Material Takeoff Question Again..Please HELP!

[bmwm3owner]

Well, I am still stumped. I have a material takeoff set up for all of my wall materials. I want to set it up so that it gives me the total sq. ftg of each type of wall materials used. The problem is this: If I have more than one wall with the same material types, the material in the list then does not show the total sq. ftg. of that material. If I just draw one wall, then it will report the total of each material. In the end, I just want a list of all the materials and the total sq. ftg of each. I do not want an itemized list because it becomes too long. Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Have you tried to uncheck the "itemize every instance" checkbox in the
properties of the take-off schedule?

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Well, I am still stumped. I have a material takeoff set up for all of my
wall materials. I want to set it up so that it gives me the total sq. ftg of
each type of wall materials used. The problem is this: If I have more than
one wall with the same material types, the material in the list then does
not show the total sq. ftg. of that material. If I just draw one wall, then
it will report the total of each material. In the end, I just want a list of
all the materials and the total sq. ftg of each. I do not want an itemized
list because it becomes too long. Any ideas?

[bmwm3owner]

Yes. I have tried all sorts of things. I cannot get this to add up the total of each type of material. As soon as I have another wall with the same material, then the area for that material disappears. It I check "Itemize every instance" then I see all of the areas for the materials, but I don't want 100 GWB. I just want one total GWB (all 100 of them added up)
Any ideas?

[gcrawfordaia]

Under the 'Formatting' tab in the Schedule Properties do you have the "calculate totals" button checked for the appropriate field?
This seems to work for me.

Glenn