Am I just missing a button or tool to generate a wall schedule/legend?
Dave
Posted 14 December 2017 - 07:48 AM
What do you mean by wall schedule? If you want a wall framing plan, you need to be in framing mode and use "Generate Drawing". You can use the Auto ID to label your walls.
If you want a breakdown of the studs, plates, headers, etc..., I think that this would be available only thru Softlist.
Posted 14 December 2017 - 04:02 PM
Sound like something to add to the suggestion forum. I'd second that request
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 04:13 PM
It would be a great addition to the SP tools to be able to use the wall definitions in a drawing or model to produce a group of wall section details.
For now, you can, of course, use Draw - Detail - Section Detail and/or Profiles to draw your wall sections, but it is a bit limited, and will be time consuming initially. Once you get a few done though it doesn't take long to modify and save as a new one. I know other programs have pre-built wall section details (as well as other framing details) that can be shown separately or as an overlay on a section drawing. It is a cool feature. Knowing me, I'd probably redraw a lot of them to have them the way I want them anyhow.
You also can probably find all sorts of DWG wall section details and other 3D details online which may be able to be imported and modified easily to represent your different wall types.
Mark Petri
Petri Building and Design
Posted 14 December 2017 - 08:48 PM
An absolutely fantastic resource for detailed wall sections is the Canadian Wood Council's Wall Thermal Calculator. You obviously don't have to use all of it, but the wall types available are staggering (at least to me). There are more than 1400 wall assemblies listed, so chances are it's got the wall type you are using, right there.
It's probably almost as useful to Americans, especially those in the more northerly states, as it is to Canadians (even though it is in metric).
http://effectiver.ca...-calculator.php
The URL has changed from the original posting, and so has the way the calculator works, but still a great resource.
Posted 23 August 2019 - 07:36 AM
Dave,
I've been back and forth with the Softplan Tech Support on this subject so I'm glad I'm not the only one looking for this tool. They helped me create a custom Softlist report to get some of the things that I'm after(mainly lineal wall footage and heights for each wall type) but its been way to much work and its still not near as detailed as I would like it to be. Softplan already knows which walls are in the model so I'm sure it would be an easy tool to add.
Jared
Posted 27 October 2019 - 11:07 AM
Softplan certainly needs to up their technology for details. My suspect is that it's a challenge since Softplanm does not work in Vector based CAD (which is why the files are so small) and needs to rely on what's in the "Deffinitions" part of the software. I would venture that would make it necessary to develope and code a complete separate tool within Softplan to do wall assemblies computations like EffectivR.ca does for R values. Maybe the tool could utilize the Wall Framing Mode and provide and extended option of the all wall components.
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