This article provides a detailed walkthrough of tagging plumbing fixtures in a 3D isometric view of a project, highlighting the process of adding and removing hosts, as well as creating a free end for better control over fixture placement. It further discusses the use of scope boxes for comprehensive coverage and the potential for customization based on individual project requirements.
Key Insights
- The article provides insights into the process of tagging plumbing fixtures in a 3D isometric view, with emphasis on the addition and removal of hosts for adjustment.
- The author highlights the benefit of creating a free end for plumbing fixtures for better control and precise placement in the project layout.
- While discussing the use of scope boxes for comprehensive project coverage, the article also explores the possibility of customizing the view for detailed documentation of specific areas based on project needs.
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And continue on. So it might be better that like these sinks get tagged from down here. And remove host.
Let's get rid of these tags. So the more that I keep doing this, the more I'm really not caring for the tag all because I'm deleting more than I'm actually adding. Probably would have been a little bit easier.
And I just made these free end by which was a little bit easier to just do it in the sense of where I just tag them each individually. But it's good practice. So I can delete that, add or remove host, boom, boom.
Do that there, do that there, bring that back. Again, I'm going to change this to a free end. Just so I can get it to where I want it on the actual plumbing fixture.
Same thing here. Add or remove host. Let's delete that.
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We'll make this a free end so that then we can, but this is really nice. It gives you a whole overview. You could really get into some heavy detail here, which could be kind of nice depending upon your project.
You could partition or cut this view in different locations so that you could show different areas. So let's say we got heavily into the kitchen fixture area and you wanted to do a 3D isometric of just that. You could crop this view down just like how we have this view crop.
I would crop this down to be, hey, I want to do something specific for the classrooms. You could have it just before the classrooms. We're going to go ahead and do the entire thing here, but don't let the fact that we're just doing it just like this here.
You could do enlarged views with this if you really wanted to. Similar to what we do in large views of plants, right? We could do a lot of different things with this. And it just gives us another way of documenting.
The other thing with the sections too, is that we can also do this in section if we wanted to. That would be another option. You just cut a lot more sections.
We go add or remove host. There we go. Let's get rid of some of these.
And there we go. We've done a lot of pipe tagging so far, so I'm not going to spend too much time tagging pipes, but if you want to, by all means, go for it. You can always feel free to add some more tags in here.
It is a little bit different, just as a heads up, just from the normal. But it is still very similar to the overall process that we have been doing for the entire time. But this gives you a really kind of a great overview of the entire system as it stands.
There we go. We can do our two inch vent. Or that one's a three inch vent, excuse me.
And I could do something like this to where I do this one, add or remove host. Whoops. Select this guy, add or remove host.
And I can go through and tag all these if I wanted to with just one tag. Let me make sure I get it correct. There we go.
If I wanted to, I'd drag it all over here and then get them all in line. When you get a lot of leaders like this, it does get a little crazy. You kind of have to kind of work it out a little bit, but it is doable.
That one still wants to stay straight. We'll move it over here. So maybe I move this over.
I just like to make sure it's readable. There we go. We have a really nice kind of just overall 3D isometric view of our entire project.
Now, if we wanted to show our levels, we could. I could. So let's say that I wanted to show where level one and level two were.
If I go into my VV, let's turn back on the levels, apply. Okay. They're kind of way out here right now.
You could adjust the 3D extents of these to where you can start to see some stuff. So I'm going to go to my overall 3D view and let's go to a top view. Maybe.
Nope. Don't see the levels there. That's fine.
A real easy way to do this. Actually, let's do it this way. I'm going to go into my level one floor plan and I'm going to create a scope box view scope box.
I'm going to create a scope box that encompasses the entire project. Boom. I'm going to name this scope box.
So again, where I did that as I'm on my level one plumbing view scope box, I'm going to go ahead and make it over my entire building. Let's select this. I'm going to change this to be overall.
I'm going to go back to my 3D view. So I just click on my little house here and I'm going to assign my levels. I'm going to select all of my levels, select all instances visible in view, and I'm going to assign these to my scope box of overall.
Let's see. It cannot be associated with it. Let's see what's going on.
It needs to go a little bit lower. So your scope box has to be fully encompassing. Overall, there you go.
So you can see how it snaps to that. These are some levels here that have that do not have views. So these are plenum levels because they're a different type.
I could select those also select all instances visible in view, and I could assign these to overall. So your scope box overall, there we go. You just have to make sure that that top's going through there.
Let's go to our plumbing isometric and it's not wanting to show it per se, but if we wanted to. So the only problem here with this is, is if your scope box doesn't want to fit in that view, we may be able to orient our view, but we've already locked it. We don't want to unlock it.
So what we can do is cut this entire thing out of the video. Do not include this about the scope boxes. Okay.
I'm just going to delete this entire thing. And there we go. And go back to turning off my levels.
Apply. Okay. There we go.
Let's go ahead. We're going to continue to tag some stuff. It wanted to add to that one.
- Let's uncheck that. Maybe tag our gas, tag our water heaters, tag our gas meter.
There we go. And if you want to continue to tag some things, I'm not going to worry about, I mean, we'll go through and clean some of these things up, but, uh, this is a great start. So, but you can go through, clean up with the tags as you see fit as you need.
And we're, I'll continue doing this and then I'll see you in the next video.