Interactive Schedule Frustration!!! - Part 2

[Anonymous]

Can anyone explain to me, or point me towards a clear description, of what determines the 3d 'front' view of a door/window in a schedule, as opposed to the 'back' view . Rant follows if you need more info:

I was of the opinion that when you placed the door/window, the side edge of the wall you clicked was the 'front'. The documentation convention i want to maintain is that on a schedule, you see the elevation from outside (that is, from the exterior of the building/room/etc) irrespective of whether the door itself opens towards or away from you.

Now that i've been trying to use the interactive schedule for a bit, i'm not sure.

The front view seems to generally show the side that the door open toward; this is not acceptable - take a scenario where you have a wall with a series of doors that may have varying directions of opening - i think that for the purpose of clarity, the schedule should show all the frames and doors from the same side. I'm aware that you can add a plan view to the schedule, or refer to the floor plan for clarification, but still, the inconsistency seems odd to me.

[vfrontiers]

Along those same lines...

Why can I not change the LAYER combination of a Schedule VIEW once it's been created? if I chose the VIEW in the Navigator and MODIFY SOURCE VIEW SETTINGS... layer combo is greyed out?... Stinks when you set up a CLONE to do scheduling...

And, I gather that they layering does not affect the schedule (because the CRITERIA sets all that up)... but when going to a Door Schedule (from the view map) and coming back to the plan, I always have to change layer sets to get the correct layers.

Ugh..