This article delves into the practical intricacies of tagging and annotating in the Revit environment. It provides step-by-step commentary on how to successfully navigate and implement features like adding and removing hosts, extending view range, and using text notes for additional clarity.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of tagging in Revit, stating that the only wrong way to use the tag function is to not use it at all. It further advises to be strategic in placing tags and not overcrowd the workspace, as it may hinder the workflow.
- The addition of being able to add and remove hosts is highlighted as a beneficial feature in Revit. It allows for flexibility and adaptability in the workspace, ensuring the efficient adjustment of leader lines and hosts.
- Another key point made in the article is the use of text notes to enhance clarity in Revit projects. This includes adding annotations to indicate variations in sizing, hot and cold water levels, and Point Of Connection (POC) information.
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There we go. Again, I kind of like to go through. I'll just work on one at a time.
We'll keep the sinks into the bathroom here. Don't want to get too many tags out there before you edit them. If you do put too many tags in before editing it, it could get a little wild and actually make it harder to work.
Let's go there. And this is the second floor here. I think I did forget to tag one particular pipe that I'm now seeing.
If you want to combine these two, you could. So I could say take this one, add or remove host there. Do that if I wanted to.
The addition of being able to add and remove the host is a really nice feature that is kind of new to the Revit universe, but you want to make sure you're using it. It's very helpful. Just keep working our way around.
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I need to tag this back. That one there. There we go.
And then I need to go ahead and tag some of these other ones. So it looks like there's a three inch here. So TG, go larger.
We'll move this guy here. Let's move this urinal. So the nice thing about having that be that way is with the tags on the same host as I can move the one tag and it adjusts all the leader lines and remove host.
There we go. Pull this guy down here and remove host. There we go.
Let's tag our water lines again. It's kind of being a little bit troublesome, but we can make it work. Let's do this.
Come back down. You do want to have a little bit of a shoulder on it though. I will say it is preferable to have that.
There we go. We may want to extend our view range here up a little bit. So let's go to 11 feet so that we can see our pipes coming in.
So all I ended up doing there was I went to my view range and I made it go up to 11 feet for the top of the primary range. So I can see that if I wanted to go like, let's see if I go negative two feet, do I get my, I get too many things. We'll just go zero.
And there we go. Boom, boom, boom. I forgot to tag this water back here.
If you see any things that need to be tagged, go through your drawings, tag them. Don't, you know, you don't have to follow my tags exactly. You'll go through tag, move things around as you want, as you see fit.
As you can see, this kind of gets a little bit confusing right in here with all this. So I feel like that might be, you know, this out here location might be a little bit better if I need to remove a host, because maybe I want to add it to a different one. I can do that again.
It's all a balancing act. There's no necessarily wrong way to do this per se. The only wrong way to do this is to not tag it at all.
But the one thing you do kind of want to pay attention to is, there you go, making sure those don't line up. Very good. Let's go ahead.
Let's go over to our mechanical room here. TG. We have our gas meter.
We will call this GM1. GM1 for gas meter one. We will also tag our water heaters.
WH1. That should be the same. We'll make that WH1 also.
That's okay. So this was kind of the old style. Now they're the same.
I could select one, add or remove host. Boom. This is a different type of tag.
So what's happening is that it doesn't have the arrowhead. We need to go ahead and add the arrowhead. This is a mechanical equipment tag and not a plumbing fixture tab.
There we go. Maybe I'll pull these over to here and then we can tag our gas line. There we go.
We'll tag our water coming in. Tag here. And then we'll also tag where it shows the difference in sizing.
Again, I can do this. I think it's a little bit nicer to have these ones be horizontal a little bit. Right there works fine.
But because of how tight these guys are, it's a little bit nicer to have these a little horizontal. There we go. You could also add some text notes.
So you can add text notes to it. So what I could say is, let's go to my level one plumbing view, or let's go to my level one here. So I'm going to move this around.
And let's say I want to add a text note, TX for text. I can create a little note there. And I could say over there, that text is going to be way too big.
So make sure that when you do that TX, you check your size. Three 32nd area is what we want. Make sure I have my leader.
There we go. We'll change that arrow head out too. And I'm going to say this hot water, three inch hot water and cold water to level.
There isn't really a great way to tag that per se. So I'm going to edit this arrow head a little bit too. I don't like that one.
We're going to make it the filled 15 degree. There we go. You could also add a text note out here, TX for POC information, C civil.
Let's change that. There we go. Same thing.
Same note here. I can just copy this note around how I'm copying that really quickly as I select it, hold control. And I just drag it for POC information.
See, move this around a little bit. There we go. Perfect.
Looks like we're looking pretty good. There we go. You could also add maybe another text note.
Again, this is all kind of getting a little crazy. I'm going to adjust many stuff here because I'm thinking of the text notes. I want to add, and I want to have a text note for the TX four inch waste inch waste to level two.
Same thing here. Four inch waste to level two. And then on my level two, I could do a different type of text note to just annotate that.
Looking pretty good. Let's go to our level two. Okay.
So I can have a text note like here. Let me move this guy. I'm just thinking three inch hot water and cold water from level, which it helps kind of guide people around the system.
And there we go. I'm going to change this room name real quick. So that's all capitalized just because it's going to bug me.
It just is going to bug me. Great. Let's go ahead and start.
We've added in a lot of stuff in this short period of time. Let's go ahead and stop this video here and we'll see you in the next one.
