Doors

Hardware Preps – Hinges

All hinge preps for doors and frames are now based on a quantity of one each. This has been done to match the pricing method in Pioneer’s price book. When building hardware sets and you set the door size 3070 or 3080, the system will still load a quantity of 3 hinges for a 70 door and 4 hinges for a 3080 door. 
NOTE: Old hinge preps have been made obsolete but they will still be available on projects where they have been used. New projects will only see new hinge preps.

Hardware Preps Entered Directly in Door/Frame Takeoff

Hinge Preps Used In Examples Below

Here are couple of examples of preps entered directly into the door takeoff prep window. Preps used are highlighted above

1. 500HW hinge with High Frequency Hinge (HFH) on top hinge only
500HW user must enter quantity required             HFH is a single prep and default quantity will be '1'

2. 500HW hinge with High Frequency Hinge (HFH) on all hinges
500HW user must enter quantity required            HFH is a single prep that user must enter a quantity for
Even though the prep indicates that HFH is required on all hinges the user still needs to enter a quantity
This could be '3' or '4' or even '5'. If a quantity isn't entered and order entry staff don't pick up on the description you could end up with a reinforcement on the top hinge only. 

Door Types

Door types have been completely overhauled and narrowed down to a quantity of 23.
All doors with vision lite kits or cutouts are priced as a “FLUSH” door and will require the user to select a prep to correspond to the door type entered.

NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT SELECT A PREP YOU WILL ONLY BE PRICING FLUSH DOORS. DOOR LITES HAVE BEEN SEPARATED INTO THREE DIFFERENT TABLES.
H,CH_LITES
LW,C_LITES
PIO/P

MUNTINS - ENG

NOTE: Old door types have been made obsolete so they will still be available on projects where they have been used. New projects will only see new door types

Estimating/Detailing

Detailed Flush, V, and N3 lite preps without selecting a prep.

Pricing for detailed Flush, V, and N3 lite preps without selecting a prep.
As you can see all doors priced the same as a flush door.

Detailed Flush, V, and N3 lite preps with lite preps selected according to Door Type

Pricing for detailed Flush, V, and N3 lite preps selecting the desired prep.
As you can see all doors priced according to the options selected


Here is an easy way to search for preps. Enter LW or H for Group and then the door type V, N3, NG, etc., followed by the % sign. This retrieves all available preps for the door type selected.

You can also bring up the entire prep table by door series quickly by double clicking in the Preps column as shown below.

In the Group column enter the series “LW” and all available preps for that series will be displayed
This is just a partial list for LW, C series lite options

In the Group column enter the series “H” and all available preps for that series will be displayed
This is just a partial list for H, CH series lite options

Standard Lite Prep at standard location or special location.
For our project we need a H series door with a “V” lite
Enter “H” in the Group column and select a V_CRS_H 10” x 10”

Special Lite Type Size and Location

Double click in Preps column in takeoff window and search Group for LW
Special size lites will be those with a prefix of VSK, NSK, GSK, GFMSK, FGSK, etc.
lite kits are available CRS and GALV

Frames

***F Series Anchors Included with frame price - Modification November 2, 2020***

Borrowed Lites

Per the price book, preconfigured pricing for borrowed lites is not available. Prices shown in the price book are for estimating reference only, as the products should be configured using Cut and Notch pricing. Accordingly, we've made our preconfigured borrowed lites "Call for Pricing" and encourage users to build their borrowed lites with the Elevation tool in order to get proper pricing.

Frame Preps

Special Face Dimensions (TRIM) Three Sided Frames

Other than 2" face jambs and 4" or 6" face heads
There are four groups for special head and jamb face trim dimensions

SPL_FACE - One Side Same Dimension on all three components

SPL_FACE properties that require user entry

SPL_FACE1 - Both Sides Same Dimension on all three components

SPL_FACE1 properties that require user entry


SPL_FACE2 - One Side Same Dimension on one or two individual components

SPL_FACE2 properties that require user entry

SPL_FACE3 - Both Sides Same Dimension on one or two individual components

SPL_FACE3 properties that require user entry

Revised by update 6-7 on November 10, 2021
Uniframes

The only valid jamb depth in Comsense for Uniframe configurations is jamb attribute "1", which stands for "Unknown Jamb Depth."

Building Uniframe components for inventory

In the Navigation window click on Inventory/Purchasing. Under Inventory/purchasing click on Product Master. That will display the Managed Product [Search] window. Next click on the "New" icon and select Frame to open the frame worksheet. 

Fill in the attributes required for SRJS3-3/16 Single Rabbet Jamb Stop - 3 3/16 as shown below and click on OK to bring up the managed product window.

Click on the Product Tab and check the Stock Item box. Then click on Warehouse Locations.

After clicking on the Warehouse Locations tab the fields for Warehouse Locations will be blank. Right click to open the warehouse locations, click on the popup (Add Warehouse Locations). Next click on the button next to the Qty box and select only one primary location.

Once you have selected your Primary Warehouse Location click Save or Save & Close to finish the build.

Repeat the process above for all components required to make up a complete frame. Add components under the Assembly tab in order to build a complete frame that can be sold in sales orders and will deduct components entered from your inventory. 

Update 05/27/2022

TROUBLE FINDING PREPS

There are two methods of searching.
1. Prep Selection By Group
2. Prep Selection By Description
I will explain Prep Selection By Description because it will look through all frame preps/parts or all door preps/parts depending where you are in the takeoff schedule in Advantage

*Sections of this screen shot have been cropped out in order to fit into this article.

If you have difficulty finding a prep or part, using this method will narrow down and shorten the time spent looking for them. 

In the white bar above Full Description in the header bar enter %SEARCH%. This can be a single word or more but must be part of the prep/part description and must match exactly. Search parameters must begin and end with %. The results of my search are populated below. You can also search Short Desc if you know what the code is.