Demo room tags

[mcuevas]

When working in the demolition phase and I try to tag a room that has some demo work in it, it tries to pick up the new space instead of using the existing space to tag the room. Has anyone come across this?

[beegee]

Rooms belong to the phase in which their tag is created. Room schedules show only those rooms that exist in the schedule’s phase. If a room is tagged in several phases, it will appear in all those phases, with independent properties.

[mcuevas]

Thanks beegee, I understand how the room tag functions. I was just wondering how others tagged their rooms on a demo plan. I was thinking of making an annotation symbol that looks like a room tag in order to accomplish this. Thanks for your input.

[beegee]

If I'm understanding you correctly, there are two basic options :-

1. You have a view for Existing Phase, and another view for Demo Phase. A room tag is placed in the Existing Phase View and the room is named Room EX. You go to the Demo Phase, place another tag and also place room separation lines to define the original extent of this room. The room tag can keep the name Room Ex and you can add another tag for the newly created room area called Room New.

2. You have a view for Existing Phase, and another view for Demo Phase. A room tag is placed in the Existing Phase View and the room is named Room EX. You go to the Demo Phase and place another room tag. This tag now defines the extents of the entire space (existing + new), but since its independent of the tag in the Existing Phase, you have a choice of naming this room the same ( Room Ex ) or choosing a new name or number for it.

Does that clarify ?

When you create schedules using these room names, each schedule will be phase dependent also, but it may be less confusing for the builder if the original room maintains its name/number. The choice then becomes whether to call the whole new space by that name, or to add a new name for the new room space. I tend toward keeping the whole (old & new) space by the original name.