door tag suffix increment

[Anonymous]

I started a fresh dwg and inserted doors rooms etc... I insert the tag and
the correct Room and Door number are there, but the letter isnt showing up
on insertion. I can edit the specs just fine, but I assumed that it would
auto increment to A...then next B and etc. I screwed with it and made the
Room Suffix Auto Increment instead of just Text, but it doesnt work. Did I
miss something...?

Also...I assume the only advantage to using Project based stuff is so the
Door tags inherently have the same number and have the little letter... We
dont even use the project based settings...constructs..Elements..etc.. Is
it really worth learning and explaining to the group that we need it. Any
advice is encouraging..

I tell ya guys....When Property set names changed it was a big pain...Not
really for those of us that understand how to fix them....But for the
average use who never even has seen what a Property set
is....Wow...hehe...and trying to explain to the powers at be that we need to
train over again....well...it wasn't pretty. Everyone here had this Revit
Seminar and thinks it will save the world...I am trying to tell them Arch 08
can do all of that also...But if you dont understand how to XREF or change a
dimension style...Revit is not going to save you... 🙂

Later all

Eric

[Anonymous]

Ok...I never set the default to anything...Did that, but when I change rooms
it continues from D...E..and I want it to go back to A....Thanx



"Eric" wrote in message
news:5839594@discussion.autodesk.com...
I started a fresh dwg and inserted doors rooms etc... I insert the tag and
the correct Room and Door number are there, but the letter isnt showing up
on insertion. I can edit the specs just fine, but I assumed that it would
auto increment to A...then next B and etc. I screwed with it and made the
Room Suffix Auto Increment instead of just Text, but it doesnt work. Did I
miss something...?

Also...I assume the only advantage to using Project based stuff is so the
Door tags inherently have the same number and have the little letter... We
dont even use the project based settings...constructs..Elements..etc.. Is
it really worth learning and explaining to the group that we need it. Any
advice is encouraging..

I tell ya guys....When Property set names changed it was a big pain...Not
really for those of us that understand how to fix them....But for the
average use who never even has seen what a Property set
is....Wow...hehe...and trying to explain to the powers at be that we need to
train over again....well...it wasn't pretty. Everyone here had this Revit
Seminar and thinks it will save the world...I am trying to tell them Arch 08
can do all of that also...But if you dont understand how to XREF or change a
dimension style...Revit is not going to save you... 🙂

Later all

Eric

[Anonymous]

The auto-increment options for Manual properties (integer or character) increment drawing-wide, not on a per space basis. If you want the first door opening in every room to be A, the second (if there is one) to be B, etc., then use a text-type Manual property for the suffix, set the default value to be "A" and then manually enter the "B", "C", etc. when there are multiple door openings in a room.

You do not need to use the Drawing Management feature (Project Browser/Project Navigator) to have door tags that show the room number and a suffix. You will have to make some edits in the out-of-the-box content. You will need a Location property that reads in the property from your Space that holds the room number. (The out-of-the-box RoomNumber property is going to read the project-based room number, which concatenates the Level of the Construct in which a Space resides with the auto-increment "Increment" property. This will have no value outside of the Project Navigator environment.) You could then create a tag that displays the room number and your door suffix in two separate view block attributes, or that displays the value of a formula property that concatenates the two.

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