Best way to schedule doors from linked model

[skyeg321]

Hey guys. Working on a tenant improvement project that is a suite inside a large office building. The office building is modeled and linked to my TI project. It has all the doors in the entire project modeled in and there are hundreds of doors. I want to include a door schedule in my project but I only want the doors in my schedule that are associated with my suite. What is the best way to filter these doors from the linked project? 

[barthbradley]

Tick "Include Elements from Link" on the Schedule's Fields Tab.  Add the necessary parameters to Filter, Sort and Group by.   

Can you open and modify the link? If so, add a Room Calculation Point to Door Family and include To Room/From Room info in the Schedule to Filter, Sort and Group by.   

[skyeg321]

**** Barth you are always on it! That sounds great but its not working for some reason. I think it may be because my rooms are placed in the TI project and my doors are from the linked project. Does that sound plausible? Also yes I was able to get into the main building model and enable the room calculation points. They are spreading out into the rooms on both sides of the door. Loaded in and synced up.

[ToanDN]

You can include linked doors in a schedule but they are associated with linked rooms, not host rooms.

[skyeg321]

@ToanDN Can you use room calc points in linked models? Because I added a room in the linked model to test this and filtering is not working for me back in the TI model. Maybe I need to filter these doors through a different method like a custom door parameter..

[ToanDN]

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@skyeg321 wrote:

@ToanDN Can you use room calc points in linked models? Because I added a room in the linked model to test this and filtering is not working for me back in the TI model. Maybe I need to filter these doors through a different method like a custom door parameter..

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Yes.  Rooms in the same link as the doors can show in the TI door schedule. 

You don't even need to turn on Room Calculation Point for any door family. 

[barthbradley]

I'm not quite sure what you are doing. I'm envisioning the Link being the existing condition and the TI, which you are developing, being the proposed condition that replaces what's already there. Is that about the size of it?  

If so, I wouldn't link the existing. I would add phases onto it.  TI Phases.  Phases where existing Doors and Walls were demolished and new ones erected.    

[skyeg321]

The link is the as-built of the entire building. This includes all walls and doors on all levels. We put in the phases for each TI in this as-built project then map those to our TI project. Our TI template/project includes all the sheets we need for a typical TI submittal. There could be 10 TIs in each building. Each TI is typically 1 level.  Each TI only includes what is new for the TI such as walls, chairs, rooms, lights etc. The rest is referenced from the as-built link. It all works great except for filtering out all the doors we don't want in our schedule from the as-built link. 

[ToanDN]

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@skyeg321 wrote:

The link is the as-built of the entire building. This includes all walls and doors on all levels. We put in the phases for each TI in this as-built project then map those to our TI project. Our TI template/project includes all the sheets we need for a typical TI submittal. There could be 10 TIs in each building. Each TI is typically 1 level.  Each TI only includes what is new for the TI such as walls, chairs, rooms, lights etc. The rest is referenced from the as-built link. It all works great except for filtering out all the doors we don't want in our schedule from the as-built link. 

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You should be able to filter linked doors in a host schedule using a parameter of the link such as From Room: , To Room: , etc...

[skyeg321]

I can't get the from room or to room filtering to work for me at all man. Not sure why.

I ended up making a shared parameter file called suite xxx which is a yes/no parameter for each suite and I can filter by that successfully.

[ToanDN]

The door must meet both filter to show.  Try use one filter at a time and see.