🧾 What it does
The Tally Walls feature generates geometric quantity reports for your wall models at any stage during design. Wall Allowances lets you configure how panel calculations are handled for wall cladding, including length adjustments, rounding, and annotation preferences.
🔧 Tally Walls
At any stage when you are modelling the walls, you can report on the geometric quantities for the walls. When you select Tally, the specific summary of quantities are displayed on the tally dialog.
The tally shows:
Total wall area
Total line lengths for the openings
Number of each line type
You can export these quantities to a CSV (comma separated value file) for import into other computer systems for further analysis.
The Print option allows you to print the contents of the Wall Quantities Tally screen to a Word or Excel template file.
🛠 Wall Allowances
This command allows you to set allowances for your wall cladding. These allowances will be applied to your wall panels/sheets. Panel allowances for Wall/Siding panels work in much the same way as they do for roof panels.
The allowances can be modified through the Walls > Allowances menu option.
Wall Allowance Settings
Field | Description |
Panel Allowances for Intersection with | Applies the specified additional length to the calculation of a panel length at the intersection of the specified line type. If no additional material is required, set all to zero. |
Combine similar length panels | After you generate your panel list, lengths which are less than this amount apart, are assumed to be the same length and are merged together. The shorter lengths are merged into the longer lengths. |
Round off panels to next | This allows you to enter in a number to round your panels/sheets up to, for example the next 10mm |
Annotate panels with | Here you can set how you want to annotate the identifier for each panel when you generate the cutting list using Estimate > Tally-panels. You can have the identifier, the length, both the length and identifier, or no annotation at all. If you require the wall panel lengths to be rounded up to a whole number, then the option exists to display the rounded number as well. 
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Annotation Text Size | This is the size of the annotation (in millimetres) on the wall panel placement drawings. |
Apply the panel minimum length | If you have set a minimum panel length below this number will be grouped together to create panels longer than this number. |
Default Direction for Panel Insertion | Sets the starting direction for panels inserted on the wall planes. |
Saving the allowances away to a named configuration allows different panel allowances to be selected depending on the user requirements.
⚠️ Important Note
Unlike roof plane offsets, where you have to specify whether you want these offsets applied to each panel directly or you wish to create an "as-built" or offset plane, the offsets for walls are immediately applied without this requirement. That is to say, that once defined, they will be applied when you next generate wall panels.