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esahnow

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Hello all,

I'm using Revit '12

I have a 6'-0" double door (typ) and want them noted in the door schedule as (2) 3'-0" doors instead of 6'-0" which is shown. I also don't want to place 2 3' doors in the model (I don't want the number of doors listed in the schedule to be double of what is actually there) next to eachother as they act as a single unit. Any idea to manipulate the door schedule? Anyone else have this problem and solved it a different way?

Thanks for the help!

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Eric Sahnow

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JAMESHGRIMES

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I have a column in our schedule for Panel Quantity that I fill out. For double doors I use the Width parameter to control the width of a single panel and have another parameter for Overall width with a formula like this (Width*2) to control the overall opening. In the schedule I am using the Width parameter for the width column, so the Line in the schedule would be something like this

Double Doors

Width = 3'

Panel Qty = 2

Single Doors

Width = 3'

Panel Qty = 1

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WWHub

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We do it a little different than James.  We have a yes no switch for double or not.  That ends up showing as a check in the schedule.  Then we hide the door width column and have a calculated filed titled width that is conditional.  It calculates the door width as whole or half.  This works well for all conditions including storefront doors but it will not work on unequal leaf doors.  We usually don't have those.

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Carley

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WWHub could you expand on how you do that?  Is it set within the parameters or is it a text box in the schedule.  I am desprately trying to figure out the best way to do this on a large project.  The doors I have in the project are the standard ones from the Revit library. 

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WWHub

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A single, 3' door schedules as a 3' door with pair NO. 

A pair of 3' doors schedules as 3' door with pair YES.

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CDWdavid

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Hi Carley,

You might try this. The schedule called Pr. 3'-0" x 7'-0", or Pr. 3'-0"/2'-0" X 7'-0" for un-equal doors.

http://www.revitcity.com/downloads.php?action=view&object_id=11969

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WWHub

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CDWdavid,

You can always create a manual parameter (text) and fill it in manually.  The process we were talking about is a truely parametric schedule.

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CDWdavid

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That was a parametric schedule. The "Type" of each door showed on the schedule was the size.

May be your parametric is different. But the way I have does not require any manully input.

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WWHub

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CDWdavid,

So how does your schedule work when you also have curtain wall doors?  Your system works fine on a house but not many commercial projects.

Curtain wall door sizes do not come from a type.  They are determined by the opening which gives you a width and a height.

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CDWdavid

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Hi WWHub,

Please see attached door schedule, doors AD-1 and AD-2 are curtain wall doors.

The door schedule had no problem to show them.

Now my question was, for those two curtain wall doors, I had to manully assign door numbers to each door tag on plan, instead of letting Revit to assign them automatically like other doors in typical walls. Would you please tell me your way to place those curtain wall doors? I like to learn your way, then to see if I can manipulate with my door schedule.

Thanks!

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WWHub

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Where does that information come from on your CW doors?  True curtain wall doors can not have a type based size because they are really a curtain wall panel.  Sure, you can call it a 3'x7' even if it measures 3'6x6'8... but that defeats some of Revit's automatic properties.  When we see a curtain wall door in the schedule with a strange size, we know the curtain wall is wrong so we fix it.

.... or are you placing a standard door in your curtain wall?

Because CW doors are a CW panel, they will never tag automatically with a door tag like regular doors.

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CDWdavid

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Hi WWHub,

Those two doors were CW doors, I picked the CW panels on elevation and replaced them with CW doors, and Revit adjusted the door size automatically per the height and width of that panel. On "Project Browser", under Families, Doors, the name of that family was "CW_Door_Single", under that I just renamed the type to 3'-6" x 8'-4", which came from the "Properties" of that door, and the dimensions showed up on my door schedule automatically. Since our projects are all schools, hospitals and prisons, ADA clearances are crucial, therefore we like to see the actual size of door leafs on door schedule, and on project browser; we also check with the door properties, which are the actual sizes of those doors, to make sure they are all ADA compliant.

I'm very glad to hear from you that "CW doors are a CW panel, they will never tag automatically with a door tag like regular doors". I alway wondered if I did something wrong for those CW doors, because they were not tagged like regular doors. Since our buildings are not commercial, therefore the total number of CW doors are small, that's why I didn't spend too much time on CW doors, as long as we can get what we want. Now from your word, looks like I did it right. Thanks!

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