How To Tag Thickness Of The Core Of Custom Wall ?

[Milindsinh Solanki]

Hello everyone,

We're currently trying to create a data tag to label walls in our project, displaying both the type and thickness of the wall. In some specific cases, we also need to indicate the thickness of the wall's core.

While we successfully created a tag that shows the total thickness, we've encountered difficulties with generating a tag that specifically reflects the core thickness.

Has anyone faced a similar challenge? What formula or approach would you recommend to resolve this issue?

Thank you in advance for your help!

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[Tom W.]

There are various options for returning the thickness of a component but none that I know of that are specific to the core component.

 

For example:

 

CompThicknessByName(name)

ComponentThickness(index)

CompThicknessByMat(material)

 

If your core component always had the same name across all your Walls then you could use CompThicknessByName(name) in a tag universally...

 

Not sure if there are any other ways...

[Tom W.]

It would be nice to think that you could use Subpart Mode to tag individual components + return their thicknesses but I can't see a way to do that.

[Milindsinh Solanki]

On 10/30/2024 at 4:22 PM, Tom W. said:

There are various options for returning the thickness of a component but none that I know of that are specific to the core component.

 

For example:

 

CompThicknessByName(name)

ComponentThickness(index)

CompThicknessByMat(material)

 

If your core component always had the same name across all your Walls then you could use CompThicknessByName(name) in a tag universally...

 

Not sure if there are any other ways...

Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately, our core component names aren’t standardized, which complicates things. If anyone has ideas on how to dynamically retrieve core thickness without relying on consistent naming conventions, I’d love to hear them. Any tips or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

[Tom W.]

Ok. Try this using Subpart mode:

 

[Milindsinh Solanki]

On 10/31/2024 at 4:48 PM, Tom W. said:

Ok. Try this using Subpart mode:

 

Oh, this worked well. Really appreciate your guidance, sir. Please keep guiding us through these obstacles