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Adding annotation to your equipment

Adding annotation to your equipment - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD P&ID Essential Training: User

Adding annotation to your equipment

- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and open drawing 03_03_P&ID and take a look at our equipment tags. So each client will have a standard in place regarding how items must be tagged and what type of information is displayed in the P&ID. Because these standards are varied, we have the ability to display the data associated with our equipment in many different ways. Let's have a look at some of those options. So once again, make sure we're in model space and we have our snaps turned on and let's place some additional equipment here. I'm going to place another tank in here. This is one that we can scale and we'll assign a tank number to this one. I'm going to add an exchanger so let's just take this spiral heat exchanger and drag this up around here and again, we'll just use our next available number for this one and we'll assign that tag. We have the information here. We know when we hover over this, we can see that it's been assigned a tag E003 and TK001. So now we actually have to display…

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