From the course: AutoCAD Plant 3D Essential Training: User

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Adding messages and annotations

Adding messages and annotations

- [Instructor] One of the most important aspects of having automated isos is repeatability. The time and cost saving that you gain by using automated isos would quickly evaporate if we had to manually tweak the iso every time it was issued. To avoid this, you have the ability to add typical annotations such as floor penetrations, floor arrows, insulation, and some notes directly into the model. So that each time you run the iso, these items will be there. These iso specific items are found in the iso tab, not in the modeling tab. Let's take a look at the options we have and add some into our model. So let's go ahead and open our model from Plant 3D drawings, 10 underscore model. Now I'm going to just come through and unload those xrefs again. So I'll take the equipment and the structural steel and unload those so that we can see a little better. Now what I'm going to do is look at this particular line here. I'm going to come and right click on the line. I'm going to say add to…

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