Command:
Command: TE
Command: TXTEDT
Select attributes, text, mtext, dimensions, hatching, attdefs, APS
architectural symbols, doors (in plan), or windows (in plan):
Select attributes, text, mtext, dimensions, hatching, attdefs, APS architectural symbols, doors (in plan), or windows (in plan):
Select one or more door symbol blocks and press
<Enter> or <Space> and the following dialog appears:
This is where the information for the door is stored.
The "Number:" value is the only value of all of these values in
this dialog that is displayed in the drawing. The rest of the values are
designed to be used for door schedule information. The door number,
width, and height values can be entered in the boxes provided at the top of
the dialog. The titles of the 16 boxes below these may vary as they can be
changed in the Door
Symbols portion of the Arch Symbols
section of the
APS
Configuration Utility. Below them is the "Notes:" box. Enter
values in these boxes as needed.
If more than one door symbol block is selected any information not the same
in all of the symbols will display as *Varies*. If you change this
value all of the door symbol blocks will have this property changed to the new
value. If you leave the *Varies* that particular value will remain
unchanged in each of the door symbols.
Pressing the 
button
next to a box above brings up a dialog with the currently defined
abbreviations for the door symbols as defined using the SAM
command. Select the abbreviation that you would like from the list and it will
be inserted.
Example: If you had selected three door
symbol blocks and two of them had the "Door finish" listed as "VRN"
and the third symbol had it listed as "PT" the "Door
finish" value would read *Varies*. If you left the value as
*Varies* each of the symbol's "Door finish" values would
be left unchanged. If you changed the *Varies*
value to "STN"
each of the door symbols selected would have the "Door finish" value
set to "STN".
Enter the values that you would like for the door(s) in the boxes provided.
When done press 
and the dialog will close.
--the door symbol block(s) selected are updated
with the values displayed in the dialog--
Helpful tips:
Multiple values for an individual item
If you would like to specify more than one abbreviation value for a particular
item separate each value with a comma ( , ) or an ampersand symbol ( & ). You
may use both a comma and an ampersand together as long as there is not a comma
after the ampersand. Items separated in this way will each be listed in the
legend.
| Correct |
Incorrect |
| AB,AC |
AB & P1, P3 |
| AB, AC |
|
| AB&AC |
|
| AB & AC |
|
| AB, P1 & P3 |
|
| AB, AC, AR & P1 & P3 |
|
Specifying a symbol to be "not used"
Due to the speed and ease of the global numbering command
ATTCOUNT many feel that there is never a need to
mark a door number as "not used". You can just erase the door symbol and renumber them. The schedule will then be updated with
the new numbers the next time the DOORSCHED
command is run.
For those who prefer to number their doors manually, when a door is deleted
you very often need to mark that door's number as "not used". However if you
erase the door symbol the door's number is simply removed from the schedule.
One way to handle this situation is to change the door symbol to a non plot
layer. This will keep the symbol from displaying on the plan but still allow
the number to show in the schedule. Edit the values in this "hidden" door
symbol so that the number remains, the width is set to "NOT", the height is
set to "USED" and then make all the rest of the values either blank or a dash
( - ). It will look something like this in the schedule:
This will allow the door number to still show but it will be "not
used".
