Creating a schedule that shows what sheet Panelboard schedules are on using Dynamo

archilab as a node called Schedules on Sheets

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Thanks for that website. I am currently going thru it right now. As for the package, I am having difficulty adding it to my computer. What term do I search with to get the archilab package.

okay i used the schedules on sheets node, however it does not show panel schedules. Are there other nodes that will show panel schedules

Can you post a sample rvt file for use? I’m not an electrical guy.

Yes I can post a simple RVT file with a couple of panelboard schedules on some sheets.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jRv8Q0eQzxV9qct5Kmy4Fa_87mHm7HjK

Hmm, the archilab node works for me with your test file but I had to make a regular
schedule view first. Do you get an error from this node or is the output just missing the panel schedules? What version of archilab do you have?
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EDIT: I just read above that you are still using Dynamo 0.9, this is likely the reason if your output is not including the panel schedules. Regardless though, I don’t see this node being helpful for your purpose as it does not identify which sheet each schedule is on. This solution here should work: Best method for retrieving sheet number from schedule? Collect your PanelScheduleSheetInstances using All Elements of Type instead of ScheduleSheetInstances.

I’m sort of inclined to think that Dynamo 0.9 might not support these elements if the archi-lab node failed for you, though

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Step 1 is to update. There is no reason not to go to 1.3.2.

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I got IT to update me to 2.0 and I installed archi-lab version 2018.01xxx. My output looks similar to what you have in your screenshot. However I was trying to find the right node to take the PanelScheduleInstances and translate that into something I can use.

I am going to try your solution to see if that will work for me. Is All Elements of Type a part of the standard nodes for version 2.0?

Attached is what I have done so far. I am trying to figure out how to use the Type Id number to find what sheet that schedule is on then that would be perfect. Let me know what you think.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=160Y9qRFXgJo_IaPDGJHy1TBtN4d9lq--

I got IT to update me to version 2.0 which hopefully is better than 1.3.2

Okay I got the Schedule IDs, Now I am trying to figure out how to use that to get the sheet numbers that the schedule ID occurs on.

Can you upload an image of your graph so far? Sounds like you’re close!

It not completely done but I am getting close. So I was able to gain the panel board name info as shown in the watch node. Now I need the sheet that each panelboardinstance occurs on and I will be set. It was mentioned that I can use the schedule ID to accomplish this.

I’d just put “ScheduleId” as the propertyName input for Element.TryGetPropertyValue so you don’t have to do any list management afterward :slight_smile: Once you have the ID, convert it to an integer using String from Object and then String to Number. Then you can use it with the Wombat node Element.ById to get the schedule view.

So the part you’re close to getting now is which schedule is which instance on a sheet, and the bit you’re missing is finding out which sheet the instance is on. You can get the sheet from the ScheduleSheetInstances with Element.OwnerView from the package Clockwork

Would I be using the Panelscheduleinstances instead of the ScheduleSheetInstances when using Element.OwnerView.

Also thanks for the tip. That eliminated some nodes.

It seems that I am still running into the issue of trying to get the sheet number to show up :frowning:

Oops - sorry I’d forgotten for a second we were working with Panel Schedule Instances. Element.OwnerView should work with those!

It showed null for me:(. going to work on it more tonight

Hmm, Element.OwnerView worked for me, but perhaps it is a 2.0 thing (I’m in 1.3.2)? Were you connecting it to the PanelScheduleSheetInstances? Regardless, since you are already using the Element.TryGetPropertyValues, you can also get the OwnerViewId like so:

That looks like it would work for me. My question is, I should be able to get the sheet number from the output of the bottom node by using the element.parameter node. Note that code looks nice. I have allot to learn about dynamo.

Hmm no, the sheet number is not a parameter of the panel schedule sheet instance, otherwise we would be able to see it when the properties browser when selecting the schedule on the sheet. The OwnerViewId however is a property we can get

Understandable. I was able to get a sheet name from using the elements parameter node and it was under workset parameter (post 16). However I do not know if this is a solid way of going about it. Plus I was having difficulty getting that output into a parameter for a schedule.

BTW are you saying that ownerview id has a property that we can get the sheet number from