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Anyone know of any methods for calculating duct fitting areas?

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:33:46 GMT

Not sure if this is a wish list item or not, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel on this.

Some of the duct fittings have surface areas calculated, some dont. I'd like to have all the fittings report an area so I can schedule total sheet-metal areas. Anyone here know of an easier way of doing this than going through each fitting family and figuring out how to calculate the areas?

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Anonymous — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:53:28 GMT

I asked the same duct area question a while ago, no answers. No information on anywhere. I am still working on getting the duct area easily. What I do is define a shared parameter, and define a formula for that fitting area. A very easy task is turning into a tedious work. Schedule duct and fitting separately, export them, open them in a spread sheet, delete "m²", sum areas 😞

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Anonymous — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:06:03 GMT

i hope this formulae will help

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Anonymous — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 05:56:47 GMT

Can you not create a family parameter tied into the dimensions etc and the have it show up as an m2 in the schedule?

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Alaaeldin_Alsahli — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:31:13 GMT

the only way is to create you shared parameters

here is a link for how to,

https://chronicle.autodesk.com/main/details/71a731f5-0982-4ade-b79e-f6f09ef6779e

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Anonymous — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:46:46 GMT

Thanks Alaaeldin.
Your solution tied in with the calcs supplies by Moh-azs should work perfectly.

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Anonymous — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:37:42 GMT

See picture below. The calcs for a radius bend worked perfectly and scheduled perfectly.

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Anonymous — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:10:07 GMT

Simple excel sheets

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Anonymous — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:18:09 GMT

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Anonymous — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:20:05 GMT

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Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:49:49 GMT

Hi ALL, I have made a formula that will help us calculate the weights of ducts and fittings based on their area in Revit. I am attaching a PDF explaining the same. Kindly go through and share your comments!.

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Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:59:20 GMT

Hi, I am working in the same task at my company, and I would like to know how did you do it, I did not find any PDF attachement.

Thanks

Luis

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Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 06:03:47 GMT

Luis, I do not know why my previous post did not carry my attachment though I had attached it. I am attaching it with this mail again. I am not able to see it again.!.Kindly let me know how to do it. I have tried using the "Choose File " option under Attachments on both occasions and unluckily it does not seem to work!.

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Anonymous — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:06:12 GMT

i made the calculation sheet (from ashrae) . could have some mistakes, but not bad

my site :// ,,,,,,,,,,, ... linoavac.site.pro

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