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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    Quote Originally Posted by patricks View Post
    That works until you get to floors with different heights. As Steve said, the shaft symbolic lines were designed for this and IMHO would be much easier than nesting and arraying families. If nothing else, it's more stuff that must be "checked" later on down the road and before final prints go out to make sure everything is as it should be.
    You guys are correct. I overlooked the "symbolic lines" option at the panel that creates shafts.

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    Cool Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    I still vote for no "X" and a Room ( or Space in RMEP )......but that's just me!

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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    Quote Originally Posted by cliff collins View Post
    I still vote for no "X" and a Room ( or Space in RMEP )......but that's just me!
    I don't understand, Cliff, how a Room is a valid alternative to the subject of this question. Rooms have 3 options in Visibility Graphics: Color Fill, Interior Fill, and Reference. If I turn off the first two options, leaving only "Reference", yes, now the room has an "x" , but, it is not possible to override just 1 room to that representation, and even if we could, it won't print. <--- Alf, confused.

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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    Alf--I'm saying use a Room or Space INSTEAD of a graphic "X", which to me is an old-school 2D drafting convention.

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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    Cliff, So somebody looking at your plan would know something is a shaft because there would be a some text from the room tag saying "SHAFT" or something like that? Or are you just saying there is no graphic indication that a space is a shaft? I don't understand either.

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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    Yep--a Room labeled "Mech Shaft" or similar.

    It can either be located on each Level and Grouped, or it's top extent can stretch all the way up, depending on how things need to be calculated, etc.

    Good for Area Calcs, Volume Calcs, etc. as well.

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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    You can still put a room or space in a shaft that uses the "X"...old school or not, people know what it means. Actually I'd go so far as adding a space in RME isn't negotiable, should happen regardless of the "x", if you intend to do any calculations.

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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    OK, I think I have the whole picture. I'm going to go with Steve on this one: both and "X" since it is the convention (and therefore understandable at a glance by the most people) and a room for scheduling purposes. Thanks everybody!

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    Talking Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    SOLVED! The attached family creates an array of model lines in the shaft. Specify L,W,H of shaft and the density of the array and you're done
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    Default Re: Shaft "X" annotation automation

    Quote Originally Posted by bittiker162848 View Post
    SOLVED! The attached family creates an array of model lines in the shaft. Specify L,W,H of shaft and the density of the array and you're done
    Err...great, but that was already taken care of by the symbolic lines option of the Shaft tool. Once you draw a couple of diagonals there, that "x" will be shown in all the floors where the shaft passes through, as mentioned by Steve Stafford some time ago in this same thread.
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