topic Re: How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it? in Revit Architecture Forum

How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it?

gustavodelucaf — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:16:17 GMT

I have a project where the same items appear several times.
I wanted to tag them, to show their family names, but also show thei location and which instance if that item is that one, so that they can be distinguishable in the plans.

I thought of creating a tag fmaily to do it, but I dont know if that's possible.

Any solutions?

Re: How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it?

ToanDN — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:36:43 GMT

You can add Host Count to multi leader tag.

Re: How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it?

gustavodelucaf — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:24:37 GMT

That's not exactly what I wanted.

It counts the items in the same tag. I wanted each separate tag to include a counting number to each of its instances.

Re: How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it?

RLY_15 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:44:50 GMT

What Instance parameter are you using (if any) to identify Equipment #1, Equipment #2 ... Equipment #N? That would be the parameter you would want to include in the Label of your Tag family. Some companies use Mark, some use Comments, some use a Shared Parameter.

What are you referring to when you want the tag to 'show their location'? Is it not already clear from the plan view you're tagging from? If you want it to indicate things like Room Name/Number the method to do so is going to depend on the sort of Family it is. Some are able to reference the place they are in (things with 'Room Calculation Points'), others cannot and you'll have to use workarounds.

Re: How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it?

gustavodelucaf — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:07:29 GMT

This is a print from the same project in AutoCAD:

T1 means tower 1. PW02 is the family's type. And the last number is the counting.
I need to do the same thing in Revit.

Re: How to tag items and show their location and counting along with it?

RLY_15 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:44:19 GMT

Okay.

T1 can be a Type Mark or Type Comment (since it's consistent among a tower type). Those are built-in Type Parameters.

No issue with the Type Name being the Type Name.

The count would be an Instance parameter. Again, you can use one of the built-in ones or make your own.

This is an example of one way to go about this. There are other options if needed.

I suggest watching some video tutorials about annotation families if you haven't already done so. This line of questioning implies a gap in fundamentals. Knowledge on building annotation families and referencing different parameters is a necessary building block for multiple workflows in Revit, and unless you worked heavily with dynamic blocks in AutoCAD there is no convenient parallel to associate it to.