Element Tools

What it does

Sequencer writes a running sequence into any parameter — Mark, Number, Sheet Number — across the elements you choose, in the order you choose: by picking, along a direction, radially, or along a curve you draw.

In/De-Crement repairs a sequence that already exists: move one element's number up or down and the run gets out of the way, or swaps, or leaves a gap — whichever you asked for. Elevate Elements creates a dimensioned, tagged elevation of every door, window or curtain wall, and Door/Window by Level carries a floor's marks up a tower by position.

Highlights

• Number by picking, by direction, radially, or along a spline — not just alphabetically.
• Skip the letters I, O and L that read as 1 and 0 on a drawing.
• In/De-Crement pushes, swaps or leaves a gap depending on whether the target number is taken.
• Collapse closes the gaps left in a sequence after deletions.
• Clicking a tag renumbers what it tags, so you work with what you can see.
• An elevation per door, window or curtain wall — dimensioned, tagged and optionally placed on sheets.
• Copy one level's door and window marks to every repeating floor, with a dry run first.
• Room Sizes writes rounded width and length into shared parameters for sales schedules.

Before you start

• Sequencer and In/De-Crement work on whatever parameter you choose — check you're writing to the right one.
• Elevate Elements needs a non-dependent floor plan for its elevation markers.
• Door/Window by Level matches by position in plan, so the floors need to actually repeat.

Quick start

1. Select the elements, or let the tool ask you to pick them.
2. Open the tool from the Elements or Annotation panel.
3. Choose the parameter, the order or the template level, then run it.

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