Tagging bays

[sue]

Hi,  I work in a manufacturing plant.  The plant is laid on on a grid/bay system.  In AutoCAD, I just have the bay number on a layer and they are shown in each corner of the bay.  We ofter refer to the bays as in "put this in Bay 200" etc.  Is there an easy way to label bays in Revit?  The building has about 400 or so bays.  I was thinking about making each bay a "space" but that might be too much.  Or I could tag the colums with the bay number?  Has anyone run into this or have any ideas about the best way to do this?

Thank you!

Sue

[hmunsell]

times we have had similar conditions, we just use Room Separation Lines to block out the areas needed. Yes, it can be tedious if you have a lot of them.

does each "Bay" have a door? If you don't want to block out the actual areas, another options might be using a door tag. 

[sue]

No doors for the most part.  Pretty wide open.  I am doing an electrical panel plan (renaming) and refering each panel to the bay it's in that is why I am onto this!  

Thanks for your reply!

[mroble]

Yeah, you can do that.

1.) You just have to sketch area boundaries in each bay.

2.) You place areas in each bay.

3.) Then you can tag each bay with area tags.

[sue]

Since I have 500 bays I have added a Bay No parameter to my columns and then did a tag for the columns.  Now I just have to type in the bay numbers in the column parameter which is time consuming but seems to be working well!  I'm sure if I knew Dynamo, there is a better way....