Scheduling issue with duct fittings

[Anonymous]

I am trying to create a bill of materials using the scheduling feature in
ABS. I am using ABs 2005. I believe that I have everything set up
properly, but when I make the schedule I get ? in the size column for any
fittings that are in the drawing. All of the straight duct seems to work
fine with showing cut length and sizes, but when I go to check the fittings
it just has a "?" in place of the size. The other thing I would like to
show is the degree of the elbows and whether they are full/ half/ or mitred
radius elbows. I this a bug or am I missing somthing here. I added a
"description" column hoping that this would tell the degree of the elbows,
but all I get is "?" here as well. Any help with this issue would be very
much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Rob

[Anonymous]

Is the property set attached to all the duct fittings in the drawing? It's
possible that the ducts have the property set attached because it's done
automaticly when you use any of the tagging tools. If the fittings weren't
tagged, then they probably don't have a property set attached and thus can't
be scheduled.

Easiest things to do is perform a qselect on all the fittings in the
drawing, and then attach the property set using the Extended Data tab of the
property box.

-Chris

"Rob Ward" wrote in message
news:5066113@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am trying to create a bill of materials using the scheduling feature in
ABS. I am using ABs 2005. I believe that I have everything set up
properly, but when I make the schedule I get ? in the size column for any
fittings that are in the drawing. All of the straight duct seems to work
fine with showing cut length and sizes, but when I go to check the fittings
it just has a "?" in place of the size. The other thing I would like to
show is the degree of the elbows and whether they are full/ half/ or mitred
radius elbows. I this a bug or am I missing somthing here. I added a
"description" column hoping that this would tell the degree of the elbows,
but all I get is "?" here as well. Any help with this issue would be very
much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Rob

[Anonymous]

Chris,

Thank you for the repy, but that did not do the trick. I checked and all
the fittings the same property set applied to them as the regular duct.
That property set is set to read fittings and custom fittings along with
regular ductwork. Should I make one that is dedicated to the fittings and
assign that to them? Right now it shows the type of fitting, but no details
like the degree of the elbow. Is there a way to extract this information?
It is still not showing the size of the fitting. All I get is a "?" in that
column. Any other ideas? This is doable right? Thanks agian in advance,

-Rob

"Chris Shoemaker" wrote in message
news:5066135@discussion.autodesk.com...
Is the property set attached to all the duct fittings in the drawing? It's
possible that the ducts have the property set attached because it's done
automaticly when you use any of the tagging tools. If the fittings weren't
tagged, then they probably don't have a property set attached and thus can't
be scheduled.

Easiest things to do is perform a qselect on all the fittings in the
drawing, and then attach the property set using the Extended Data tab of the
property box.

-Chris

"Rob Ward" wrote in message
news:5066113@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am trying to create a bill of materials using the scheduling feature in
ABS. I am using ABs 2005. I believe that I have everything set up
properly, but when I make the schedule I get ? in the size column for any
fittings that are in the drawing. All of the straight duct seems to work
fine with showing cut length and sizes, but when I go to check the fittings
it just has a "?" in place of the size. The other thing I would like to
show is the degree of the elbows and whether they are full/ half/ or mitred
radius elbows. I this a bug or am I missing somthing here. I added a
"description" column hoping that this would tell the degree of the elbows,
but all I get is "?" here as well. Any help with this issue would be very
much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Rob