In this Autodesk Revit tutorial we are going to take a look at Tags. If you’d like to watch the video version of this tutorial first, simply click in the box below….
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With BIM (Building information Modelling) one of the main aspirations is to reduce errors by keeping data coorindated. In order to keep your project coordinated it is best to keep the number of different instances of it to an absolute minimum- just one set of data would be ideal! Revit allows us to “embed” our data (i.e. warranty information, colour codes, etc) in the components themselves. But what happens when we want to display that data in a view, next to it’s respective component? Well, we just add a Text Note with a Leader pointing to the object. NO WE DO NOT! The data is already contained in the object- we just need a way of getting at it. That’s what Tags are for.
Take the following example. Here is part of an external wall of…