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Creating Enlarged Plans and Tagging Furniture in Office Layouts

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The next thing we want to do here is go in and create an enlarged plan so that we can tag all the different furniture pieces that we see within this office.

The next thing we want to do here is go in and create an enlarged plan so that we can tag all the different furniture pieces that we see within this office. And each office has the same furniture arrangement, so we can use one of the offices as a prototype. So what I'll do is I'll go to the View tab and callout, and what I want to do is I want to make sure that this is set to floor plan so it's really easy to have this switch to detail or something else.

And if you don't have it set to floor plan, then it's going to show up in a different location in the project browser, and you're not going to want that. So the first thing we'll do is just draw that boundary line around the office, so I'll click to start it and then I'll just pick an area like you see here as my callout, and so I'm just going to tighten this up a bit and then I can go in and edit this callout, and that'll be my enlarged plan. So I'll double-click to go to that view.

You can see here in our project browser it's called Level One Callout. We're going to go ahead and call it something else, so we can rename it. So I'll right-click on the level, Rename, and since it's not necessarily relevant to Level One or Level Two, what I could do is I could go in and create a typical office layout because Level Two has the same office layout as well, and then we can go in and we can add the tags. Since we're trying to use this as a typical office layout, I'm going to go ahead and hide the grids.

If I select one here, we can use two different methods. We can always right-click, Hide and View Element. That's a pretty simple way to do it, or if you're a big fan of the keyboard shortcuts, you can do EH for Element Hide. So again, select it, EH, and it hides the element as well.

If you ever run into a situation where you're like, "Man, I really didn't mean to hide that, " you always have the lightbulb down here, and that's called Reveal Hidden Elements. What it'll do is it'll show the elements you've hidden, and then you have the option to always bring them back, so you can always unhide or hide elements through this method here. We'll go ahead and use the same process from the Annotate tab that we've been using before. We'll use Tag by Category, and because these are all furniture elements already, then it's going to be really easy for us to go in and tag them.

When you have a large piece like this, like the desk, you know it's not always necessary to have a leader, so you can turn off the leader for this one, and if you go ahead and just place it, you can see it just drops right in the middle. So I'll go ahead and place that, and this will be D-1, and I'll continue adding tags here. So again, Annotate, Tag by Category. I'll turn the leader back on, and I'll go ahead and tag these two chairs, which have already been defined because we defined them earlier with the other chair.

This will be a shelving unit, and I'll tag this one or designate this one as S-1, and then I'll also tag my file cabinet, which this one is going to be FC-1, and I'm always saying yes here because all they're doing is they're asking me over and over again if I want to adjust the type parameter, and we do because we are the ones that set that. So the last one's going to be Chair 1 here, and so C-1, and now we have our view that'll be placed on a sheet. Since this will be placed on a sheet, what we can do is we can kind of pull this in a little tighter here. It doesn't need to be too tight.

I think this was out because we have a tag on the other view out there, so that's perfectly fine, and then this crop region doesn't have to be visible in this view. So what I could do is I can go ahead and hide the crop region, and so towards the end of this lesson, we're going to compose a sheet, and this view will certainly be part of that sheet.