Discover how to effectively use tags to organize and optimize your workflows. This guide provides step-by-step instructions and insights into tagging methodologies that can simplify your process and increase efficiency.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of keeping tagging within specific workflows or elements at one time, as this can maintain a consistent frame of reference and enhance the efficiency of the process.
- It notes that using the 'add or move host' function can be beneficial for rearranging elements, suggesting that this tool can be effectively utilized to maintain control over workflows.
- The guide encourages tagging nearly everything within the system despite it being a time-consuming process, as it aids in maintaining organization and improving readability, thus enabling seamless navigation and utilization of the system.
Note: These materials offer prospective students a preview of how our classes are structured. Students enrolled in this course will receive access to the full set of materials, including video lectures, project-based assignments, and instructor feedback.
So let's get some more practice with some tags. I'm going to just kind of work along here. I'm going to, I can go based on, I tend to try to keep my tagging in certain workflows and certain elements at one time.
So I may go through, do all my ducks. And then I go through and do all my diffusers. And then I go through and kind of work through that way, just so I kind of keep in the same frame of mind, I'm going to use this add or move host.
Cause I do find it to be very helpful. And then I can go ahead and start to move things around. There we go.
So this one, I don't necessarily want to have that. So I'm just going to hit escape once I'll do this. And this is going to kind of just take some time, but it's good practice.
14 inch. I don't want to add or remove host there. 10 inch.
%20(1).png)
Learn Revit MEP
- Nationally accredited
- Create your own portfolio
- Free student software
- Learn at your convenience
- Authorized Autodesk training center
Let's go ahead and work our way around. You may just need to hit exit to get off that add or remove host. You can adjust these as you go, which is really nice.
And it keeps you in the command. So let's say how to escape, boom, come down. There we go.
Again, it's still wanting to, I'm just going to hit escape once into that, into that here, here, so if you mess up, don't worry, it's perfectly fine. You can always just undo it. It's just an annotation element.
It's not going to break the software or anything like that. It's just a little annotation tag that you can adjust and fix later on. There we go.
So realistically with these systems, you really do kind of want to tag everything. That's why it takes a little bit of time to get these tags squared away. So just work your way through.
I'll add that one there. And then this one, I'm actually going to back out of that completely. And maybe I want to go ahead.
I'm going to pull this little guy out here just so that it's a little cleaner and a little more readable. Typically if you drag a room tag or a space tag out of the space, it should automatically generate a leader for you. So let's go ahead and get these guys out here.
There we go. TG for tag. Let's go there.
We have like the eight foot inch and eight inch there. You can go ahead and do that. There.
Go ahead. Grab that 18 inch. These are both 18s and we're just going to keep going because we want to tag almost everything in here.
Boom, boom. And I could almost do something like this, where if I wanted to group all four of these tags together, I could do that. Again, there's probably going to be a critical mass at where it starts to get kind of messy and you don't necessarily want to go ahead and do that.
But I think in this instance, it works perfectly fine. You may also want to evaluate where the leaders may be of some of your classroom ones come in. So maybe these don't want to be at the edge of the, in the middle of the classroom because that's where all my work is.
So I'm going to go ahead and work my way down. And again, it's just a balancing act. So it may seem like this video is kind of getting long and really repetitive, but this is kind of the process that we all do during this.
And I'm also paying attention to what other tags that I might be having come in later, like my air terminal tags and making sure that I'm allowing space for those air terminal tags. So there, there, there, and there, let's go ahead, pull this off again. I think I'm going to have to really kind of sit down and go through some of these classroom tags.
So I'm going to grab a bunch of these classroom tags. Can I move multiple at one time? Yep. And you see how automatically when I drag it out of the space, it automatically gives me the leaders.
I'm going to go ahead and line these up too. Unfortunately, you can only edit the arrowheads or the, the, where the end is on an individual basis. So I can grab these and drag them all out, but there we go.
Let's see here. So, you know, in this instance, I've started to do that. So possibly, you know, we don't necessarily want to pull these ones out.
We'll just have to work around them a little bit. I just moved them over the return ducks. So I'm going to go teach you again, again, just work down my way.
If I have that add, remove hosts, I just hit escape to add to separate the tag. And you can actually do this pretty quickly. You can actually go through this process very, very fast and very efficiently.
Once you have spent a little bit of time with it and kind of understand exactly what's happening. I don't think that boom, I'm just going to work my way. And unfortunately we will need to go ahead and do this for every single view that we have.
And you may get to a point where you go, Hey, this is where I want my first tag to be. I'm going to go ahead and do my second one now. So I'm going to go ahead and stop, pause this video here, continue tagging in the next video.
We're going to be tagging in the next couple of videos. We're going to be tagging and I'll see you then.