Room Values Macro

[KilianDrafting]

Is there a custom macro that can pull information from multiple objects in a room. For instance, I would like to generate a list of all codes (under object information panel) on all doors and windows inside of one specific room, without creating a schedule or material list.

[Alaskan_Son]

Short answer is no.  There are no custom macros that will work like you're suggesting.  We're limited to the object attributes (name:value pairs) Chief gives us.  Rooms don't report any information about doors or windows contained within their boundaries, walls report a little information about opening area but none about specific windows/doors and the windows/doors themselves only report the name of whatever room(s) they belong to. 

[Joe_Carrick]

As Michael stated, there's no simple way to do this.  Theoretically it could be done using multiple macros but the cost of creating those macros would make it unrealistic.

 

 

[KilianDrafting]

Thank you both for weighing in. I thought since you can create a material list from a room, there might be some way to automate the info similarly.

[Alaskan_Son]

1 hour ago, KilianDrafting said:

Thank you both for weighing in. I thought since you can create a material list from a room, there might be some way to automate the info similarly.

 

You bet.  Just to be clear, there are ways to partially automate.  Just nothing OOB and nothing quite like what you've described.  If you're wiling to pay for a little of my consulting time, I could for example set up a custom system for you where you could select the desired objects and automatically generate some desired output from the selected objects.  Here's a simple example where I select the desired windows and in just a few seconds I have the displayed text box.  The text box isn't dynamic but all the tabulation and calculations are automatic:

 

The whole process for this one wall takes about 30 seconds...a little less if you don't get distracted by an incoming phone call.

[KilianDrafting]

Good to know. Let me gather a simple plan and some pics to clarify what I'm looking for, and get back to you.