About Descriptors

A factory has many pieces of similar equipment, and attaching a description makes it easier to identify a particular asset. Inventor Factory provides the ability to assign such a tag using the Descriptor command. A descriptor can contain additional information about an asset; such as type, part number, flow rate, etc. Unlike an annotation, a descriptor is added when authoring and publishing an asset in the Asset Builder environment. It cannot change without editing the asset. To view an asset's descriptor, hover the cursor over the asset.

A published asset can only have one descriptor. If an asset has variants, you can use an iLogic rule to create a descriptor for each variant.

Note: Inventor Factory also provides the ability to add a unique description to a placed asset using the Asset Tag command. To learn more, see the Inventor Factory Help topic: About Asset Tags and Annotations.