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Use acquired values in equipment tag

Use acquired values in equipment tag - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Use acquired values in equipment tag

- [Instructor] Now that you've seen how one component can acquire information from another. Let's take a look at how we can also use other data fields to populate Tags. So, in this lesson, we're going to create an Equipment Tag, that uses the drawing property, Drawing Area, to populate our Tag. So first, let's take a look at our drawings. And we're going to right-click on our Plant 3D Drawings, and take a look at our Equipment. So let's right-click on Equipment and look at the properties. Now, you'll see here, we have the value Drawing Area, this is blank right now. And what we're going to do is we're going to create a Tag for our Equipment, that uses the Drawing Area, populates the Drawing Area with whatever value we place here in the Drawing Properties. So to do that, let's go to Project Manager, and Project Setup. So we're going to come down to our Plant 3D Drawing Settings, our Plant 3D Class Definitions, let's come down to our Equipment. Now, look at our standard equipment tags…

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