartments. Currently we cannot list these apartments and have the schedule display their repective percentages in relation to the total. This would be extremely beneficial to general project management and how and what we can deliver to clients.

[Gonzalo]

First of all, it's very interesting to see others involved in this topic and the solutions they've come up with. One method I've been exploring to have properties that come from an external source or can be the result of a mathematical operation is through tAPIr and Grasshopper. With these tools, you can input data into Archicad properties without having to do it manually, but it involves using Rhino and Grasshopper to achieve it.

I've been able to talk with several people interested in this topic, and the community behind this API and its development is very active on Discord. Some of us have further explored the use of Python and C++ within Archicad, but almost everyone concludes that developing an object with GDL to supplement what Archicad can't do is the way to go. In this case, it requires many hours of planning for a long workaround to achieve something very simple.

https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/tapir

[Pato99]

@Gonzalo I don't know how you're using tAPIr currently. 

This is what it should look like 

And this is what it is now in AC 28

It's still in very heavy development. 

I was using it for a short while but since GS has dropped support for Rhino 6 in AC 28 I'm sort of back to square one needing new functionality for the default GH plugin but old functionality of the tAPIr plugin.