2011 - Tagging Linked Models

[davidthigpen]

Many things sound good in 2011 (can I have 2 sizes of fonts in one piece of text?) but I have to ask this question - without being able to tag rooms or keynote linked models does the other tagging of linked models really help?

[cliff collins]

Baby steps........


cheers

[m20roxxers]

If you make the link room bounding then you can create the rooms in your main file.

[benmay]

For large projects yes! But as hardware and OS are developing to match our models I am splitting models less.

But trying to manage tags when working with linked models on larger projects has been a nightmare, the only way was to link a view through VG overides, and if you need a tag to move you had to open the linked model, modify the view. reload and repeat

Managing what your tag reads will be interesting, as if you tag something and its wrong, you have the same problem of opening the model up. Maybe some sort of nested editing is possible for that sort of thing in the future?

And just to clarify the most common place I would be running with two models and lots of tags is on refurbishment/redevelopment projects, existing and demo in one model and new build in another

[Scott Womack]

Look into the published videos/feature list for Revit 2011. Except for Spaces, and Rooms, you can now tag some items in a linked file.

[Scott D Davis]

Look into the published videos/feature list for Revit 2011. Except for Spaces, and Rooms, you can now tag some items in a linked file.

Except for Spaces, rooms, areas, keynotes and beam system tags (recalling from memory...I think thats all!)

[wmullett]

What scott? You mean we still can't keynote a linked file? ... Seems like they missed it if that's true.

[cliff collins]

Glad to see some steps forward with annotating linked files.

Howver, I agree that the ability to tag Rooms and Keynotes should be next highest priority from our recent experience in Revit 2010 working on large projects with multiple links.

cheers

[Scott D Davis]

What scott? You mean we still can't keynote a linked file? ... Seems like they missed it if that's true.

Not "missed". The Factory definitely knows the need for "full" tagging functionality. For some reason rooms/areas/spaces, keynotes, and beam tags were problematic for the 2011 release.