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Tagging Home Runs and Receptacles
Electrical · Power Fundamentals · 1m
This lesson teaches you how to effectively tag home runs and receptacles in Revit to ensure accurate circuiting verification. You'll learn the differences between tagging the receptacle and the wire, and how each choice impacts the tagging behavior when elements are moved.
Key skills covered include proper tagging techniques, the implications of tagging choices, and strategies to maintain tag alignment during adjustments in your design.
Transcript
To verify that your circuiting has made it all the way to the panel board, you wanna make sure that you tag the home run. So you can actually tag either the receptacle itself, which will pull up the panel name and circuit number, or you can tag the wire. So doing doing one or the other has an effect on how this stays on the paper. So tagging the receptacle tagging the receptacle. Here, we're gonna undo the leader.
So right here, if we tag the receptacle, you can see that when I move the receptacle, the tag moves with that. Conversely, if I tag the wire, so if I move this home run, you'll see that it also moves with that as well. What you don't wanna do is tag them and switch them. So for example, some people will do where they'll tag the receptacle and then move this down here, which I mean gives you kind of this behavior, but also if this home run stays put and somebody moves this receptacle a little bit, it starts to not point at anything. So generally, I would I would advise you would tag the thing that you want to use.
So for this example, I wanna use the home run. I'm going to tag the wire and I'm gonna place it here. That way if you do move it, it stays somewhat close to it and it doesn't start wandering off away from where you're pointing. There you go.