Q & AIs there a reason why cutouts aren't recorded as negative sections?
I am wondering why cutouts are recorded as invisible, uneditable--I don't know what to call them--subsections? It would be nice to be able to see them in the list of sections as being negative sections. Further, they would be easy to copy and paste across different area sections for window openings, lights in drop ceilings, etc.
Also, in conjunction with this, one could extract the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the cutouts for creating window schedules or something.
I would extend the negative sections idea to other takeoffs as well.
You can turn on the "Cutout Area" Column in the report view to see the total cutout, I believe I do understand what you're looking for though. You want the cutout areas to be like "child" items are.
Something like below right?
No. That is only giving the the total cutout area. I am wondering why the cutouts aren't represented as individual items, i.e. sections.