Omit one door thickness from schedule

[ceciliasarate]

I'd really appreciate some help! In the attached door schedule, I would like the thickness boxed in red to be omitted or show up with "--" and the widths that are clouded to be faked as 3'-0" (the way the fence/gates were set up by using curtain walls, it'd be easier just to fake the 'curtain wall door' width). The doors cannot be hidden all together from the schedule. I came across this thread (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?41662-hide-certain-door-schedule-info), but I have never used the conditional statements. I've tried changing the formula to apply to my situation and failed. I keep getting either 'improper use of boolean" or "inconsistent units" errors. Or perhaps there is a different way of achieving what I want?

Thanks in advance!!

[Duncan Lithgow]

People who like Revit often like it because it's hard to cheat. But that's up to you.

We have a parameter in our project called 'Hide Element'. We use this together with a filter to exclude certain things from schedules. For example we don't want access doors to service shafts in our Door Schedule.

[ceciliasarate]

Thanks for the reply, Duncan!

You make it seem like you could possibly have a solution to help me, but you don't explain it. Could you explain what you mean/how to set up the parameter? A reminder, I can't just exclude/filter out these doors completely. I need the doors to show in the schedule-- it's these bits of information that I want to exclude or change.

[Duncan Lithgow]

Hi Cecilia

My original reply was a bit hasty and missed you actual problem, sorry.

The thread you link to its about changing the parameter displayed in the schedule (which I think would mean adding that conditional statement to all your doors) from width to display-width and creating a rule which populates the display-width parameter with the actual width unless the condition, in that case the door mark, has a specific value. At a guess I'd say that's like hitting a small nail with a sledge hammer. Unless your office wanted to make this standard practice, it's a pain. Unless all your doors come from a small number of families.

If you're going to fudge it anyway then you might just blot the real values on your sheet with a filled region, not white (which is shown black for some reason) but one digit away, say 225-225-224. Add your manual text on top, I suggest dark red. You can see it on screen but it prints basically as black on paper.

[david_peterson]

For your thickness, there is no way to do a conditional format that turns a blank Dimension value into a text based value. I've tied it. If you don't want the thickness of that door to display, I'd suggest you change the parameter name in the family to something else. I'd do this in the family editor, and then load it back into the project since I don't think you'd want that for standard practice. This also assumes it's a one off door family and isn't duplicated anywhere else.

For your curtain wall door issue you can try the same approach, but I'm not sure you'd going to get the results you want. I've abandoned the panels as doors approach in curtain wall and now use a wall hosted door so I can get the desired results I need. So for that one, since you want something to still display, you can try to create a new "Modeled Width" parameter that controls the modeled with. Select the width parameter in the family editor, (I'd guess this is located either in the plan view (reference line view) or the elevation and swap it out with the new parameter. Then change the width parameter to instance.
Again, this is an all or nothing approach, but should allow you to fill in the value.

If all else fails you can try to post the family and I'll see what fun things I can come up with.

[patricks]

Is the thickness in question on something like a cased opening? Our cased openings just show 0" for the thickness in the schedule. In the family, the Thickness field is 0' - 0", and it has a formula of simply =0' to make it so that field cannot be edited. Not sure if that helps at all.

[ceciliasarate]

Hi All,

Thanks for all of your responses. Unfortunately, because of the time crunch I had just fudged it on the PDF file before printing. The suggestions didn't work for me the way I needed them to.