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.
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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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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.
What do you mean by Layer Index?
Schedules count things. Layer Index not a "thing" in Revit.
My bad. Not following the discussion too well. I see now you are talking about Parts. Sorry about that Chief.
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