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Annotation overview

Annotation overview - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Annotation overview

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- [Narrator] As you've already seen, we can use concatenated data fields to create tags for equipment, components, and lines. But we can also use these fields to annotate our P&IDs, orthos, and isos. And display even more data in the annotation than we have in the tag. The pump into tag is a great example of this. We can achieve this by pushing database values into the block attributes. Let's take a look at how the data integrates with annotation blocks. So let's look at our project manager. And we're going to come into project set up. Now, let's go to our Plant 3D drawing settings. And look at our plant 3D class definitions. And then let's scroll down to look at, for an example, equipment. And we're going to look at the pumps. Now look at our tag formats. You can see here we have the two equipment tags that come out of the box, one with type and number, one with area, type, and number. And then we have the custom LinkedIn pump tag we created which is project, area, type, and number…

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