We ran into an issue this week where isos wouldn’t generate for a particular title block. In locating the problem, I was reminded of a best practice. When you are creating attributes for blocks, ALWAYS use unique tags. While AutoCAD will let you add the same tag, supporting multiple tags is not something developer’s think
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One thing I love about Plant 3D is that it is design to be really flexible. A frequent request we get is, “How do I add my custom equipment to the default Equipment library?” The secret lies in the catalog folder C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 Content\CPak Common\equipment. You can put the catalogs on the
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Once you get deeper into Plant 3D, you want to set up your own styles. Currently, when you create a project, Plant 3D copies the default styles to the project. If you use the project wizard and do not set up a template project first, you will not be able to remove the default styles.
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One question I’ve gotten in the past is “How do you launch Plant 3D in P&ID mode.” Frequently, we may be working only on P&IDs, and it’s nice to have the P&ID environment ready for us when we start Plant 3D. In our previous post on launching a specific project, I mentioned the help file
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On the forums the other day, the question came up “How do I create a desktop icon that launches a specific project?” Today we are going to look at the steps necessary to do that. We are going to use three key pieces of information. First is that you can create a shortcut for
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We have just released a new tool called the Iso Config Editor for 2013 which is now available in our store. The Iso Config Editor allows loading up an isoconfig.xml in a specialized xml editor. The editor has the following features: View node data View Comments Edit values Right-click clone/delete for lists Search
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