Discover the process of creating room tags and spaces in your project, which helps in better understanding and navigation of your design layout. Learn the importance of saving your project regularly, closing irrelevant floor plans, and placing spaces automatically for effective room tagging.
Key Insights
- The article guides you through the process of creating room tags in your project by first saving your work, closing unneeded floor plans, and then setting up room tags under the analyze tab.
- After placing spaces automatically, the article explains the editing process for each space, where the tag labels' properties are changed from 'name' to 'room name' for easy identification.
- The room tags and spaces should be pinned to avoid accidental movement while adding ceiling-hosted elements. If necessary, these can be unpinned and moved. The article also touches on exporting your project files in various formats within Revit.
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So in this video we'll be creating spaces in our room tags, but up to this point we've done quite a bit of work, so we should go on ahead and save our file. So let's go to file, save as a project, and you can save this wherever you are keeping your coursework. I'll keep it in the file downloads folder for now, and please save this as vdci-mep-project-setup.
Okay, so now we should only be in our two reflected ceiling plans, so if you have any of your other floor plans open you can go on ahead and close them because we won't be using them in this video. So to set up our room tags there are a few steps to do, so let's go on ahead and start by going to the analyze tab, and you should then see space right here under spaces and zones. Let's click that, and now with this dialog box open let's click place spaces automatically, and now we have 73 spaces on our level one.
Now if we hadn't selected a room bounding earlier in this process when we brought in our model this probably wouldn't have worked, or it definitely wouldn't have worked. Okay, we can close. Now let's do the same thing on level two.
So click space again, place spaces automatically. Okay. Now if we zoom in here we can see that each space is labeled space and a number.
This is not the actual room name and room number, so what we're going to have to do is to go into one of these and do a few edits, and then we'll be able to see each of the room names and the room numbers. So let's stay here on level two RCP, and let's go ahead and click on this one right here. Now with this open you should see edit family.
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Let's click that, and now we have two different properties of these tag labels. We have a space name, and we have a number. So let's start with space name, and once that's selected let's choose edit label.
Now this brings up this edit label, and we can see all these different parameters. Currently the parameter is set to name, but we would like to read change it to room name. So under here first, let's click name, and we can move it out of this box by clicking this red arrow.
Now let's go back to the other parameters and look for room name, and we can bring it in with the green arrow like this. Click OK. Great.
Now let's do the same thing here with the number. Let's click that again. We'll go to edit label.
The number we're going to remove, and instead we want to find the room number, and bring it in again with the green arrow, and click OK. Now all we have to do is go to load into project and close. Do you want to save changes to space tag? No, we don't want to change the tag itself.
So let's click no. Do you want to overwrite the existing version? In this case, yes. So let's click overwrite existing version, and just like magic, now we can see all of our room names.
We have the various classrooms. We have our corridor, our break room, and it's done the same thing for us on level one. So a good thing to do at this point is a little bit of cleanup.
We have these section views here first. I'd like to move them out of the way. If I drag over that, I can move it.
For now, we'll move it outside of the building, and we'll move the rest of them as well. Next, what we can do, and we can also do this as we're working on our project, but we might want to move some of the room tags around to make it easier to read. Some of them are unoccupied, which can be updated later from the architect, but for now, we'll leave them as is.
As an example, I have a bit of an overlap between this corridor and housekeeping, so I'm just going to take my corridor and move it like so. Now, what you'll notice, if I do housekeeping as an example, if I go on ahead and drag this out, you'll see that there is a leader here, which is still leading you towards the room where the tag belongs. Let's go back.
You can see here, it doesn't recognize it because this leader is now moved to the wrong area. If I bring it back, here it is. We have to be careful, and again, if the leader is off, and I were to move it, it'll automatically populate it.
When you are moving your room tags, you do need to be a little bit careful and make sure the leader is still leading towards the room that belongs to that room tag. Okay, so we can take a little bit of time and see if everything looks okay. Not bad here.
Again, we might be altering these as we design our various MEP projects. Let's check out the level 2. Okay, if you see anything overlapping in yours, it may or may not look exactly like mine. Go on ahead and alter those as needed.
Now, before you begin designing, you don't want to accidentally click and move these spaces or room tags, so it's actually a good idea to pin them all because, especially on a ceiling plan, when you're adding sprinklers or lights or diffusers or other ceiling-hosted elements, there's a chance to accidentally move these around. So what we can do is, let's start with the spaces. Let's click on one.
Let's go to right-click and select all instances in the entire project. Now, we can go up here and you should see this pin. Let's go ahead and click that, and now you'll notice, since they're pinned, I can't accidentally select and move them.
Let's do the same thing with the room tags. So I'll choose one here, click on it, right-click, select all instances in the entire project, so Level 1 and Level 2, and we'll do the same thing up here and pin them. Now, if we do end up having to move them again as we're designing, what we can do is, if we again go down to the bottom right and find this Select Pinned Elements, we can select this, and if the X is unchecked, we can select it, but I can't move it still.
Only the pinned elements are selectable, so I can only select the pinned elements, but I still can't move them. So to move it if I needed to, I can now go to up here above Pin, and I can unpin it and move it out of the way. So again, we still have an option to move as needed, but by default, it's better to keep them all pinned.
So let's go on ahead and back and pin that, and don't forget to re-check Select Pinned Elements, and make sure you cannot do that. So these toggles are very useful in those regards. Okay, so now we're set up with our two ceiling plans.
What I'd like to talk about briefly is that sometimes you may need to export your files, and you can do that to various file types within Revit, and it's very simple. If we go to File, and under File, you should see Export, and you can see we can export as different CAD formats, like a DWG, PDFs, IFC files, so on and so forth. So the process is very, very simple.
Let's go on ahead and save our project. Control-S, and in the next video, we'll discuss transferring project standards between projects, and also work sharing, and after that, we'll be able to get into modeling our various MEP disciplines.
