About Property Acquisition

You can set up a rule so that a plant object property acquires its value from another plant object property.

Acquisition ensures consistency among component property values. If the source value changes, all components set to acquire that value change as well. Property acquisition is also useful for maintaining consistent tagging. When you change a source value, tag formats that are based on acquired properties update automatically throughout the project.

You can select without restriction any drawing property or project property as the source of an acquisition rule. When you select a class property as the source, however, make sure that the acquiring class and the source class are connected.

In project setup, you can decide to allow a user to override the acquired value after a plant object is initialized for the first time by choosing Initialization Only.

The following P&ID properties have acquisition rules set by default:

The following Plant 3D properties have acquisition rules set by default: