What Are Tags
Tags are cross-mode, cross-object metadata. You can classify Spaces and Flooring objects using multiple parallel hierarchies rather than a single Department, giving you richer structure and categorization. By default only 'Department' comes as a tag, but you can define and customize as many new Tag Categories as you need — such as Building, Phase, Specialty, Wing, or Option. Each object can carry one tag value per category.
Tags are no longer just a Space property. The same tag metadata drives Color Mode, powers Filter Selection, is editable inline in Program Mode, extends to Flooring objects, and exports to Revit as Room parameters.
Benefits
Enables zoning, phasing, and option studies.
Provides consistent classification across Design Mode, BIM Mode, Program Mode, Present Mode, and the Area Panel.
Drives Color Mode, Filter Selection, and Revit Room parameter export from a single source of metadata.
Tags drive analysis and metadata without enforcing rigid structure.
Create a new Tag Category
Step 1: Select the space and in the properties panel click on '+New Tag'.
Step 2: Enter the tag name then start adding values under the tag. Finally, press 'Create'.
Step 3: Using the dropdown, select and apply respective tags to spaces.
Note: Tags in Program Mode — key behaviors
Tag Categories appear as custom columns.
A dedicated Area Type column displays Net, Gross, or Excluded values.
Department grouping is preserved through Department tags, not special objects.
Tags are now fully editable in Program Mode — see Editing tag values in Program Mode below for the double-click, Enter-to-create, and Delete-to-reset flow.
Pro-tip: Filter & sort spaces in the area dashboard using the tags created for a customized area statement view.
Editing a Tag
Step 1: Click on the three-dots next to the Tag category that you want to edit.
Step 2: Change the category name, individual tag values or their colors here. Then click 'Apply' to save the changes.
Delete a tag category by clicking on the three-dots. The default 'Department' category cannot be deleted.
Using tag categories as a Color Mode
Any Tag Category can drive Color Mode, so teams can read the same geometry through different lenses — Phase, Building, Wing, Option — without touching geometry. Tag-based Color Mode works in Design Mode, from the right-click context menu (RCCM), and in Present Mode.
Saved views retain the selected tag-based color mode.
If a tag category used in a saved view is deleted, the view falls back to Department on the next update.
Objects where the tag does not apply render in the default textured color mode.
Selecting by tag
Filter Select is available directly from the right-click context menu, including on an empty canvas. Three top-level options are supported:
By Story — select across specific stories.
By Object — select by object class, with an added ability to scope by space type.
By Tag — select across multiple tag values and categories at once.
Filter Select follows OR logic, so selecting options from multiple buckets returns anything matching at least one criterion. Locked objects remain uneditable; hidden objects stay hidden.
With an object selected, the contextual RCCM extends to Same Label, Same Type, Same Tags, and Same Instances where applicable — useful for bulk selection based on the properties of the currently selected object.
Editing tag values in Program Mode
Program Mode now supports creating, editing, deleting, and reassigning tag values at the object level — no need to leave the table to fix a tag.
Double-click a tag value cell to pick an existing value from the dropdown.
Double-click and type to auto-filter the dropdown. Press Enter on a new value to create it on the fly and assign it.
Navigate to Edit Tag inside the dropdown to rename or delete tag values. Deletions reset affected objects to Default.
Single-click a tag cell and press Delete to reset that object's value to Default without removing the tag from the list.
Editors can create, reassign, and edit; Viewers remain read-only. Changes sync immediately across Design, BIM, and Program modes.
Tags on Flooring objects
Custom tags extend to Flooring objects, so the metadata you set on spaces survives Sketch to BIM and follows the geometry into documentation and export.
Tag categories and values created in Space OPP appear in Flooring OPP and vice versa.
Flooring objects color correctly when Color Mode is set to a tag.
Sketch to BIM carries custom tag data from Spaces onto the resulting Flooring object.
Flooring OPP now exposes an Area Type toggle (Net / Gross / Excluded) so massing and BIM models stay in parity.
Exporting tags to Revit
Custom tag values assigned to Spaces or Flooring objects export to Revit as Room parameters on .trude export. Each Tag Category becomes a Room parameter and the assigned value populates it.
Objects with tag values set to Default export as empty — only user-assigned values are written to Revit rooms.
Applies to both "Import to an Existing Revit Project" and "Import to a new Revit project" flows.
Per-instance tag values
Instances of the same object can carry different tag values, with tag-based colors rendering those differences on canvas. Tag reassignment is blocked on locked objects.