Revit plumbing fixture tag: how to tag sinks, toilets, and drains

A plumbing fixture tag ties a toilet, sink, or floor drain to its row in the fixture schedule. Revit gives fixtures their own tag category, and most problems come from a tag that reads an empty parameter.

This guide covers the job in order. RayCAD automates tagging in Revit, and electrical is the next trade it adds. It supports HVAC and piping today, and it does not tag plumbing fixtures, so you will see the honest gap where it applies and what RayCAD does around it.

What do you need before you tag fixtures?

• A view that shows the fixtures. A floor plan with the Plumbing Fixtures category visible in Visibility/Graphics (VG).
• A loaded fixture tag. The category is called Plumbing Fixture Tags.
• A type mark on each fixture type. The tag shows nothing useful until the value exists.

How do you tag a plumbing fixture in Revit?

1. Load a plumbing fixture tag

1. Go to the Annotate tab and open the drop-down arrow on the Tag panel.
2. Choose Loaded Tags and Symbols.
3. Click Load and browse to a plumbing fixture tag in the Annotations folder of your Revit library.
4. Check that the tag name appears next to Plumbing Fixture Tags, then click OK.

The last tag you load for a category becomes the default.

2. Set the type mark

1. Select a fixture and click Edit Type in the Properties palette.
2. Find Type Mark under Identity Data.
3. Type the identifier from your schedule, such as WC-1.
4. Click OK.

Type Mark is a type parameter, so every fixture of that type reads the same, which is what a fixture schedule wants. A Mark would give each fixture its own number instead.

3. Tag one fixture, or all of them

For one fixture, go to Annotate, Tag, Tag by Category, click the fixture, and drag the tag clear of the symbol.

For all of them:

1. Open the view.
2. Go to Annotate, Tag, Tag All.
3. Choose All objects in current view or Only selected objects in current view.
4. Select Plumbing Fixture Tags, then click OK.

Tag All skips fixtures that already have a tag, and it runs on the active view only.

How do you fix a tag that reads the wrong parameter?

One forum case showed a plumbing fixture tag reading Type Comments instead of Type Mark, and the fix was to correct the label.

1. Select the tag and click Edit Family.
2. Save a copy under a new name.
3. Select the label and click Edit Label.
4. Remove the wrong parameter and add Type Mark.
5. Click Load into Project.

If the tag still shows nothing, the type's Type Mark is empty. Fill it in step 2 above.

How do you tag fixtures in a linked architectural model?

Fixtures often live in the architect's model. Revit can tag them from your model.

1. Go to Annotate, Tag, Tag All.
2. Tick Include elements from linked files.
3. Select Plumbing Fixture Tags and click OK.

Three limits apply.

• The tags live in your model. They are not in the link.
• The data is read only. The tag can read a parameter from the linked fixture, and it cannot change one.
• The parameter must exist in the tag. A tag reads a parameter only if it uses the same parameter as the fixture family.

What goes wrong with fixture tags?

What does RayCAD do for plumbing drawings?

RayCAD does not tag plumbing fixtures today. You tag them with Revit as above.

RayCAD tags the pipework around them. It tags pipes with size, system abbreviation, and elevation, tags pipe accessories such as valves, and groups parallel pipes under one tag block. It places each tag clear of the model and the other tags, and lists anything it could not place. Fixtures stay manual, and the rest of the plumbing sheet does not. See pipe tagging, or the guide to tagging pipes for the full steps in Revit.

What should you check before you issue the sheet?

• Every fixture has a tag, including those in linked models.
• Tag values match the fixture schedule.
• No tag covers a fixture symbol or a pipe.

RayCAD's pipe tagging runs on Revit 2021 to 2027. Try it on the pipes around your fixtures, or email us for a demo. See how to tag pipes.