Tagging Beam Spacing

kieraGU56Z — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:31:19 GMT

I am wondering if there is a better way to tag repetitive framing members. Here is a rundown of our current process:

Create a beam type whose name includes the spacing
Create a beam system using that member
All joists are hidden in plan by default so we pick one of the beam system members and set it to purlin then add start/end connection symbols
Framing member gets tagged for type name

What I would like to happen is have the framing tag include the spacing parameter from the beam system so every time we have a different spacing or update the spacing, we don't need to rename/create a new family type just for it to show in the tag. I thought the multi-category tag would be perfect but it doesn't seem to work with beam systems. Now, I've started experimenting with using shared & global parameters as a work around but it does mean that I would need create/associate new global parameters whenever I want to update/create beam system spacing just so my framing tags can update automatically.

Am I thinking about this too hard? Should we stick with only using the type names to denote spacing or is there some way to make them automatic? Below are some screenshots for clarification

Re: Tagging Beam Spacing

lawrenceh — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:42:46 GMT

You can use Dynamo to take the parameters from the Beam System and write these into the framing elements. Basically, the Structural Framing is hosted into beam systems so Dynamo can return the framing elements from the Beam Systems.

See below.

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Tagging Beam Spacing

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