About Component Lists
Explains the concept of component lists.
Component lists process component data for displaying and outputting data in tabular form, for adding/changing data directly, and for exporting/importing data using Excel for external supplementation or change. By importing you can, for example, import room log books into building models.
The following component parameters and values are processed:
- AutoCAD property data, such as layer names, storeys or components.
- Manufacturer-specific 3D building data, such as manufacturer, item number or short and long text
- Data of LINEAR objects (3D pipe classes or 3D ducts), such as pipe lengths, dimensions or elevations
- Data added by the user through commands, such as position numbers
- Data from pipe network calculations, such as valve positions, pressure losses, velocities
- Data from assigned manufacturer items or insulations
- Data from LINEAR Building, such as design data of radiators or floor heating systems
- Room data
- Data from AutoCAD attributes
The component list dialog shows the component types used in the drawing of the components displayed in the current view, as well as their parameters and values, and allows you to create individual component lists. The basis for the selection of available component types are the classifications assigned to the components. The parameters of the component types can be renamed if necessary and additional parameters can be added, which are then written to the components with the entered values.
In addition to adding further component data with new parameters and values, you can also adjust existing component data. A distinction is made between parameters whose original value is overwritten and which are therefore also included in a calculation and parameters whose modified values only appear in the output.
With the help of the component list dialog you can also display individual components or all components of a component type in the current drawing. You can then edit the components selected in the drawing directly with further commands if required.
You can adapt the parameterization of a components list to your needs as you like, save it in a clset file and make this file available to other colleagues. For example, you can move, sort, number, and filter columns, and sum up data in different ways. When summing up the data of a list, it is crucial in which order the respective columns are summed up or sorted, just like when sorting multiple columns.
As an alternative to editing component lists within the dialog, you can also export the contents to an Excel-compatible format and adapt and supplement them in an external program for editing spreadsheets. Afterwards you can import the edited data again and write it to the corresponding components. You can also use the import function to import room books into building models. Furthermore, you can place component lists as AutoCAD tables in your project, import the data of already placed tables back into the dialog and update placed tables after changes.
Based on the current configuration of the component list, you can create labels whose final design you can then edit. Newly created labels are then directly available in AutoCAD for labeling components.