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Rename your drawing files

Rename your drawing files - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Rename your drawing files

- [Instructor] Renaming your drawings is very straightforward using Project Administrator, but there's a few rules we have to follow to make sure our files remain associated and connected with the current project. So let's take a look at the project manager, and open your P&ID Drawings section. You notice we have 04_02_PID. Now, I'm going to come along and I'm going to right-click that. I'm going to say rename this drawing. So I'm going to come and underscore, and add an LI for LinkedIn on this, and I'm going to say okay. Now let's go to Windows and see if that change was made in Windows. So under Desktop, Exerceise Files, Chapter 04, PID DWG, and you'll see that that file was renamed and is now showing the LinkedIn suffix. So now let's try it the other way around. I'm going to right-click, and I'm going to rename this property, going to rename this in Windows to go back to the original 04_02_PID. Now if we try to open this here, the error says cannot find the file, please verify that…

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