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Thank you guys for all your useful comments! Indeed the amount is incorrect just on the component panel, in the material list it is reported according to the real size of the room. Thank you again.

Thank you for your answer ! According to my understanding, the 0.9 cu m comes from: 9 * 0.1 = 0.9 cu m, as the floor structure is 100 mm thick. With the real room size that should be 11.25*0.1 = 1.125 cu m. So I think if I could get CA to using the correct room size, the value in the count row would be correct as well.

Hi everyone! I need some help solving a material list related issue again Recently I noticed, that in all of the rooms component panels the room area is incorrect. It is always 9 sq m regardless of the room real size. And there is a blue waring as well in the components panel, suggesting the same. Therefore all the materials quantities of the floor structure is miscalculated and appear with this bad value in the material list. In the example below, the room is ~ 12 sq m, and not 9 sq m as the blue notification sas so. If I put the "%room.area.internal%" macro in a "Leader line" text box, it shows the correct value. Does anyone know what I'm missing here? How can I get the components to use the correct size? Thank you very much ! Adam

Thank you very much all your grate answers, that helped a lot, now it works !

Hello everyone. I'm a bit confused about how the "components" tab works in CA at the Specification panels, and I can't find a clear description of it either on the forum or in the CA Help. Could someone help me understand it? My problem and my desired outcome is the following: I have to design a French drain system around a slab. I want to put into the material list the pipes, the gravel around the pipes and the geotextile fabric around the gravel. The slab is quite big and has a complex shape, so I wanted to rely on the material list calculation rather then recalculation it by hand each time the plan is modified. My idea was to use a polyline solid () for representing the gravel, and use its surface to represent the geotextile fabric. The quantity of gravel should be calculated based on the volume, and the area of the geotextile should be calculated based on the surface area of the cube. Maybe this is not the right approach, but I couldn't find a better solution. When I assign the gravel material to the cube, I automatically get a component that is calculated based on the volume. However, if I add another component to symbolize the geotextile, I can't use any macros for its surface area. I tried using "= automatic_count" but it always returns 1. If I create a macro in the CAD -> Text -> Text Macro Management window, it always throws an "Evaluation error" message. What determines the value returned by "= automatic_count"? And why can't I use it in a second component? Thank you very much !

Hi Chopsaw, There was an issue with that intersection indeed, I moved the 'Room divider' a little bit further and the strange ceiling disappeared. Thanks you!

Hi Everyone! I'm quite new in CA. Recently I run into a problem, and I can't figure out what causes this strange ceiling behavior. I have a balcony and a deck and and one room underneath it. The deck has a ceiling, but a small piece sticks out in one corner (I attached two pictures). Can anyone help meg to get rid of this unwanted ceiling piece. Thank you