From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Generic tags

- I want to make a type tag that pulls in the abbreviation for the system it's on. For Families, let's go New. Let's go to Annotations. Let's go generic tag this time, let's click Open. Delete that note like we always do. Now, we can't do anything until we specify what this thing is going to be tagging. So go to Family Category and Parameters. What I want to do is I want to scroll down to Pipe Tags. I want to rotate it with the component, for sure. Click Ok, and notice that it's clicked on here. Now what I want to do is go to Create and let's go to Label. I'm going to put that label right here but it's not going to stay there for long. Now I can scroll down and notice that we're getting categories for piping. So we're going to scroll down and we're going to find System Abbreviation, we're going to click add and my sample value will be GAS. We're going to click Apply and then we're going to click OK. Select GAS, what I want to do is the vertical align, I want it to be middle. My…

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