How to Freely Move Tag Arrowheads in Revit

I highly recommend tagging elements in your drawings as opposed to using text notes. Here I'll explain why and how you can freely move your tag arrow heads to where you actually want them to go. Sick around to the end for a bonus tip!

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Video Transcript

Hey, what is up my People?!

Today we're going to talk about tagging elements in Revit and how to detach that arrowhead from the element that you're tagging.

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Aright, let's get into it.

Let's say you're working on a project and you have a bunch of things that you want to tag. A lot of people will just use a text note but I tend to try to avoid that as much as I can because it just makes your life so much easier when you can actually add a tag to something so that when you use an element multiple times throughout your project, in different rooms and things, and also even in different views, it just makes it a lot easier to stay consistent with how you're tagging things and what you're naming them.

Now, the issue that you can kind of run into is, sometimes the tag doesn't go exactly where you want it to go.

So let's hit 'TC' on the keyboard for tag category, and you can see that it's not tagging it where I want it to go. So, I'm trying to tag this towel bar here. So I'm going to solidify that tag just by clicking my mouse. I'll double 'Escape' and if I click on this tag and move it around, you'll see it kind of just moves around to where it thinks it should go, but it's just not quite where I want it. So I'm just going to drop it here.

And, what I want to do is actually, it's very simple, all you have to do is go up to the options bar here, and change it from "attached end" to "free end."

And then you'll see a little drag grip there, and you can just drag it wherever you want it to go.

Very, very useful. And if I move this element, you'll see that my tags move along with it, so again, very helpful.

And the benefit, like I said, to adding a tag rather than a text note, is that, if I see this towel bar in a different view, let's say I see it in this view right here, if I go to tag category, again 'TC' on the keyboard, you'll see again, I can just tag that element. I don't have to remember what the tag name was, so I highly recommend tagging anytime you can in Revit.

And you can actually turn off attached end before you even place the tag. So if I do free end, then I can choose where I want that base point to be for the arrow, and then I can draw in where I want it to go.

Voila!

That's it! That's how you tag things in Revit and move the arrowhead around freely.

I will give you another bonus tip here. So if you wanted to change what that arrowhead looks like, if you go to Edit Type, you'll see in the drop-down here, you can change it to anything you want it to. So if you want it to be, let's say, a filled dot, you could do that, and how cool is that? It just changes, just like that. And that will change for any instance of that type, so that's definitely something to keep in mind.

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Happy modeling!

♥ Chelsea

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