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

Live preview - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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

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- [Instructor] Now, last but not least, we're going to take a look at the live preview function. So we're going to come up to your home tab, project manager, project setup. Now, if you come to the very last section here, we're going to look at our live preview. So when you're doing modifications to anything in your isometric drawing, we can come down to check what it looks like in this live preview, without having to actually go and run an isometric. So what you have to do is we're going to come down where it says specify a PCF file for preview. Now all we need to have is one PCF, and every time you're on an iso, we're creating a PCF. So you can take, go into your LinkedIn Style, look for your PCF folder, and choose any drawing in here. And say okay, and it's going to regenerate that PCF file, but it's going to display the current settings that you have in your iso setup. Now, for example, if I come back to our title block and display, I'm going to set up the title block one more time. I'm going to put my piping back to green, and I'll go to my dimensions, back to red. I think I accidentally locked that line. So I'm going to say okay, and I'm going to return to my project setup, save the template. Now I don't actually generate a drawing to see what that looks like. I'm just going to come back to my live preview, and as long as I have a PCF file specified in here, it's going to regenerate that iso that's specified in the current conditions. So we should see back to our green piping and our red dimensions. And there we have it. So now that you know how to set up your isos, I would suggest, create a style (remember to create your style up here) to play with, and go through and just play with the different settings. Try different combinations of colors and settings, styles, graphic design styles, and just see how close you can get your isometric to your client's output.

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