About Fire Rating Line Tools

Fire rating annotations are used for adding fire rating information a drawing.

Fire rating lines are polylines and are not controlled by annotative scaling.

Fire rating line tools

You can find fire rating line tools in these locations in a default US install of AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset:

These properties of Fire Rating Line tools can be customized:

Property Category/Name Description
General/Layer key Specifies the layer key for the layer to which the fire rating line is assigned. To change, click the current value to access the Select Layer Key worksheet. The default layer key is WALLFIRE.
General/Layer overrides Specifies one or more layer key overrides. Click the worksheet icon to access the Select Layer Overrides worksheet.
General/Line width Specifies the line width of the fire rating polyline.
General/Linetype Specifies the linetype of the fire rating line. In the fire rating line tools shipped with AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset there is a specific linetype for each fire rating level - for example, the 1 Hr fire rating line tool has the Aec_Rating_1Hr linetype specified. The linetypes for rating line tools have been added to the acad.lin and acadISO.lin files.