so I believe I found 2 possible anomalies in the program that may need to be fixed.
1.) HOUSE WRAP (DUPONT)
house wrap is a material that should go on a wall always regardless if the exterior material is siding, vinyl, or brick. however in plus spec for some weird reason on the brick wall tool the material for house wrap to be placed is not present. SEE IMAGE ATTACHED
2.) brick material dropped down
so what I ran into with this is that if you have the footing tool enabled in the wall and you want to drop the exterior material (in this case brick) down through the “external clad step down” it also pushes your footing down which causes a gap in between the footing and bottom plate. SEE IMAGE ATTACHED
House Wrap
If a material isn’t available that needs to be there I would create a material in the field where it’ll be applied on the wall & then use the Edit Tag & BOQ Category feature to adjust the info of the material so it appears correctly in the model & takeoff. The post linked below explains how to use the Edit Tag & BOQ Category feature in more detail.
If there needs to be more than one material for a field (e.g. insulation & house wrap), I would recomend creating a material that names each material, then create a recipe in the takeoff for each separate material & link each recipe to the material. This is so that the quantity, size, etc of the material can be gathered but a different cost codes, traced, prices, etc can be set for each item.
Brick Material Dropdown
This is the intended result so that the external material will contrinue down to the footing. When this happens another wall should be used on the internal side (can be a full wall or just small wall segments - for engaged piers) & also so a different material can be specified on the internal side (usually a common/cheaper or different size brick).
yes could it be something on my end then. i mean all im doing is creating a material from a jpeg image and then saving it but as soon as I save it that message pops up.
Grant have you been able to find a solution for this because I’m currently at a halt in finishing creating my recipes to perform accurate takeoffs. thanks
It sounds like you’re doing everything right so I don’t think it’s that.
The dev team have recently been making some changes on the website which may have been the same time you were trying to create the materials. They’ve told me that it should now be working if you try again.
