hello, i’m working on a new project and want to use generate report to automate my window schedule and door schedules. I have each window + door as a separate component with a definition name. I have a generate report template created to output the definition name, Len Z, Len X and quantity. Since these components are on different levels of the model i have a separate scene where copies of each are laid out so I can select them in their entirety to generate the report (per a brilliant suggestion from DaveR awhile back).
I select the entities and generate the report however I have two issues:
1)Architectural is the selected units in the report but I get fractional inches as the output
2)some of the entities are outputting a LenX of “0”
Any idea as to why that might be? my model needs lots of clean up but as always I appreciate the feedback
you are confusing imperial vs metric; imperial architecture is feet and inches (i.e. 6’-0") imperial fractional would be just inches (instead of 6’-0" it would be 72")
ah i think i figured out why this might be; some of the components have been rotated 90 degrees from their origin point (the building has four facades facing each facing a direction) so that they all are co-planar in the window schedule scene. any work around to this limitation?
The Report Generator reports the lengths by the group/component axes. To get consistent results you would need to orient the object axes suitably If you want all of the lengths to end up in the LenX column you need to orient the red axis along the length for each object. That’s certainly doable but not especially convenient for other operations.
This axis orientation thing is why Report Generator doesn’t work for most of my needs. I use CutList 4.1 which takes the longest dimension of the bounding box as the length, shortest as thickness and the middle dimension as the width no matter which axis is the longest or shortest.
You could perhaps use one of the cutlist extensions and then delete the unneeded columns in a spreadsheet application so you get only what you need.
hmm thanks yet again Dave; I guess the other work around would be to select the components in the original location via outliner and generate a few reports…i have to cut and paste them into a bigger schedules spreadsheet anyway…any notion as to why architectural units don’t work?
I’m sorry. I don’t know why that is. It seems to me that it used to show Architectural units but I haven’t used it for a while so not sure when it might have changed. Maybe @colin has som inkling of when or why it changed.
Since the Generate report functionality depends on the Dynamic Components extension, it never displayed fractional units, only digital, if my memory serves me well…
@colin here’s a mode with just a cube; when i ran generate report it still was giving the output in fractional inches despite the setting being set to architectural report test.skp (120.5 KB)
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