Door & Window Numbers In Elevations From Modules

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I would like to know how people are showing their window and door numbers in elevation when using modules.

We do a lot of multi residential work, and at the moment in our master file we are labelling all windows and doors 'by hand' with 2D text, ie they are not linked to the window/door.

This makes for too much room for human error.

Is there a way to get door and window numbers from modules to show, and be linked, in elevation?

Thanks,

Mike

[Erika Epstein]

Not the most intuituitive... labeling doors and windows works the same using the ability of doors and windows to have automatic labels using the Label tool:

-In the elevation window select ALL windows and
- in the info box check the LABEL Elements box.
- Activate the Label TOOL
- Select all labels (filter selection if other labels present in elevation)
- Switch the type of label to one of the Window Labels from the default Text type.

- Put the labels on the layer of your choice

[Anonymous]

Thanks Erica,

but I am unable to select the 'LABEL ELEMENTS' box, i'm assuming this is because it is a hotlinked module.

Mike

[Erika Epstein]

or are the door/window wall layers locked?

[Anonymous]

Nope, no layers are locked......

[Erika Epstein]

are you in TW?

[Anonymous]

Nope.

I am in the middle of a work around, with some small progress. Fingers crossed it finishes where we need it!!!

Mike

[Anonymous]

So my work around didnt work. Well it worked for individual Module Types, but you couldnt get it to work for say 4 of the same module.

So 1000's of users out there, some of you must be using modules and you must label your windows and doors in elevation, so how do you do it?

[Anonymous]

Bump!!

Come on, no one in here, apart from Erika, uses modules and door/window labels?

Mike

[Anonymous]

I did years ago and don't recall any problems but I'm not sure if we used them in the overall buildings or just the unit plans or maybe we just placed dumb tags.