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Sparky

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The Question is this.

Has anyone come up with a way/workaround to schedule a door lining depth? (the door lining will always be equal to the overall wall thickness it is placed in)

At the moment im doing it via a text parameter and its doing my head in.

Id even apreciate a reply that says "YOU CANT DO THAT" so i can get on with my life!!!

Thanks all

DAR

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framerman

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Well, I might get proven wrong, but I don't think you can and this is why. There might be an intelligent workaround that I haven't heard of.

When you make your family, you attach your jambs to the face of the wall. The thickness changes, then so does the jambs. So the only way to do this would be a parameter of the wall thickness and you get an error when you try to constrain the wall with a dimension.

The only thing I could think of, but would be a complete PITA would be to reference plane the jambs, attach one plane to the wall and another would be unlocked, but dimensioned. You would then have to set the thickness manually. Not a very good solution, but it helps with scheduling. On a large commercial, forget it. 

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TomDorner

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framerman is correct in that it can't be done.

Collectively Revit users have been asking to be able to read other parameters such as wall thickness for years.  It seems though that our requests simply fall on deaf ears at Autodesk.  All I can suggest is that you file a support request with Autodesk and state your problem, what it is costing yu in terms of time and errors and then propose a solution of being able to read the wall thickness into a formula.

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Sparky

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All i want them to add is a "read only parameter" - a parameter you can attach to whatever you like and pull info from it. That would be usefull in countless situations.

Seems like im stuck with my text 

Thx guys, ill send autodesk a report then.

DAR

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