How to show doors swing area colored in a floor plan

[yuliya.nenovaWUZQN]

Hi everyone,

I want to show all doors in a floor plan with a colored swing area. The idea behind is to show a visiual division of doors by their material. The color system is needed only in floor plans. In the attached link you can see an example.

Do you know how I can add a filter for this? Or is there any better way to achieve this?

Any suggestion is welcome, thank you in advance!

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

You can build it into your door families. However if you have many door families or use door families from different sites this might not be the best option.

You also could create a family with the shape as shown in your picture. Then manually place this family at each door in your project. If needed you could automate this process with a Dynamo script

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@yuliya.nenovaWUZQN 

Option 1: Can be done using subcategories..

1. add an extrusion to the door family
2. Give that extrusion a material parameter
3. Set the extrusion to s subcategory which you can switch off in all views except plans

Option 2: view filter + subcategories. 

1. The extrusion need to be in a nested shared Component (Generic model or door category)
2. The extrusion in the nested component need to be:
   • assigned to a subcategory which can be switched off in all views except where you want to display the color scheme
   • Visible only in plan views (saves you switching the subcategory off in elevations and sections)
3. In the Nested Family a shared parameter which is linked/associated to a parameter in the Door family (ie: the parameter of common value between the nested child and parent based on which you will filter and override)

Apply a filter based on the parameter mentioned in 3 and override surface pattern or cut pattern depending on category you chose for the nested extrusion (cuttable or not cuttable)