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When I run the takeoff report some of my length based quantities aren't counting. It recognizes that there is that site improvement in my project, but it doesn't populate an actual length. I've tried making a new site improvement for the lines not populating a length and it didn't work. I also tried repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling TBC. 

I would need to get the project to take a look at how you have it all setup.

1) You have the Site Improvement defined in the MSI Manager

2) You have specific Layers on which these objects reside

3) You have categorized the Takeoff Layers on which they reside and you have assigned the Site Improvements to those layers in the Categorize Takeoff Layers function

4) You have reported the Takeoff and are still seeing the issue of some lines not reporting

I sounds like you have maybe 1, 2 correct but maybe 3 needs looking at to get 4 to work.

If you share the project I can take a look at it to see where this is failing, but my guess is (3) - people often categorize the Layer but forget to assign the Site Improvement - let me know if that is not the issue. The other thing I see is people think the data is on one layer but in fact it is on a different layer and that is why it doesn't report. If you assigned the layer to e.g. Unused category that may also have an effect (I have not tried that though).

Let me know if this helps

Alan

Hey Alan,

1. I have the Site Improvement defined in the MSI Manager

2.  I have them assigned to a specific layer in Layer manager

3. I have them categorized in the other takeoff category with the site improvement assigned. I also tried to switching them over to the design category and still didn't work.

They worked before so I don't know what happened between now and then. 

V/r

Patrick

Can you share the project with me and let me know which layers of data you

are referring to so I can take a look

Alan

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 3:28 PM patrick.retallack@outlook.com <

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArwH3Qen-GCIgk6FYspr6yXQ-Fdr Here is a link to the file. I wasn't sure how to share a copy directly through the forum.

The layers would be EC-Silt Fence and DES-Parking Lines

This is a weird one - If I draw a Polyline on the same layer on top of your

lines, they will report.

If I convert those polylines to linestrings they also report

If I set the settings on the Linestrings exactly the same as your lines

they report

yet your lines will not report no matter what I do to them.

Where did those lines come from - it says a DXF file. Can you send me the

DXF file to take a look at.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 3:38 PM patrick.retallack@outlook.com <

It certainly had me stumped. Here is a link to everything I have Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.  . I had taken those lines from vectorizng the PDF file they had sent me.  

We looked into this, the issue is that 3D linestrings are failing to report as a result of a change we made to TBC because of some linestring editing problem, you can still run the Area Length Count report, or you can make the linework 2D and it should report. The next release has this addressed already.

Alan