About Labels

Labels are annotations that you can use to identify BIM entities in a BIM drawing.

A label consists of a block that contains one or more attributes. Labels read and display BIM properties of the labeled BIM entity.

The software provides a Label Library that contains a set of predefined labels for each category of BIM entities. Additionally, you can define your own labels using user-defined Blocks and BlockAttributes.

You can assign a default label to the following categories of BIM entities:

• Doors
• Windows
• Walls

In addition to the default labels, you can define your own labels as Blocks containing BlockAttributes. BlockAttributes let you use Fields to refer properties of BIM entities in a user-defined label.

Once you create the label, the software creates a link with the BIM entity. When the corresponding BIM entities properties are modified, labels automatically update.

Labels remain associated with the BIM entities and update automatically when you modify the BIM model.

Labeling Tools

All tools for adding labels to BIM entities are grouped on the Annotate panel of the BIM ribbon tab.

• A generic tool lets you label any BIM entities.
• Specialized tools let you label certain BIM entities, such as doors, windows, and walls manually selected or all in one operation. During creation, doors and windows from the project are automatically assigned a unique number. Tipically, the specialized tools display the number of the BIM entity. You can use labels to display this number in your drawings.

Icon	Meaning
	Label Doors	Labels selected Door entities
	Label Windows	Labels selected Window entities
	Label Walls	Labels selected Walls
	Label All Doors	Labels all Door entities from the drawing
	Label All Windows	Labels all Windows entities from the drawing
	Labell All Walls	Labels all Walls entities from the drawing

 

Labels provide detailed information