Create manual tags with generic annotations

- [Instructor] Creating complete architectural…documentation packages involves all sorts…of symbols and text and annotations…throughout the various views that will be included…within those packages.…Now, wherever possible, in Revit,…we want to take fullest advantage…of all the live annotation that Revit offers us.…That's the live dimensions, the tags…that are pointing to individual elements,…like door and window and wall tags.…If those elements change, the tags update immediately,…and you see the changes.…So that's very powerful and it's very useful.…Well, not every type of information…that you need to convey in every documentation package…will have readily-available information within the model.…

Or, if the information is within the model,…it might not be easy to come up with…a hosted relationship that makes sense, in order to be able…to extract that information within a live tag.…In situations like that, you can use something…called a generic annotation symbol.…Now, we have generic annotation symbols…for all sorts of graphical symbols…