Have you ever had a large floor plan, covering multiple floor and have literally hundreds of risers to tag? What if all the risers are offset through the building and you can’t simply copy and paste the annotations up the building?
Tag all is a great solution for which I have a little tip on how to speed the process up and it’s quite a simple solution as well.
First step, open the floor plan you want to tag and cut a section that covers the whole building. For the purpose of this example, I’m only going to use a small riser section that I’ve mocked up.
In the section view, I find that it is easier to turn off all the architecture. Select all the pipework that relates to the level you want to tag. I just select a crossing and filter everything out leaving only pipes selected.
Switch back to the floor plan view. Make sure that the markers showing the pipes are selected are visible in the floor plan otherwise this will not work. If you have dependent views, make sure you are in the top level view that shows the entire floor plan.
Now using the tag all tool, select the relevant annotation tag, set your preferences for leader on/off and leader length, click OK and you’re done.
Of course, at first everything comes up a little untidy, but it is far quicker to align annotation symbols that to tag each vertical element manually and then locate the annotation.
Another step that you could take if say you had a hydraulic project and you wanted to tag all the drainage stacks with a dropper annotation symbol and then tag the vents with a riser annotation symbol is to simply filter out each service through visibility graphics in the section as you go, annotate the vertical elements in a few steps rather than all in one hit with the same annotation symbol.
Hydraulically this solution is far more advantageous for drainage services than it is for water services, as drainage always drops and vents always rise, where as water can go either way, but it still goes a long way toward cutting down your annotation time on a project.