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Updating drawing information using the Drawing Properties dialog box

Updating drawing information using the Drawing Properties dialog box - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

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

Updating drawing information using the Drawing Properties dialog box

- [Instructor] When using P&ID we have the option to add information to our drawing files that can be used to populate title blocks. We can do this by adding data from either the drawing or the project properties. Let's take a look at how we can add the additional data to your drawing and discuss the benefits of using this method over traditional title block attributes. So let's create a new drawing, we'll call this one 02_05_PID. So when we look at this here. Let's zoom in on the title block here. Then we can see some of the information that's been filled out. So we have our project name and address. We have just sample project. We have none of this information filled out here, with regards to the area, the drawing number, and the author. We do have a drawing name. Traditionally, when we're filling out title block information, this would be all done through attributes. So you would double click on the attribute and switch to paper space here. And double click on the P&ID, and you…

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