Learn how to properly tag air terminals using a specific software in this in-depth article. Explore the process of selecting correct parameters, editing tags, and organizing the workspace to properly reflect the changes made.
Key Insights
- The article provides step-by-step instructions on tagging air terminals. It involves selecting a category, applying air terminal tags, and troubleshooting any issues that might arise (like repeated or incorrect tags).
- Editing the tags, especially when they are pulling from the wrong parameters, is a key step in the process. The author emphasizes the need to pull from the type parameter, not the instance parameter, to ensure accurate tagging.
- Organizing the workspace and adjusting tags as you go is vital to avoid confusion and maintain order. The author suggests deleting unnecessary tags, adjusting tags in bulk, and remaining consistent with diffusers throughout the project.
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Okay, I'm going to go ahead and tag my air terminals now. So this one is going to be a little bit different, but let's see here. So I can go Tag by Category.
Actually, let's do a Tag All this time around just to kind of have some experience with it. Air Terminal Tags—hit Apply. Now it's going to tag them all, and you can kind of see that—ooh, what is going on with my tag here? Why is this showing in, in, in, in, in, in, in—you know, repeated L, L, L, L, L? And that's actually a function of what data the tag is pulling.
When I look at this, I'm kind of thinking, hmm, this is actually tagging and pulling from an instance parameter and not a type parameter. We're going to go ahead and edit that, but I forgot one critical step with this particular tag—I do want to have leaders on this.
This is one thing that when you use this Tag All, it's kind of a pain to go back and select them all. Now, I could also do this: I could select one, right-click, All Instances > Visible in View.
I can come up here to Leader. It's not letting me check it, and that's probably because I have other leaders already there.
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Hold on one second. It's thinking… Okay. Nope—
It does allow me to—it just had to think for a second. So you can come up here and select all of them, and then you can turn on the leaders or off—wholesale, in a sense. But what I want to go and do is I want to look at this tag because I don't think it's pulling the right parameter or the right information.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select the tag and hit Edit Family. You can see I have a CFM, and I can see where this is pulling from. This is pulling the Flow parameter, which we might want to change in our schedule.
If you can think back to our schedule, we actually pulled CFM. We want to actually use the Flow parameter. And then this guy here—this is pulling the Mark.
Well, I actually don't want this to be Mark. This is the instance Mark. I want to change this to be Type Mark.
I'm going to pull that over and pull this back. So that's how I can change those values. So I just replaced Mark with Type Mark—Apply, OK. I'm going to load that into my project and Overwrite.
Now you can see that they're all A's, right? And then I have my B's, and I have my C's—kind of like what we set up in the schedule, right? This is directly linked to the schedule. If I go look at this schedule, my A's are my type of hosted here. My B's are my return diffusers, right? Supply diffuser, return diffuser.
My C's are these extruded aluminum frames, which are actually the return plenum ones. My D's are another—these are going to be my exhaust grilles here. And then these are my supply grilles—double deflection, curved face, rectangular neck.
So those are the ones that are actually on the big on-duct diffusers in the gym. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go back to my Level One plan. You can kind of see this has turned into a mess.
It really has. And this is kind of part of the reason why I'm not a huge fan necessarily of using Tag All for diffusers. I could also go ahead—I'm going to go ahead and delete some of these.
So I could come back and go Add/Remove Host, and I could click on all these if I wanted to. And there we go.
Another common thing that is done in terms of the office is that if we're remaining consistent with our diffusers throughout the project—and this tag is getting a little wild—I'm actually going to remove these ones. And I'm just going to go ahead and actually do another tag here and move it up into here. It's starting to get a little bit crazy.
That can work. So I'm going to go and delete these—delete a couple. This one—I'll Add/Remove Host here, Add/Remove Host here.
Again, not every single thing has to be the same way. So in this instance, I may take, say, this—Add/Remove Host, pick there, pick there. And we do have a few more diffusers on this side. We've spent a little more time kind of practicing our system buildout and placing more diffusers.
But you really do want to kind of adjust these on the go. I'm actually going to delete that guy—Add/Remove Host—and just start to annotate this. So here—let's see here—we got a couple of extra tags. I think I'll probably add some more here.
Like so. I might actually pull this guy up. I can start to kind of see some different things. This one can come out of here.
That one's going there. And sometimes these dots—when you move to adjust them—it doesn't pick the dot that you think it's going to pick. So you just have to kind of pay attention to that.
