SU 2016 Generate Report
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Did you try creating a new report (button at the bottom right) and adding Quantity as an attribute? This is just the start of creating a new report. I just added Quantity to the right hand column to include it in the report.
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Yep, did that, but it simply shows the quantity as "1"
Its as if there is another hidden attribute in the default quantity template
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I see. It's not so much that it shows the quantity as 1 but that it lists each component instance separately. Hmmm....
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Exactly
Bizarre functionality right?
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Yeah. I've not looked at this all that closely because I don't really need the capability for the work I do. I guess it's time to investigate, though.
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I can definitely see the power that the Sketchup team has put into the reporting tool - maybe just needs a little polishing.
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with regards to reporting components, etc., you might find Estimator for SketchUp useful http://estimatorforsketchup.com
I needed a reporting solution and estimating system for my SketchUp models (as a home builder) so I created one to fill that void. We are offering premium members a 20% discount if interested (just started advertising on this site and will have the discount code posted soon) - not wanting to sound like a salesman, just offering a potential solution to check out, I know I was frustrated with the internal reporting capabilities natively in SU. My email address is john@estimatorforsketchup if you have any questions or need the promo code. -
@jgbrock1 said:
not wanting to sound like a salesman
John, there's absolutely no reason to be apologetic about creating a product that addresses a need and then making people aware of it. I hope you have some good sales!
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Thank you!
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In response to your problem with quantities. I had an issue where I used lots of instances of a component and many of the components had qty 1 and seemed to be duplicated. What caused this for me was that the instances of the components had different scales. So each unique scale created a new row in the report. This might be something that happens for all instances with different attributes (layers, name, etc?). Maybe it's something to look into? If you create a report and output all attributes, you might be able to spot the attribute that is differing for each instance.
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Tommy, that is interesting although in the model I was using to check that, none of the instances had been scaled.
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Yeah im pretty confident that scaling is not the cause of the multiple instances...
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I can make diffrence templates and run like in this video.
But how can i "export" these templates to run in another .skp file?
Does anyone know how, please help me,
Thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwt7l2y4fUw
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