How to select doors

[Anonymous]

Hello, i have problem. In my project i've many types of doors. For example external doors, internal doors, fire doors, etc.... moreover doors have different dimensions. If i would like to select only internal doors with dimensions 200x90 and materials wood how to do this quickly? I watched tutorials about using filters but usually these tutorials shows that you can change color of filtered objects etc but my problem is how to select them to change theirs parameters.

[constantin.stroescu]

I see two methods in doing this:

• The first one directly on the drawing 

1. in a 3d View of the entire building , make a Window or Cross Selection so to be sure you select everything
2. with all items selected , go to Selection >Filter> uncheck  all but  Doors
3. go to Temporary Hide/Isolate command from View Control bar and select Isolate Element
4. Now you will see only the Doors
5. click on the Door Type you want to select and click on mouse right button . The contextual menu opens . Select all Instances in Entire Project  and use again Temporary Hide/Isolate command, and Isolate the selected
6. in Properties you will see the number of doors will appear:

• The second one , and my preferred method is by using Schedule.

For this you have to create a Door Schedule with (at least) the following Fields : 

• Family and Type
• Type Mark
• Count

Then you can Sort and Group by Type Mark ( or Filter by Type Mark) in order to isolate only the desired Door Type.

This method needs a more detailed explanation , maybe a screencast....

[constantin.stroescu]

the second method: By using Schedule:

• create Door Schedule . Is up to you which Field you load in the Schedule, but for control number of a certain Door Type , is mandatory to have at least:
  • Type
  • and Count
  • you can use Family and Type instead of Type , and I'll add Type Mark too. If you want to see how the doors a spread per levels , then add the Field Level.

In the following screencast you can see how you can control the door types and numbers on a single level building:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/d505edb0-296e-44f1-a773-7f96fb91ca12

[barthbradley]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I watched tutorials about using filters 

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Are you talking about Rule-Based Filters and how to use them to apply Graphic Overrides in a View?  

If so, where are you having trouble in the process? 

[bin]

Maybe select a door and type IC?

[constantin.stroescu]

...shortcuts are indeed more quick (In this case to Isolate Category) than going to ribbon or bars...

 Perhaps ,could be sufficient to select a door instance is needed to know the number, and right click : Select all Instances in the Project . Wee will obtain quickly the number written under Type Selector from Property palette...

Anyway, I prefer Schedule because I'm able to control in any moment the project in all its aspects...and in addition can export this information into a text file to Excel or a text editor for non Revit users.

[Anonymous]

@constantin.stroescu  your answer is very helpful. I was looking for a tool similar to the tool which presented at this video at 5:40     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcgDu_wGQNA&t=387s . This was very useful tool when i was working with archicad. But i'm afraid that Revit doesn't have that nice tool like that one.

[barthbradley]

View tab=> Filters. That's the interface I'm showing above in my screenshot. 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/EN...

[Anonymous]

Maybe i'm blind but how to select these elements after using filters?🤔 I know how to change them colour but how to select them? For example to move them up or down or change them properties...

[barthbradley]

What do you what to do with them after you select them?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/EN...

[constantin.stroescu]

I think the OP wants something similar with Filter in Schedule.

In my opinion Schedules are one of the most powerful and useful tool of Revit thought as a BIM instrument. I've trained a lot of graduate architect students with knowledge in BIM programs , most of them working in Archicad, fewer in Revit. All of them manage quite good in modeling but almost none of them have any idea of using tools as Schedule or something similar.

Sad.

Because BIM means much more than just modeling.