I really appreciate your effort Sam, there aren't enough people to spend their time showing how Revit works and explain it step by step... However your custom formula for material cost by area is performed inaccurately. I believe Constructive Criticism is needed in our profession when information being spread across the world is inaccurate leading the masses the wrong direction, but only through collaboration can we resolve these challenges. I understand this is a 3 year old post, but I'm certain there are a few thousand people in the industry tearing it up just like this now. So, I'm here to help. General comment to all: I urge you, and many like you to do thorough research and development on your tutorials prior to releasing content that leads users to very bad habits. So... Let's fix the issue for your viewers and hopefully you develop a correction video for all. As expressed, the flaw here is in the custom formula for quantifying material cost per area. Your presented solution isn't considered a work around, it is simply incorrect as your Units are in Area (SF or m²) and not in Currency, and no method to modify it. Thus when totaling up all the currency with tabulations in currency and others in area, the totaling of all project costs will be incomplete... In other words, this will not quantifying every cost in the project - a potential HUGE liability in BIM quantification. I'm sure @TheRevitKid and @balkanarchitect might agree. Autodesk certainly does! And I do - someone who has designed, built and quantified multi-million-dollar projects since 1997, and in BIM since 2004. However I'm debuting my first company comment with this post. The issue is in knowing how formulas work in Revit - The inconsistent units issue is a problem, but there is a formula to correct it. (As if we all ever got the secret formula coding tips from Autodesk - But every once in a while... it can be found.) Solution: Simply make the Type a Number and the formula like so: (Material: Area / 1 SF) * Material: Cost Then adjust the Numbers Units to Currency. You can see how Autodesk does it here: www.autodesk.com/learn/ondemand/course/conceptual-design-for-architects/unit/5DKSTd4F1ynBNPGkb6hcZJ I hope this helps you and your viewer community and keep up your efforts is helping the world.
You have calculated cost per area wrong. The calculation you did was for total cost. Cost per area is Cost divided by area. In general it is a good presentation.
Brilliant! Thanks so much. Was searching for a way to be able to mark walls as finished as I go along. This helped solve the puzzle. I created a wall instance parameter and then linked the filter rule to that. Inserted into a view template and works beautifully!
Sam, just come across your video on materials take off. Really good work thank you clear concise and great information Well done, I will be using this for a job I have on at the moment for a small house builder. JS
Thank you sam. it had some very nice tips! I'm new to Revit detailings and the Firm I'm working right now expect me to make estimations easier using Revit. however using details like this can't help me for example calculate the amount of insulations or screws or aluminum top. There's always a battle between 3D modeling details and 2D. do you have any pro tips for me? How can I have good quantity outcome of details for estimation and at the same time nice details in my entire project? Cuz it's time consuming to create the same details on different sections as well.
Seen a lot of videos on RU-vid for this topic, but the way u delivered was simply out of box...KUDOS...amazing explanation very informative and to the point..Thanks once again
Hello good time. I want to do energy analysis for one day per year in revit, how should I do it? Also, for this purpose, I want to enter the ambient temperature manually, in which part should I do it?
