Volumetric uses planning with Masses, getting area schedules

[tareqathamneh6QW84]

Hi,

so I am using masses as Lego to plan a group of buildings within a complex.

I used masses and gave them a color through material. 

There are many different levels in different parts so I did not use levels to generate floors. I just placed those masses as I wish them to be arranged and changed their material by hand.

Questions:

How can I give a specific color - related parameter for example residential-yellow ..?

How can I get the floor areas in a schedule according to use?

Thanks!

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@tareqathamneh6QW84 wrote:

Questions:

How can I give a specific color - related parameter for example residential-yellow ..?

How can I get the floor areas in a schedule according to use?

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Reply to Question 1:

Several ways, you can use for instance

1. You can use subcategories and assign material per subcategory
2. View Filter
   • either a selection filter
   • or based on a parameter ex: Type name or a project Parameter you add to Mass category (integer) and Give all Residential value 1 and filter them to a color
3. You can use Worksets 

Reply to Question 2:

Depends on how you modeled the mass.. but as a general rule anything which has a volume and you have given a Height parameter => you can derive area using calculated value

One Option would be

1. use a calculated value using the OOTB parameter Gross Volume
2. Add a shared Parameter Height to the in place Mass 
3. Use a calculated value Gross Volume / Height

Alternatively Options:

1. Either you can use Dynamo to get the footprint
2. Or you can create a floor element on Ground level and use that to derive areas
3. Or you can even paint the base and get the area of the paint
4. ....