Looking for help to link quantity information in structural memeber tagging
There is no out-of-the-box way for the value in the Quantity Column of a Schedule Table to appear in a Schedule Tag.
I can think of two possible means of achieving something like what you want. Neither is ideal and will require extensive customization skills and/or a lot of manual coordination.
- If you or someone you know is a whiz at AutoCAD customization (including AutoCAD Architecture customization), it may be possible to create a custom command that would scan through the drawing for Structural Members, sorting them into groups by style and length, determine the totals for each group and then push the total for each group into a manual property added to an object-based Property Set attached to the Structural Members. Depending upon how the customization is set up, you may need to remember to run it every time you add/delete/edit Structural Members in the file. (For the record, doing something like this is well beyond my customization experience.)
- You may be able to create a Schedule Table Style and limit the graphics to show just the Quantity Column, Style Name (or whatever property you are using to show "2x4" in your image) and length. A separate Schedule Table instance would be added for each style/length combination. The difficulty here would be in selecting the Structural Members for each Schedule Table, and then maintaining the selection sets as changes are made. If you have a relatively limited number of standard style/length combinations, you might be able to do this with Classifications, but you would have to manually assign the correct Classification to each object based on its style and length. A custom program might be able to automate the creation of the Schedule Tables, creating the proper selection sets for each one.
