Steve_Bennett
2008-08-04, 05:09 PM
I'm hoping someone can help me think out loud here. I am working on a project for ACA involved in Single Family Architecture. The floor plans and some elevations reference what they refer to as a keynote legend. The keynote legend lists things like Fireplaces, tubs, Sinks, medicine cabinets, etc. The actual objects which the keynotes call out are items consisting of a combination of ACA objects and AutoCAD blocks (some are dynamic). The team wants to have these items get some automation. They would like to be able to tag the item in plan and have the keynote legend populate automatically.
What I am having a field day with is, how to have the same functionality to accomplish the end result with a mixture of content from both ACA and AutoCAD. I know I can tag AutoCAD Blocks with ACA tags & PSD's and get those to appear in a Schedule Table. From the way I look at it though, I would have to build a massive formula PSD that would contain all possible keynotes.
The other way I could do it is to use the keynote system in ACA. The ACA objects can be assigned keynote numbers to reference in advance. However, the AutoCAD objects would not be able to have a keynote assigned in advance - disrupting the smoothness of the desired workflow described above. Turning the AutoCAD blocks into ACA Multi-View blocks really isn't an options since many are Dynamic AutoCAD blocks and placing them into a Multi-View block would kill their Dynamic functionality.
So... Am I missing something here? Help me out you scheduling pros! Can I avoid a massive formula PSD or am I living a pipe dream and the functionality just not there yet?
What I am having a field day with is, how to have the same functionality to accomplish the end result with a mixture of content from both ACA and AutoCAD. I know I can tag AutoCAD Blocks with ACA tags & PSD's and get those to appear in a Schedule Table. From the way I look at it though, I would have to build a massive formula PSD that would contain all possible keynotes.
The other way I could do it is to use the keynote system in ACA. The ACA objects can be assigned keynote numbers to reference in advance. However, the AutoCAD objects would not be able to have a keynote assigned in advance - disrupting the smoothness of the desired workflow described above. Turning the AutoCAD blocks into ACA Multi-View blocks really isn't an options since many are Dynamic AutoCAD blocks and placing them into a Multi-View block would kill their Dynamic functionality.
So... Am I missing something here? Help me out you scheduling pros! Can I avoid a massive formula PSD or am I living a pipe dream and the functionality just not there yet?