How???No calculate exiting , just new addition

[dparsley]

How do you keep exiting walls and foundations drawn to not calculate in material list? do you have to do framing to calc. materials? I have checked no locate and no room def. but steal calc. part. I used calc.area material polyline and it did not calc. floor foundation with it.

[frwillia]

Not sure if this will work, but I keep trying to find ways to use the layer sets.

If it was me, I'd try placing walls that I didn't want to show up in the material list on their own layer, then unckeck material for that layer.

Fitch

[dparsley]

How do you set them on there own layers?

[dparsley]

I have tried the polyline but it won't figure in foundation. and if I do all floors it figures walls, seams like twice. Been waiting 13 years for Art to do some thing better with material list. Don't know if i will be around by the time they do. Poly. seams to figure closer on material than all floors. any sugest.on getion foundation to figure?

[William H Lynch]

One way would be to copy the material polyline to the foundation and generate a list for each floor.

Bill

[dparsley]

It works alot better that way, pretty acururate, dont't seam like it would take much for Art to fine tune this thing, if they would. Thanks alot guys. Is there a way to save material list with pricing on it and have it as a template or be able to up date it with out loosing pricing?

[roraback]

Shift select all the walls that you do not want the materilas to be included in and go to the materials tab and uncheck all the materials. Bob

[dparsley]

Is that in wall spec, material, I can't fined where to uncheck?

[roraback]

Dave, Just highlight the wall and look for

[dparsley]

Thanks Bob, I thought I had to open wall dialog. Maybe easier to fine tune this thing than what I thought. Is there a way to setup before you start drawing, exiting non material figured walls?

[Aaron]

Originally posted by dparsley
How do you keep exiting walls and foundations drawn to not calculate in material list? do you have to do framing to calc. materials? I have checked no locate and no room def. but steal calc. part. I used calc.area material polyline and it did not calc. floor foundation with it.

[In version 10] you can place any object on any layer. For each layer you can specify that no objects on that layer go into the materials list (see the Mat column / Include In Materials List check box in Layer Display Options).