Glazing strip for doors

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

I am trying to make a glazing indicator strip in all my door families, but the glazing strip doesn't come out as desired graphically. (See snippets)

I created 2 filled regions in the detail item family: one grey solid and one diagonal up fill and overlapped them to get the grey solid with diagonal up lines. then I loaded that family into the door family, placed it on the door leaf and loaded into the project and the grey solid disappeared and the diagonal up are spaced too far apart. i cannot assign a material to it as it asks me to slelect a yes/no parameter only. So how can I make a glazing indicator strip? Ps, I also want it tagable with a code. 

I have also tried to create an extrusion and assign it a material but no material can provide me with a hatch and a solid fill pattern. I don't want people to confuse the glazing strip with a transom or split glazing.

Any ideas on best approach to this?

Cheers! 🙂

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi, 

I am trying to make a glazing indicator strip in all my door families, but the glazing strip doesn't come out as desired graphically. (See snippets)

I created 2 filled regions in the detail item family: one grey solid and one diagonal up fill and overlapped them to get the grey solid with diagonal up lines. then I loaded that family into the door family, placed it on the door leaf and loaded into the project and the grey solid disappeared and the diagonal up are spaced too far apart. i cannot assign a material to it as it asks me to slelect a yes/no parameter only. So how can I make a glazing indicator strip? Ps, I also want it tagable with a code. 

I have also tried to create an extrusion and assign it a material but no material can provide me with a hatch and a solid fill pattern. I don't want people to confuse the glazing strip with a transom or split glazing.

Any ideas on best approach to this?

Cheers! 🙂

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I would create a face based generic model family with 2 elements: one with a diagonal pattern surface material, another with a solid gray surface pattern, both are semi-transparent.  Play with the diagonal pattern scale so that it works with the scales with want to present in project.  Make the family shared and nest it to the door family, place on the glass panes and associate the dimensions.  Since the materials are transparent you will see both the diagonal pattern and the solid tone.  It is a shared family so you can tag it in project.