Door & Window Tag Filters?

[iankids]

Hi All,

As part of the normal work I do, I am required to draw all the buildings adjacent to the subject site showing the locations of doors windows etc. I normally model these (rather than draw them in 2d line work), as they contribute to the shadow diagrams which are also commonly produced.

The problem I have is that every door and window I place in the surrounding building automatically gets a door or window tag and finds its way onto the door and window schedule. This leads to very large and cumbersome schedules, most of which relate to other than the subject building.

How does one filter the tag so that only those door which relate to the subject building are tagged and all others are not???

I tried creating a filter using the Uniformat.txt The filter worked, but filtered out the entire door and tag, not just the tag.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.
Happy Christmas to all

Cheers,

Ian

[Chirag Mistry]

You should create the adjoining building doors and windows as part of existing phase and your building as new construction. You can then filter the schedule by phases.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

You wouldn't filter the tag you would filter the schedule.
As an alternative to phases you can add a yes/no parameter to your windows and doors that indicates if they are to be included in the schedule or one that marks them as 'adjacent building'.
You can always delete the tags you don't want showing up on the drawings or better yet make sure the 'tag on placement' box is unchecked when you place these elements.

[iankids]

Thank you to both Chirag & Dimtri for your suggestions, both make perfect sense.

Cheers,

Ian

[dbaldacchino]

You could also use a simple naming convention for the mark parameter. For example when Revit adds a door, it starts numbering them....1, 2, 3, etc. We delilberately call our doors A101, A102, B101, etc. so we can easily filter our schedules to "starts with A" on the mark and everything else stays out. Remember that a Tag in Revit just displays information for the tagged element and does not house information: it just displays it. Any act of filtering has to occur on the model element itself. As suggested, probably the easiest and most correct way is to use the phasing and phase filter features (which are also part of schedules).

[iankids]

Thank you David for your advice.


Ian

[aaronrumple]

We tag existing doors (or windows) that are to remain and not part of the project with the mark "E". This allows us to filter out those doors from the schedule and still schedule existing and new doors on the same schedule. And it is fast to input, as all the not in contract doors and windows can be selected and marked with "E" in one step.

[dhurtubise]

If you are not directly interacting with them build them on separate file and link.By default they wont appear in your scheule