Materials List - Wrong wall length, wrong brick quantities.

[Sydney23]

I thought I'd try and get too grips with materials lists. An hour in and I'm at a loss.

I redefined my bricks from CA's Lego size to real world sizes (had to copy from the master library to my own before I could right click and edit them, then redefne walls to use those bricks).

Then I got a materials list and compared it to an online brick calculator.

The quantities were completely different. So I looked at the wall measurements in plan and elevation and guess what - they don't agree! Took an overview and the 3D view is different from the plan view, with bricks at 90 degrees to the wall at each end. I entered the elevation view measurements into the online calculator and guess, what, brick quantities still didn't match.

Take a look:



Could it be the returns at each end of the wall are affecting he elevation sizing and brick quantities? How would I get rid of those returns? Why on earth would I want plan and elevation views to be different?

Very odd.

I'll put a ticket in for this if need be. Again I find CA doesn't really cater for brickwork too well and just isn't ready to go out of the box the way we build in the UK. I'm pretty sure they could fix this in a day or two and sell a load of copies in the UK and any other country that uses cavity brick walls.

It feels like buying a car and finding the engine in bits on the back seat, in fact with multiple DBX's, a few bits are hidden in the boot (trunk?) too...