TAGGING AREAS IN A LINKED MODEL

[prfisher311]

I HAVE A LINKED MODEL WHICH CONTAINS SEVERAL BUILDINGS. WITHIN EACH BUILDING ARE SEVERAL UNITS DEFINED BY AREAS AND CONTAINING MULTIPLE ROOMS. I HAVE SMALL SCALE VIEWS IN WHICH I NEED TO TAG THE AREAS. I ALSO HAVE LARGE SCALE VIEWS IN WHICH I WILL TAG THE INDIVIDUAL ROOMS.

TLRD: LINKED MODEL IS MULTI-BUILDING, MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL. INDIVIDUAL UNITS ARE DEFINED BY AREAS. I NEED TO TAG AREAS/UNITS IN VIEWS. 

SO MY QUESTION: WHY DON'T AREA AND AREAS FUNCTION MORE LIKE MECHANICAL SPACES?

[SimonWhitbread · Accepted solution]

The short answer is Areas are aimed at early project design where the Architect may need to see Gross floor Areas, predefine shop units / or as in your case, units in a building and - I'm guessing here - It was never anticipated that areas would be needed for MEP design.

That said, you could override the view properties to display the tags in the LINK file:

And Schedule the Linked areas:

 It's a workaround, but might help.

[prfisher311]

Not going to lie, I kinda forgot I posted this. But it would seem like this option should work. I think we resorted to manually inserting text to tag the spaces.