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Tagging - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial

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Tagging

It's time to annotate our drawing by adding tags to our lighting fixtures. This is actually pretty easy, we just need to look at how the tags are reading. The objective of this video, is to add a lighting fixture tag to our drawing. The process will be clicking the lighting device tag button, adding it to our light, then we'll look at the properties that will light itself to see how we can get the tag to display properly. To get started let's open up our MEP electrical lighting drawing. I'm going to zoom in on one of my lighting fixtures. I'm going to go to my home tab, and my annotation panel, I'm going to click the Drop-down right here. I'm going to select Lighting device tag. I'm going to select my Light, I'm going to put on a spot right about here. We have a lot of properties to look at. Let's just click OK here. Let's hit Escape a couple of times. Let's go ahead and select our fixture. Let's hover over our properties. Let's look at some of the properties we have to work with…

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