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Create a custom equipment tag format

Create a custom equipment tag format - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Create a custom equipment tag format

- [Instructor] When customizing your project, you'll always have to look to see how the client wants their lines of equipment tagged. Often they require different information than what is set up in the out of the box project. In this lesson we'll take a look at how to create custom equipment tags and apply them to our new equipment. If we're working with P90s also, these are the same steps to create a custom tag in the P90 class definitions. So let's open our project manager and look at our project set up. Now let's take a Plant 3D class definitions and navigate to piping equipment. We're going to look at equipment, and we're going to look at the pump specifically. So we have two different types of tag format available. If we wanted to tag our pump with just the type and the number, for example P plus the pump number, or we can use an area number with the type in the number. We have two options. So if we want to create a custom component for example, we can do that very…

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