Learn about the intricacies of tagging furniture elements in architectural designs using digital tools. This article provides a deep dive into strategies for adding tags to tables, chairs, and other furniture pieces, while maintaining a standardized layout and ensuring efficient use of sheet space.
Key Insights
- The article delves into the process of tagging individual furniture pieces in a layout, including tables and chairs. These individual pieces are loaded into the 'table family', and can be tagged using the 'annotate' tab, followed by the 'tag by category' option.
- The author emphasizes the importance of a free end when tagging. This allows for greater control over how the table is tagged and avoids the tag leader automatically being added, which is generally about half an inch in length.
- The article also discusses how to handle tagging elements in tight spaces, maintaining standardization across a room's furniture layout. A tag's graphical representation must match the standards of the particular office, with the author suggesting the use of a dot filled 116 leader arrowhead for furniture tags.
In this next lesson, we're going to go ahead and explore some more options for tagging elements, similar to how we closed out lesson two with adding the door tags and the window tags. And we're going to look at tagging our furniture pieces here. We've got the tables in the break room and some of the open office areas.
And then also a solution for tagging furniture in a really tight space like this, where, you know, we're working at eighth inch equals a foot. We could obviously go to a quarter inch, but then we'd be running out of sheet space. We want to make sure we can just maybe tag one room and then have a standard furniture layout for that space.
And so we're going to start off by tagging the break room furniture. And just like the workstation we created, this is a nested family. We took a look at this previously, but we have essentially we have the table and then we have the individual chair elements as well.
And so these are individual pieces that are loaded into that table family. And if it was all done correctly, what I could do is from my annotate tab, I can go to tag by category, and then I can go ahead and tag, say the table itself. Okay.
And what happens is as you go to tag elements, if that particular category's tag is not loaded in the project, it'll just ask you straight up, there is no tag loaded. Would you like to load one now? And if you intended to hit furniture, then I would say yes to that. We'll go to the U.S. Imperial annotations.
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And then this will be in architectural, and we're looking for furniture tag. So I'll click open. And now I can add that tag to the table.
A couple of things to notice here as we're going through this, you can see that there's automatically a leader on the tag going across, and then the box is over in this area here. That leader is being added because in the options bar, we have leader set up here. And it's going to be about a half inch is what we're looking at.
And so that's what you're end, which means that end point, as you can see here, is always going to be off of the same basis point. If I were to change this to free end, then I can tag it however I want. And you may have already guessed, but this is the preferred method because it gives you a little bit more control of how you tag the table.
If I go in and I decide, okay, well, let's go ahead and add the tag for the table here. First thing I need to do is establish the leader. And then I'll click again, because they are a two leg type of leader.
So I can just click one more time. And then it'll place a tag for the table. You'll notice here, I left clicked again.
And it's saying, do you want to load a tag for floors? And that's because, well, I picked the floor right here. So I'll say no to that. And I'm just going to hit escape twice.
And since none of the designations have been added for the table specifically, we'll go ahead and add those. So this question mark, this is controlled by a parameter in the family. And so if I were to type in here, say t dash one, and hit ENTER, it'll add that as a type parameter to the family itself.
So saying, hey, this is a type parameter, you're going to affect many elements, would you like to continue? And my answer is going to be yes, because I do want all of these tables to have that same t1 designation. If I were to pick this table here, and go to edit type, the type mark is going to be t1. And that's because that's the tag that we gave it here.
If I were to change this to, you know, t2, and hit OK, this tag will change to t2. So it's really all one in the same thing. So I'm going to undo that, because we want it to be t1 here.
And then we're going to go ahead and tag the chair individually. So I'll do the same thing. And since it's a furniture tag, or just a tag by category, what I can do is I can select the tag.
And I can use keyboard shortcut CS for create similar. And that allows me to then continue tagging the chair. And so I can go in, and I can actually use the tab key to select a different element.
And so in this case, what I want to do is I'll hover over the chair, and I'll hit TAB. And you can see how I get a blank tag. But I'm also able to put it on the chair.
So what I'll do is I'll line this up, you can see there's the helper there. And that'll be my midpoint for the tag. And you can see I can move it over.
And now I have a tag for the chair and a tag for the table. And so I'll just go ahead and add the designation for this one here. And this one's going to be c-3.
Same thing, we want to go ahead and definitely update those. So I'll say yes. And one more thing I'll use may not be this way.
But I'll go ahead and just kind of squeeze this in a bit because I don't want to be covering up my my tags there. So I'll just move those two views, which are from our design options up and out of the way. The next thing we want to do real quick here is we want to make sure that we are graphically showing this in a way that's acceptable and matches the standards of our particular offices.
So in this case, you're rarely going to find a situation where you don't want to have a leaderhead there. If I were to click on one of the tags, these are furniture tags here. So you can see furniture tag.
And so if I go to edit type, the leader arrowhead is set to none. And so what we're looking for is dot filled 116. And so I'll apply that to the tag and hit OK.
And now we've got the same dot applied to our tag.
