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Create a custom valve tag format

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

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Create a custom valve tag format

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- [Narrator] Let's take another look at custom tags. This time, we're going to set up a custom valve tagging scheme. So let's open our 10 05 Piping drawing. I've run a pipe here, any size, doesn't matter. We're only going to be looking at the valve tagging. So I've made a run of four inch CS150 pipe, I'm going to come and grab a gate valve and I'm going to drop that gate valve on there. Now, let's take a look at the tag structure that we have here. Code and number. So the code might be GV for gate valve and the number could be whatever the next available valve is. We can change this to whatever we want where there's a hand valve, 001, gate valve, ball valve, just going to say assign that tag. Now, let's go to our Project Manager, look at our project setup. We're going to come back to our Plant 3D drawing settings, Plant 3D Class Definitions, Piping and Equipment, Pipe Run Components and let's come down to the Valve. Now we're going to create a new valve tech format, so we're going to…

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