Reports in SpaceDesign

Hi Al. I have now purchased a copy of SpaceDesign and I am giving it a try. I have loaded a drawing from Sketchup. There were no objects in the drawing originally so I selected some areas and converted them to components. I converted the whole model to a component and saved the model. I did exactly the same with a second model. Now I loaded the first model again and run a report - all OK there was a total. I also loaded the second model and ran a report - all OK there was a total. I loaded the first model again. I now went through the - window - component menu and loaded the second model as a component.
I ran a report on the first model plus the inserted second model. The report showed the second model but it had zero value. So the report generated included a correct report for the first model, it included a quantity value for the second model but zero cost value.
What I am looking to do is to generate a report for a model that will include cost values for components inserted into that model.
Early days yet and I am probably not setting something up properly but can you help?
Best regards
Peter

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 18, 2011 at 8:16am

Your example has some tricky nesting going on.

It sounds like your "final" model is bult like this;

Whole first model as a single component which contains other components as sub-components
Whole second model as component which contains the entire second model as a component, which contains individual components as sub-components nested two levels deep.

On the Report Setup Tab there is a "drill into subcomponents" setting. If you wanted all components - include level1 and level2 sub-components to report you would set the drill into sub-components value to 2.

But this gets tricky.

Especially when getting started it would be best if all Components were placed directly into the model, rather than as sub-components.

Then you will get a report of all components placed, (directly), into the model.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 18, 2011 at 11:19am

As you get into the reporting futher, and if you want to report on nested components, you will discover two more powerful options.

Containers

- Sometime you want to nested components to be aggregated in the the parent, called a container component, so that the total cost, weight, etc. is reported in the container component parent, and the nested components are not shown individually. (e.g. A box with 10 items in may be shown a single "box" item, but have the cost and weight of the individual components shown.

Package Components

Sometimes you may want to place components into a group, or parent component, and have the individual sub-components appear, but not the parent component or group. These are marked as Packages. The package itself is not shown in the report.

If you need these later, I will provide examples on how to use them.

However, it is much easier if you can just place the components you want to report on at the first level.