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Annotating Piping Plans: Tagging Pipes and Adding Notes

Pipe Annotation Standards

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This tutorial walks through annotating piping plans: tagging pipes and adding notes, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

In this video, we'll be annotating our piping plans. So let's go to our Level 1 piping plan. All right, the first thing I'd like to do is delete these building sections we created. We'll start them fresh when we get to the building sections portion of our annotations.

So let's go ahead and delete these, click OK. All right, the first thing I like to do is tag all of our pipes. To do that, let's go to Annotate, and you should see Tag by Category—let's select that.

Now, if you hover over different parts of the model, it will create a tag for that part. If I hover over my branch line here, it's calling it out with a pipe tag: 1½", Schedule 10,12 feet above finished floor. This is the tag we'll be using.

So first, whatever tag you have on the pipe, go ahead and click. Now, if you select the tag, under Properties, we have our Fire Sprinkler Pipe – Schedule 10, Pipe Size Tag – Schedule 10.

So make sure you're using that tag. OK, and let's go back to Annotate > Tag by Category. Now it's a process of just tagging all of our pipes.

We're not going to tag our armovers. We're going to make some notes. So feel free to skip ahead or watch part of the video, then skip ahead.

But I'm going to be tagging all the pipes on my Level 1 piping plan. OK, I will tag the main here and here. I'm trying to find a spot where you're not blocking a sprinkler location or other pertinent information.

OK, again, I'm not going to worry about my armovers. I might have to move this one up. OK, the 1" pipe—we don't have to worry about that.

These will all be Schedule 40, which is also noted in our general notes. But since there are so many armovers, we're just going to add a note to our plan to call this out. So don’t worry about any of the 1" pipe.

I'll continue tagging this branch line. Anything with more than one sprinkler will be larger than 1". We will tag those.

The order you do this in doesn't have to match mine. It's not in any particular order. Just make sure we get them all tagged.

Move this to the other side. OK, have I tagged this main already? Yes. Sometimes you can tag the same main more than once.

If there's a change in direction, you definitely want to. You might add another one on this end of the main as well. OK, that's pretty good.