BBIM | Rate-based costing in SCHEDULEOFRATES
Quantity-based cost item
when using a cost schedule like a Bill of Quantities, elements can be assigned to the Cost item to calculate their quantity x cost, as indicated in the IfcCostItem page of IFC4x3 documentation:
so far so good
Rate-based cost item
in the same page reference is made to cost items whose value is based on IfcTypeProduct, IfcTypeProcess, or IfcTypeResource, as detailed here (from the same page):
good, right?
Problem
when I create a cost item in a schedule of rates, there are no options to associate it to anything more than a cost value and unit of measure:
Question
How do I associate a Cost item in the schedule of rates to a desired type? It would be very useful to use Resources here, for instance.
Is there anybody who can kindly shed some light on it? I'd be very grateful since this is quite an issue when it comes to implementing a working schedule of rates in a more professional workflow using BBIM
thanks in advance for your help
I'd like to bother BBIM 4D/5D overlords on this
ping @Massimo @SigmaDimensions
Comments
Yeah, i guess this is not yet implemented in BBim but i think that it can be an important feature to implement :-)
What about these? They do allow assigning the selected product type to the cost item.
hi @Andrej730
please would you elaborate a bit more the 'assigning' process part? not much happens when clicking on the plus or minus icons here, a practical example can be of great assistance
many thanks
Example - https://imgur.com/a/qq1hRPs
In this commit I've also added an info message and it now also considers active object, not only selected, as typically types collections is hidden (previously you would be able to add types only if you unhide the Types collection).
Hi @Andrej730
sorry the link doesn't show any video, thanks
updated it
Hi @Andrej730
many thanks for the commit and update, you are a star :)
hopefully one day it will be possible to also use resources in the schedule of rates..