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Tagging duct

Tagging duct - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Tagging duct

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- [Instructor] If your system contains duct work, mechanical equipment, air terminals and accessories, that means you place tags as well. Tags are used to relay information about that duck to the person reading your drawing. In Revit however, we do not use simple pieces of dumb text because text is dumb. If we add text and the duct changes, the text is suddenly wrong. If we add a tag, we are adding a component that is reading the duct and it will change display if and when the duct changes. In the project browser under mechanical HVAC, let's make sure we're in ceiling plan level one. Zoom in on this area right here. Guess I'll tag a diffuser first. There's a tag icon right here on your quick access toolbar but also if you go to annotate, you can also click tag by category, it's the same icon. Let's click tag by category. Now I want to hover over this air terminal and it says 250 CFM. I want a leader but instead of…

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