Discover the steps to adding room tags to your project using a simple copy and paste method. The article explores how you can copy tags around your project, adjust their properties, and efficiently label and number each room.
Key Insights
- Adding room tags to your project involves copying and pasting existing tags, then adjusting their properties to fit the new rooms.
- Room tags can be aligned for a cleaner look, but sometimes it might not be possible due to the design of the project. In general, it is advisable to try to align them as much as possible.
- Once a tag is added to a room, you can double-click the tag to bring up the attribute editor where you can change its values such as the room name and number.
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Now let's add in our room tags. Let's go back to our blocks and to the left of door iden is room tag. Select that room tag block and select CTRL C on your keyboard.
Back in our model tab of our drawing we're going to do CTRL V to paste and there we go we'll put the living room tag right in front of this fireplace. Now we can double check its layer so let's select it and go to properties. It's currently set to layer zero so let's change that.
We want to change this to a-ano-note because this is a fairly generic note that we'll use in a lot of plans. It's our room names and numbers. Let's do a-ano-note.
With that we can close our properties and we can now copy this tag around our project. So let's zoom in a little bit to our living room. I'm going to select it c o to copy.
I will click one time and then drag my cursor to the left. If possible I like to line up my room tags as much as I can. Sometimes you just can't but it is a nice touch to our drawing.
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I'll try to do that. Click a second time and there it is. I'll hit escape and I want to double click the word living and that brings up the attribute editor and I can change these values.
For this one it's called hall and our room number is room number two and click okay. We've got our first two room tags. Not too bad.
Let's add our third. I'm going to do c o to copy. I'll click right here at the insertion point and I can turn off ortho for a moment and bring that tag right here to the center of the dining room.
Click and then escape and then double click and we'll call it room number three and the room name will be dining. Not too bad right? Let's go ahead and try to do a few more and we'll do it really fast this time. We'll grab the room tag c o to copy and grab the center bottom point.
Click one time and that lets me get the center bottom point of let's do this wall up here. Click and escape. Now I can use m and I did that just to get it centered right in the middle of the room.
I'll drag it down and now I'll copy it up. I'll select it one time c o to copy and just click and click a second time for the pantry. There we go.
Super quick. Now just double click and adjust the names and numbers. The upper room is called pantry and it's room number five.
This lower room is the powder room and the number is four. Okay we have one more to go on the first floor. It's the kitchen.
I'm going to grab the pantry label and do c o to copy. I'm going to grab that midpoint on the bottom again. Click and I'll click the midpoint of this fireplace and click and hit escape.
I want to move it down into place. I'll select it m for move. Click one time and drag it down just right there.
I don't want to go too far down. That looks pretty good. I'm going to type in the word kitchen and then give it the room number of six and click okay.
There it is. The first floor is all done. Let's jump over to that second floor and we'll start with that lower bedroom.
That'll be our first tag. I'm going to copy the living room tag c o to copy. I'm going to grab the midpoint right there and I'm going to grab the midpoint of that window in that bedroom.
It gets it centered perfectly. Hit escape. I can select it do the m for move command and drag it up.
I'll double click and give it the correct name which is bedroom. Correct number which is seven and click okay. Now let's copy it up and I'll grab the top center right above the seven.
I'll click and I'll place that right on the dashed line center of that closet. Click and escape. That looks pretty good but I might want to move it just a little bit out of that dashed line.
No problem. We'll double click and call this closet and room number eight. Okay we're on a roll.
Let's do another one. Select this. We've got another closet here.
We'll grab the bottom middle and grab the middle of this wall for the hall closet. Click. Now let's move it up a bit.
Select it. M for move. We'll drag it up a bit.
There we go. We'll call this closet still but it's number nine. Now we'll copy it straight over to the hallway.
Click one time. Go to the right. We'll eyeball this one.
That's okay. Sometimes click and escape and we'll double click to call this hall and the room number is 10. Okay just a few more rooms to go.
Let's copy the hall one over and over here in our plan we'll take a look. Okay. Select our base point.
We'll bring it right to the center of this room. I'm going to turn off ortho and eyeball it again. There.
Hit escape. I'm going to copy it. Turn on ortho and copy it straight up into that walk-in closet and click and then hit escape and I'll copy this hall one.
C out of copy. Click and bring it right into this bathroom. Okay now we just need to update their attributes.
Double click right here. We'll call this our main bedroom and our room number will be 11 and click okay. The walk-in closet we'll call it such walk in closet and the value is 12 and this one in the bathroom is called bathroom and it's number 13.
And that is all of our rooms. Doesn't that look great? Go ahead and hit that save button.
