Annotations in 3D

Commands

BIMTAG, BIMCLASSIFY

BIM classify as an annotation

  1. Select a solid and select Classify Manually in the Quad or classify as Other after launch the BIMCLASSIFY in the Command line:


  2. Choose to classify as Annotation (1) in the folder of Building Core Elements and click OK:


  3. When you open the Properties panel of the selected solid you can change the Name, Description, Building and Story.
    Note: The property GUID cannot be changed because it has a unique, automatically generated string.


Show added information of a finishing material

In this procedure, you will add design information to a concrete roof structure.

  1. Use the XFACES (2) command under Draw in the quad, to extract the face of the Roof entity. A region is now created.


  2. Classify the region as an Annotation as seen above.
  3. Enter the desired text in the Description field (3) (found in the Properties panel):
    Note: By default, the BIM Tag references the Description property.


  4. Make a section through the region (with BIMSECTION command) and select Generate Section(4) () from the Quad:


  5. Open the generated section drawing.
  6. Type BIMTAG in the Command line OR select Tag Automatically in the Annotate tab of the Ribbon.

    The text that you added is now in the 2D drawing:



Show the surface area of an extracted surface

This procedure will teach you how to display other properties of an entity classified as an Annotation object.

Note: The annotation tag pulls information from the Description property by default.

For more information about tagging, see the article Using BIM Tags.

  1. Select the face you want to extract the information from.
  2. Select Extract Faces (5) from the Quad. A region is now created.


  3. Classify the region as an Annotation as above.
  4. Make a section through the solid (with BIMSECTION command) and select Generate Section () from the Quad.
  5. Open the generated section drawing.
  6. Type BIMTAG in the Command line OR select Tag Automatically in the Annotate tab of the Ribbon.
    Note: The tag appears empty because it refers to the Description property by default.
  7. Launch the BEDIT command.
  8. Select _AnnotationTag (6) and click OK (7) .


  9. Select the attribute definition, in the Properties panel.
  10. Edit the Tag property, change it to Geometry/Area (8).
  11. (Optional) You can also change the Prompt property (9).


  12. Enter BCLOSE in the Command line and click Save.
  13. Select the viewport and pick Generate Section () from the Quad. The area of the region is now displayed in the tag.