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Tally – Quantities

Tally – Quantities reports the geometric lengths and areas of the roof and roof lines, plus counts (shell ends, apexes, corners). Values can be separated by storey and roof material, and exported to CSV.

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📊 Tally – Quantities (overview)

This command automatically reports the geometric lengths and area of the roof and roof lines.

You also are told the number of shell ends as well as the number of apexes.

For convenience, the values are differentiated based on storey and type of roof material.

After you click this command, the Summary of Roof Quantities dialog box is displayed.

Here you can see a complete breakdown of the roof geometry, defined by areas, lengths and the count of discrete positions.

The dialog box shows a combined quantity, whereas you can separate quantities based on materials.

By selecting values from the drop down box, you can get quantities for Tiles, Shingle, Shakes, Metal and Flat roofs separately.



🧾 Quantities reported in the Summary of Roof Quantities

  • Roof Volume cu m - The total volume of the roof in cubic metres or feet

  • Roof area - The total area of roof planes in the model of the given material

  • Curve quality area - The area of curved roofing in the model

  • Ridge length - The total length of ridges

  • Mono Ridge - The total length of mono-ridge

  • Hip length - The total length of hips

  • Valley length - The total length of valleys

  • Eave length - The total length of eaves

  • Gutter length - The total length of gutters

  • Barge length - The total length of barges

  • Fascia as barge - The total length of barge covered by fascia

  • Apron length - The total length of apron lines

  • Box gutter - The total length of box gutter

  • Step length - The total length of step lines

  • Shell ends - The number of hip ends (bottom of hip lines connected to 2 eave lines)

  • Hip apexes - The number of points at the top of 2 intersecting hips

  • Barge apexes - The number of points at the top of 2 intersecting barge (rake) lines

  • Barge top internal/external - The number of points at the top of barge lines connected to an eave

  • Barge bottom (left and right) - The number of points at the bottom of a barge line connected to an eave line (eg at the bottom of a gable end)

  • Free barge top (left and right) - The number of points at the top of barge lines not connected to an eave.

  • Free barge bottom (left and right) - The number of points at the bottom of a barge line, not connected to an eave (eg the bottom of a gable on a dormer)

  • Stop ends (left and right) - The number of free ends on an eave / gutter line (eg when an eave connects to a barge)

  • Corners - The number of corners of the particular type in eave lines.


🧩 Mono-Ridge and Tuck-Under line types

The Mono-Ridge and Tuck-Under line-types, while not used for flashing generation within the software, has been added to the Roof Quantity Summary dialog to allow users to inspect the total length and also select the […] button which highlights all instances of the line within the model.

A [Change Line Type] button has been provided so that you can edit the line type without exiting the Tally dialog to adjust/repair mis-labelled lines.


📌 Point objects diagrams

The following diagrams help describe the different point objects.


🚩 Show Un-Tallied

The button Show Un-Tallied displays all items not accounted for in the roof model.

All entities that are part of the model and not tallied are flashed on screen.

This is usually due to the item not correctly specified or not part of the roof model.


📤 Export CSV

If you wish to export this information to another computer system you can click the Export CSV button which will write a comma separated value file automatically.

It will output all values for all 10 storeys as well as a table breaking down the roof area based on pitch and area.

If you had generated offset roof planes using Estimate > Offset-Roof, the area of the offset roof planes will also be displayed.

You can separate the areas based on roof materials or get a combined set of values depending on the setting in the drop down box.


🖨️ Print

The print button prints the quantities as reported in this dialog box.


🧱 Stage Manager note

Note: If Stage Manager is turned on (Set-Up > System Preferences) and being used (Cover > Stage Manager), the tally shows what stage is being reported on.


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