This article offers a comprehensive guide on how to tag lighting fixtures in BIM 322 course content. It breaks down the process into simple steps, offering a detailed explanation at each stage to ensure readers can successfully complete the task.
Key Insights:
- The article explains how to tag lighting fixtures in CAD, starting with the selection of 'tag all' for every single lighting fixture and choosing the 'lighting fixture tag boxed' for differentiation.
- It emphasizes the need for adding a type mark for each light fixture, explaining that a type mark is a mark for all lights of the same type and should be included in the tag.
- The article suggests readers to adjust their tags, just like they would do for plumbing tags, and go through the drawing for any unpopulated tags and adjust them accordingly.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos, we went ahead and got all of our wires adjusted and tagged, and now what we want to do is tag the actual lighting fixtures. So what I'm going to do is go to Tag All because I do want to tag every single lighting fixture.
So I'm going to go to Tag All. I'm going to go ahead and choose Lighting Fixture Tag Boxed, and the reason why I'm choosing Boxed is because it's going to really differentiate it from the elliptical wire tags. So, Lighting Fixture Tag Boxed. I'm going to go ahead and give it a leader and just give it a default of a half an inch.
I'm going to hit Apply and I'm going to hit OK. Now let's zoom into one of these tags. Do you notice how there's nothing here in the box? That's because in this family, the label is set to be a Type Mark, and no Type Mark has been applied to these different lighting fixtures.
So what we need to do is actually add a Type Mark. Now, that is different. If I select one of these lights, the Type Mark applies to all lights of that same type. If I were to go down here and go to Mark, this is not the Type Mark here.
That's why this 11 is not showing up in this tag—it's a Type Mark. We're going to go ahead, go around the drawing, and add in the Type Mark for every single type of light we have, and it will be very easy and simple to do.
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I'm going to go ahead and select this light here and I'm going to go to Edit Type. I'm going to go into my Type Properties here and scroll down. See where it says Type Mark? Let's go ahead and name this 2x4 fixture L-1.
I'm going to hit OK and there we are. All the ones that are that specific type have now been tagged L-1. Let's go ahead and select this one here, this pendant light.
I'm going to go to Edit Type, scroll down, and go to the Type Mark. I'm going to name this PL-1. Apply. OK.
It's going to tag all those, and I just want PL-1 for Pendant Light 1. I'm going to go ahead and see if there are any more tags that are not populated. Obviously, the recessed cans aren't either, so I'm going to go ahead and select one of the recessed cans, go to Edit Type, scroll down, find that Type Mark, and I'm going to change it to L-2. Hit Apply. Hit OK. And there we are. Now I've got all the lights tagged and we're ready to go ahead and start adjusting.
So what I'd like you to go ahead and do is—these tags work the same way as our plumbing tags and all of the other tags. So go ahead, go through the drawing. I'm going to pause the video here and adjust my tags, and what I'd like for you to do is pause the video also and go ahead and adjust your tags.
I'll see you when you come back. Welcome back. I went ahead and adjusted all my light fixture tags, and we're good to go.
So in the next video, what we're going to do is change the visibility of some of the wires so they stand out a little bit more, and we're going to go ahead and continue on with the second floor. See you there.