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JoeHands

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Hey,Iam using Revit 15 - I am about to make quantity takeouts, and I realise I havent been drawing the skirting boards. Its a rather complex projekt with 90 residences.Does anyone have a good routine to model skirting boards? I would estimate there is around 3500 - 4000 meters of skirtingboards total in the whole projectI was thinking about creating the skirting boards as wallsweeps, but as far as I know, its not possible to draw quantities from wallsweeps!??I only need the total running meters of the skirting boards - and not necessarily drawn in the model.

They are accounted for in specifications and detail drawings. ( yes - I am trying to avoid modeling it ;-) )Does anyone have experience or an opinion about this??  

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If you can segregate the walls where the skirts would be, then you already have your total length.

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Thanks for your reply - I have googled "segregate walls revit" and i dont really get it. Can you explain how its done and what it is?

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If your exterior wall types that will host the skirt board are the same, you can schedule these walls.

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Is there a way to control whether Revit calculates the areas and lenghts from the outside, inside or center of the walls?It makes a difference around corners etc.I guess it's set to measure from center by default!?

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Is there a way to control whether Revit calculates the areas and lenghts from the outside, inside or center of the walls?It makes a difference around corners etc.I guess it's set to measure from center by default!?

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This is a good time to learn by simple, short experiments.   In a new project,

• do a simple 10'x10'x10' box with a simple wall.  Now do your schedule and compare teh areas.
• Change the wall type to one that has multiple, different material layers and use a material takeoff.
• as a final experiment, edit the wall joins and change them to mitered instead of the default butt joint.

These experiments will serve you well.

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Hey again,I dont get it. I can see the areas of each side of the box is calculated differently. The length is calculated from the middle of the wall. In the material takeoff i cant calculate the totals of the material lenght.. But is it possible to control whether i will calculate the interior lenght/area or the exterior lenght/area.?How can i do it? 

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