Terminology
BIMquants Project, Category, Subcategory
BIMquants Project 1 is a project created within BIMquants web application. The project contains a tree structure of categories.
BIMquants Category 2 is a category within BIMquants Project and contains multiple BIMquants Subcategories3 in a tree structure.
BIMquants Item and BIMquants Qty
BIMquants Item1 is a project calculation item which belongs to the last BIMquants Category within the categories tree structure.
The item has four properties - No 3, Description 4,
Unit 5 (eg m^3, pcs,..) and Price6 per unit.
Item does not contain quantity values.
The total quantity for a BIMquants Item is calculated as sum of child entries named BIMquants Qties.
Each BIMquants Item contains unlimited number of BIMquants Qties.
BIMquants Qty2 is a single quantity that belongs to a BIMquants Item. Each BIMquants Qty has two properties - description 7 and quantity 8 which can be fixed decimal value or a math formula.
Archicad Element
Is a element or a tool inside Archicad. It can be any 3d element like a beam, column, slab, roof, object and even 2d element as line, polyline, fill,..
