Tagging every material in a wall with one tag

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to create a tag that can tag every material in a wall. 

With this i'm trying to avoid having to select every material and click 3 - 4 times to position the text of the tag.

In the attachement you can see what i'm more or less trying to achieve. The example was made with annotation text and lines.

Does anyone know if this is possible or give some ideas about how to start with this.

Thanks in advance!

[Avaris. · Accepted solution]

No there is not really a native Revit solution for this. But via the API or Dynamo, you could extract the wall layers. Then you have to bring back this information in a parameter of the wall + read this information in a tag.

Another way would be to assign a type mark and have a separate file where you connect type marks with the wall layers.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply! 

I was afraid dynamo would be the most convenient way to do this. I might be able to figure that out but it's going to be too much of a hassle for the rest of the team to figure out how to use the scripts and they'll stil do it in annotations.  Not worth the hassle for now then. 

Thanks again!

[ToanDN]

Only one person needs to know Dynamo and run the script when needed. Te rest of the team just tag the walls normally with the new tag type that reads the combined material information.

[barthbradley]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to create a tag that can tag every material in a wall. 

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Even if there was, would you even use it?  I mean, you're talking about a single tag that would populate with a value (probably in 3/32" font) identifying every single wall layer material; right?  Or, am I misunderstanding you?  

[DParkRMAK]

We use a wall section tag that is used to list the layers of the wall manually. I am working on one that will read the wall layers directly and Dynamo is what I need to make it work. Currently I have it set up with custom Parameters for wall materials. I set up my walls ahead of time so there isn't a lot of tweaking things twice. For the materials I name them how I want them to appear when tagged. 

I will let you know when I figure out how to make it read the wall layer materials automatically.

[DParkRMAK]

Hey, I just found this app for doing just this.

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=7780462665166729539&appLang=en&os=Win64&autostart=t...

I am downloading it now.

[roel.liesmons]

Hi,

I'm struggling with the same problem. I was wondering if you had found a solution yet?

Kind regards.

[DParkRMAK]

See my last post in this thread. I found a free addon that does exactly what I was looking for.

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=7780462665166729539&appLang=en&os=Win64&autostart=t...

It adds parameters to your assemblies, walls, floors, roof. It will read the assembly layers and list them in a tag.

[ConstantineC]

Coming from an Archicad environment I was looking for this and found this topic.

That addon seems to do the trick but I really dont understand why is not a Revit built in feature?

[ConstantineC]

The app is not free anymore unfortunately