The range of elements that will be used in calculation depends on the current selection made on the Floor Plan.
•If there is no selection made, all elements will be used and filtered by the listing command’s List Scheme by type or other criteria;
•If there is a selection made, only selected elements will be used.
For more specific element ranges, use the Setup List Schemes command and define filters.
When you activate a list type window while elements are selected in the project, there may be a conflict between the listing command’s criteria and the selection. (For instance, if you choose a Window schedule when the current selection also contains Walls and Doors.)
In Options > Work Environment > Imaging and Calculation, the Selected Elements to be Calculated pop-up menu offers three options for managing this situation.
•If you choose the List All option, all the selected elements will be calculated in the list, even though they do not correspond to the filtering criteria.
•If you choose the Use Filters option, the filters defined for the list scheme will be applied to the selected elements; elements that do not correspond to these criteria will be ignored.
•If you choose the Show Alert option, a warning of conflict will appear. You will then be able to choose between the two options described above.
Example:
If we have a basic text list scheme that will list walls, their layer and User ID, the result would be the following.
However, if you make the above selection with the Marquee and list it, the following alert appears (if that was your choice in Options > Work Environment > Imaging and Calculation).
If you choose Use Filters, ArchiCAD takes all elements of the selection, and lists only those among them that fulfill the listing criteria (list Walls), so the result is the following.
In case you choose List All, all elements falling into the current selection (2 Walls, 1 Window and 2 Doors) will be listed regardless of the filter with the below result.
Note: The multi-story selection method (thick Marquee) works here as well. With the thick marquee, all elements within the Marquee will be included in the selection and the resulting list.