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Performing object data queries

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Performing object data queries

- [Instructor] Having intelligent source drawings that are latent with object data is an effective way to keep track of non-graphic information, such as install date or pipe type. Using object data queries allows you to capitalize on this rich data by enabling you to ask questions, for example you can now ask, show me all the pipe that's older than 80 years by using one of these object data queries. Let's try one now. If we open up our guelph.dwg and attach the drawing, so we'll hit attach and we're going to attach the streets to it. I'm going to make sure I'm using the alias called exercise files which actually points to my desktop. And there's a folder called exercise files, which I extracted from LinkedIn Learning. I'm going to pick on chapter three, lesson four, so 03_04, and we're going to attach streets. Now I happen to know that this streets.dwg in this location has object data. It actually has the street name.…

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