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Creating a tag family

Creating a tag family - Revit Tutorial

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Creating a tag family

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- [Instructor] One of the most common types of annotation family that you're likely to want to create is a custom tag. Now, you could create tags for just about any category in Revit, and each of those tags could report just about any property within those objects. So to demonstrate this, I'm going to create a room tag, and I'm going to base that room tag on the US National CAD standard. So it's this one down here at the bottom, and you can see that in addition to showing the name and number, it also shows some individual character designations there for the finishes. And so right here, it says that A is the floor finish, two is the base, C is the wall, and three is the ceiling. So we're going to create this tag, and we're going to make all of those pieces of text labels that actually report that information back to us. There aren't any dimensions indicated here in this drawing, so what we're going to do is borrow the…

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