Core width in Wall Schedules

[jdugre]

I'm putting together a wall schedule and I'm having trouble getting a parameter set with the core width of the wall.  I found the parameter for the total thickness of the wall and that's calculated by adding all the thickness of the materials (finish and structure).  What I would like is a parameter for the finish thickness on each side of the core and the core thickness.  It has to be available some how seeing as how its calculating the total thickness of the wall.  I just can't get it separated into individual thicknesses.  Any ideas?

[ToanDN]

Create parts and schedule parts. See if it can give you the different parts thicknesses.

[jdugre]

The thicknesses are already there and calculated. Its a matter of separating the individual elements into their own parameter. That's where I'm stuck.

[alan.johnson7YLND]

Yes this would work, you can then create a parts schedule and list the Material and its Thickness.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@jdugre 

You do not need part...You can get the thickness of each individual layers using a calculated value 

• Create a Material Takeoff schedule instead of a quantity schedule
• Add the fields Material: Volume and Material: Area
• Add a Calculated Value "Layer Thickness" - Type: Length and formula Material: Volume / Material: Area

Sorting and grouping the layers inside core and outside core would depends on how you structure the walls and manage the material. The Layer index which you see in the structure is variable and can greatly differ from one wall type to the next which makes the Layer index more or less useless in terms of filtering and sorting the interior and exterior finishes and you might need to add a couple of additional parameters to fill in once manually for each wall type.

A less work alternative would be Dynamo

[jdugre]

Thank you so much.  This is exactly what I was looking for.

[semi]

This is not always correct. See example:

when the area does not match the rectangular surface it's always wrong:

The wall thickness in this example is 30cm