Explore the detailed process of placing plumbing fixture tags in building plans, addressing potential issues such as space constraints and overlapping labels. Discover the importance of ensuring tag placement is clear and easy to read, ultimately creating effective and comprehensible plans.
Key Insights
- Tagging plumbing fixtures in building plans requires careful consideration of space and placement to avoid overlapping and confusion. Leaders can be employed to ensure tags are easily distinguishable from object lines.
- It's crucial to ensure that each tag is correctly assigned to prevent misinterpretation, for example, a toilet partition should not be given the same tag as a water closet as it could cause confusion.
- Clear and easy to read drawings are vital in architectural plans. Unnecessary conflicts should be avoided and every effort should be made to keep everything lined up and clearly displaying information, ensuring the plans are easier to read.
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Now we're going to do some Plumbing Fixture Tags, and the process is really similar to what we just did on the furniture tags, but it's just another category that we have to place. Before we do that, there's a few things that I want to address before we start tagging them, and I can see that we're going to run into some problems with our tags and kind of how everything is going to be located, and I can see that I might not have enough space to put tags in the Women's Room, especially if I'm trying to tag this sink here, because that room tag is going to be in the way. So what I want to do is I'm going to go ahead and move that outside of my room boundary, but as you recall, we need to first make sure we turn on the leader, and then use the move and drag button to move that outside, like you see here, and I can set that tag anywhere I want or that leader anywhere I want.
The next thing I'll do is, since we use the same boundary for two different views, is I want to go ahead and move this around a bit and then adjust one of these bubbles so that they're sitting down below each other like that, and that's much better of a setup than it is to have them overlapping, obviously, because then you can't necessarily see which one is being referenced where. The last part will be to fix these door tags as needed, so I'll just move this one out because it is kind of a large tag for this scale, but it does have a lot of good information, so we want to stick with it, and then I can kind of move the Men's Room tag around a little bit. It's a little trickier.
This is really a preference thing, but if you were okay with having long leaders like we would here, you could move it off to the side. This does get a little tricky, and I wouldn't run it straight across like this because then it just would get mixed in with the rest of the line work on the project, but having it sit outside with a clear diagonal would be acceptable, and it's always good to have a diagonal like that so it doesn't get mixed up as an object line, so I'll do that for the Women's Room as well because the last thing you want to do is have a line going across, and then nobody knows what it is, and so we can have our two restrooms tagged like this, and then we can just go through the same process we have done before on our previous tags. We can say Tag by Category.
I can pick the plumbing fixture, and you can guess what's going on already, right? We don't have that tag loaded, so we'll say yes. This time, instead of the architectural folder, we'll bounce back one to annotations, and we'll go into Mechanical, and that's where we'll find the plumbing fixture tag, so I'll click open, and then I can add the tag to my sink. This is going to be L1 because technically it's a lavatory, and then we can add the tag to both sides here, so I'll just continue on using create similar as my tag option, so I've got L1.
That'll be our urinal. We'll go ahead and tag that one UR-1, and I'm still within the tag command. You can see here, so even when I get to the water closet and I go ahead and tag that one, I can still be active in the command.
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See, I'm still able to tag things, but I can go back, and I can actually hit that while I'm active, tagging it, which does give me the option to be able to go in and tag these things pretty quickly, so just because we've set things like our Men's and Women's Room tags, it doesn't mean that those have to stay in that location forever, so I'm seeing how we would have to work around some of those leaders here, and I'm just going to move this tag out, and one thing you may notice is I want to make sure that I actually tagged the toilet with the WC-1, and it's easy to tell because WC-1 was given the designation that I set for this toilet because, as you may have noticed, as I was placing that tag, it was also highlighting the toilet partition, and so we don't want the toilet partition to be given the tag, the same tag as the water closet because that'll just be pretty confusing, so same thing here. It looks like I just need to kind of adjust this tag around so I can get one in here, and so using create similar again, I'll place that tag, and so we'll get the WC-1 in there, and you may have already guessed what our next step is, but we need to make sure that we have that leader, and I'm just going through because I think it's really important to have nice and clean and clear and easy to read drawings, so I do everything I can to avoid having some unnecessary conflicts, so this is an example, you know, the door swing is going through the tag, so I can move this down. I can kind of adjust these around as needed, but try to keep everything lined up and nice and clear, and it just makes the plans easier to read, so as you're going through and doing that, just make sure it's easy to read and it's clearly displaying the information, so same thing here, you know, the tag doesn't have the leader, just like on these guys here, we had to add that because it's a different type, so we'll go to edit type, add the leader arrowhead for Dot Filled 1/16", and hit okay, and those are our tags on Level One.
