BimTag – Bricsys Support and Help Center

Creates associative tags in generated BIM section drawings for the corresponding building entities in a 3D BIM model.

The command can be used on section viewports only.
The GenerateAssocViews system variable must be ON when generating or updating BIM tags.

Accessing the Command

Commandline: BIMTAG

Quad: Go to paper space | Draw | Tag

Ribbon: Annotate | Leaders | Tag (Manually or Automatically)

Toolbar: BIM Toolbar | BIM Tag

: BimTag

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select BIM section viewport [Manual]: (Click the border of a Bim Section viewport.)

Tags are created automatically for all sectioned building entities in the selected viewport.

The tags are created as multileader entities using multileader styles in _Section Tag.dwg. The content of such multileader style is a block with attributes. Each attribute refers to a property of a BIM entity type.

BIM entity types are linked to a multileader style in _TagTypeToStyle.csv.

All source files sit in the Bim/Sections folder of the support folder, e.g.: C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Bricsys\BricsCAD\V18x64\en_US\Support\Bim\Sections.

If tags already exist in the selected viewport, prompts you:

Tags already have been assigned to the section. Choose an update option [Update existing/update existing and add New/Regenerate all] <Regenerate all>: (Press Enter to (re)generate all tags or choose an option.)

Command Options

Option	Description
Auto	Tags are created automatically for all sectioned building entities in the selected viewport.
Manual	This option creates tags on background entities in sections and elevations. Prompts you: Pick point on a sectioned BIM element [Auto/Current mleader style/change Tag type] - (Click a bim element). Place the tag [Next element] - (Pick a point to place the tag). Pick point on a sectioned BIM element [Auto/Current mleader style/change Tag type] - (Click a bim element or press Enter to stop).
Current mleader style	Allows to use the current multileader style instead of the default style for the selected sectioned BIM element. See the MLEADERSTYLE command. Prompts you: Pick point on a sectioned BIM element [Auto/Default mleader styles] - (Click a bim element). Place the tag [Next element] - (Pick a point to place the tag). Pick point on a sectioned BIM element [Auto/Default mleader styles] Do one of the following: Keep clicking sectioned BIM elements to place more tags using the current multileader style. Choose Default mleader styles to switch back to using the default style for the selected sectioned BIM element.
Change Tag Type	Allows to choose special tag types. Prompts you: Choose tag type [Tag/cOmposition/Load-bearing directions/Spot-elevation] <Tag> - (Choose an option) Composition: Creates a tag with all materials of the composition of the sectioned BIM element. Load-bearing directions: Inserts a loadbearing direction symbol when a line that is generated from a BiM Slab solid is selected, if the load bearing direction of the slab is assigned by the SETLOADBEARINGDIRECTION command. Spot-elevation: Inserts a tag that indicates the elevation of the identified point in elevations and vertical sections.
Update Existing	Updates the existing tags in the selected viewport. The position of relocated tag blocs is preserved.
Update Existing and Add New	Updates the existing tags in the selected viewport and adds new tags.
Regenerate All	Updates all tags in the selected viewport. Repositioned tag blocks are moved to their default location.