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Rename pipes and structures

Rename pipes and structures - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Rename pipes and structures

- [Instructor] Now that you've learned how to control the display of your pipe networks, it's time to take a look at labeling them. Before we do that however, we need to establish an organized naming and numbering system. Let's see how that's done. I'll start off in the left viewport and I'll zoom in to these two inlets here located at station 5+50. I'll select the first inlet, and then launch the Properties command. You'll notice that the name field is right up here near the top of the window. For the naming convention for my inlets I'm simply going to use INLET- and a two-digit index number. So this is going to be INLET-01, walking downstream. Now I find that it's helpful to do similar items all at once. So I'm going to do all the inlets first. I'll press escape to clear the selection of that inlet and I'll click the next one. And this one will simply be INLET-02. I'll walk my way downstream, passing the manhole…

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