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Use onscreen tools

Use onscreen tools - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Use onscreen tools

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- [Narrator] Knowing how to set up and use onscreen tools can speed up the design process a little by allowing you to see the component information from the line simply by hovering over it. You don't actually have to query the line and look at the properties. This is done simply by using the native AutoCAD rollover menus, and we're going to take a quick look to see how to set that up. We're going to open, and hover over the line here. Now, look at the information that we see. We have Layer, Spec, Size, Tag, and Line Number Tag. Let's go down and look at the pump, and you'll see it has Equipment and Tag. And if we look at one of the valves, we see that we have the Layer, the Spec, the Size, the Valve Tag, the Line Number, and the Pressure Class. So, I'm going to show you how to change that. So, we're going to come out to the Manage Tab, and we're going to look at the User Interface. Now, we're going to scroll down 'til we see the Quick Properties and the Rollover Tool Tips. In this…

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