Detail Tags - Tagging Wall Sections Help

[mrmilorivera]

So I watched the "Creating Intelligent Details in Revit | Autodesk University" Lecture and started to implement the Details Tags (instead of text notes) in detail callouts using detail components. It works great but started to notice once we started to tag the wall sections unless we added detail components to them it's back to text notes. Does anyone have a workaround for this? Thanks in advance

[ToanDN]

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@mrmilorivera wrote:

So I watched the "Creating Intelligent Details in Revit | Autodesk University" Lecture and started to implement the Details Tags (instead of text notes) in detail callouts using detail components. It works great but started to notice once we started to tag the wall sections unless we added detail components to them it's back to text notes. Does anyone have a workaround for this? Thanks in advance

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That part doesn't make any sense, tags cannot turn to text notes.  Can you explain your workflow of tagging the wall sections?  What elements did you tag?  Are they actually tags or keynotes?

[barthbradley]

I'm scratching my head as well.  

[mrmilorivera]

I'm using the 'Detail Item Tags' (Similar to keynote tag but more flexible- See video for reference)- It tags detail components without you having to type out "7/8" Cement Plaster...." every time in every detail view. If you try this method in the wall sections it brings up the wall tag, ceiling tag, or roof tag which isn't ideal to have several tags that you edit to get the same look.

For now, we are using 'text notes' to describe the '7/8" Cement Plaster....etc"

[barthbradley]

Are you TAB-Selecting the right element? 

...I think I'm going to take that back. I don't think I'm following you. Back to scratching my head.  he, he.  

[ToanDN]

I see. A Detail Item Tag can only tag Detail Items. It doesn't work when you tag a wall section because there are no detail items added to that view, only model elements. If you don't want to add Detail items to the view then you can use Material tags or Keynotes instead.

[mrmilorivera]

Yes, It's two different things....In the details, it's tagging detail components which work well. In the wall sections, it's model elements....So detail tags don't work, curious if I have to modify the 'Detail Items Tag' to include model elements or something similar and seeing what others are doing.

[ToanDN]

You cannot change a Detail item tag to include model elements. You could change it to a Multi-category tag but i doubt it would work properly, because you are tagging individual components such as finish layers, not an entire elements such as a wall. Use a Material tag and edit the family so that it looks identical to your Detail tag.