Measurement Lines

This area processes the measurement lines as they were transferred from the design programs or material lists. The measurement lines can be reviewed and stored in documents. The stored documents of the measurement lines are also managed here.

The branches in the tree element have the following levels:

Model area: the top level is the model area, i.e. roof, wall, ceiling and free construction, each subdivided according to architectural measurement values (e.g. wall area), material measurement (e.g. volume of construction timber in S10) and treatments (e.g. number of rafter cuts).

Measurement area: A measurement area is evaluated with different measurement values and a specification can be assigned to it.

Project item: The next level is the project item. Since different items are often combined in one measurement, it is subordinated to the measurement area: e.g. the roof surfaces of the project items 'main building' and 'outbuilding' are combined.

Implementation: Within an item it is not always possible to combine all elements of a measurement area. For example, in one item there are roof surfaces in the specification 'tiled roof' and roof surfaces in the specification 'sheet metal roof'. Through the specification level you obtain the measurement values for 'tiled roof' and 'sheet metal roof' separately.

Measurement total: Here the sum of the measurement lines that belong to this measurement total is displayed. A measurement total is defined by a measurement value and a specification, e.g. the 'roof area [m²]' of the specification 'sheet metal roof' is a measurement total. Through the parent tree, the measurement totals are additionally divided among the individual project items.

Measurement line: The lowest level is finally the measurement line. Here the concrete quantity for a measurement value of a building element is recorded.

If the focus in the tree element is on a measurement line, further information is displayed in the right-hand fields:

Measurement images: Control images for certain measurement values (currently only in the wall area) are displayed here. For example, the insulation areas of a wall are shown here in gray. The areas displayed in white have been subtracted. This allows a very good qualitative check of which openings and components have been deducted.

Formula: The formula of the measurement line is displayed here. For example, insulation areas are broken down here into individual sums.

Definition: The exact definition of the current measurement value is displayed in the bottom field.

With the 'Output' function you branch to the output of the measurement lines.

Measurement lines - output

In the measurement lines output, the measurement lines are stored in documents. In addition to the general options, there are special possibilities here for storage in documents:

Comment: This 'comment in measurement lines output' is printed in the document after the addresses, before the preface and the tables, emphasized in 'font'. This comment also causes the document to be displayed in the list of documents.

Select items: This list contains all project items for which measurement lines exist. Here you can select the items for which the subsequent output should be made. If multiple items are selected, sums across items are formed in addition to the totals for the individual items.

Page break: Optionally, a page break can be triggered after each measurement area.

Quick calculation: In the master data a price can be stored for each specification and each measurement value. When the measurement lines are output with 'quick calculation', a corresponding price is determined for each measurement value and an overall price is formed from everything.

Quick calculation

In this area the values for the quick calculation are entered.

The branches in the tree element have the following levels:

Model area: the top level is the model area, i.e. roof, wall, ceiling and free construction, each subdivided according to architectural measurement values (e.g. wall area), material measurement (e.g. volume of construction timber in S10) and treatments (e.g. number of rafter cuts).

Measurement area: A measurement area is evaluated with different measurement values and a specification can be assigned to it.

Implementation: Within an item it is not always possible to combine all elements of a measurement area. For example, in one item there are roof surfaces in the specification 'tiled roof' and roof surfaces in the specification 'sheet metal roof'. Through the specification level you obtain the measurement values for 'tiled roof' and 'sheet metal roof' separately.

Measurement value: The lowest level is finally the measurement line. Here the concrete quantity for a measurement value of a building element is recorded.

If the focus is on a measurement area or a specification, you can create a new specification for this measurement area. Automatically, all measurement values are then offered for this specification.

If the focus in the tree element is on a measurement value, further information is displayed in the right-hand fields:

Implementation: It shows to which specification the measurement value belongs.

Price/unit: Here the price per unit of this measurement value can be entered. The price is always recorded in the primary currency.

Definition: The technical definition of the current measurement value is displayed again.

Prices are only stored in the master data. They are settled with the measurement lines during output and then appear in the output documents. They are only saved in the documents for the project.

Note: For the prices to be assignable to the measurement values of the current project, the designation of the specification must match exactly.

Measurement areas

In this dialog the measurement areas and measurement values that are to be used can be selected. To improve clarity, measurement values that you generally do not use can be switched off here.

The tree element has the levels model area - measurement area and measurement value. The definition of each measurement value is displayed along with it.

If the marking of a measurement value is removed, this measurement value will no longer be displayed in the measurement lines and will not be output in the documents.

Removing the marking from a model area or measurement area causes all entries beneath it to be switched off.

The settings can be saved under any desired name. The desired setting can then be quickly selected from the drop-down list.