This task shows you
how to lock and unlock the compartment membership of an object.
When an object's
membership is locked, the Update Compartment Membership command
does not recalculate that object. Objects such as doors, windows, and air
conditioning units, for example, are calculated as belonging to two
compartments if they are placed on a dividing wall. You may want to lock
membership of a wall air conditioning unit to one compartment so the
Update Membership Command does not continually recalculate and set it
to be a member of two compartments.
1.
Click the Lock Compartment
Membership
button.
2.
Select an object in your document.
The Lock Compartment Membership dialog box displays:
3.
Click the Lock checkbox
to lock the equipment or object listed to the compartment shown in the
Memberships text box.
4.
Key in a different compartment if
you want to override the compartment listed in the Memberships
text box.
5.
Click OK to confirm the
locked membership.
The next time you run
the Update Compartment Membership command, a Membership
Locked tab displays in the Update Compartment Membership Results
dialog box:
6.
To unlock
compartment
membership
for an object, repeat the first two steps, click the Lock
checkbox to deactivate it, and click OK to confirm the unlock.
button.
