Wall steel per run, wainscot and gable infill on their own lines

Each wall rectangle is sheeted at its own height, with wainscot, gable-end infill and clerestory risers counted separately.

What it is

Wall skins are grouped by height so a mono-slope high wall or a wainscot split produces distinct panel lengths rather than one averaged number. Gable triangles are not rectangles and get their own 'cut to rake' line at an average sheet run. Monitor clerestory risers are counted once, on their own line, so they are not bought twice.

Also called: wall panel count · wainscot · gable end steel · clerestory panels

See it
Wall steel per run, wainscot and gable infill on their own lines
Prepared for
Ivy Brubaker
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$35,365
Concrete & site$10,267
Doors & windows$6,845
Trim & finish$4,563
Total
$57,040
Signature
Sheathing rows: 'Wall steel panel, 14′ length — 38 panels' above 'Gable-end wall steel (cut to rake) — 9 panels'. takeoff.ts `groupWallSheets`. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Field walls, wainscot panels, gable ends and clerestory walls are separated by panel source
  2. 2groupWallSheets counts ceil(in-plane width ÷ 3ft coverage) per height group
  3. 3Gable sheets = area ÷ (coverage × average sheet run), with the run carried as lengthFt
  4. 4Every panel line carries a structured lengthFt, not just a length inside the item text
Why we built it

The gable line carries a bug post-mortem in its comment: the length is 'Carried on the line as lengthFt because steel is PRICED BY THE FOOT — a panel line without a length bills its sheet COUNT against a per-foot rate, which put $137 of steel on an endwall. check-price-book-units.mjs now fails on that.'

The problem
  • An averaged wall height orders the wrong panel lengths
  • Triangular gable infill has no rectangle to count
Sound familiar?
What you get
Panel lengths match the walls that were drawn
Wainscot and gable steel are visible as their own cost

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