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When creating P&ID drawings it’s not often that you have all<\/strong> the information available to enter on the first revision. In these situations there will be data fields that are left null or blank. Unfortunately, this causes a dot or question mark to appear in the annotations which also shows up when plotting the sheets.<\/p>\n

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There is a quick and simple workaround to avoid this behavior which is outlined in an updated article on the Autodesk Knowledge Network.<\/p>\n

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Visit the link below for complete details:<\/p>\n

How to place nothing instead of the dot in AutoCAD P&ID annotation tagging<\/a><\/p>\n

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