What pset, or attribute do you think would be the equivalent of Revit's 'Type Comments'?

theoryshawtheoryshaw
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What pset, or attribute do you think would be the equivalent of Revit's 'Type Comments'?
I'm assuming the following for type.Name and type.Description

Comments

  • MoultMoult

    None. "Type Comments" is a generic term (similar to how Keynote and Type Mark are Revit terminology but in regular AEC speak they're both just short code names). What's the exact usecase? What value are you trying to store?

  • theoryshawtheoryshaw

    To just provide more information, beyond what the description is. It's for simplified door schedules to include various comments like the following, for example.
    'Type Comments' is like a catch all, instead of adding a ton of specific columns.

  • MoultMoult

    In that case, it would be part of the type.Description I believe.

  • theoryshawtheoryshaw

    No obvious nice place for it, it seems.

  • theoryshawtheoryshaw

    It seems like the following would make sense...

    type.Tag = D2
    type.Name = SINGLE ELIASON DOUBLE ACTION DOOR
    type.Description = HM FRAME W/ NO STOP

  • MoultMoult

    type.Name = D2 <-- the short name you use to refer to it on a drawing or schedule
    type.Description = SINGLE ELIASON DOUBLE ACTION DOOR HM FRAME W/ NO STOP <-- the description of what the short name is

    The Tag attribute is misleading and is used to reference an identifier in an exporting software.

    theoryshawGorgious
  • theoryshawtheoryshaw

    okay. what would bb use the tag attribute for then?

  • MoultMoult

    Nothing, it would permanently be blank :) Unless of course you are importing stuff from another software (e.g. importing MS Project XML into IfcTask)

    Nigel
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