Paint calculations

[JiAngelo]

Is there a way to determine the wall areas of each room, less doors and windows, and to create a schedule that shows the total wall areas of each paint color?  The material list doesn't show the paint colors.  The room finish schedule shows the paint, but not the net wall surface area.

[Joe_Carrick]

Do your wall types include a "Paint Layer" ?

[robdyck]

One of the cleanest ways I can quickly come up with is to add wall coverings to rooms. Of course, the wall covering height and elevation needs to be specified manually. Follow this by editing the component for the wall covering (I chose ID: General and Accounting Code: 5300 - Painting Interior).

Then, create a materials list polyline on a per room room basis or apply the wall covering to as many rooms as needed.

Keep in mind that Rooms don't report to the materials list, so if multiple rooms are included in the mat. list, you can't really identify the source of each paint material, unless you can figure out a macro to place in one of the available component fields that will report the name (I haven't figured that out). Of course, you can manually enter the room name in one of the available fields.

 

But, this will allow you to create a material list for that category only by choosing which columns to include.

Edited 3 hours ago by robdyck

[JiAngelo]

Thanks for the responses.  I created the paint layer 1/8" thick on both sides of my interior walls and interior side of the exterior walls, using SW 7524. 

In my test plan I created (4) interior rooms that are 10x10 each with various windows and doors.  The (4) rooms x 40lf perimeter x 9ft wall height = 1440 and the program calculates 1147.51, so Chief is subtracting the windows and doors..     

 

But when I changed the color in each room to a different SW color, the material list remains counting only SW7524, the material list  ignores the presence of SW6185 & SW9136, for example.  When I open the wall specification dbx, Materials shows the correct interior color under "Materials"

 

But the Components is still reporting the default SW7524.

 

It occurs to me I was having this same trouble using siding layer on exterior walls, coloring it a different type of siding changes the view in 3D but didn't update the material lists correctly.  I had to create duplicate wall types that had different default siding colors or styles - This wasn't that big of a deal, we generally only have two or three siding materials on a home, but on interior walls, we are coloring two sides of the same wall in different colors as it spans across multiple rooms.  My problem today is I have a client that wants to use 9 colors throughout their home and my painters want a calculation by color of the amount of area they are painting to determine pricing.

 

I also noticed the Room Specification DBX has the same problem.  Materials shows the walls correct color.

But the Components shows nothing regarding the walls, only the Drywall, and it shows the ceiling, which has Drywall named Color-White.

Also the base molding = 40ft means it doesn't subtract for the (2) doors in this room.

.

   

I've attached the test plan file, in X16 format.

PaintColors.plan

[Joe_Carrick]

Sounds like a bug.  But in reality it's reporting the wall layer's material, not the room's material.

What happens if you edit the wall layer?