Column Tags

[dzatto]

Okay, here's one for ya. I'm inserting column and beam tags. No big deal except the column is labeled as HSS4x4X1_4, because you can't use a "/" in the naming of stuff. Problem is, it needs to be labeled as 1/4, not 1_4. I'm afraid it will cause confusion in the field. Actually, I'm sure of it! Is there a way to change the call out other than just labeling them manually?

[Steve_Bennett]

Please note I have moved this to the Style Management forum.

Perhaps the great David Koch will have some input on getting PSD's to not evaluate as VB formulas...

[dkoch]

Okay, here's one for ya. I'm inserting column and beam tags. No big deal except the column is labeled as HSS4x4X1_4, because you can't use a "/" in the naming of stuff. Problem is, it needs to be labeled as 1/4, not 1_4. I'm afraid it will cause confusion in the field. Actually, I'm sure of it! Is there a way to change the call out other than just labeling them manually?
I am not super familiar with the out-of-the-box column and beam tags. If they are regular Schedule Tags, pulling data from a Property in a Property Set (and the Property is an Automatic Property referencing the Name of the Structural Member Style), then one potential solution you might try is to set up a Formula property that would take the Style Name and replace all underscores with "/", then use the Formula property in your tags.

If the Property holding the style name is called "Name", and you set up the formula below such that [Name] is a properly created reference to the Name property, then the following should work in a Formula property (in the same Property Set):

Replace("[Name]", "_", "/")

This assumes that all underscores in the name require replacing.