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Data Validation tool

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- [Instructor] We're going to jump into chapter 11 and we're going to discuss project tools. Let's go ahead and navigate out to our exercise files, we're going to open chapter 11, Project.xml. And these are the drawings that we'll be using through this exercise. So one of the advantages of using Smart P90 program is that we have the ability to see whether or not our P90 is complete by running a check on our database. Before we sign off on our drawing, we can use the validation tool to check for any components who are not connected, not terminated, not tagged or annotated. I'll go through the steps with you now. Let's open drawing 11_01, and let's take a look at the top of the page here, so we have a panel here called Validate. So when we open a drawing, you may notice a dialogue box quickly pops up, just like that, and that's just a drawing check, it just makes sure that everything in the drawing is synching with the database okay. Now we also have the validation tool here. What this…

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