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Michael Wilson/5 min read

Ensuring Proper Tagging in Office Building Floor Plans: A Step-by-Step Guide

Office Plan Tag Checklist

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Now we're going to go back through and make sure that we've got everything tagged that we need to have tagged.

Now we're going to go back through and make sure that we've got everything tagged that we need to have tagged. So I'll start with Level One, and it looks like we've got everything pretty good. So the table, it's pretty obvious that these are all the same, so we can leave that as typical.

And then the same thing here with the furniture. And we don't have anything down here that we need to tag. The layout for the offices is set up pretty good, so we're good with that.

And then in the restrooms, we've got everything that we need to have tagged, so it looks good. If we jump up to our Level Two floor plan, you can see that a lot of the same stuff that we just did, we're going to need to do again on Level Two. And so what I could do is I could start with the restrooms.

And one of the things that we did in the restrooms on Level One was we took it upon ourselves to move the tag out. And so we can go ahead and do that by moving the room tags off to the side here to clean up the view a bit. And I can do the same thing with the Men's Room tag as well.

And so I'll just kind of clean those up a bit. And then we can go in and we can add in our tags that we've been using before. We'll go ahead and we'll use the Annotate tab, and we'll grab Tag by Category.

And then we can add these tags. The one thing that we're not going to have to do here, which is pretty nice, is we will not have to add those designations again, because everything's already been designated from the last time that we did this. And so now we're just going through the process and the procedure of adding those tags.

And so here's that situation we were talking about before, where it's kind of battling me between the two. And if you're having a hard time with it, you can always hit TAB, and that'll set it in a little bit easier. Okay, and so I'll just clean this up a bit here with the door tag as well.

And same thing with our callout tags on our design options here, I can just move these so that they're sitting next to each other like that. Another way I've seen this done before, and this is completely up to you, it's a preference thing, but you can always do it like this as well. And I try to get it as close as I can.

There's not a snap that'll grab that in there, but you can get it pretty close to where it'll print like one line going across. So whether you stack them or have them side by side like this, it's completely up to you. Okay, and then what we could do here on Level Two is we can tag our conference table, which we did not have this space on Level One, because that's where our break room is located.

So I can go in here and I can say Tag by Category again. I can tag the table, and this table will be T-2. And then the chair I can tag, which will be already tagged as C-2.

We're buying a lot of those. I'm going to move this over so that they line up, these two together. And that tag looks pretty good.

The door tag's a little weird because it is a double door, so you could move it off to one side or the other. That looks good. The last thing we can do, since we don't have the office prototype necessarily on this view or referenced in this view, we could do a reference view.

If I go to the View tab and then Callout, I can actually reference another view instead of creating another one. So I can say reference other view, and then I can pick that Typical Office Layout, and then I can go ahead and I can put my view tag across here, or the callout tag across. And that will essentially, when we get to the point of adding this on a sheet, it will get the same designation as the one we have on the first floor.

What it does by default is it throws this SIM designation in there, and we don't need that because it is not the exact one, but it's not necessary for this purpose here. So I'll go ahead and hit edit type, and then I can change that reference label from SIM to just making it blank, and it won't say anything at all. And there we go.

So this reference view will then refer back to that Typical Office Layout that we created in the previous video. Now that we've got all of our tags in place, it's looking pretty good. We might do another cleanup just to make sure everything's good as we've gone through and added more information to the model.

But our next step is going to be to start scheduling this information to make sure we've got everything we need, and then it also gives us a good tool to quantify everything by cost and also by number as well.