Revit tagging for MEP contractors: shop drawings tagged to your standard

Your shop drawings are what the crew installs from. Every duct size, pipe elevation, and equipment mark has to be on the sheet, readable, and right. RayCAD is a Revit plugin that does that tagging for you. It places the tags on a view to your firm's standard, and your drafter reviews the sheet before it goes out.

On the HVAC side RayCAD tags ducts, flex ducts, fittings, air terminals, mechanical equipment, and fabrication ductwork. On the piping side it tags pipes, pipe fittings, and pipe accessories. Electrical and fire protection are coming soon.

Where tagging costs a contractor

• Coordination rounds. Every reroute agreed with the other trades moves elements, and the tags on them end up scattered, wrong, or missing.
• Fabrication models. Fabrication ductwork is tagged part by part, and Revit ships no fabrication tags.
• Field questions. A missing elevation or size becomes a call from site, an RFI, or a fitter guessing.
• The install schedule. Sheets are late when the tagging is late, and the crew does not wait.

What RayCAD does about it

• Tags a view in one run, where the information changes, not on every element. See information-based tagging.
• Retags after coordination. Select what moved and run Retag. You do not start the sheet again. See faster turnaround.
• Tags fabrication ductwork: straights, fittings, and accessories. See fabrication tagging.
• Lists what it could not place. Review Tags takes the drafter straight to each one, so nothing is missed on the way to site. See fewer RFIs.

For your drafters

Tagging is the longest job on a shop drawing that needs no judgement. RayCAD takes it, and the drafter checks the sheet instead of hunting for space to put text. Their time goes to modeling and coordination. RayCAD uses the tag families they already know, and nothing goes out until they have reviewed it.

For your BIM or VDC lead

You set the firm's tagging standard once in RayCAD and save it as a preset. Every drafter's sheets then come out the same way. There are no new tag families to maintain, it installs once for Revit 2021 to 2027, and it runs on the user's machine. See firm standards and security.

For the owner

Less time tagging means sheets reach the crew sooner and the same team takes on more work. See what that is worth with the capacity calculator.

Try it

It's $200 a month for the company, with every user licensed. For 15 days you can use every feature without limits, and no card is needed. See pricing.