Help: Hardware - Hardware Sets

Hardware Auto Size

PRO-TECH TITAN can automatically set the size of some hardware items in your project.

Hardware Types

The following hardware types can be sized by PRO-TECH TITAN.

Sweeps

Thresholds

Rain Drips

Kick Plates

Astragals

Continuous Hinges

Please note that although PRO-TECH TITAN supports sizing of the hardware types listed above, not all manufactuers sell these items per inch, per foot or per area. (PRO-TECH TITAN will not be able to size hardware items that have a UOM of "EA")

Preparing to Use Auto Size

Auto Size applies rules that you define to create a properly sized hardware item.

You set these rules for your project under the Utilities tab, "Default Settings."

The initial settings for these rules are maintained in your Company Default Settings.

You can control which hardware sets that PRO-TECH TITAN will auto size for you.

By default, PRO-TECH TITAN will not auto size a hardware set. There is a toggle for each hardware set that controls whether or not PRO-TECH TITAN will auto size the hardware set.

Enabling Auto Size for a Hardware Set in the Hardware Set Editor:

Enabling Auto Size for a Hardware Set in the Hardware Set page:

Setting the toggle to the "On" position in either of these locations will enable PRO-TECH TITAN to auto size this hardware set.

Auto Size Results

During the Auto Size operation, PRO-TECH TITAN will:

Create new sized hardware items

Change the size of hardware items in hardware sets

Create new hardware sets as needed and assign them to openings

Because of this, it is important that the Auto Size operation be performed infrequently within a project and at the most appropriate time - typically after your opening sizes and hardware sets content are complete.

Note that when Auto Size completes, your project will have new hardware sets and new hardware items.

Item numbers, such as "TH-2" (short codes) will change.

Auto Size Workflow

Following the steps listed here will provide the simplest and best results.

Configure all of your openings (width & Height)

For Active/Inactive pairs, configure door widths.

Create hardware sets.

For Active/Inactive pairs with unequal door widths, assign hardware items to the correct leafs.

Assign hardware sets to openings

Click on the "Resize" button available on the Hardware Sets page"

When creating and assigning hardware sets, focus on hardware set content. Before executing Auto Size, you should not need to configure hardware sets with identical content.

Examples

Example 1: Single Door Openings

As a simple example, consider a single hardware set assigned to 4 openings of different sizes.

The hardware set contains 4 sizeable hardware items:

This hardware set is assigned to 4 openings of different sizes:

From the Hardware Page (Sets View) click on the Auto Size button:

You will be reminded of your current settings.

To change any of these will require clicking on "Cancel" here and navigating to the Project Utilities page and changing these in "Default Settings."

After clicking on "OK" here you will see this reminder:

This is an important reminder. Although PRO-TECH TITAN can follow rules to perform Auto Sizing, ASSA ABLOY cannot guarantee that the final results are your desired results. Please verify hardware item sizes and hardware set assignments.

Clicking on "YES" here will start the Auto Size of Hardware Set contents."

Results

Initially, there was one hardware set assigned to 4 different sized openings (see above).

Following Auto Size, there are now 4 hardware sets:

Note the differences in the content of the 3 generated hardware sets:

At first glance, you might wonder why HWG-1.1 was created as the content and size of hardware items in this hardware set is identical to HWG-1

In this case, HWG-1.1 was generated because PRO-TECH TITAN knows that although the hardware items are the same, HWG-1.1 is assigned to an opening that will have a different quantity of hinges. Please see the help pages on Auto Quantity for more information on this.

Example 2: Active/Inactive Pair Door Openings

As another simple example, consider a single hardware set assigned to 4 active/inactive openings of different sizes.

The hardware set contains 5 sizeable hardware items:

This hardware set is assigned to 4 openings of different sizes. Note that in some of these openings the active and inactive leafs have different widths:

Results

Initially, there was one hardware set assigned to 4 different sized openings (see above).

Following Auto Size, there are now 4 hardware sets: