Equipment/Fixture/Raceway Tag Organization and Creation

[Anonymous]

Greetings,

I am working on cleaning up some templates.  Our company has fragmented the equipment, fixtures, raceway, etc. tags into many separate families.  It seems more logical to me to have a single "Tray" family tag with controlled visibility through types ;then say 4 or 5 independent family tags each with only a single text label in them.

Is there any reason to keep them as separate families, or otherwise general consensus about family / type organization in this manner?

Any pitfalls to keeping them as types?  I've already made a few of my own this way and havent run into anything yet... but it means I can reduce the number of families, make edits easier to labels should font or size need to change, etc.

Im not really seeing any down side.

Thank you and happy weekend!

[RobDraw · Accepted solution]

I, too, prefer multiple types. The only real problem that I run into is when the different types have different number of lines of text and the lengths of lines can vary. Leader landing points and gaps can be difficult to control. 

[Anonymous]

@RobDraw Thanks!  Ill keep an eye out for that.  In my case all the tags are basically identical so I haven't observed that yet.