Curtain wall door marker

[Tom Krowka]

Don't see a setting for door marker for a door placed in a custom panel in the curtain wall. Don't tell me it can't be done. Tell me I missed a setting someplace.

Tom

[NandoMogollon]

Select the curtain Wall, the go to Menu:

Design / Modify Curtain Wall / Label All Members

From there it's pretty much the same as labeling any other element, select, change it to the desired one, etc...

Hope this helps

[Tom Krowka]

Thanks. Will check it out.

Tom

[Tom Krowka]

Tried that....no result on plan view. Turned all other curtain wall components off in regards to labeling except for doors. Am trying to get a door marker similar to typ. door marker that will also show up on the schedule.

Selected and opened the dialogue box both in plan view and in 3D window.

Can't get any of it to work.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Tom,

Did you try setting the default label type for 'Curtain Wall Panels Tool' in the label settings beforehand? If you set this to the 'Curtain Wall DW Label 16' label, then do the 'Label All Members' procedure as Nando suggests then it should work.

I also just noticed you can label the openings individually in sections and elevs. See the help file here - http://help.graphisoft.com/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=04_Documentation.07.083.html#1004719

[kevin b]

Getting closer on this thanks to this post but still not quite there.
I can get the marker to show correctly (through some modification), now looks like all the rest of our doors.
I am having trouble getting it to schedule properly with the rest of the doors. I can get the doors to show up on our door schedule but many of the parameters do not show, particularly the door size and the to and from locations which are read from the zones for our typical doors.

Am I missing something or is this still something lagging in the CW tool?

[David Maudlin]

kevin wrote:
I am having trouble getting it to schedule properly with the rest of the doors. I can get the doors to show up on our door schedule but many of the parameters do not show, particularly the door size and the to and from locations which are read from the zones for our typical doors.

Am I missing something or is this still something lagging in the CW tool?

The Parameters used for the Door and the CW Door Panel are not the same, one comes from the Available Door Parameters, the other from the Available Curtain Wall Parameters. I don't think one schedule with the parameters in the same column is possible, maybe 2 schedules matched up on the layout will work.

David

[kevin b]

So that's what I set out to do but still had a few issues.
For some reason the panel width and height dimensions show in schedule as decimal inches not feet-inches like everything else. To Zone and From Zone (which is how we show our door locations in schedule) do not seem to work. The parameters are there for listing on the schedule and when I put them on the schedule they just show as empty. Could do it with user defined but would rather it be automatic like it should be.

[David Maudlin]

kevin wrote:
For some reason the panel width and height dimensions show in schedule as decimal inches not feet-inches like everything else.

Right, as it turns out these dimensions are set by the Project Preference > Calculation Units & Rules which only allows decimal feet or decimal inches, not useful here.

Another option is to delete the door panel from the Curtain Wall, place there a Wall the same size as the deleted panel, then place a Door into that Wall. This door will schedule like the others. The downside is that the Door and Curtain Wall are not the same unit, so any changes to the Curtain Wall that affect the Door will require moving/editing the Door/Wall combination. But al least they will be visible in the model, so the change will be visible, not on a hidden layer.

David

[kevin b]

The fake wall and door trick is what we have done in the past, but with new versions we always are looking to eliminate many of the workarounds we have used in the past, and this was one of them.