Available reports, overview

When you use reports to analyze data, you can only evaluate the information that was entered when the component was created. Architectural elements created in 3D (e.g., walls excluding doors and windows) inherently convey the basic geometric data, quantities, mass and cubic volume. To evaluate materials using a specific calculation mode, they need to be assigned either when creating the elements or later.

Take a wall, for example: the geometric data (length, thickness and height) is analyzed based on the calculation mode and material assigned when the wall was created: if m³ was assigned, then the volume of the wall is calculated. If m² was assigned, the area of the wall is returned. And with m, the length of the wall is returned.

Allplan includes a large number of reports that you can use to analyze the building model according to different criteria. For example, to perform floor area calculations that are compliant with German building regulations, you require the architectural element ”Room” that contains a cubic volume delimited by a slab or roof plane; in addition, floor and finishing surfaces (these can be defined when entering a room) can only be evaluated when room elements actually exist.

Note: For quantity takeoff operations that are compliant with German building regulations, you need to make sure that the openings are within the components.

Note: If you cannot see a report although Allplan is calculating data, the attribute, trade, element or component that is to be evaluated does not exist.

Tip: For more information on this topic, see the section entitled ”Requirements", which is available for each report folder.

Tip: When it comes to selecting the architectural elements to be included in the analysis, you can use

Find Elements in the input options. This way, you can define detailed selection criteria.

Tip: You can use

Group Rooms, Stories in the Input Options to enter the name of a group of rooms or stories; this group is then analyzed.

The following section provides an overview of the most important report folders and reports in Allplan.