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Add Tags to Drawing
Data associated with tags can easily be displayed on the GUI. However, the
tags must have first been defined during the Engine configuration stage.
Recall that the Monitor module has output variable tags with the prefix HX-.
The What-if module uses HXWI- as the prefix.
Add Plant and Local Tags to Drawing
Button Sequence
Title of Active Screen
Result
Open Heatx1 [design] GUI form
window.
Heatx1 [design]
Heat exchanger diagram with labels
displayed.
Click Tools | Add Tag.
Tag Browse
Tag Browse window appears on
diagram
Click down-arrow next to Tag
Name box.
List of tag names appears
Click desired tag name.
Name transfers to Tag Name box
Click Display Tag.
Heatx1 [design]
Text box appears at top left of
diagram with units displayed to the
right.
Right-click text box again. Click
Number Format from the menu.
Number Format
Number format dialog box appears.
Enter format information in the
form bbb#.0 where b is a space, #
the number, and the zero is a
placeholder for the decimal portion
of the number.
Click OK.
Click File | Save Project.
Contents
This is the same format
nomenclature used by Microsoft
Excel.
Heatx1 [design]
Tag name data box with units is
displayed.
Drawing saved.
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