Fire Rated Doors

[Allen Lacy]

What's the concensus on doors with fire ratings if you have doors of the same style (type)? Create two door types, one with rating and one without? I would like to see fire rating as an instance parameter. That way you'd only have one type door, but you could schedule doors correctly.

[beegee]

Since a fire door is actually a different type of door, I would keep it that way.
We create the types for fire doors and schedule them that way. Then there can be no confusion with frames, hardware etc.

[jbalding48677]

Since a fire door is actually a different type of door, I would keep it that way.
We create the types for fire doors and schedule them that way. Then there can be no confusion with frames, hardware etc.

Ditto...

[PeterJ]

same here

[David Conant]

In general, you should think of type as corresponding to a thing that is manufactured and supplied as a distinct item. Thus, a fire door and a similar looking non-fire door should be different types since they are manufactured differently and ordered under seperate stock numbers.
A flush door that is finished differently but ordered as the same stock number might have an instance material parameter. A steel beam that is custom cut to length should have an instance length, but its sectional characteristics should be controlled by type.

[sbrown]

I made a shared parameter called fire rating and a door tag that has a label pointing to this shared parameter, then I can tag a door and place the rating and add the field to the door schedule and ignore the stock fire rating field since it only works by type. In a perfect revit world I agree with Dave and Jim that it should be a sep door type, but when you work with autocad converts, telling them to build a new family for everything is a turn-off(even though it shouldn't be.)

[PeterJ]

But it doesn't need a separate family, just a separate type within that family.

Non FR, 30 min, 60 min, 120 min - 4 variations in a parameter.

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