In this article, we delve into the process of annotating piping plans, focusing on the steps of tagging pipes and managing building sections. The article presents a comprehensive walkthrough of the annotation process, providing detailed instructions on how to accurately tag pipes and manage building sections in your level one piping plan.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to delete building sections and start them afresh for the annotation process of a level one piping plan.
- Detail is given on how to tag pipes using the 'annotate' and 'tag by category' functions, highlighting that different parts of the model will create a tag for that part when hovered over.
- Insight is shared on the importance of not blocking any sprinkler location or other pertinent information when tagging the pipes, and the process of adding notes to the plan is also covered.
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In this video, we'll be annotating our piping plans. So let's go to our level one piping plan. All right, the first thing I'd like to do is these building sections we created, let's go ahead and delete them and 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, so the first thing I like to do is tag all of our pipes. So to do that, let's go to annotate and you should see tag by category and let's select that.
Now, if you hover over different parts of the model, it'll create a tag for that part. If I hover over my branch line here, it's calling it out with a pipe tag, one and a half inch, 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 the 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. And now it's a process of just tagging all of our pipes.
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We're not going to worry about tagging our arm overs. We're going to make some notes. So you can feel free to skip ahead or watch a portion of the video and then skip ahead.
But I'm going to be tagging all the pipes on my level one piping plan. OK, I will tag the main here and here. I'm trying to find a spot so you're not blocking a sprinkler location or other pertinent information.
OK, again, I'm not going to worry about my arm overs. I might have to move this one up. OK, the one inch pipe, we don't have to worry about that.
These will all be schedule 40, which is also in our general notes. But since there are so many arm overs, we're going to just add a note to our plan here, calling this out. So don't worry about any of the one inch pipe.
And then I'll continue tagging this branch line. Anything with more than one sprinkler is going to be larger than one inch. We will tag those.
And the order you do this in doesn't have to follow mine. It's not in any order in particular. Just make sure we get them all in there.
Move this to that side. OK, have I tagged this main already? Yes. Now, sometimes you can tag the same main more than once.
If it'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.
