Sliding glass doors in window schedule. How to get their labels as "D" and not "W"

[GeneDavis]

Is there a way to have Chief label them as a "D" when they are to be scheduled with windows?

[Joe_Carrick]

Use a Custom Field to define the first character of the label.

[Renerabbitt]

11 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

Is there a way to have Chief label them as a "D" when they are to be scheduled with windows?

Create a macro in CAD/Text/Text Macro Management/ or tap alt,c,t,r

Now in your Window Schedule put

This method will not be able to distinguish windows from doors if automatic_label is included in the schedule, but it will put "No.-" as a prefix in the schedule
There are other more robusts ways to accomplish this automatically, this is just the simplest method with that small trade off

 

[GeneDavis]

Hey @Renerabbitt!  Thanks!

 

My first ever dive into macros and it's like speaking greek, but I tried and got nothing.  See attached.  I typed "windows" and "doors" where you were not-plural, only because my layer names are plural with an s following, i.e. windows.

 

To quote the artist formerly known as Prince in, for me, his best ever song, "Nothing compares 2 u,"   . . . where did I go wrong.

 

The macro is returning "No." and not W or SD.

[Renerabbitt]

1 hour ago, GeneDavis said:

The macro is returning "No." and not W or SD

That is correct and that's what I put in the last line of my post. A schedule doesn't have any way of knowing what a window or door is, so there is no distinguished way for it to determine that when its rebuilding labels. But your plan view will show w ans d prefixes on the window and door labels.

Otherwise you could do this with custom window and door label macros instead where you don't use the automatic label system but rather specify the label instead