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bizz3d

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I would like to make my shear wall tag read the shear wall family's length. I don’t want my users to manually input this information and possibly make a mistake.

How do I make the label pull the length information from my shear wall family?

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WWHub

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I don't believe there is any way to tag the length of a wall but it can be scheduled.

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bizz3d

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What about building a generic family with the label? Could the label read the length then?

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TKennedy

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I think I'd do it with two families, one detail component and one nested symbol. I've attached a family as an example, it's extremely basic but should get the point across. It's not actually a tag so it won't automatically read the wall length, but it can be locked to a wall and it will read and display the length.

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bizz3d

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Thank you TKennedy but I do not see the attached sample you mentioned. Can you please repost and once again thank you for the sample.

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mbsteve

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This is a shear wall symbol that I fooled around with. I was hoping to be able to set tags to each end, but haven't got that far yet. Anything you can do to improve it would be great.

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TKennedy

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Doh. Forgot to attach it.

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