Interactive scheduling is at the heart of the BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow — schedules in Archicad are organized lists that extract and present information from the BIM model. Archicad 27 is enhanced with new and improved formatting o...
A new feature of ARCHICAD 22 helps to turn the raw data into meaningful and valuable information. The expression-based properties process model data with functions and operators to produce new information which was not available directly in ARCHICAD....
Archicad has two great features which can greatly help contractors with listing formwork quantities more precisely than ever – and faster too First we will dedicate a Surface to represent formwork materials, then list the surface areas. This has been...
From ARCHICAD 20 on the Interactive Schedule includes fields for graphic previews (2D and/or 3D) of any construction element ‐ not just Library Parts. The preview, a simplified thumbnail, is helpful in describing construction typologies within the pr...
Expression-based properties have been introduced as one of the main new features in ARCHICAD 22 to help designers in creating data-rich building models. Expressions process existing model data with functions and operators to create new information. F...
Zone area and volume calculations may seem to be tricky sometimes when you can’t track which areas are calculated exactly and how. In the following I will try to clarify the differences between the area types and why they may or may not show up when ...
Archicad 25 introduces new properties for more accurate component Lists. You could schedule only the net value of component areas and component volumes in earlier versions: the holes were always subtracted. As of AC25, new "gross" and "conditional" a...
Note: This article was originally published on AsiaBIM and was written for Archicad 19 mainly for architects working on the Singaporean market.It is a requirement in Singapore to produce and submit color coded floor plans with tabulation of walls tha...
This is to follow up the post earlier on Multiple Area Units in Zone Stamps and take the next step after converting the area units – it is going to be a very short one As you have seen in that post, we converted the area to a different unit than the ...
Archicad Schedules can only list existing elements by default, but we can use a bit of a trick to go around this behaviour and list what is not really there as well. This is needed sometimes when the user wants to create a schematic section for examp...
With the introduction of expressions in ARCHICAD 22 users can extract and manipulate information from the model. Follow the steps below to learn how automatically calculate the maximum number of occupants per zone and display it in the zone stamp. Cr...
ARCHICAD allows users to schedule their doors by zone. Please follow the steps below to learn how to setup a door schedule and how to change the zone a door belongs to. Create a Door Schedule In this example we will only be setting up a schedule that...
Affected versions: ARCHICAD 21 and older | Severity: workaround applicable | ID: 140886 Issue: If the first row(s) or column(s) of an Interactive Schedule display element previews (such as 2D Plan Preview, 2D Cross Section Preview, 3D Axonometry or a...
Invalid Quantity values when using Merge Uniform Items option Affected version: 20 | Severity: workaround applicable | ID: 213878 NOTE: This issue is fixed in the Update 5025. Issue When a Schedule is exported to Microsoft Excel (File > Interoperabil...
Interactive Schedules allow you to list the individual components of Composite and Complex Profile structures. When creating a new Interactive Schedule scheme, you can select whether the scheme should list information on Construction Elements, Compon...
In ARCHICAD listing/scheduling the Wall Surface is not possible if the Zone's body was modified with a Solid Element Operation. Until the correction is implemented there is a possible workaround. Basic idea Instead of the Zone we will list a Morph, c...
Affected version(s): 19, 20 | Severity: workaround applicable | ID: TT ID 215700 Issue Although the Layer Combination is active in a Schedule's View Settings, it doesn't take any effect on the listed items. Cause Layer Combinations are listed there o...
Known issues Incorrect results in the surface schedules if the composite of a wall is changed Affected version: 19,20 | Severity: workaround applicable | ID: 190411 Issue If the composite of a wall is changed in the Interactive Surface Schedule to an...
Issue If the Energy Evaluation Report is exported using the default .xlsx file format it becomes corrupted under certain circumstances. Files of the same format can also be corrupted when saved from an Interactive Schedule. The circumstances of this ...
In order to estimate the costs in a project please take the following steps. This example will calculate the individual and total costs of the four doors (two of which are identical) in the plan below. Step 1: Set Cost Values for Elements in the Proj...
