SCHEDULE MANIPULATION?

[WATTSAIA]

I am working on door and window schedules and was wondering if it is possible to segregate them according to direction , ei., N.S.E.W., to make it easier for the energy audit.?

Suggestions are welcome...

Thank you
Don Watts

[PeterJ]

You would associate each dor/window with a project parameter, discussed elsewhere for things like title blocks and well documented in the help files, then filter your schedules accordingly. This means you could select an elevation view and select everything, filter for windows only select properties and under the project parameter for 'Facinf Direction' that you had set up identify all selected as West and so on.

It sounds a bind but I think you would find it a fairly quick operation.

[GuyR]

Don,

Do you want this within revit or externally for the energy audit? If externally then gbXML contains the information you want. Every wall has the angle stated <azimuth> and the associated doors are children of these walls. You just need to process the gbXML file. For your task a simple stylesheet would do it.

Guy

[Scott Hopkins]

Don,

Do you want this within revit or externally for the energy audit? If externally then gbXML contains the information you want. Every wall has the angle stated <azimuth> and the associated doors are children of these walls. You just need to process the gbXML file. For your task a simple stylesheet would do it.

Guy
So has anyone been successful in creating a "simple style sheet" from a gbXLM file?

[GuyR]

Scott,

What exactly do you want to do?

Guy

[Scott Hopkins]

Guy,

I was hoping to pull out information for energy code calculations.

Wall areas, orientations, and assemblies with window and door areas assigned to each wall
Roof areas, angles, and orientations,
Floor areas
Overhang distances and heights

Does this sound easy? I can pull most of this information off of a bunch of different Revit schedules but if there were an easy way to export it through gbXML and get on clear easy to read spread sheet with everything I needed, that would make me very happy.

My trouble is that I don't know a thing about XML or databases in general for that matter.

[GuyR]

Scott,

gbXML would give you most of this directly. Roof angles and overhang distances,heights would have to be calculated from the geometry. Not straight forward.

ODBC could be used to generate a report doing the same but orientation and roof angle aren't exposed.

Neither are that straight forward at the moment.

Can I ask what type of energy analysis you are doing? gbXML is used with energyplus which can be a very thorough analysis.

I'll have another look at it and see if I can whip up something thast might help you.

Guy

[Scott Hopkins]

Guy,

That would be terrific! Keep me posted!