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Adding and removing offpage connectors

Adding and removing offpage connectors - AutoCAD P&ID Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD P&ID Essential Training: User

Adding and removing offpage connectors

- [Instructor] Moving in to chapter eight, we're going to take a look at off page connectors. Let's navigate to our exercise files on your desktop, exercise files, chapter eight, and the project XML. Expand this out and these are the files that we'll be using for this tutorial. So the more complex the facility, the more complex the P&ID. The more complex the P&ID, the more sheets you're likely to need. With a multi sheet P&ID, lines often cross from one sheet to another so we use off page connectors to connect the lines and this makes sure that if line information is modified in one sheet, that the changes are applied across all the sheets. Let's go ahead and open drawing 801A. So here we've got a tank, just two lines, one flowing off the page, the top line, and one flowing on the page. So we're going to add some off page connectors to this. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in here. I'm going to run to our tool palette. Under the non-engineering tab, around the middle you'll see off…

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