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Touring the interface

Touring the interface - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Touring the interface

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- [Host] So let's take a closer look at the user interface. We're going to go ahead and open one of our specs from file. Open spec, desktop, exercise files, and we're going to go to our spec sheets, and we'll take a look at the CS150. So we'll take a look at more of the general headings, tabs, and areas that we have in this interface. And in this shaded area we can see items like the description, we have the file location, and with specs it's always important to know the last time this file was saved because revision control is critical when you're working with specs. You always want to make sure everybody's working with the same spec and the same revisions so that all the information's up to date. So we have our spec browser window here that contains all our different components. While this just gives us a rolled up view, for example, let's take a look at one of our valves here. So we can see for example, this offset butterfly valve, the overall heading's telling us that it contains…

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