topic Automatic Door ID in Collaboration with other software

Automatic Door ID

Tom Krowka — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:23:16 GMT

Am now using V18. Somehow I changed a setting and can;t figure out how to change it back. Doors are being inserted without an ID numbers. Have played around in the Element ID manager with door ID and criteria to no avail. This should be an easy one but it has me stumped.

Thanks

Re: Automatic Door ID

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:31:35 GMT

Did you check Document-> Model View Options and check your Renovation settings.

Re: Automatic Door ID

Tom Krowka — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:10:37 GMT

Not quite the problem am describing. Tag shows up fine. But it's empty. There is no automatic ID assigned. I used to be able to place doors or windows one after the other. In the door marker they would start at D01, then consecutively number themselves as I placed them. Can't seem to get it done presently.

Thanks Tom

Re: Automatic Door ID

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:20:01 GMT

That is weird, so I'll keep on guessing.

Re: Automatic Door ID

Tom Krowka — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:30:05 GMT

OK, the box is checked, and has been. The doors I have been placing are from favorites palette, which is a relic of V17. These are the doors that don't have an ID in the door tage. However, a new door placed directly from the door tool works fine. Must be some migration glitch. I guess I need to save the new doors back to the favorites.

Thanks for the replies.

Tom

Re: Automatic Door ID

Barry Kelly — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:53:27 GMT

Have a look at your Favourite Preference settings - small triangle top-right of the favourites palette.
Have a look to see if the door ID setting is ticked or not.
You will want to turn it on if you want to use automatically generated IDs.
That way the ID saved with the favourite will not be used.

Barry.

Re: Automatic Door ID

Tom Krowka — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:59:37 GMT

Thanks. Had never looked at favorites preferences.

Tom