Discover the process of creating a door tag as an annotation family in architectural modeling, ensuring accurate representation and tagging of elements in your model. This will shed light on the meticulous steps involved in the creation of realistic and detailed architectural elements.
Key Insights
- The creation of a door tag begins with creating the line work that will represent the tag, drawn to a full-size scale of half inch wide by 5 sixteenths high.
- The door tag template must be correctly selected for accurate and functional door tagging, as only door tags will be recognized when tagging doors in the model.
- Parameters added to the door tag include the door number, door width in inches, and door height in inches, contributing to the realistic representation of the door within the architectural model.
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The next family we're going to create is a door tag, and it's really the same process that we've gone through with all of the other families, except it's an annotation tag. So instead of it being something that we're tagging, it's the actual element that we would place when we want to annotate our model. We'll go to File, New, Family, and again back to that English Imperial, Annotations, and Door Tag.
And this is really important, almost even more important than when we created the Casework family to correctly select the tag that you want to create, because the only way you can tag a door is if you use this door tag template. If you picked one of the other ones, it's not going to work. So it's only going to look for door tags when you go to Tag Doors.
Click Open, and this one's very basic. You can see there's not a lot going on there. And so I'll zoom in because we're actually going to create something pretty small.
And what we'll do is we'll start by creating the line work that we're going to use that'll represent the tag. And so you have to keep in mind, we're actually going to be drawing this at what we would call like a full-size scale. So this tag is going to be half inch wide by 5 sixteenths high.
And so when I draw my tag, I'll start with just a rectangle here. And just using, you can see here when we look back at the options, just like how the family was different than the project, the annotation family is going to be a little different than our model families because we're not actually modeling elements. So it's geared more towards the annotations that we'll use.
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So I'm going to start with the line tool and then I'll use the rectangle. And from here, I'll just draw it off to the side a little bit because it'll just get in the way of the filled regions with these temporary dimensions if I were to do that. So I'll set this one to half inch, and then I'll set this one to 5 sixteenths of an inch.
And that's the general box that I'm looking for here. And I'm just going to move it kind of off to the side a little bit more. And so you can see I've got 5 sixteenths by half inch.
And then what I'll do is I'll divide it in half. So I'll use this midpoint to midpoint. And then I'll do it again, midpoint to midpoint.
And this is a little bulky. So I want to add a radius to each one of these corners. And so I can use the fillet option for that.
If I go to create and line, I could actually use the fillet option here. And I can define the radius of eighth inch. If I check that box for radius, I can say I want that to be one eighth of an inch.
And then when I pick two lines, like this one, and this one, it'll fillet the corner. And so I'll do that to all four corners. And the next step here, we're going to go ahead and start adding in some of our parameters.
So in our case, we're going to have our door number, our door width in inches, and our door height in inches.
