Room tags dont link in?

[Anonymous]

An architect sent me his revit file, it contains the full model and all the floor plan views and drawing sheets. He has floor plan views set up for each floor and some enlarged views as well. On each floor plan view each room has a tag that contains room name and room number and every door has a tag that contains the door number.

When I create a new file and link in his file so I can then start working, doing what we need to do, adding devices, etc. The problem is, the architect's room tags and door tags dont link in, and if they do I cant see them. I've gone through every possible combination in the visibility/graphics options to no avail.

I'm still relatively new to revit and can't figure this out. Please help!

Room and door info linking in should be a basic function of revit; how could autodesk expect mech, elec, plumbing engineers to create drawings that have zero room and door info?

If it matters, I'm working in Revit 2010. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

in Revit 2011, you can tag all the doors in the linked file. Does not work
in 2010.

You cannot however, tag the rooms. It's a known limitation in 2011. You
can create a new room in the linked model and tag it, but it wont pull the
room info from the original file.

"derekanderson" wrote in message news:6383930@discussion.autodesk.com...
An architect sent me his revit file, it contains the full model and all the
floor plan views and drawing sheets. He has floor plan views set up for
each floor and some enlarged views as well. On each floor plan view each
room has a tag that contains room name and room number and every door has a
tag that contains the door number.

When I create a new file and link in his file so I can then start working,
doing what we need to do, adding devices, etc. The problem is, the
architect's room tags and door tags dont link in, and if they do I cant see
them. I've gone through every possible combination in the
visibility/graphics options to no avail.

I'm still relatively new to revit and can't figure this out. Please help!

Room and door info linking in should be a basic function of revit; how could
autodesk expect mech, elec, plumbing engineers to create drawings that have
zero room and door info?

If it matters, I'm working in Revit 2010. Thanks!

[Alfredo_Medina]

Scott

I guess the OP is not interesting in tagging rooms and doors. The issue is that he can't see the room and door tags in the linked architectural file in Revit MEP. I have the issue myself, since I am also studying MEP. I have an architectural drawing linked in my MEP file, and I can't see its room and door tags either. Even if I go to Visibility Graphics > Revit links > Custom > Annotation categories > Custom > ...Room tags and Door tags... They are checked, so they are supposed to be ON, but they are not.

Alfredo

[Anonymous]

You are correct Alfredo.

I'm not interested in creating new room tags. I just want to be able to see the existing room and door tags that the architect already put in the architectural file.

Why are these not displaying in my new file after linking in the architect's file?

[Anonymous]

Try this:

In the file that has the Room Tags showing as you would like, duplicate those views and name them "By Linked View"

Then, in the file that you want to see the Room Tags from the linked file, go to view properties, Revit Links
set to Custom, then specify "By Linked View" and select the "By Linked View" names that you created in the above instruction.

You should now be able to see the Room Tags in the linked model.

cheers

[Anonymous]

Hi.

In the original file, the TAGS stay horizontal regardless of view orientation.

But in the revit links, how to do the same to make the room tags stay horizontal on my MEP view?

Thankyou

[Anonymous]

it works but make sure that room and room tage is checked in visibility