Archicad Tutorial #76: Schedules and Archicad Properties (Archicad 24)
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Schedules are such a huge topic in Archicad, especially if you expand that to include a discussion of Archicad Properties and Classifications. As a result this video is extensive but not exhaustive. If this topic is of interest to people, I'm happy to record more videos about schedules and properties.
Below are time codes for the different topics.
00:38 Schedule Display
01:38 Scheme Settings (Critera)
04:15 Scheme Settings (Fields)
07:44 Editing Schedule Items
08:10 Archicad Properties and Classifications
09:05 Showing Elements in Schedules
09:48 Toilets in Window Schedules
10:55 Property Manager and Operation Type (Archicad Property)
12:24 Interior Door Schedules (to/from Zones)
15:23 Fill Schedules
15:40 Rounding w/ Dimension Styles and Project Preferences
17:10 Use the Shoegnome Open Template for Archicad!
17:20 Miscellaneous Schedules, including Room Schedules, Appliance Schedules, Lighting Schedules (same criteria, different data/schedules)
18:50 Window Types Schedules (Don't use Custom Text 1-10 fields!)
20:30 Thank you and serious download the Shoegnome Open Template for Archicad to play with everything shown above.
This video was made using the Shoegnome Open Template v24.3. To download the template, go here:
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Here's a link to the original blog post this video is from:
www.shoegnome.com/2021/05/27/e...
Gotta remember to schedule all my "window-toilets"! :) Great info as always. Thanks for putting this together.
Tracking window toilets is key to a successful project.
Awesome vid as always 👍🏼 I was searching CZcams for scheduling videos last week and glad you made this as it goes over things others don’t. Thank you!
Hi Jared - very nice presentation!
One of the issues that I have with the property values - since Archicad 20, I believe... is that I can't get the sum of the property values in one row of my schedule.
I've attached below a snapshot as a reference - using the " No. of bricks to purchase [pcs]" - a property that is offered as default in the Archicad template let's say.
So basically - I've created one wall, then I've created a copy of it - and on the schedule, I've used the merge option and I was hoping to see just one row with the sum of the pieces of brick.
But actually, it does give me one row but contains the value of the pieces of bricks from one wall and the sum of them in a separate row, which is actually visible, because I've checked the sum button.
With that said - it means that if I have 57 different walls in my project, the Archicad schedule will provide 57 rows, and each row will show the value of the bricks pieces of that specific wall, and then at the end - I will see the Sum of the bricks pieces. This is something that I am trying to avoid because this will end with a lot of pages to provide to the client if it makes sense.
Am I missing something? Is there a setting that I missed?
At this point, I can achieve what I need, via the Archicad list tool and using property objects, but I was hoping to work for the schedules with the new property tool.
I thought that I can insert the snapshot here - but it doesn't work, unfortunately...
Yeah summing things with Schedules isn't great. The best I can recommend is to export the schedule to Excel and finish the math/calcs there. :(
@@Shoegnome thank you for your response Jared!
Sorry to be so slow in responding. CZcams stopped sending me notifications. Just realized that today.
Thank you Gerald, question can you show to different window joined as one on the schedule? say like if have a fixed window on next to a top-hung looking like it one window on my elevation, is there a way of showing both as one? Thank again for all of these lessons.
It's Jared, not Gerald. At the start of the video I briefly touch on using an Archicad Property (Ganging Unit) to structure the schedule such that ganged units are shown together under a headline A, B, C..., or not ganged. That's the best I could come up with to organize a schedule to show multiple elements belong together. If you go with this Ganged Unit solution, on the elevation show both the window ID (W101 or W304 or whatever) plus another label showing the Ganged unit (Ganged Unit A or B or ...). Both the ID and ganged unit label can be linked and automated, so once the file is set up for this, it's easy to use and manage.
That was great thank you. Question: How can we quantify glasses? When I use surfaces schedules with exposed area, it counts the surface glass more times than I need.
That's a good question. With all material quantities, its best to do a number of tests to validate archicad is giving you the proper info. You might need to pick a different property/quantity. If that doesn't work and you can figure out the factor archicad is using (2x or 3x), you could create an expression that takes that information and divides it by the factor to get the accurate number. Your question gets to the core of using BIM for quantity take offs: how do you validate and confirm that the data you are getting is correct. There's really no shortcut to testing and comparing to a manual calculation.
@@Shoegnome Thank you for the answer Jared, I was practising this time with schedules so I realized some things: When I use Schedules by surfaces, it seems that properties that I customize for an element in order to discriminate elements... don't apply for the surfaces of the element (it was sorted as the property doesn't exist)... also I can't add the parameter "exposed area" in an expression because it seems that only appears in the schedule by surfaces. (It is possible that I used it badly)
So, I resolved the original problem using schedule by element and taking a parameter "Área acristalada total" (in spanish) of the library item of the door and window (I didn't detail this in my first comment) and it's that I wanted but I thought that if I would like to take the cost of that crystal... I can´t add this parameter in an expression because this last can't afford item library parameters inside. Then I also realized that I can't add a parameter of a library item in a label either jeje.
Well, that was my experience.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Jared, quick question. Is there a way to do mathematical operations in zones that can be generate in schedules? For example (Proposed GFA / Site Area) is that possible? Thanks.
If the mathematical operation can be constructed as an expression in an Archicad Property, then yes. The two caveats are: 1) the math can only effect one element at a time (ie, it can't pull data from multiple elements) and 2) this assumes the data you want to do math on is available to be used in an expression. I haven't done much with expressions in Archicad and don't know off hand what Zone related data is available-hence the kind of vague response. BUT f you are looking to do something like occupancy load or taking a percentage of square footage in a particular zone, then yeah that should/is doable.
If you are just looking to add a bunch of areas or numbers from different Zones, that's also very doable in a schedule (as described in the video above). Addition is the only thing that can be done across multiple elements in a schedule.
can we make an schedule with addition and subtraction of quantities or area to get the desired total?
Unfortunately not. All the calculations available, other than simple sums as show in the video, use expressions and only relate to individual elements. If you need to do complex math of quantities from multiple elements, your best bet is to export to a spreadsheet program.
@@Shoegnome thank you for your quick reply, and also thank you for your open template it helped me alot. keep up the good work💯
Thanks! Glad my videos and the template have been helpful.