Door Schedule

[kkintz]

Hello again,
I am currently working on creating a door schedule and I am having some difficulty working out some details. I have a door that is 3' wide and a leaf that is 1' wide. In the schedule I would like to have two separate lines for each part of the door but right now it seems to just let me have one. I want to be able to put in the information for both doors, if anyone knows how I could do that, I would appreciate the help. Thanks.

[cliff collins]

It may not be ideal--but you could always create two separate door families--
one for the 3' leaf and one for the 1' leaf. The frame will become an issue, of course.
You want a single frame, containing two separate door leaves, each of which can schedule
itself?

So--make two separate familes of just the door leafs, without a frame. Then, "nest" those families into another family which is just the frame by itself. Save this new family as a new
door family, and load into the project.

Try tagging each leaf--can each one have its own door number?
Do the "leafs" schedule individually?

You may need a "shared parameter" to allow this.........

just some quick thoughts--hope this helps.

cheers..........

[kkintz]

It may not be ideal--but you could always create two separate door families

I would have to agree that it does not sound ideal. I wish there was a way with keeping them as one door. But I'll take a look at what you said and see if this is what we want to do, thanks!

[twiceroadsfool]

Its perfectly ideal... If you set up your office standards that way. All of our doors have Panels Nested in as seperate families, and they all report three widths: Overall, Panel 1, and Panel 2. The doors that are single panel obviously only report 2 of the three.

The double doors have an "Uneven" radio button and "Larger Panel" dimension variable, and the two panel widths report accordingly.

Its a pain on the front end when youre setting up the office library, you basically have to throw away all of the OOTB doors. But once the system is in place it works perfectly...

[patricks]

For a quick(er) fix, I would just create the door panel families, with 2 different-sized types, make the family shared, then nest it into a door frame family and load that into your project.

You want to be careful not to do a "tag all not tagged" or otherwise tag the overall door family, because then you'll have 3 doors reported on your schedule when there are only 2 leaves. Just be careful to tag the 2 door leaves. Give the overall frame family a number that will be filtered out of your schedule (our schedule filters out any door with an 'x' prefix).