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Need a little guidance.  I can set the door schedule to show new only, but the existing doors on the plan have door tags and I have forgotten how to turn that off.  Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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Don't place them in that view. 

You should have seperate views for whatever you are doing.

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I have an addition and need to show the existing floor plan in the same plan view as the addition floor plan.  I can manually select the existing door tags and hide them in that view but I was hoping for an easier way.  The schedule allows the parameter of showing "new only".  I guess the "tag" command doesn't have a "new only" option.

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Again..... don't tag the door in the view you are using!   The door will still have the number - it just doesn't show. 

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HogModo,

A quick way to fix over-tagging like that would be to temporarily switch your view to existing only (Create a new phase filter if you need to) and then pick a door tag and choose "Select all in view" and delete the tags (Or hide if you think you might want them later). Then reset your phase filter to New and Existing (or whatever it was).

Edit:

Alternatively instead of picking one door tag and selecting all in view, you can drag select over the view, and use filter to pick door, window, any other tags you want and delete/hide multiple categories in one shot.

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I think this is a bad process.  For different needs, you should have seperate views defined, each with their own VG settings.  Door tags are so easy to place so there is really no issues here.  If the view should not have door tags then simply don't place them.  If you created the view using copy with detailing or tagged all the doors using "tag all" then just delete these tags. 

Hiding an annotative element that should not be there at all is asking for future problems.  Annotative elements are placed by choice... not automatic.

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I'm not promoting overtagging then deleting, but sometimes when your using the tag all you forget to change to selected items and get entire view or for whatever reason you find yourself with too many tags, thats a fast way to Fix that specific problem... which he obviously already has...

obviously the best solution is to avoid creating the problem in the first place.

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