Explore the process of switching from model elements to annotation elements while creating architectural plans, which includes adding rooms and room tags. Discover useful steps to implement room separators, label rooms with three-digit numbers for easy differentiation, rename rooms, add room tags, and even change room tag types for more detailed information.
Key Insights
- The transition from model elements to annotation elements in architectural planning involves adding rooms and room tags to differentiate areas within a project.
- Use of room separators and three-digit numbering system helps distinguish between different areas and rooms, streamlining the architectural process. For instance, using 101 for the first floor, room 01, can make the identification process more efficient.
- Changing the room tag type to 'room tag with area' provides more detailed information for each room, including area information. This enhanced detail is automatically updated if any changes occur, providing an added benefit to the planning process.
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In this video, we're going to move over from model elements to annotation elements. And so part of this is going to be adding rooms and room tags. And so we're going to start by adding in a couple of elements to help with that.
And one of them is going to be, we need a room separator here. If you recall from project one, we did that to separate the family room from the kitchen area. And we're going to want to do that to separate this lobby area from the hall area that we have here.
So I'm going to go from my architecture tab, and I'm going to grab that room separator. And I'll go ahead and add it in from the endpoint of the wall across to kind of create a division there. And that'll help us for when we create this room, so that we can just go through and add them instead of having to worry about two overlapping.
Now for the first room, it's going to be room 101 here. And so when I go to add the room, I want to make sure we're adding the tag on placement. And I'll add the room.
And you can see it's just called room one. But I want to use the three digit number. So 101 meaning first floor, room 01.
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And so I'm going to change that from one to 101, which means the next room that I place is going to be room 102. And a small little change like that just helps me to make sure that we don't have to go back and renumber these. So I'll go ahead and add the rooms in.
And then the hall here will be 108. The stairs can be 109. And then we have our restrooms, 110 and 111.
And that'll round out the first floor with room 114. So it doesn't quite work by just having everything called room. We have to go through and actually rename these.
And so I'll rename the lobby. And it's simply just by selecting the tag and picking where it says room. Then I can call it lobby.
I can do the same thing with the offices. I can say office. Or since I know that there's five rooms here that are going to have the same name, I could select them all with a crossing.
I could filter. And this is the trick here. We want to make sure we pick just rooms.
So I'll say check none, rooms, and hit OK. And I can change its name here from room. And since I've already typed in one office, it's in the dropdown.
And I can change it to office. I like using the dropdown because it's less likely for me to make a mistake when I use the dropdown than if I were to just type it in myself because I could make a typo. So here we'll add in this will be the hall.
This will be stair two. And then we'll work our way through. So this will be the men's room.
And this will be for the women. And then these other two, they'll be conference rooms. And so I can type it in once here.
And then for this one, I could select the room and just use the dropdown so that I make sure I don't make a mistake. And these tags, they do want to line up with each other. So you see how I kind of move it around and they want to line up.
They're all trying to find some common ground there. So then the last one here, which we almost missed because there's so much going on there, is stair one. And speaking of which, we need to do something with the location of that tag.
And really, it's as simple as adding the leader. And we did a similar thing with project one with the small bathroom there. And so I just need to go in, select the room tag itself here.
You see that? I'm on the tag, room tag. And then I'll tell it to add a leader. And that gives me the ability to move the tag outside of the room.
And then I could adjust the tag location and the leader location as long as I stay within the room boundary. The next thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to add a leader arrowhead to that. And that's in edit type because it's a type parameter for this particular type.
And I'll use that dot filled 116th again. Just got to go ahead and make that adjustment to the one above on stair two. And we are good to go on level one.
Now we need to do the same thing in level two. And it's going to be a lot of the same process. We'll need to make sure that we have a room separator along this edge here, because we don't want this area to get counted twice.
And we'll go through and add our rooms. And so I'll use the same process. So I'll start here.
This will be room 201. And that's going to be the hall. I might as well just change it right now.
And then we'll go through and add it for our offices. So I know the numbers are going to be correct, but I will have to go through and update the names. And so you may be asking, why didn't we just copy them up from level one? And that's because they would have started at number 114.
And this would have been 115, 116, and 117. So it's easier to go back and change the names than it is to update those numbers. And just adding these last couple rooms in.
And we can use the same process we used before, using the crossing plus the filter to update the rooms. And the best part is we've added all the room names that we have. So I don't have to type anything anymore.
So this is going to be stair 2. And I'll just move it out with the leader first. And then if we can select the room itself, I could change it to stair 2 using this pull down in the properties palette. And that's up to you.
If you feel like it's just easier or faster to type it in, then that works as well. But in some cases like this one where you have two that you can select, and so I just do a broad crossing kind of down the middle here. Since I know I'm going to filter it down to just rooms, I could do that and then change this to conference room.
And then the last one here is going to be the second stair, making sure we're adding that leader, and then changing the room type to stair 1. And we've added room tags and rooms to all the spaces within our project. Now that we have the rooms and the room tags placed, we can do a pretty cool trick here, which will allow us to have more information to display for each one of our rooms. And it's simply just changing the room tag type from just the standard room tag to be room tag with area.
And this is a great benefit to the plan because what it'll do is it'll give us this area information on all of these rooms. And we know that this tag is relative to the room. If any of these things change, it'll be automatically updated.
So what I can do to easily change this across the project is I could right click on one of the tags that is just the room tag only tag. And I can say select all instances in entire project. And from there, we can change it from room tag to room tag with area.
Now, one of the things that you may have noticed is when I made that change, I lost the leader line on my stair tag. And that's fine because all we have to do is go in and add that back in. And the reason it changed is because we switched it to a different room, a room tag type.
So room tag already had this assigned, but room tag with area did not. So you can see here, room tag has it signed, but room tag with area did not have it assigned. We'll hit OK.
All of our rooms have been changed. We'll probably need to go back and do a little bit of adjustment and cleanup work to those. But it's an added benefit and a ton more information.
Even the ones that weren't in the view got adjusted. And so it's nice to see the size of these offices and conference rooms and things.
