Explore the practical complexities of using the 'tag all' feature in design projects. Learn how it can sometimes complicate the design process, necessitating extra time for clean-up and how it can be more efficient to use tags selectively.
Key Insights
- While 'tag all' can be a useful feature, it can sometimes insert more information than is necessary into a design project. This excess can lead to time-consuming clean-up and re-organization efforts.
- There are alternative methods to using the 'tag all' feature, such as grouping typical elements together or including general notes. These methods can make a project clearer and more efficient.
- Designers should not fear deleting tags when necessary. While it may seem like a step back, it can often be an important part of organizing and clarifying a design project. Re-tagging deleted items is a straightforward process.
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So just continue to work through and tagging your Diffusers. But again, this is kind of the reason why I'm not a huge fan of necessarily using the Tag All because the Tag All gets a little bit wild. It does a little bit more than I really want it to.
And I have to actually spend more time cleaning things up rather than just moving forward with my design or my project. I will say sometimes, if you have consistent Terminals throughout a project, you may end up just having kind of a general note that says "all supply Terminals." You could also say that these Terminals are typical.
So in some instances, for like these B’s, I'm going to delete these three and I'm going to group these four together—do something along those lines. So there are ways of saying, “Hey, this is a typical Diffuser for these locations.” Just make sure you're using it for these systems that are B’s and remove host.
And you can have two tags hosted to something, but obviously that just adds more to our drawings. I'm going to keep working my way around. It's a lot of tags.
You'll just have to—I’m going to work my way down. I'm going to leave one per four here. So I'm kind of trying to do multiple pieces at once here and clean this up as I go.
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So I can pull this tag out here, add or remove those. Boom, boom, boom. And then I can do that.
You know, it's not a huge deal if these lines are sometimes crossing over other leader lines. You just kind of want to be a little careful about it. If you can avoid it, it's probably best to avoid it, but it's not the end of the world.
So there, I'm just going to work my way through. Add or remove host. We get to do this on the second level also.
I know it seems like it's a very monotonous process, but we will go through it. So these C Diffusers—there are two Diffusers technically stacked up here. I'm just going to use one tag to indicate both of them.
This guy here, let's pull this out. Let's add or remove hosts. That one there—I'm going to delete this B. So what I’d say is that we’ve used this Tag All.
In my opinion, I would kind of start to stay away from it just because it adds a lot more information and I'm actually deleting more, I feel like. Oh, I don't even need that one because I already have it tied on the outside. So what I'm going to do here is bring this guy over.
I'll kind of do the same thing where we will do that. You can have them at 90 degrees. I'm not a huge fan of having them at 90 degrees, but that is an available option if you so choose.
I kind of like to have a little bit of an angle on the lines. The reason why is it helps differentiate it when it crosses, say, this Diffuser here. It just helps make it a little bit more readable and easier to see. I've seen them where people will have them perfectly at 90s, and sometimes they get confused with other lines, possibly from ceiling grids or other types of elements that are in the model or in the drawings.
So again, I'm just working my way around. Maybe in this instance, I'm going to do that. Add or remove hosts there.
Boom. And again, I'm just going to delete some of these tags that I don't need. And it's going to start to clean this up significantly.
So you can kind of see how the Tag All can get a little bit crazy. We're just going to delete some tags and work our way through. Let's go ahead.
I'm going to go here. Let's go ahead and remove host. Then delete some of their tags.
Just make sure you're getting the tags that you want to delete. And if you accidentally delete a tag—like if I accidentally delete both of these C’s and I'm just kind of cleaning up to be able to see what's happening here—you know, you can always retag it.
Don't be afraid of actually deleting a tag. And then when—oh, I deleted a tag. Oh, I got to do a whole new one.
It's okay. It's not a big deal. It's pretty easy to tag these items.
So it's just one of those things that you kind of have to take your time on. Just work through these drawings. Let's see.
I think I'm going to pull this room tag out of here. Work my way down. So I have that A tag.
Let's go ahead and see if I can get this guy on the same tag, which I can. Let's see here. Let's work our way through.
I'm just going to delete tags that are here. As you can see, it can just kind of continue to be a little bit of a mess. I'm having a hard time seeing exactly what's going on.
So I want to make sure that I'm seeing everything properly. And sometimes just deleting the tag makes that an easier process. Again, I can always come back and retag these as I need to.
But again, just another reason why sometimes the Tag All is not necessarily the best method to go about it. So this thing goes all the way up there. Let's go add or remove host right there, pick there.
We're going to get rid of that tag. I'm going to go ahead and stop this video here. When we come back, we'll move on to the next steps.
See you then.
