Drywall Schedule

[LisasCustom]

I am having trouble getting a drywall/wall board schedule set up. I found the information I am needing to display on the material list however I cannot find how to get that information into a schedule. 

[Chrisb222]

21 hours ago, LisasCustom said:

I found the information I am needing to display on the material list however I cannot find how to get that information into a schedule. 

 

It requires a custom macro, custom schedule, and some initial setup in your wall definitions. Can be done but a little beyond the scope of free assistance for most.

 

If you don't know how to do it, several people here offer custom work for hire, maybe post in Seeking Services if no one volunteers:

 

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/15-seeking-services/

[Chrisb222]

3 hours ago, marktuan said:

does the drywall quantity come directly from the wall type definition (e.g., gypsum board layer thickness and area), or are you assigning custom attributes to each wall type?

 

Drywall area, sheet count, thickness, type* all can be captured from the wall object properties. But you can't get that into a schedule without ruby macros, as far as I know.

 

*An actual "type" property doesn't exist. To define different Types (eg standard, fire code, green board, etc) you would create separate materials for those, and identify them in the Material Name field, which is a property.

 

3 hours ago, marktuan said:

Has anyone found a way to leverage the existing Material List calculations and expose those values in a schedule without writing extensive Ruby macros?

 

Not that I'm aware.

 

[Dermot]

@Chrisb222  Just an FYI, marktuan's post that you quoted above contained a hidden link so it was reported as spam and removed.