topic Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly in Revit Architecture Forum

Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:43:15 GMT

Working in Revit 2021:

I am trying to use the material takeoff schedule tool to create a construction assembly for each wall type. I have most of it working, but noticed that multiples of materials in the assembly are only showing up once. See screenshot:

I have the "Itemize Every Instance" box checked in the sorting/grouping window, but that does not seem to make a difference:

The only workaround I have been able to come up with is to make a new material for where I have double layers in the assembly and use the comment section to describe the intent, but this does not solve when I have separate layers of the same material (on either side of a typ stud gwb for instance only one layer of gwb shows up).

Would it really be too hard for Revit to just give me this exact information as a schedule as I created the project walls?

@ToanDN - your solutions have saved me before.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

ToanDN — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:49:01 GMT

Create Parts and schedule Parts.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

barthbradley — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 21:05:07 GMT

Duplicate Material: Marks? Filter?

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:33:19 GMT

Thank you for taking the time to look at this. I have done as @ToanDN recommended, but I now see that the only material information available in the Parts schedule is the title of the material. Is there a way to pull the takeoff material schedule fields into the parts schedule?

Further: is there a way of indicating the "layer" number as a field as shown in the edit assembly window?

Thank you @barthbradley for also looking at this.

Cheers.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:34:52 GMT

I am not sure how to do what you are suggesting.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

barthbradley — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:04:54 GMT

@daniel.jolivet wrote:
I am not sure how to do what you are suggesting.

My understanding is that the MTO was inaccurate. I would immediately suspect a Filter is the culprit if it were me. Maybe I misunderstood. Dunno. But Wall MTOs are pretty fool-proof.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:05:39 GMT

I see, thank you @Anonymous. I will check the filters again and restart the program to make sure its not some gremlin.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

barthbradley — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:08:56 GMT

Just to be clear, I'm talking about schedule filters.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:11:51 GMT

Yes, thank you, that is where I am looking.

Would you do me a quick favour and try adding a couple layers of GWB to your assembly and then showing that the schedule shows the multiple layers on your schedule? It seems like a simple thing that is just not working for me.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

ToanDN — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:17:18 GMT

@daniel.jolivet wrote:

Thank you for taking the time to look at this. I have done as @ToanDN recommended, but I now see that the only material information available in the Parts schedule is the title of the material. Is there a way to pull the takeoff material schedule fields into the parts schedule?

Further: is there a way of indicating the "layer" number as a field as shown in the edit assembly window?

Thank you @barthbradley for also looking at this.

Cheers.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:29:07 GMT

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:29:16 GMT

@ToanDN thank you! I see that I was using the Parts schedule, not the Material Takeoff Parts schedule.

Update: I do not have the option for a Layer Index Field:

Thank you.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

ToanDN — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:37:12 GMT

@daniel.jolivet wrote:

@ToanDN thank you! I see that I was using the Parts schedule, not the Material Takeoff Parts schedule.

Update: I do not have the option for a Layer Index Field:

Thank you.

I use 2022, which version you are using? By the way you don't need it because the schedule still shows separate layers of the same material.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:37:33 GMT

I am using Revit 2021, this might be the difference.

Even when I just do the Multi Category Material Takeoff I do not see Layer Index as an optional Field.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

ToanDN — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:40:17 GMT

@daniel.jolivet wrote:

I am using Revit 2021, this might be the difference.

Even when I just do the Multi Category Material Takeoff I do not see Layer Index as an optional Field.

Don't worry about it then. You don't need it.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

barthbradley — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:42:02 GMT

What do you mean by Layer Index?

Schedules count things. Layer Index not a "thing" in Revit.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:45:00 GMT

clipped from @ToanDN above:

Cheers.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

barthbradley — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:50:16 GMT

My bad. Not following the discussion too well. I see now you are talking about Parts. Sorry about that Chief.

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:51:35 GMT

No worries, I am learning here.
Thank you!

Re: Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

daniel.jolivet — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:05:26 GMT

Thanks for the support, I will run with this for now.

Cheers!