Integral Wall Sweeps

[Brandon_Pike]

Are integral wall sweeps schedulable? For example, I created an integral wall sweep under my foundation wall type for my footing, unfortunately it does not schedule in my wall material takeoff. I also looked at a multi-category take-off but no avail.

Thanks,

[Teresa.Martin]

Hi! Alas..currently there is no way to do this with embedded sweeps unless someone has come up with a work around....?

[Brandon_Pike]

Interesting...what's the point of allowing a user to use integral wall sweeps but not allow it to schedule?

[Teresa.Martin]

Well...Not everyone whom is doing design does quantity take offs. As a matter of fact quite a few architects do not provide quantity take-offs because of liability issues. They leave this to the cost estimator.

Generally when I am doing training or office implementations/pilot project launches I inform the users about the plus(s) and minus(s) of using embedded sweeps vs. host sweeps among other things.

Best regards,

[NKramer]

You could "schedule" them based on the wall length. Add project parameters for a yes/ no parameter for wall sweep and a text or material parameter for description. Make a wall schedule for all walls in the project and fill out this info. Then make another wall schedule and filter based on the sweep yes/no parameter. This way you can get the length of the sweep. You can add more parameters for height, depth, area, etc if you want.

Its a bas-akwards way of scheduling them but at least your schedule will update parametrically.

Nick

[eddy.lermytte]

Is it save / reliable to use wall length to schedule a wall sweep ?
- dragged wall sweep ends beyond wall ends.
- changed sweep returns and dragged sweep ends
- wall openings are not taken into account.