Material Takeoff Schedule to show Basic Wall Assembly

[daniel.jolivet]

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.

[ToanDN]

Create Parts and schedule Parts.

[barthbradley]

Duplicate Material: Marks?  Filter?  

[daniel.jolivet]

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]

I am not sure how to do what you are suggesting.

[barthbradley]

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@daniel.jolivet wrote:

I am not sure how to do what you are suggesting.

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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]

I see, thank you @Anonymous. I will check the filters again and restart the program to make sure its not some gremlin.

[barthbradley]

Just to be clear, I'm talking about schedule filters.  

[daniel.jolivet]

Yes, thank you, that is where I am looking.

Would you do me a quick favour and try adding a couple layers of GWB to your assembly and then showing that the schedule shows the multiple layers on your schedule? It seems like a simple thing that is just not working for me.

[ToanDN]

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@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.

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[daniel.jolivet]

@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.

[ToanDN]

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@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.

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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.

[daniel.jolivet]

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.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@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.

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Don't worry about it then.  You don't need it.

[barthbradley]

What do you mean by Layer Index?  

Schedules count things.  Layer Index not a "thing" in Revit.   

[daniel.jolivet]

clipped from @ToanDN above:

 Cheers.

[barthbradley]

My bad.  Not following the discussion too well. I see now you are talking about Parts.  Sorry about that Chief.   

[daniel.jolivet]

No worries, I am learning here.
Thank you!

[daniel.jolivet]

Thanks for the support, I will run with this for now.

Cheers!