Generate report and Condoc

[Joshua Tays]

Hey all,

 

Wondering if anyone has a good workflow for generating reports (especially window/door schedules) while using condoc tools.   I have just been assigning a hard tag (SU native tags, not just condoc tags) to the components that make up my windows and doors, then I can see them organized by tag and spit those out to xls.  Does anyone have a workflow that allows reporting while still just using the CONDOC tag system, and not tagging specific components natively?

[Mike Brightman]

I have tried to dig in on this a few times, but the generate report function in SketchUp is pretty limited.  Here’s the main issue, by the time you enter all the door and window information into a dynamic component, then extract that into a report, format in LayOut, you may as well have just punched it in manually.  I think you could do this pretty quickly using only ConDoc tags.  Just isolate the doors, then generate your report based on the selection.  I’ve always thought schedules would be a powerful ConDoc feature, but everytime I explore it I come back to the idea that this is better solved by an extension like FlexTools.  They can create all of the fields that automatically populate in their library of doors and windows, but then they have to come up with a scheduling method that pleases everyone.  Impossible!  We should get an office hours set up and share notes or dig in on this… at least make sure I’m still at the same spot.

[Gregory Sarver]

That would be awesome to figure that out!

[Joshua Tays]

Isolating then reporting isn’t a horrible idea. I do use flex tools for my doors and windows, and the reports do end up a little cleaner than just using any old manually created of mfgr door or window, but to get a decent report, I still have to do a traditional tag on the doors/windows.  Not the end of the world by any stretch. Along the lines of the reports on SketchUp’s end not being perfect, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about their space finder plugin, and if it could be modified in a way to create 3D areas that function as a reporting boundary, so for instance anything that falls into the envelope of that 3D area would automatically have a data line that puts it in a room.  This could also have other lines of data, like room number, count, etc.

And, yes, I’d love to setup an office hours chat to share notes.  Thanks for offering.

Feel free to reach out – [email protected]

OK, so last piece is off topic, and I’m fairly certain you’ve covered this for others, so maybe a sticky topic would be appropriate.  What is the exact order of operations to get all layout scenes with architect+ to follow the scene views in LayOut after any tagging has happened, etc?  TBH, I have no idea why I can sometimes get it to work for some scenes and not others.  Pressing update scenes and save usually makes unexpected tags (but not ALL tags) show up in some, but not necessarily all of my non condoc generated scenes. I seem to have luck when I manually navigate to a scene, edit the group structure, add geometry, or do something to the model and then save in SU file>save, but this has to be AFTER I use the condoc save function, go to settings, press the reset button twice.  The updates to tags shown only seems to happen on scenes that I have specifically navigated to in SU (I can’t say if I have to manually update the scene after this or not, but I feel like I have seen updates to LO without pressing update scene).  Strictly using ConDoc automated viewports doesn’t feel like a good fit for this use case for me specifically, because on most projects I have a minimum of 100 interior elevations that are easier to manage and automate with a template as the viewports are automatically named per room, and have descriptions attached for labeling, and all of the necessary sheets in layout are pre-set.

Thanks for your help Mike.

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