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Locating the specs and catalogs within the project folders

Locating the specs and catalogs within the project folders - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Locating the specs and catalogs within the project folders

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- [Instructor] When you install Plant 3D, the out of the box specs and catalogs are located by default on your C drive. So, let's take a look at the folder and the contents. We're going to navigate to our C drive, and let's look at our AutoCAD Plane 3D 2019 Content folder. Now, if you look in here, you'll see we have a number of CPak folders. Now, these CPak folders contain specs and catalogs for very specific applications. For example, the CPak ASME is sort of what we were working most with. That's the North American standards. We also have DIN, and we have Wastewater in there, too. If we look at the contents of each folder, you see that there's three different file types in here. For example, let's look at a carbon steel 150 pound spec. You'll see that there's that PSPC file, which is the actual spec file, a specification, and there's also a PSPX file, which is a system file. Now, you must have both of these files together all the time. If you copy that PSPC file to a different…

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