Create grid with labels

[Anonymous]

Great forum.

Say, I'd like to create grids, where each square is uniquely labeled (can be any unique labels, really, such as "1", "2", "3", etc., or "a1", etc. below). How do I best do this. Is the best way?: View --> Guide Grid

[bimscape]

May I ask: What doe you actually want to do with this grid of unique cells? If you describe the end result / strategy you are wanting to achieve, we could work backwards and determine the best solution. There may be other options that don't involve Guide Grids?

[aaron_rumple]

Quick and dirty, since we don't know what you really want to do....

A square family - arrayed in your grid and then tag each family with Mark.

Use Dynamo to rename them with the letters and numbers based on location.

[Anonymous]

Good question. We label warehouses for determining forklift travel distances, and we look at each bin in the warehouse and assign an arbitrary unique zone that ("a1", "b3", "j5", etc.) to it. So I need to look at any point in the warehouse and say "that point is in zone b3". Does that help?

[aaron_rumple · Accepted solution]

Then yes.
I'd make a family - it could just be some model lines in plan. Array the family in a grid and tag all. Then you can do the tags a couple of ways.

• By hand.
• Two fields for column and row.
  • Select all in a row and add the row value
  • Select all in a column and add the column value
  • Use dynamo based on location.

Or...

• You could make a grid of room separation lines and then label the grid as rooms.
  • Advantage is that anything you place in that space could easily be locate as long as the family has the Room Calculation Point turned on.
  • Disadvantage - it will possibly conflict with other rooms.
    • Work around would be to do this in a linked model.
  • Labels could be done he same as above.

And...

• You could locate items within the area using the first method (family) by finding items (bins) within the families bounding box. But that required some dynamo. But sounds like you might need dynamo for some other things as well.
  • You might want your family to have a height, if you are looking to determine where a bin is on a shelf vertically. You can retrieve the XYZ easily.

[Anonymous]

You folks are awesome. Thanks!

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

You can create slope glazing and use curtainwall panel as your guide with text value. Then you can define the number of vertical & horizontal grids you want. See attached

[Anonymous]

Thanks!