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On 11/18/2023 at 5:35 PM, GeneDavis said:

Write up a suggestion and take care to itemize each element you want included.

 

Examples:  window casings, door casings, base moldings, roof fascia.  There are others.

Thanks, Gene. Would you know if I should post that itemization somewhere for CA team to see or send it in somewhere?

On 11/20/2023 at 6:16 AM, Chrisb222 said:

 

Of course, that math could also be done easily with a calculator, but this way will be dynamic and update as the plan changes.

 

However, you can also set this up in your template plan so the Material List reports this way automatically with each new plan. Create a room, open it and go into the Components panel for the room, and change the count formula for your standard moldings there, then save as a new template. You have to save out your template with the room intact; if you delete the room, the formula won't carry forward. But once you open a new plan from the template, you can delete that room and start over, and the formula will stick:

 

 

 

This will only work for one specific length so obviously, if you want to buy all 8' pieces, divide by 8. Here, we use only 16' lengths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the response, you are right that the math you shared does "work". The practice in real life is to minimize cuts - meaning we don't want to put multiple pieces together. We want 1 piece at 12' for a wall vs 12 pieces at 1'.

One room is easy enough to figure out, but putting a takeoff together for a entire house is when having CA do the math / logic work would be most excellent. There are plenty of tools out there that do this type of calculation - including CA with structural member reporting, so it seems like this is simply a missing feature in CA at this time.

Hi All and Happy Friday!

How can I make a materials list (buy / cut / lf) that provides the same type of information found in the Structural Member Reporting? In this example from the materials list, while the LF info is nice, what I really want to know is how many 8' or 16' pieces of trim I need to purchase. We seem to be able to do that with Structural Member Reporting, but not anything else.

I imagine there is a solution(s) out there, I haven't found one.

Thanks!!

Shawn

2 hours ago, DBCooper said:

As far as I know, you can't dimension to internal cabinet shelves. You can do a view to cad detail or you could add some cad lines, but that won't be "live".

 

You can dimension to cabinet openings though.  Just give your cabinet 3 openings (including the one at the bottom) and then you can dimension to them.  You won't be able to adjust the depth of the separations between the openings like you can with shelves but this probably doesn't matter for any elevation views.  The picture below is an actual elevation view with live dimensions.

 

Excellent, thank you. If the measurements update as changes to the cabinet are made, that is exactly what I'm looking for. I've tried what you shared and I'll have to mess around with my settings and preferences later because right now all my measurements are going to the centerline of the opening vs inside to inside like your example. I reset everything to factory thinking I messed something up before I knew anything. I now know a little more than nothing

26 minutes ago, stephenbc said:

I simply create a CAD view and dimension everything there.  It's certainly a bit of trial and error as sometimes you have to scrap what you've done, change something in the cabinet, then recreate the CAD section and dimension from there.  The lack of a dynamic link makes this process quite tedious, but I've learned that when I get to about 80-100% of what I want, all further edits are made in the CAD view, saved and updated as needed.

Thank you, I was hoping I was overlooking a dynamic solution, but I guess I'll stick with the approach you have also been using.

Help!

New user here. I'm looking for a dynamic elevation view on cabinets that include shelving dimensions. PDF and Plan example attached.

My client has been able to provide the dimensions and layout that they are looking for, however I'm unable to recreate the elevation view in the same style they provided. I've searched the reference manual, knowledge base, youtube, and this forum, and don't seem to be finding a good solution for an Elevation view.

Seems like a basic thing, however I've spent too much time. Time to call in some experts, you!

Thanks for any help!

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CabinetShelvingElevationSample.pdf CabinetShelvingElevationSample.plan