brian-sdesign 5 Posted December 20, 2016 Is there any helpful tools I can use to get wall and fenestration areas for use in rescheck? I've only come across per room articles. What I'm after is exterior wall total surface area and total window surface area, and door also. I typically do it by hand but curious if chief can help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrownTiger 91 Posted December 20, 2016 ChiefArchitect support export for rescheck. So really all you have to do is File / Export / to REScheck and create rxl file. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glennw 1030 Posted December 21, 2016 If you still want those areas independent of REScheck, you can get them from the Material List: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brian-sdesign 5 Posted December 21, 2016 Holy cow, I just tried the export and that is brilliant! I wish I had someway to have the walls labelled so I could verify everything is coming through correct easier. Thanks for the quick responses. You guys are great. I'm almost getting dangerous at Chief! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GerryT 49 Posted December 21, 2016 1. Turn on Wall labels 2. Select wall and open DBX 3. select label tab than "specify label" 4. select in "object_specific" -- %wall_id% Do this for each wall or select all together Wall ID will be the same as in Recheck XML file 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DRAWZILLA 784 Posted December 21, 2016 really wish it worked for California but it dosen't Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard_Morrison 447 Posted December 22, 2016 11 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said: really wish it worked for California but it dosen't You can use it to get square footages for the envelope, so it can save some little tedious calculations. Only issue is that Calfornia works with gross square footages for the wall areas, so you need to add the window areas back into the wall areas before deducting them again. It would be great if California could use the energy program that the rest of the country uses, but we're too special for that, I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites