Create and configure 2D families

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in this video, you'll learn how to create and edit tag families

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including controlling the parameters in a tag label.

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You'll also see how to create and edit detailed component families.

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It's important that all rabbit users understand how tag families work

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for this example we'll look at a room tag

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all select a room tag and then click edit family on the

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contextual ribbon tab to open the family in the family editor.

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First off on the create tab in the properties panel,

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you can click family category and parameters

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to open the dialogue where you can change the tag category.

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Since this is a room tag we need to make sure the room tags category is selected

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that way rev it will know that this tag should be used to tag room elements

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and similarly

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for any tag you create,

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you can select the appropriate category,

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then click OK to close the dialog.

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Next I'll zoom in on the tag.

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When you create a tag, you can add text and labels.

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Text will be static. In other words, whatever text you add,

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that's what will appear in the tag.

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If you want the tag to reference a certain parameter

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from the element that it's tagging.

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Then you need to add a label

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and on the create tab in the text panel you can see both the label tool and the text tool

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in this tag family.

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We can see some text and you may not know what

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it is but when you hover your cursor over that text,

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the tool tip will tell you either text or tag label.

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So in this case we can see that it's a tag label and when I

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select it you can see on the contextual ribbon tab that it says tag label.

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And then you can also click edit next to label in the properties palette.

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Or you can click edit label on the contextual ribbon tab.

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So multiple indications that this is a label.

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So I'll click edit label and that opens the edit label dialog and

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that's where you can control which parameters are added to that label.

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In this case we have the name parameter

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and in the sample value field you can enter in whatever sample value you want.

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I typically like to add something that

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the tag will actually report in the model.

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So for example we had some exam rooms so we could enter exam room and then click OK.

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And now we can see exam room appears here in the label

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for this tag We actually have multiple labels.

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You can create multiple labels or you can add multiple parameters to the same label.

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What makes that distinction for you as to which direction you should go

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is basically how you want the tag to behave.

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So in this case we actually have multiple types.

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So for example if I go to the modify tab and in the properties panel click family types

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we can see that there are three types

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room tag room tag with area and room tag with

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volume

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and then we have parameters which will then control

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whether those certain labels are visible in the tag

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for example I'll select the label for the volume parameter

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And if we look in the properties palette you can see there is a visible parameter

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and there's an equal sign in the associate family parameter button

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that tells you that it's associated to a family parameter.

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And when I click the button we can see that it's associated

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to the show volume parameter which is a yes no parameter.

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So I'll click Okay.

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And next if I click the if I select the label that says 101 for the room number

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and we look at the visible parameter we can

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see that it's associated to the show room number parameter

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so you can associate labels to yes no parameters

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and then create various tag types to indicate whether

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that tag is actually going to show that label

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which determines whether it's gonna show that parameter.

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You can also do that for various detail items that you add in the family.

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So here we have lines and I'll press tab and select all of those lines.

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And then we can see that the visible parameter

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is associated to the show room number parameter.

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So when we show that room number we're also

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showing those additional detail items which is simply lines.

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So you can get as creative as you want so

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that your tags appear just like you want them to

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I'll switch back to the project and then I will open a section view for our wall detail

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and I'll switch to the annotate tab and in the detail panel

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I'll expand the component split button and click a detail component.

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I will add one of the brick detail components.

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I'll simply click to place one and then click modify to in the command and

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then I'll select that detailed component and click

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edit family on the contextual ribbon tab,

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detailed components are very similar to creating a three D family.

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The only difference is that there are two D.

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So really all you have to worry about are the X and Y planes.

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In terms of the any detail items that you add

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if you open up a detailed component family and you don't

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see any reference planes or dimensions or anything like that.

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You can open up the visibility,

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graphic overrides dialog by pressing V G on your keyboard

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and then switch to the annotation categories tab and

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turn on anything that you see turned off.

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So in this case I'm gonna turn on dimensions

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and reference planes and then I'll click OK.

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And here we can see the reference planes and the dimensions.

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And when I select a dimension you can see

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that they have been labeled with certain parameters.

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So

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just like creating three D families, you can place reference planes

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and then add dimensions and then label

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those dimensions with parameters and you can control

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the detailed component

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in a very similar way to how you would control an actual three D component

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on the modify tab or the create tab. You can click family types

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to open the family types dialog, and this is where you can create new parameters

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and then those parameters can then be used to label a dimension.

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So I'll click OK to close this dialog and you

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can see how this brick detailed component is being controlled.