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Dashed Headers On Floor Plan

Anonymous
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I have a header above a large opening. I can construct this either by using an empty door opening, or (as I have chosen) by placing a wall with it's bottom edge at 8'-0".

The problem is that if I want to show this with dashed lines on the floor plan, I also get dashed lines on the section (they should be solid). I can't get either option to display dashed lines on the floor plan, and solid lines in sections.

It's probably something simple. Any ideas?
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Anonymous
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Not that this is the definitive answer (is there such a thing?), but I've had success using the rectangular opening library part in the Windows/Openings folder. you can delineate a dashed linetype for the (2D) plan view, which doesn't disrupt the section representation. Now if I could figure out a way to automate excluding this opening from my schedule listings...
Anonymous
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wallcrawler wrote:
Now if I could figure out a way to automate excluding this opening from my schedule listings...
Door openings included! I assume this is already on the wish list...
Karl Ottenstein
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wallcrawler wrote:
Now if I could figure out a way to automate excluding this opening from my schedule listings...
You assign a special ID to the opening and exclude that ID (or similar ones) using the criteria. Illustrated various times in several threads.

Karl
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