There isnt anything to do to fix it, because its not considered Broken by the developers, but yes... It is a problem. Im a huge fan of Filters for Code Plans, but this issue has actually become a big enough one (Door openings) that we now have a Hybrib "Modeled/Drafted" fire tape that we run around all of the rated walls. Its a modeled family, so it shows up coordinated in all views, but we control it with Filters so we only see it on all of the plans we want it on. For Healthcare, thats most of the plans on, and a few off. They still have to update manually (Line Based Components- 1 for straight, 1 for arcs), but at least they show up in all of the views.

But, when a CCU door is 12 feet wide, and there is only 4 feet of wall between the doors, unfortunately the Filters on the walls themselves dont work.

We do alot of healthcare as well but we have separate code plans that we show fire rated walls, travel distance, fire compartments, etc. per floor. We just raise the cut plane above the door head. Saves from having to mess around with fire tape.

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Some times the great solutions are just soooo simple, but for some reason not that obvious :thumbsup:

Great tip :beer:

Yeah, thats an ideal situation. Our healthcare team shows the Fire ratings on EVERY plan though, and we cant cut the actual plans at 7'-6". So we have the Line Based Specialty Equipment families. Its not intelligently tied to the walls, but we use the Wall Filters in the Coordination plan to place and track the SE families, so its still worlds better than drafting lines and annotations.

We had problems with the wall expressing the rated condition because sometimes you have to show a rated storefront. Or show in plan the rated eave overhead. We just ran into too many places where we had a rated condition, but not a wall.
We went to a drafted line and also chose to only show the line in the Code Analysis plans. As the detail in the walls in plan goes up, the fire rating tends to clutter the drawing, so the one drawing becomes the place to show the full extent of the rated enclosure. Our wall tags show rating as well, so the information is there in the general plans, just not with the traditional graphic.
Now here is the interesting thing. We did a filter, that turns walls, door, windows, ceilings floor s everything red that is rated. it started as a way to see what needed the "rated tape" drafting line. Then we got a colorwave 600 plotter. And we started taking colored plans to the building department for review. The building department loves it. Now we do the same thing for pricing, and discussions with contractors, etc. We still need the tape for the job site set, but my hope is we don't even bother putting down the drafting lines till 90% CD or so, and just use the filter based colored plans till then.
So far it is da bomb.
I have been tempted to go to a Generic Model for the tape and put it in a Design Option. That way it works as now, AND we could turn it on in any view easily. We are using the Generic Model and Design Option approach for Path of Travel and Exit width as well, so it would all be familiar.

I should mention the other nice thing about getting the rating out of the wall, you get a consistent width to the "rated indication". When the rating hatch is in the wall, a thicker wall layer shows a thicker rated indication. You can end up with three widths that all mean the same thing, and are all different from what is shown in the legend. Probably nothing ever got built wrong as a result, but I like an approach where the legend and the drawing are exactly the same all the time.

Gordon

at least you can put plan regions above the doors to cut above the doors. And use filter coloring (to extrapolate a litlle from Brett idea). So you onlu have to coordonate plan regions.

No we cant. We dont WANT the plan to show above the door. We want to see the door. We just want to see the hatch running through it, hence we use a modeled Fire Tape. Besides, manually coordinating plan regions at door locations is more work than manually coordinating something straight that runs alone all of the walls that are bright colors, hehehe.

Just a thought here, and I do realize that it may not work for American standards - But what if you unchecked the "show only if instance is cut" for the door swing in all the doors, AND raised the cut plane above the doors? There´s probably a ton of downsides to this approach too, but can´t think of them right now.

Anyway, here (in Denmark) the national "standard" is to show the doors on the code plans, and we don´t normally show the ratings on other plans... so, it´s not really been an issue to me. :beer:

We have it even easier: we use a symbolic tag. So no problem at all...