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Using on-screen tools

Using on-screen tools - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

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Using on-screen tools

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- [Instructor] When we start to edit our PNIDs, we need to be able to view certain data fields associated with specific components. We have a number of on-screen tools available that we can access from within the drawing space. Let's take a quick look at roll-over tooltips, context menus, substitution menus, and grips. So I'm going to flip to this drawing here, at let's take a look at some of the lines that we have here. So when we use our roll-over tooltips, anything that we hover over and wait for a few moments, a dialog box pops up, and gives us quite the fair amount of information about that component. We can see by hovering over this line, it's a primary line segment, it's four-inch CS300 spec, service P, line number 1060, and it's coming from TK1002, and it's terminating as a branch connection on line 1066. What makes this really good is that normally we would have to zoom out and see where that line starts and where it terminates, all the way over here. But by being able to…

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