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Finding existing tags

Finding existing tags - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

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Finding existing tags

- [Female Narrator] As we start to build our PNID and we start placing components in our drawing we have the ability to look into the database to see what tags exist already. For example, if we're placing a new pump, we can look into the database and see that the last pump we placed was P402 for example, so we number our next pump accordingly. So, let's take a look at how that works and where we find that information. So, I'm going to open 0901 PNID and let's place some equipment. I'm going to go ahead and drop that equipment in here. So, I'm just going to number this, next available number, is 001. I'm just going to come through and I'm going to tag that. I'm going to come down and choose an air cooled exchanger, now I want to assign a tag for this. When I assign tag, the dialog box opens up, I can go through and look through every drawing in the PNID and see what the last exchanger number we had for an air cooled exchanger. That's time consuming and we don't want to go down that…

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