dskogg Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Anyone know how to get the area of back splash in the material list? Right now it just shows length, kind of useless if you dont have the height. Looks like a formula required? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 17, 2019 Author Share Posted April 17, 2019 Eric, i opened up my cabinet materials and opened backsplash and the material is set to area, ca doesnt report it this way? What am i missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 David, Is this a custom backsplash or the automatic backsplash with the cabinet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 Hi joe, automatic splash, I figured out I could click in field and select item in the extra column of material list and then select the length*6( height in inches)/ 12.. it produces the sq ft of splash but since ca returns linear ft as the standard you can’t select sq ft only ft in the drop down. i was trying to show the room name where each counter is in but ca doesn’t have that as an option to show in material list. It looks like I need to make a custom macro for room name.. is it just (macros.roomname%)and add it to a field in the cabinet component of countertop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefPlagman Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 You could enter = backsplash_length * cabinet.backsplash_height / 144 after choosing "Apply Formula to Source Object" in the Count column. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 8 hours ago, ChiefPlagman said: You could enter = backsplash_length * cabinet.backsplash_height / 144 after choosing "Apply Formula to Source Object" in the Count column. Thanks for this, how do you know what code to write? Is there a list of items to reference? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefPlagman Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 The "Insert Macro" button in the cell editor offers a subset of available items when "Apply Formula to Source Object" is selected, including backsplash_length under the menu "Object Specific". For the backsplash row, there is a second menu called "Parent Object", which in this case refers to the cabinet itself. Items in that menu are prefixed with "cabinet." when they are entered into the cell (you may notice "cabinet" is also listed under the "Object Specific" menu. That means any property of the cabinet is available in that cell as long as it is prefixed with "cabinet."). Ideally, backsplash_height would show up there, but we're currently displaying a limited set of properties in that menu for usability reasons. If we listed everything, certain objects would cause the menu to grow very large. We're working on improving that UI. At the moment, there are two ways to see the complete list of properties (a.k.a "name-value pairs") for an object. 1. When you have an object selected in a view, open the Ruby Console and enter "owner.names.sort". 2. Use a User-Defined Text Macro, such as %object_properties%. Anything listed there for a cabinet is available in the material list. As a side note, name-value pairs that return numbers are either unitless, inches/millimeters, square feet/square meters, or cubic feet/cubic meters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 Thanks.. I am going to dig in and see what’s available. of note the values that return numbers will not allow the user to select a unit type sometimes.. ie I did a backplash area calc but there was no sq ft unit to select.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 6 hours ago, ChiefPlagman said: The "Insert Macro" button in the cell editor offers a subset of available items when "Apply Formula to Source Object" is selected, including backsplash_length under the menu "Object Specific". For the backsplash row, there is a second menu called "Parent Object", which in this case refers to the cabinet itself. Items in that menu are prefixed with "cabinet." when they are entered into the cell (you may notice "cabinet" is also listed under the "Object Specific" menu. That means any property of the cabinet is available in that cell as long as it is prefixed with "cabinet."). Ideally, backsplash_height would show up there, but we're currently displaying a limited set of properties in that menu for usability reasons. If we listed everything, certain objects would cause the menu to grow very large. We're working on improving that UI. At the moment, there are two ways to see the complete list of properties (a.k.a "name-value pairs") for an object. 1. When you have an object selected in a view, open the Ruby Console and enter "owner.names.sort". 2. Use a User-Defined Text Macro, such as %object_properties%. Anything listed there for a cabinet is available in the material list. As a side note, name-value pairs that return numbers are either unitless, inches/millimeters, square feet/square meters, or cubic feet/cubic meters. I dont see in the list of named pairs drawer width, drawer depth, door width, door height...are these listed somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefPlagman Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 The list of units is limited whenever the Count column formula hasn't been edited. I don't think we currently have name-value pairs for drawer/door dimensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 Just now, ChiefPlagman said: The list of units is limited whenever the Count column formula hasn't been edited. I don't think we currently have name-value pairs for drawer/door dimensions. but how do you return sizing, it shows in the components? If i wanted to do a calculation for plywood material for a drawer could i do this now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskogg Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 How would one report the room the counter is in on the material list next to counter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefPlagman Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 You can obtain the full text shown in the Size column with "=formatted_size", but that text is computed from the dimensions when the material list is generated. We don't currently expose the individual dimensions themselves. For the room, you could use =cabinet.room.name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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