Learn how to effectively annotate and tag finishes in architectural plans, with a focus on properly designating floor and paint finishes. This article provides detailed instructions on how to tag by category, adjust tag locations, hide unnecessary elements, and use symbol tags to denote specific paint finishes.
Key Insights
- When annotating floor finishes, tag by category and adjust the tag location for clarity. Use the "free end" option for more freedom to move the tag around, placing it under the room tag for consolidation.
- It's important to keep views clean by hiding unnecessary elements. Don't delete these views, instead select them and choose "hide in view elements". This way they won't appear when printing but can be referenced later if needed.
- Designate different paint finishes within the project using general notes and symbol tags. For example, a note can specify that all walls are a certain paint finish unless specified otherwise. Use symbol tags to indicate where alternate paint finishes, such as accent walls, are used.
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The first finishes that we will tag in this plan are going to be our floor finishes. And so if we go to our annotate, we can actually tag by category, and I can tag our floor. And that'll allow me to tag the floor with a floor tag.
And you can see it's kind of getting a little crazy here, because it's trying to tag the floor in different areas. And it's doing that because it's using this attached end option. If I change it to free end, and actually unhighlight the leader line, it'll give me a little bit of freedom to say tag this, and then I can move it around.
And what I like to do is I'll place this just right underneath my room tag like that, to keep it all kind of consolidated in the same place. And so I'll have a similar tag in a few different locations here, which I think is fine, just so we can stay consistent here. But I'm going to go ahead and move this guy over here.
And then one more for the kitchen. And that gives us all of our floor tags. And so one thing I'm going to do here is clean this up a bit, because we didn't put these views on a sheet.
When I print, they will not show up as long as I do it correctly. But if you do want to remove that, you don't want to delete it, you would just hide in view. And so if I were to do a selection, say about like that, you can see I've got the elevations selected, not the tag here.
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And I can right click, and I can do hide in view elements, and those will go away. And then I can sort of move this around a little bit to get this in place. And so that's one way we can add our tags to our finish plan.
The other thing we can do is we can designate our different paint finishes within the project. And so we could say everything's going to be a, you know, we'll add a general note that says, all walls are P1 unless specified otherwise. And that gives us the ability to use our symbol tag for paint.
And so I could use this one, and I could say, this will be P2 as like an accent paint for the wall. And then I can rotate it 90 there. And I can set it here.
And what I can do is I can add leaders to this to designate that it's from that wall. And I can add another one to that wall. So that's what this means here.
By showing that it's P2 here. And I'll try to be a little bit better about centering that. And so I'm essentially calling out this wall as being P2.
And then I can do the same thing and say, okay, well, maybe our TV wall wants to have an accent. And I'll do the same thing, but maybe it's a different color. We'll call it P3.
And again, rotating that. And so it's going to use the place as a default. So I'll make sure I click first.
And then hit 90. And then we'll do the same process. And really, I could have just copied this one over like that.
Save us a couple of steps. And then change the designation. And then adjust the extents here to be just that wall.
And so the same thing, I'll go ahead and do that for the bedroom here. I'll copy this across. Because it'll be the same finish that we're going to do in there.
For that one to be P2. And then I'll do the same thing for the study. I want to have an accent wall on one of the walls in the study.
And so I'll place the P3 paint on this wall here. And it's helpful if you place it pretty much in the center. Because then it just saves you a couple steps of having to finagle it around a little bit.
And so we've added our paint tags for our accent paints. Because we are going to designate that each of the paints within this area of the project are always going to be P1 unless we note it otherwise. Which we've done here.
