How to make a pipe tag identify if the pipe is a riser or not?

How to make a pipe tag identify if the pipe is a riser or not?

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How to make a pipe tag identify if the pipe is a riser or not?

Contrerasj45MS4
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Hi!

 

I would like to know if there is any way to make a pipe tag to identify if the pipe is a riser. I have to make 2 different pipe tags: one to tag pipe risers and the other to tag a horizontal pipe in a floor plan. However, I always have to change the tag type for every pipe riser or horizontal pipe (image as an example), which is tedious for me.

 

I want to click "Tag by Category" and it automatically decides which Tag will be used.

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Thanks!

 

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iainsavage
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The element category is pipe.

It will use the currently default tag type for that category.

You can change the default type here:

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I suggest:

  • Set your horizontal type to the default, tag your horizontal pipes.
  • Change the default type to the riser tag, tag all risers.
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RLY_15
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Revit does not innately have a method that changes the tag type based on criteria (slope, in your case).

 

@iainsavage 's method is the most approachable method. I would probably manually tag the risers first so you can then run through the view with a length filter and tag-all the horizontal pipes of a predetermined minimum length (so that the annotations are readable).

 

Slope is unfortunately not an accessible parameter for V/G filtering...yet. If it was you'd use a filter to prune out any pipes whose slopes were less than 12"/12" or some similar high angle and be able to use the Tag-All command that way.

 

 

If you get into Dynamo in the future, the slope parameter *is* accessible in that environment, so you can batch tag using that method.

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