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Using the Plant 3D Properties dialog box

Using the Plant 3D Properties dialog box

From the course: AutoCAD Plant 3D Essential Training: User

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Using the Plant 3D Properties dialog box

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- [Instructor] Typically, when you look at AutoCAD properties, you see information such as color, layer, line type, line width, et cetera. Plant 3D has added additional information to the component, so that we can view and modify directly inside the properties dialog box. Let's take a look at the additional properties that have been added to our 3D components. So let's start by coming down and opening our drawing 01_06_Piping. And I want you to notice something here, just as a by-note, when you're working with the Plant models, if you've been using xrefs, you may see this message that pops up fairly frequently while you're working here. You don't have to worry about this, if it does pop up just close it down. It doesn't affect anything you're working on, it's just letting you know that at some point this model was used in an xref. So it's good practice when you're working in 3D, come up here to this little tab that you see on the top left hand corner of your view area, and click on…

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