Annotations in 3D
Commands
BIMTAG, BIMCLASSIFY
BIM classify as an annotation
- Select a solid and select Classify Manually in the Quad or classify as Other after launch the BIMCLASSIFY in the Command line:
- Choose to classify as Annotation (1) in the folder of Building Core Elements and click OK:
- 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.
- Use the XFACES (2) command under Draw in the quad, to extract the face of the Roof entity. A region is now created.
- Classify the region as an Annotation as seen above.
- Enter the desired text in the Description field (3) (found in the Properties panel):Note: By default, the BIM Tag references the Description property.
- Make a section through the region (with BIMSECTION command) and select Generate Section(4) () from the Quad:
- Open the generated section drawing.
- 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.
- Select the face you want to extract the information from.
- Select Extract Faces (5) from the Quad. A region is now created.
- Classify the region as an Annotation as above.
- Make a section through the solid (with BIMSECTION command) and select Generate Section () from the Quad.
- Open the generated section drawing.
- 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.
- Launch the BEDIT command.
- Select _AnnotationTag (6) and click OK (7) .
- Select the attribute definition, in the Properties panel.
- Edit the Tag property, change it to Geometry/Area (8).
- (Optional) You can also change the Prompt property (9).
- Enter BCLOSE in the Command line and click Save.
- Select the viewport and pick Generate Section () from the Quad. The area of the region is now displayed in the tag.