Tags

A tag is a label that reads from the element it points at: a door's mark (D01), a window's (W01), a wall's material and thickness, a roof's thickness and pitch, a column's profile, a beam's size, a piece of furniture's or a fixture's type mark (E01 for a socket type, L01 for a light). Change the element, and its tag changes.

Tagging

1. Pick the Tag tool.
2. Click a door, window, wall, slab, roof, column, beam, stair, railing, piece of furniture or fixture.
3. Click where its tag goes.

With nothing selected, T picks the Tag tool.

Tag all (Annotate tab, Shift+T) tags every door, window, fixture and room in the view in front that has no tag yet. Tag openings in a view's header tags the doors and windows alone, and Tag fixtures every socket, switch, light, drain, radiator and other services fixture on its level; tag furniture and sanitary ware one by one.

Material tags

Reads in the tool options chooses what a tag says: Mark (the element's mark, or its size) or Material. A material tag reads its element's material, or for a layered wall, slab or roof its layers, one line each with its thickness, outside to inside. It follows the model when the build-up changes. A placed tag's Properties switch it either way.

An object's mark belongs to its type, so every double socket reads the same mark. Marks start with a letter for the category: E electrical, L lighting, P plumbing, M heating and ventilation, S sanitary ware, K kitchen, F furniture. They are numbered in type name order. The furniture and fixture schedules show the same marks.

Moving and styling

• Drag a tag to move it. It moves with its element too.
• Select a tag to see the grips on its leader: drag the square one to point the leader at another spot, and the round one to bend the leader at an elbow. Straighten the leader and Leader back to the centre in Properties undo them.
• Leader end in Properties puts an arrow, a dot or another end on the leader; Style's leaves it to the tag's style, which draws a plain line unless it sets a leader end.
• Pick a Style in the tool options for new tags, or change a tag's style in Properties. A style sets the tag's shape (circle, hexagon and others), text and colour. See Annotation styles.

An element with a typed mark shows that mark in its tags, whatever kind it is: a wall marked WT1 reads WT1 instead of its thickness.

Deleting an element deletes its tags.