Angelika

First of all, thank you for your quick reply, although sadly it is not so simple for our requirements. As it is an old building, nearly each wall has a different width, so we would have to create about 50 different wall styles and replace each wall with the correct new style, whereas now we can use an unstyled wall and just change the width in the info palette for each object. So this is not an option for us. Furthermore, we do not need this only for the painter, but also for other crafts, and also for new walls. It is essential for us to get the exact wall area values as they are in the plan, not measured in the middle of a wall, and not within a waste factor, because we have to stick to the Austrian standards. Is it not possible to edit the parameters used for calculating wall areas? I am quite surprised that nobody else seems have this problem?

Hello to everyone, This is my first post on this forum. I am from Austria, and please excuse in advance if my technical English is sometimes not so good. In our office, we have just started our first BIM project in Vectorworks 2015 and are facing big problems. We want to generate a list of all wall areas for a public tender. So we created a wallsheet and wanted to get the values of the square metres of each wall, but we soon recognized something went wrong: The area is obsiouvsly calculated in the middle of the wall, thus generating wrong values at each joining of walls, and it only generates the area of one side of the wall and not both. In Austria there are very strict regulations how to calculate those square metres and I have to stick to this or do it manually which we do not want to do any longer. In another forum I was given the advice to use wall components, but this does not work for us, as the existing walls do not have different components in our plans, but we need the square metres for e.g. the painter. Furthermore, the wall components are not calculated on the surface of the wall, but on the side of the adjoining component. Another advice was to use the room perimeters to calculate, but most of our rooms have vaulted ceilings, so I need to use walls and fit them to the ceiling. The attached file shows our problems,the green lines are what we need and the red ones what Vectorworks calculates. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as we are completely stuck with this problem and have little time to solve it. Best regards, Angelika