dbaldacchino
2006-08-30, 02:21 PM
I think I know the answer, but just in case there's a creative way of doing this that I'm missing....
I thought about creating filters to turn off certain walls in a special working plan view for some Q.C. work. For example, I want to turn off every wall except CMU walls and have only doors in CMU show up. That way, I can window select and filter out those doors and in one exercise, fill in the Head and Jamb details and know I got all doors in CMU. I actually made it even easier by creating a simple key schedule with the different wall types & door combinations, so I just select the right key for those door/wall combinations and I'm done.
Now, I know how to just turn CMU walls on....I create a filter with "does not equal" or "does not include" and enter a criteria that filters everything EXCEPT the CMU walls (could be type name or type mark for instance). Then I just add that to the V/G and turn it off. Now in my view, I just get CMU walls. What I was hoping for was to see any hosted elements by those walls to also turn off, but that didn't happen :(
Is there a way to do that? I really really really wish that doors could report what their host type is. Then I could just do schedules filtered for wall types. Any ideas or is this just not doable at the moment?
I thought about creating filters to turn off certain walls in a special working plan view for some Q.C. work. For example, I want to turn off every wall except CMU walls and have only doors in CMU show up. That way, I can window select and filter out those doors and in one exercise, fill in the Head and Jamb details and know I got all doors in CMU. I actually made it even easier by creating a simple key schedule with the different wall types & door combinations, so I just select the right key for those door/wall combinations and I'm done.
Now, I know how to just turn CMU walls on....I create a filter with "does not equal" or "does not include" and enter a criteria that filters everything EXCEPT the CMU walls (could be type name or type mark for instance). Then I just add that to the V/G and turn it off. Now in my view, I just get CMU walls. What I was hoping for was to see any hosted elements by those walls to also turn off, but that didn't happen :(
Is there a way to do that? I really really really wish that doors could report what their host type is. Then I could just do schedules filtered for wall types. Any ideas or is this just not doable at the moment?