Explore the multifaceted nature of material tags in Revit, with an emphasis on their flexibility and customization potential. Delve into how the use of a generic tag can serve multiple functions, providing both consistency and adaptability in various project applications.
Key Insights
- The material tag in Revit can be created as a generic tag, which provides flexibility as it is not specific to any families. This allows it to be used in multiple different ways throughout a project.
- A material tag is not assigned based on the material it has been assigned to, but rather it is tagged in a way that allows for a high degree of versatility. This includes the ability to create custom shapes with line work and assigning labels to them.
- The use of a generic tag in Revit allows for the addition of parameters during the creation of the schedule, or note block. This feature enhances documentation capabilities by allowing data to be associated with different materials, thereby offering a customized schedule and the ability to tag various materials such as wall materials, casework, and baseboards with the same material tag.
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Let's take a look at this material tag. So I'm going to go ahead and select it and I'm going to say edit family. This will take me into the family editor and we can see what makes this tag.
And so there's a few things that we've done. So this was created as a generic tag and so the template that we used wasn't specific to any of the families. So it's not like it's tagging something specifically and that gives us a ton of flexibility in it.
So no, we're not tagging materials based upon the material that they've been assigned, but we are tagging them in a way that gives us a lot of flexibility to be able to use this in multiple different ways and in different types throughout the entire project. And so what I'll do is when I create something like this, I'll just use line work that I want to create the shape that I'm looking for here. We kind of use like the pill shape.
This could be round, it could be a box, it could really be anything that you want to use because this is just line work that we use to create it. And then the other thing is we assign a label to that. And if you recall from previous courses, when we do create label, we just have many different options for what we could throw in here.
And when we do the generic tag like this, we really don't have a ton of different options here. You can see we've got generic annotations, multi-liter tag and all that stuff. And in this case, we're just going to stick with data.
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And when we get to the point where we're actually creating the schedule, as we create the note block is what it's called to collect this information, we'll be able to add parameters to that so that you can see then when we go into our project and click on it, the information will start to grow here and we'll be able to see the data that's associated with each one of these different materials. And so it's not exactly the best Revit type way of doing it, but I found it as being a really good documentation way because it does give us the ability to customize our schedule and also use it very flexibly where we're tagging wall materials, casework, baseboard, all kinds of different things using the same material tag and gives us that consistency that we're always looking for and also the flexibility so we're not handcuffed by the software.
