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Validating your drawing or project

Validating your drawing or project

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Validating your drawing or project

- [Instructor] Okay, let's run the validation on a P&ID, a model, and then we'll run the entire project to see how our P&IDs and models compare. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to run a validation on this P&ID; and, to do that, I'm just going to come down and right-click on P&ID Drawings and I'm going to say Validate. Now it's going to run through the all the database components that are existing in this drawing, and let's take a look and see what we have. So I'm going to just dock this over here, and I'll get rid of my tool palette for now. What it's showing us is that we have non-terminating lines; and if we click on that, we can see that. We can't have that in the real world, but, you know, we're not that worried about it. This isn't a real P&ID. So rather than have these come up every time, I'm just going to grab these errors; and I'm going to right-click and say ignore them. And what it does is it moves them down into this Errors Marked as Ignored, and…

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