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Tagging plumbing plans - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD MEP Essential Training
Tagging plumbing plans
You may notice that when you look at the properties of an object in AutoCAD, there's just something missing. When you tag the same object and go back to the Properties, there's more information that you could ever absorbed. That's AutoCAD MEP and that's the way it is. This video has us tagging the two toilets we've put in. We'll first look at the properties of the item, tag it, and go back to the properties to see what was added. So to get started, let's jump into our MEP plumbing drawing. Let's make sure our workspace switching is set for Plumbing. I want to zoom in on the Women's Room, and come to these toilets that we plumbed up. Next I want to go to the Home tab. Then I want to go the Annotation panel, I want to select the tag dropdown, and grab Plumbing Fixture Tag. I'm going to select my first toilet. I'm going to put it right here. Instead of WH, I want to make it WC, and then I want to hit OK. I want to hit escape a couple times. Go ahead and select this toilet. Let's go to…
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