This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to add room and door tags using the Annotate tab, as well as how to adjust tags to avoid overlaps and conflicts. It also explains how to use the stair path symbol to indicate the direction of stairs and ensure all annotations are clear and consistent across different levels of a plan.
Key Insights
- The Annotate tab allows users to add room and door tags to their plans, which can be adjusted to avoid overlaps and ensure clarity.
- It's crucial to regularly verify that all tags and annotations are clear, consistent, and not overlapping or making the plan difficult to read.
- The stair path symbol can be utilized to add a direction to the stairs and maintain consistency across different levels of a plan.
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So to add our room tags and our door tags, we can go ahead and go to our Annotate tab, and we can use the Tag All option. And if I go to Tag All, I can pick the ones that I want. We've got our door tags and our room tags.
And if I were to hit OK here, then it's gonna drop them all in. And for the most part, everything looks pretty good. The problem is that not everything looks pretty good because we do have some weird overlaps and things that we would definitely not wanna see on a submission because you will lose points and nobody wants to lose points, right? So what we'll do is we'll just kind of tweak these things around a little bit.
So I'll move the vestibule note into here, and then we'll go ahead and add a leader to our restroom tags for the room names. So men 104 and women 103 here, we're gonna go ahead and just kind of move these around with the leader so that they don't sit on top of other tags. And so this is our crop region.
I can turn that off, so this looks a little bit more clear so you can kind of see what the overlaps and the conflicts might be. But it's really important to go back in and make sure that all of these things make sense. So even this lobby tag or this door 101, like going back in and hitting those to make sure that we have the right tags on there and that they're not overlapping or in a way that just makes this thing look super hard to read.
The next thing I wanna do is the stairs kind of just hanging out. And so we can go ahead and from the annotate tab, we can use the stair path symbol to add the direction for the stair. If I pick stair path, then I can just select the stair and it'll add the up note here.
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And just like everything else, I'm gonna go ahead and kind of shift that around so that looks much better there. And then we can do the same thing on level two. We can pop in to level two and we can go ahead and say tag all.
I have to activate the view first and then we can say tag all. And then I'll pick my door tags and my room tags and go ahead and hit okay and go through the same or similar process. And so doors look good.
There really isn't a tag for over here, but I do still wanna move this one outside cause we are gonna add a dummy elevation tag so that it's still pointing to those same views that we were using. And so then we can move this guy out just like we did before. And so we have that consistency between plans and having it look nice.
And then we can do the same thing for the stair, adding the stair path to show that this takes you down. And then this is the lobby, which is open to blow, which on the overall plan, we added those detail lines. We might as well do the same thing here.
And if you wanted to, you could actually, cause they're just annotation elements, you could pop over into your A202 plan and select these lines and using your favorite trick here, which is the copy to clipboard and then popping back over to 601, the second floor plan, we could paste a line to current view and just gonna make a little bit of adjustments cause the scale is clearly different on the two. But we can still show that that space is open to blow in that area there. And so these few little tricks here, just kind of getting everything in place and adding these tags, you can see, if you were to compare back to what our plan looked like before and what it looks like now, it's quite a bit of a difference between the just drawing the plan and then the little bit of editing and annotating and dimensioning that we've done has really brought it to the next level.
So these are starting to look pretty good. There's definitely more work to be done, but in this case, and for the purposes of where we are in the project today, this is actually a great, great progress for us.
