Selection criterion and parameters for surface elements

Assigning surface elements to specific rooms, surfaces or stories

Define the selection criterion for assigning surface elements to rooms, surfaces or stories as follows:

• In the Selection criterion area, select the architectural element to which you want to apply a hatching style, pattern or fill.
  Room is preset in the Criterion field. Before you can select a different architectural element, you need to delete this criterion line by clicking .
• Click Attribute... to define the architectural element more precisely.
  

  Below is a list of attributes available in Allplan.

  Attribute group	Meaning
  Architectural quantities	This includes all alphanumeric attributes from quantity takeoff calculations and smart symbols, e.g. thickness, area, height, volume etc.
  General architecture	This includes all geometric attributes from the architectural family of modules, e.g. component number, name, trade, smart symbol name, material etc.
  DIN 277 areas in buildings	This includes attributes for calculating area and cubic content in buildings according to DIN 277 such as GFA, GRV, area type, occupancy type and so on.
  Engineering	This includes attributes for engineering-specific schedules.
  Landscaping	This includes attributes for the Landscaping module (for generating plant schedules, for example), e.g. botanical name, price, type, vitality etc.
  Urban Planning	This includes attributes for the Urban Planning module, e.g. construction method, occupancy type, drawing symbol group etc.
  Thermal insulation	This includes attributes required for thermal insulation calculations, e.g. component, input area, area type, inclination, u-value etc.
  Special architecture	This includes specific architectural attributes, e.g. Allplan BCM component ID, attribute value, component numbers, hierarchic levels, reveal data, formula etc.
  Object Manager	This includes attributes for the Object Manager module.
  Material attributes	This includes material attributes for architectural elements.
  IFC	This includes IFC-specific attributes (e.g. IFC ID).

• You can use the buttons in the Boolean and Operators areas to associate the architectural element with attributes.
• You can use the buttons in the Numbers area to enter figures directly (and not at the keyboard).
• When you click the Criterion field, you can make entries via the keyboard.
• You can delete the last entry in the Criterion field by clicking Remove line.

Define the graphical identifier as follows:

• Select the surface element (Hatching, Pattern, Fill,Bitmap area or Style area) in the Representation area.
• Use Edge and enter the distance to the edge if the graphic identifier is not to fill out the elements completely.
• Click to match the representation of existing surface elements.

Note: Click Save as a favorite to save the current settings of the selection criteria as a favorite file.
Click Load favorite to retrieve saved settings later and adjust them, if necessary.

Example

To find and highlight all rooms larger than 15 m², you would use the following syntax:

OBJECT=Room&Floor surface>15

The criterion is met when the condition both before and after the & is true.