REALLY? DID I STUMP YOU GUYS? amazing cuz im a total n00b. Isnt this problem important to you guys? isnt this a major isssue? in the MEP world when we are running pipes, conduit, etc. our bosses need to know the lengths of specific runs (by name, usually they want it on a spreadsheet to give to the PM) SO THE CAN PROCURE MATERIALS!!!
im not trying to be disrespectful but this is honestly rediculous, am i doing something wrong!?
THIS IS A SHOUT OUT TO ANY AUTOCAD GUYS LISTENING.
this functionally should be baked into AC MEP! talk to your developers!
untill these products can do more, ie. more functionallity then simply space filling models, untill these products can help the field workers AND THE MONEY GUYS..THIS IS NOT YET A MATURE PRODUCT.
oh, but you know the AC company wants us all to upgrade to Revit MEP and spend more money to fix problems we dont have...while not fixing the problems we DO have.
it seems more important to the AC company to sell us on a new product every year than to fix bugs, or functionality issues!!!
Hi,
Try to use this method >>
You can also group the conduit length by Style Name, System Name or another properties.
Best regards,
Vitaly
I need to provide my office a feeder schedule of every feeder on our larger projects that includes To-From, # of conduit, size of conduits, length, etc. and come up with the total length of each size of conductors. This serves many purposes such as tracking and purchasing bulk copper.
There are some difficult ways that are prone to error, like using systems or style names to get each feeder length, and it still does not have the intelligence of conductors and can not make an actual feeder schedule that is useful.
Moving into the Revit world, Revit can't even do it out of the box. Every time you put a pull box in the run or modify a conduit it breaks the intelligence. You have to buy a $1,500 add in to be able to achieve this. Like others have said software called AutoCAD MeP (notice the small 'e') or Revit that we spend an enormous amount of money on should have this built in.
And yes, a few years ago I put this in the Autodesk suggestion box.