ARCHICAD Tip: Quantifying Composite Structures

[Music] [Music] everyone we are back with another short tutorial this time on producing takeoff values from composite structures now I love working with composite structures because they give us so much ability to be able to run reports based off two different layers that make up a either a wall or a slab or a roof or a shell so it's just a really powerful feature of ArchiCAD because we're actually just listing real building materials here to make up these assemblies and we have a lot of ability within ArchiCAD to list those materials independently on different reports if we so choose to do so so in this tutorial I've set up just a single wall and a slab obviously they're both composite structures and I just want to kind of walk through two different methods for producing reports similarly to what we did with our complex profiles and what I've set up here is just a simple elemental base report in a component based report and we'll go through and kind of play with some of the takeoffs and talked about how we can really dial these in for our purposes so all right let's go to our 2d floor plan here and let's simply just start by looking at our wall so once again we will do a selection here in 2d and we will right click over here on our lists floor plan selection only and so this way we're just taking that single element and showing it on to our specific report that we have set up so ok we can see here we have a length of 10 feet we have a surface area of a hundred so that means our wall is probably 10 feet tall and we have a projected area of thirteen point seven five as our areas so if we take a look at that back here in 2d and we just simply kind of click around we can see that our area there is thirteen point seven five and so that is just the projection of the wall let's do a similar take off with our slobs here so we'll grab that single slab we can see our surface area is exactly the same for both scenarios there is no 3d length relating to a slab so okay so that's elemental based reporting which is noted in this schedule grouping here but let's see the same thing now in our component base report so we'll list the floor plan selection only and okay so this looks very similar here but one thing that you may notice is we actually have a much let's see our surface area here is 600 now why is that well it's because we have different components listed here our three length is 60 feet when we know it was just 10 feet so what's going on here we can see we have this quantity as 6 let's uncheck our merge uniform items and it looks like now we have six different walls that are producing exactly the same takeoff well this doesn't really do us much good because we can't really tell what these items are so let's actually go into our scheme settings and with a component base report we can actually go in and add individual fields for our building materials and so this is a great time to list an ID and a name and so with these two we can pull this up here to the top we can now start adding these to our schedule and we can start seeing what these different components means so I'm actually going to turn off our element ID and our layer we don't really need those and let's just look specifically at our building materials so we have masonry non structural structural airspace insulation we have all these different components that are being listed from our single which is awesome so that makes these values here start to make a lot more sense and same with our surface area takeoffs and right now we can see our projected and our surface area is exactly the same so we can add a little bit more detail here we can go in and we can actually list in our components we can actually list our skin thickness which would probably be a very nice one to have as well as our volumes so we can start pulling through some additional values here that will really just kind of help us understand what the dimensions are of these individual layers so we can see that we have these takeoff values here and yeah we can actually get an idea of what the breakdown is so if we change our takeoff method here by going into our view settings and we just set this back to saying like oh I don't know like a floor plan I think that will set us back to you feet in inches so no that's still on our regular but that's okay so now we can see that we are getting these individual components and so if we went back and tried to list the same thing back on our elemental base report we can list our floor plan but when we try to actually add in say those building materials to break this out again it's not necessarily going to work the same way we can actually go to our building materials and we can try listing all of them and what this will do is it's just going to list them all in a single value here or single listing and if we wrap the text we can see that there's all the building materials but we can't break them out in this type of report so elemental base reports keep them all together into one line item what's nice though is this is giving us a nice clean surface area but what it's not allowing us to do is to break out the end of dual components so once again let's go back list this onto our component based report and here once again we can see all of our different takeoff values here so next step here is let's add a little bit of complexity to this by actually just taking this and we'll just bend it and let's see what that does to our takeoff value because now our drywall should be longer our brick is certainly shorter in comparison so let's go back and see how that impacts our takeoff so we'll list that on the floor plan and okay so now our lengths well our reference length here is all still the same our surface area is all being shown as 99 now instead of a hundred so that actually went down but our component skin area projection has definitely gone up here for say our gypsum board and it's compared to our masonry non-structural we can see that there is almost you know 13 square feet of difference between those two and so now we can really tell that this is giving us a much better takeoff value for these individual components which is which is awesome so we can really break those down and get a much more detailed level out of those individual elements there so if we wanted to we could even start throwing in some additional criteria here to really start limiting down what we see on our report so if we throw in a criteria of the building materials say just for our masonry structural then when we go back here we can just isolate just that single projected component skin area and get a nice takeoff value which is almost you know 10 feet more than our surface area based off the the old method so this is some pretty powerful stuff allows us to really go in and when we're using these different composite structures allows us to really isolate and pull out individual building materials so once again we can just continue to build on this we can add in our non-structural we can do an or here and list both of those so or if we want to bring back everything we just remove those and we can bring back everything that's part of that assembly so similarly we can do the exact same thing with our slabs we can actually list them both at the same time so there's all of our components of our slab with our projected skin area and our different thicknesses and then same thing with our wall so when we start bringing these together so let's take this into a 3d here and say we want to set our wall maybe like this then we can see this will actually start going through and based on the priorities of these elements it'll start kind of breaking down and cutting our different model layers there so if we isolate we can see that we're just trimming off a little bit of that a metal framing with the drywall let's go back to here let's look at this one and we can see that we're really starting to peel away the different layers there of our slabs so looks like our length here was not fully there I wonder why that was can we get that to clean up should be able to yeah I think it was just a slight little hair there okay so we go back now to our component skin areas we list these and based off these priorities it should really start breaking things up so here we can see with our slab we have our concrete structural which is the full projected area we have our stone gravel but we can see here we're starting to remove our flooring our OSB and our pressure-treated is the same same thing here with our walls so we're pulling we're reducing our non structural and gypsum board based off those intersections so that's pretty awesome and this is just you know kind of the tip of the iceberg in terms of archicad's power with these different priority intersections and yeah it's definitely fun to play around with these and get these set up and you know check out where the priorities lie and so that way we can really start going in and you know dialing in our quantity takeoffs so okay so that's a quick little tutorial on how to produce takeoffs with our component or sorry composite structures if we want to simply just have more of a basic takeoff then we can certainly use still our elemental base report which is going to just keep this much more simplified based off the the overall projections for surface areas and if we want to break things down into different layers then that's again a perfect opportunity to use our component based report and we can determine different projected skin areas automatically based off those priorities so okay I hope you enjoyed this video if you have any questions as always leave it in the comments section and I will catch you on another video here soon you

Channel: CONTRABIM

Views: 19,138

Keywords: Composite Structures, Quantifications, ARCHICAD

Id: -xURlH8REDY

Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020