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Tagging plan

Tagging plan - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Tagging plan

- [Instructor] What I'd like to do now is tag this plan up. The reason we use tags in Revit as much as possible instead of text is the fact that our BIM model has BIM information. When we tag something, instead of adding a text label, what happens is when we change the object we're tagging, that tag is going to update. So no longer do we have to do two things. I'm going to jump into this model here. Let's jump into Revit, go to exercise files chapter two, and I'm going to open two 13 tagging. First thing I'd like to do is let's go down to level one, electrical power plan. Let's zoom in over here to our spaghetti. I'd like to tag this home run. We know this home run is on a circuit and it's going to a panel, so if we zoom into this home run, click on this little icon right here. This is the tag by category, or we can go to annotate and we can go to tag by category here. Click tag by category. Hover over your home run. Notice that we have a leader coming off the number one. We can…

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