Automated tagging in Revit

Tagging is placement work, not authoring work. The difficulty is not knowing which door is D-04, it is fitting two hundred tags onto a sheet without overlaps, crossed leaders or tags sitting outside the element they name.

Category recipes

Recipes switch on the categories a given drawing type needs, so tagging a floor plan and tagging a services layout do not require reconfiguring the same dialog twice.

Placement and crowding

Placement rules decide where a tag sits relative to its element and how its leader is routed. Crowded areas are the point of the exercise: where tags would collide, they are separated and their leaders re-routed so each still clearly points at what it names.

Grouping and multi-view work

A run can cover many views in one pass rather than one view at a time, which is what makes tagging a whole drawing package practical.

Repair tools

Tags drift as a model changes. Repair tools address the resulting mess directly: tags orphaned from their elements, leaders that no longer reach, and duplicates left behind by earlier passes.

Common questions

Does automated tagging avoid overlapping tags?

Yes. Where tags would collide they are separated and their leaders re-routed, so each tag still points clearly at the element it names.

Can it tag several views in one run?

Yes. A run can cover multiple views in a single pass rather than being repeated view by view.

What happens to tags when the model changes?

Repair tools handle tags orphaned from their elements, leaders that no longer reach, and duplicates left by earlier passes.

Related

  • Automated dimensioning
  • Classification, COBie and data standards
  • Clash detection

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