topic Re: Door with non-horizontal head (under stair door) scheduling in Revit Architecture Forum

Door with non-horizontal head (under stair door) scheduling

alina_mcconnochie — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:27:38 GMT

hi,

I have a door in my project that is under a stair. the top of the door slopes to follow the stair gradient.

in my schedule I would it to read 'varies' for the height of the door. or 'as indicated'

height field only seems to accept a fixed number (for obvious reasons!) is there a workaround without having to add shared parameters etc?

Re: Door with non-horizontal head (under stair door) scheduling

Martijn.Pater — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:17:13 GMT

You could add a project parameter to door category to adjust the schedule with, ie. similarly as an 'include in schedule' yes/no parameter. Then you might transfer it to a calculated field or conditional format...

Re: Door with non-horizontal head (under stair door) scheduling

RDAOU — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:13:18 GMT

@alina_mcconnochie

Height is a Length parameter

"Varies" would be a text Parameter

Even if you add a Shared Parameter, it would not be possible to combine Text value and Length value in a formula. ie: you cannot override the default Height parameter and have it at one instance output/report Length and at another instance output/report Text...You can use dynamo but you will need an extra shared text parameter which dynamo sets its value...not worth the trouble for one doors or 2 ....

Easiest would be to add that Varies as a comment and use a different door tag that displays comment instead of Height

Re: Door with non-horizontal head (under stair door) scheduling

ToanDN — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:59:41 GMT

Add a 'VARIES' opaque text note over the cell.

Re: Door with non-horizontal head (under stair door) scheduling

Martijn.Pater — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 07:45:05 GMT

That's probably easiest... but otherwise/alternatively you could do a calculated (text) value something like [ if(hasvariableheight, "(as indicated)", "") ] and then combine those cells by removing the cell border in between similarly to a combined parameter... no way to override the dimension value itself though afaik, but an often used method is to blacken the field using a conditional format (unfortunately conditional formatting is a bit limited itself tbh)...