Explore the steps involved in creating a detailed plan view and tagging water fixtures in a building information modeling (BIM) course. The article provides insights into how to tag different pipe sizes, compose sheets, and maintain consistency across all drawings.
Key Insights
- The BIM 322 course content includes creating a detailed plan view and tagging various water fixtures.
- The process involves tagging different pipe sizes, adjusting tags, and composing actual sheets, maintaining a consistent standard across all drawings.
- It is recommended to place all tags first before entering specific information or adjusting these tags accordingly.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. What we did in the previous video is we created this enlarged plan view and tagged all of our different water fixtures. So what we want to go ahead and do now is tag the different pipe sizes to provide that information, and then we'll begin composing our actual sheets.
So let's go ahead and zoom in, and I'm going to go up to Tag by Category and just go around and start tagging the different pipes. Nothing too complex—it's fairly straightforward, fairly simple, and again a lot of it is going to be similar to the first floor. And then just a recommendation that I have for people doing tagging is to place all your tags first before you start entering specific information or start adjusting these tags to your liking. Looks like I've gotten pretty much most of them.
I'm going to hit Escape and I'm going to go ahead and start adjusting slightly. I'm doing it very similarly to how I did it on the first plan, on the first floor, and I'm kind of using the same standard so that everything looks consistent across all of my drawings and so that no one is confused. What I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm actually going to pause the video, adjust my tags, and then come back.
If you would, please pause the video on your machine, adjust your tags to your liking, and then restart the video and we'll keep going. Alright, see you then. So I'm back, and we're good to go.
We've got everything tagged, ready to go. Please make sure that you double-check to ensure that you have all your tags in where you want them, and then let's go ahead and start moving on to the next step. Let's go ahead and rename this view down here.
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So go to your callout of 2-plumbing, right-click, select Rename, remove "callout of, " and let's go ahead and change it to Enlarged Bathroom Plan – 2 – Plumbing. And there we go. I'm going to go ahead and hit OK. I'm going to Zoom Extents by hitting ZE or clicking the drawing area, and then click ZE again.
I'm going to go ahead and press Control+S to save the file, and I'll see you in the next video where we actually put together the plumbing sheets. See you then.
