Paint on sweep - area problem

[Anonymous]

I created a sweep and then applied paint to one of its sides. Then created a material takeoff to see how much paint I used. Sadly, though, the schedule gave me the amount as if all of the surfaces were painted. I did this once before and everything worked perfectly.

I attached the revit 2016 file, where you can see the problem. Notice that when you remove or add any paint to the sweep, the area in schedule stays the same.

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

It is because no material has been assigned to the object itself. When you assign the object a material it works.

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot. It helped. But now I've got another problem. Now I create this kind of sweep by making it as slab edge. When I paint it, the paint does not appear in any schedule at all.

It could help if I could put the lenght, height and width parameters in a schedule and then manually calculate the area of the hypontheusal surface, but as far as i know, it is not possible either.

I am not able to make a type parameter a shared one so that it would appear in schedules. And yes, I have created a shared parameter file before in Manage>Shared Parameters

[L.Maas]

For some unknown reason slab edges do not appear in material takeoffs.

Depending on the project and the project requirements you might consider to create a face or line based family to create your slab edges.

You can post your idea on the Revit Idea Station.

[Anonymous]

Following your advice I created a line-based family for my slab edge. It's not great, as the corners aren't as nice as if it was made from a profile family, but it's OK. The problem is that i am not able to paint any of it's surface after I changed the edge's material (before it was defined I was able do to it but the amount was incorrect).