Revit 2020 - Dummy Tags

By Justin Doughty

There may be instances when using Revit where you need something freely editable, that isn’t quite a tag, and is more repetitive than annotations.

This is sometimes called a “dummy” tag. Below is an example of how to do this.

Go to New>Annotation Symbol and pick the Metric Generic Annotation.rft

Here add a new label. This now gives the option to create a new parameter:

Create any parameters needed, if they need to be free entry in the project, use instance parameters.

​Add any linework and load into the project:

Then enter the values needed in the project: