Annotation Tag: Suggestions

[XXalessio.amodioXX]

Hi all.

As the title i would like to have some suggestions regarding Annotation tag.

I have to create a tag for e.g. Wall (Mark, Type Mark, Comments, Type comments ...)

Do you prefere create separate Annotation families or create same Annotation family with multiple types? (Visualization on/off)

[hmunsell]

personally, i prefer one Family, multiple Types. there are occasions i have done multiple families for the same category, but that is usually only if there are significant differences needed in there appearance. i know others that prefer to make different Families for each "type" though too.

So it all depends on your preference. do you want to manage a bunch of different families, or manage a handful of families with a handful of types in each.

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

If it is common tag for most of the Revit object like Mark, Comments, Type Comments, Model, description and etc, I would make multi-category tag. This way you can use one tag to represent many. If you have to used shared parameter for specific parameter to show on tag, then I would create individual tag for that specific task. Multi-category does have shortcoming. Certain object like railing won't be able to use Multi-category. So you may have to create a separate tag for that.

[chughes · Accepted solution]

I second using Multi-Category tags as your heavy lifter for annotation.  I have created two tags that cover 90% of annotation.  One tag reads the 'Description' for a type.  The other tag reads the 'Comment' for the instance.  This is flexible enough to allow you to tag project wide types and then tag individual instances of an object to specific needs.

[XXalessio.amodioXX]

Thanks all for precius informations.

Multi category tag is an option that I have never used to have better tags control, but a very usefull tip indeed.

Unfortunatelly Multi category, as you said does not cover all category, in my case Structural elements e.g. Structural column or beams.

I believe that for simply Mark/Type mark a Multi category tag for most of the elements may be used.