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Tagging duct

Tagging duct - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Tagging duct

- [Voiceover] If your system contains duct work, mechanical equipment, air terminals and accessories, that means you can place tags as well. Tags are used to relay information about that duct to the person reading your drawings. In Revit, however, we do not use simple pieces of text. 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 will change its display if and when the duct changes. This model contains some preloaded tags. You may or may not have the same tags at your company, but it's always good to see how these tags work as a default. In the project browser, go to Mechanical, HVAC, 1 - Ceiling Mech under Ceiling Plans. I'm going to scroll in on my pieces of duct. The first thing I want to do, is I want to click my tag button on the quick access toolbar. And the first piece of duct I'm going to tag is a 6"x6". What I want to do, however, is I want to put a leader in and instead of…

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