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User’s Manual

PlantWAVE PDS Pro

Bentley Systems, Inc

PlantWAVE PDS Pro ii

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Table of Contents 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1-1

About this Manual .................................................................................................................... 1-2 Terminology in this manual ............................................................................................... 1-2 Document Conventions .................................................................................................... 1-2 Getting Help ...................................................................................................................... 1-4

2. Installation ........................................................................................................................ 2-1 System Requirements .............................................................................................................. 2-2Installing PlantWAVE ................................................................................................................ 2-3 Product Activation Wizard ........................................................................................................ 2-5 How to upgrade PlantWAVE .................................................................................................. 2-11

3. PlantWAVE Overview ....................................................................................................... 3-1 PlantWAVE Concept ................................................................................................................ 3-1

Inputs of PlantWAVE ......................................................................................................... 3-2 Output of PlantWAVE ........................................................................................................ 3-2 Options .............................................................................................................................. 3-3

Main processors of PlantWAVE ............................................................................................... 3-5 Pre-Processor ................................................................................................................... 3-5 HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) Processor ..................................................................... 3-6 FSS (Free Space Search & Optimization) Processor ....................................................... 3-6 Post Processor ................................................................................................................. 3-7

PlantWAVE main features ........................................................................................................ 3-9 4. Starting PlantWAVE ......................................................................................................... 4-1

What is project .................................................................................................................. 4-1 System default .................................................................................................................. 4-2 Project default ................................................................................................................... 4-3 Current project .................................................................................................................. 4-4

Startup Dialog ........................................................................................................................... 4-5 Moving from stage to stage ...................................................................................................... 4-8 Creating a New Project .......................................................................................................... 4-11

Save & Clear ................................................................................................................... 4-15 Loading a project .................................................................................................................... 4-16

Project load ..................................................................................................................... 4-17 Save and Delete a project .............................................................................................. 4-19 Example of saving & deleting ......................................................................................... 4-20

Copying a project ................................................................................................................... 4-22 Common commands using in stages ..................................................................................... 4-25

Saving options ................................................................................................................ 4-25

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Color setting .................................................................................................................... 4-27 Text property ................................................................................................................... 4-27 Line Type ........................................................................................................................ 4-30 Line Weight ..................................................................................................................... 4-31Arrow type ....................................................................................................................... 4-31

Status Bar ............................................................................................................................... 4-32 5. Border .............................................................................................................................. 5-1

Loading Border file ............................................................................................................ 5-2Title block 1 .............................................................................................................................. 5-7 Title block 2 ............................................................................................................................ 5-10 Title block 3 ............................................................................................................................ 5-10 Grid No. .................................................................................................................................. 5-11 Key Plan Hatching.................................................................................................................. 5-14 Save Border setting ............................................................................................................... 5-15

6. Equipment Nozzle Chart .................................................................................................. 6-1 7. Revision History Chart ..................................................................................................... 7-1 8. Layer Options ................................................................................................................... 8-1

Layers of components .............................................................................................................. 8-39. Hidden Options ................................................................................................................ 9-1

Hidden Surface Removal ......................................................................................................... 9-2Selective Line Display & Hidden On/OFF ................................................................................ 9-4

Selective Line display ....................................................................................................... 9-4 Hidden Line On/Off ........................................................................................................... 9-4

Pipe Hidden Option .................................................................................................................. 9-6 Single line ......................................................................................................................... 9-6 Double Line ....................................................................................................................... 9-6 Insulation ........................................................................................................................... 9-7

Elbow Hidden Options ............................................................................................................. 9-8 Hidden options of Weld type Elbow .................................................................................. 9-8 Hidden options of SW & THD Type Elbow ........................................................................ 9-9

Tee Hidden Options ............................................................................................................... 9-11 10. Dimension Options ......................................................................................................... 10-1 11. Annotation Options ........................................................................................................ 11-1

Inside Annotation vs. Outside Annotation .............................................................................. 11-3 Outside Annotation .......................................................................................................... 11-3 Equipment Tag ............................................................................................................... 11-11 Structure Column Tag ................................................................................................... 11-15 Inside Annotation .......................................................................................................... 11-18 Pipe Line Number ......................................................................................................... 11-18 Instruments ................................................................................................................... 11-25 Pipe Supports ............................................................................................................... 11-28

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Nozzles ......................................................................................................................... 11-30 Reducers ....................................................................................................................... 11-33 Refer to Arrow type of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27.Special Item. .............................................................................................................................. 11-35 Special Item. ................................................................................................................. 11-36 Others ........................................................................................................................... 11-37

12. Outside Options ............................................................................................................. 12-1 Distance ................................................................................................................................. 12-2 View annotation ...................................................................................................................... 12-5

13. Tag Adjust ...................................................................................................................... 13-1 Pipe Dimension Option .......................................................................................................... 13-2 Tag Extension Options ........................................................................................................... 13-3

14. View Import/Create ........................................................................................................ 14-1 Drawing View of PlantWAVE .................................................................................................. 14-1

Single view ...................................................................................................................... 14-2 Multi Views ...................................................................................................................... 14-2 Composite view .............................................................................................................. 14-2

What is VAD? ......................................................................................................................... 14-4 View create from PDS ............................................................................................................ 14-4

15. Output Options ............................................................................................................. 15-16 Output Options ..................................................................................................................... 15-17

Output Example ............................................................................................................ 15-21 Annotation Filter ................................................................................................................... 15-25

16. Management Options ..................................................................................................... 16-1 17. Executing PlantWAVE .................................................................................................... 17-1

Hidden .................................................................................................................................... 17-2 Hidden+Dim & Anno ............................................................................................................... 17-9

18. Management .................................................................................................................. 18-1 Drawing Management ............................................................................................................ 18-2 Report .................................................................................................................................... 18-3

19. TOOL ............................................................................................................................. 19-1 Project change ................................................................................................................ 19-1 PDS Database Setting .................................................................................................... 19-2PDS File Copy ................................................................................................................ 19-3 Current Setting ................................................................................................................ 19-4 Current Layer .................................................................................................................. 19-5 AutoCAD Menu Load ...................................................................................................... 19-5Batch Plotting .................................................................................................................. 19-6 MicroStation Setting ...................................................................................................... 19-10 Change password ......................................................................................................... 19-10 Delete temporary files ................................................................................................... 19-10

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Help ............................................................................................................................... 19-11 20. Drawing Editor ............................................................................................................... 20-1

Using icons ............................................................................................................................. 20-2 Dimension Editor .................................................................................................................... 20-4

Alignment of the dimension text...................................................................................... 20-4 Placement of the dimension text .................................................................................... 20-5 Dimension Text Editing ................................................................................................... 20-5 Dimension Moving .......................................................................................................... 20-6 Dimension Creating ........................................................................................................ 20-7 Converting from Arrowhead to Dot ................................................................................. 20-9Tag Move ...................................................................................................................... 20-10 Tag Rotate ..................................................................................................................... 20-11 Edit label Text 20-12

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1. Introduction

Recently, almost engineering companies are using 3D design system for their plant design works. However, it is time intensive work to make piping general arrangement drawings because of its complexity and much information to be described in the drawing. The piping general arrangement drawings are used for their construction work and for the way of the information exchange between the departments for their concurrent engineering during the design process.

It is the creative work for the engineers to design using the 3D design system and very difficult to automate until now. On the contrary, it's the routine work for the engineers to make the 2D drawing after design work based on the result of the 3D design system. PlantWAVE can help the engineers to do much works for the creative tasks, design works by eliminating 2D drawing job by automatic generation of drawings.

PlantWAVE is a PC based windows application that automatically generates piping general arrangement drawings almost at the same time after finishing the 3D modeling. It gives much benefit to the companies by eliminating the cost of making drawings by manual.

We, Bentley Systems Corp. believe that it streamlines the way you to produce and deliver the piping GA drawings to your customers in time.

PlantWAVE:

Dramatically reduces the time for making the drawings. 2D piping drawings will be produced almost at the same time after finishing the 3D modeling job.

Gives much benefit to the companies by eliminating the cost of making 2D piping drawings by manual.

Offers the consistency of the drawing quality.

This release of the PlantWAVE PDS Pro works with PDS of Intergraph Corporation. & AutoCAD of Autodesk Inc.

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About this Manual This manual consists of 20 chapters and describes the concept and functions how it works and all the commands of PlantWAVE based on the Graphical User Interface. You can use the Online Help in the PlantWAVE also.

You can find the demonstration movie file in the PlantWAVE CD, which will show you more practical way to use the PlantWAVE quickly.

Terminology in this manual The following is the key terminology that frequently uses in this manual. Refer to <Fig> 1-1also.

Name Description

UI User Interface of PlantWAVE including graphical user interface.

Startup Dialog The starting UI of PlantWAVE

Menu bar The area in the top of PlantWAVE UI.

Main menu The command in the Menu bar.

Sub menu The command under the Main menu.

Stage The UI environment in main UI. The PlantWAVE has XX stages.

Sub-stage The UI environment under the Stage.

Field Prompted command area you may input using keyboard, mouse in UI.

Session The group of fields in the stage.

Hidden The process for making the drawing, which describes that the nearest objects of the viewpoint are visible and the others are invisible if they are overlapped from the viewpoint.

PlantWAVE Hidden drawing

It is 2 dimensional drawing files without dimensions and annotationsgenerated by PlantWAVE. Sometimes, it is called the “Background drawing” in this manual.

Output drawing The final output drawing generated by PlantWAVE, which is the annotated drawing with the dimensions and annotations based on Hidden drawing. Sometimes, it is called “DIM & Annotated drawing” in this manual

<Table> 1-1 Terminology in this manual

Document Conventions The following conventions are used throughout this manual. The default text font is “Times New Roman” and the main titles are “Lucida Sans” and subtitle are “Arial”.

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Convention Purpose

Name1 > Name2 > … It means the menu chains which start from Main menu of the menu bar. The used font is “Times new Roman” in boldface.

{Name} { } is used for the stage name in boldface “Times new Roman” lettering.

Session Name:: Double colon in Arial lettering boldface after title means the session name in UI.

Field name: Single colon in Arial lettering boldface after title means the field name in UI.

Command button Underlined “Times new Roman” in boldface is used for the command button in UI.

Bold formatting Words in boldface represents for the keyword or emphasis.

“Italic formatting”Words in italic formatting with double quotation mark areused for the keystrokes you may input or the file name and directories.

Italic formatting Words in italic formatting represents in explanatory text of the notes.

<Table> 1-2 Document convention

<Fig> 1-1 keyword expression

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Getting Help Bentley Systems Corp. is committed to supporting PlantWAVE. If you have questions, need additional assistance, or encounter a problem, please contact Bentley Systems Technical Support using the following.

Internet http://www.Bentley.com

E-mail [email protected]

Tel +82(0)2-557-0555

Fax +82(0)2-557-9295

Welcome your comments To help us improve future versions of PlantWAVE documentation, we want to know about corrections, clarifications or further information you would find useful.

When you contact us, please include the following information:

The version of the manual you are referring to The version of PlantWAVE you are using Your name, company name, job title and e-mail address

Send us e-mail at: [email protected]


2. Installation

This chapter illustrates the installation of PlantWAVE

This chapter covers the following topics.

System requirement Installing PlantWAVE Activate PlantWAVE

In the distribution package of PlantWAVE, it contains the following items.

PlantWAVE CD, which contains; PlantWAVE program install files. Movie file, which allows you to start the job quickly by seeing it. Template project files, which are pre-defined setting files. It allows

you to use easily at the beginning of purchasing PlantWAVE without defining various many options.

PlantWAVE manual (this manual)

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System Requirements Review the following hardware and software system requirements prior to installing PlantWAVE.

Minimum Hardware Requirements Pentium-3, 400MHz. (recommended more than 800 MHz) 30 MB free disk space 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended) Color Display monitor (1024x768 or higher resolution

recommended) More than 500 MB virtual memory.

Minimum Software Requirements Windows® 2000, XP and NT 4.0 workstation with Service Pack 4

installed.Recommended Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 or XP. Not recommended Windows® 95,98. However, it works. AutoCAD 2000 ~ 2010. MicroStation DGN output drawing can be generated without

MicroStation as an option. PDS ver 6.x, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

About Installation files

<Fig> 2-1 PlantWAVE setup file

Before Installing Before you begin to install PlantWAVE, you have to have the followings.

AutoCAD 2000 ~ 2010.

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Installing PlantWAVE If you finished to install the Sentinel system driver, you can install PlantWAVE as follows.

To install PlantWAVE

. Start the PlantWAVE Setup program by double-clicking the file icon of <Fig> 2-2.

The number after the PlantWAVE name such as "300" is the release number and it will be changed according to the upgrading schedule of PlantWAVE.

You will see the next screen when starting of installation.

<Fig> 2-1 PlantWAVE Install screen

. You can change the install directory of the PlantWAVE in 2

of <Fig> 2-5.

If you click the browse button, you will see 3 of <Fig> 2-6

The default directory is "C:\Pogram Files\PlantWAVE_PDS" and you can change it.

. The PlantWAVE file icon will be created in your background screen of the computer as <Fig> 2-8 after finishing the installation.

Note: You may get the windows error message of <Fig> 2-7 during installation. You can ignore this harmless error by clicking OK.

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<Fig> 2-2 PlantWAVE install end

<Fig> 2-3 Windows error message

<Fig> 2-4 PlantWAVE file icon

product updates and upgrades via Web downloads and MySELECT CD, around-the-clock technical support, exclusive licensing options, discounts on training and consulting services, as well as technical information and support channels. For more detailed information go online at http://selectservices.bentley.com

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Product Activation Wizard Once the software is installed on your machine, you should activate it from Bentley select server. You need to have internet access for this.

Bentley SELECTBentley SELECT® is the comprehensive delivery and support subscription program that features product updates and upgrades via Web downloads and MySELECT CD, around-the-clock technical support, exclusive licensing options, discounts on training and consulting services, as well as technical information and support channels. For more detailed information go online at http://selectservices.bentley.com

Product Activation Wizard

Allows you to select the type of installation for which product is being activated

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Installation type DescriptionSELECT subscriber activating against a hosted (Bentley) SELECT Server

Used to activate a product against a SELECT Sever hosted at Bentley Systems

SELECT subscriber with deployed (local) SELECT Server

Used to activate a product against your company's locally deployed SELECT Sever

NON-SELECT user Used to activate a product if you are a Bentley customer but not a SELECT subscriber.

Evaluation Only — No license information

Used to activate an evaluation license for a product.

Activating against a SELECT Server (hosted) Allows you to activate products from a Bentley hosted SELECT Server. These options display after SELECT subscriber activating against a hosted (Bentley) SELECT Server is selected from the Product Activation Wizard.

1. Enter your Site Activation key. The Server Name is prefilled. 2. If you are using HTTPS, enable the HTTPS (SSL) check box. 3. If you are using a Proxy server to connect to the hosted SELECT Server, click the Proxy button and fill in the Proxy Server information then click OK. Click Next. 4. On the Check out a license now? dialog box, enter your email address. The appropriate product name and version are prefilled. Click Next. 5. The Wizard Selections dialog box displays the information provided on the previous dialog boxes. Review the information and click Finish to activate the product.

Activating against a SELECT Server (deployed) Allows you to activate products from a locally deployed SELECT Server. These options display after SELECT subscriber with deployed (local) SELECT Server is selected from the Product Activation Wizard.

1. Enter your Server Name.

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2. Enter your Site Activation key. 3. If you are using HTTPS, enable the HTTPS (SSL) check box. 4. If you are using a Proxy server to connect to the hosted SELECT Server, click the Proxy button and fill in the Proxy Server information then click OK. Click Next. 5. The Wizard Selections dialog box displays the information provided on the previous dialog boxes. Review the information and click Finish to activate the product.

Non- Select User

It depends on License Information that you have. Allows NON-SELECT Bentley customers to activate products. These options display after NON-SELECT User is selected from the Product Activation Wizard.

If you select

Description

I have a license file ready for import

1. From the Import License dialog box, click Browse and navigate to the license file then click Next. 2. From the Wizard Selection dialog box, review the file location and click Finish. The Product activation complete dialog box opens and the activation is complete.

I have an activationkey

1. From the Activating against a SELECT Server dialog box, fill in your activation key in the Site Activation Key field. The Server Name is prefilled 2. To enable HTTPS, check the HTTPS (SSL) check box. 3. If you are using a proxy server to connect to SELECT Server, click Proxy and enter your Proxy Server information. 4. Click Verify. The Product Activation dialog box opens and the product is activated.

I do not have any licenseinformation

1. Licenses the product in evaluation mode. You can request a license from Bentley Sales Support by clicking the Go To Bentley.com button

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Evaluation Mode

Licenses the product in evaluation mode. You can request a license from Bentley Sales Support by clicking the Go To Bentley.com button. This option displays after Evaluation Only – No License Information is selected from the Product Activation Wizard. Here, we‘ve shown you the procedure to activate license against Hosted (Bentley)‘ SELECT server. Please follow the steps given below to activate PlantWAVE license. 1) Go to Start > All Programs > Bentley > PlantWAVE_PDS > License Management Tool 2) It will open the License Management tool dialog box. Go to Tools menu and select Product Activation Wizard option.

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3) Product Activation Wizard dialog box will appear as shown below where you need to select first radio button in above window and click Next.

4) The following dialog box will open where you have to provide site activation key against Bentley select server.

5) Type in the key provided to you and click Test Connection tab. It will verify the activation key and prompt you following dialog.

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6) Click Finish to complete the procedure.

7) Go to Tools > Send Logs Now option. The processing will be done to complete the product activation. Now, your product is ready to use.

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How to upgrade PlantWAVE Bentley Systems corp. will release the updated version from time to time. The release news will be sent to the current users by email and announced at Bentley Systems’s homepage.

To upgrade PlantWAVE;

. Download and save it.

The install file name will be contains the version number. For example, “PlantWAVE_PDS_3.0.0.msi” means the release number is 3.0.0.

. Double-click the install file.

You will see the following 2 options such as Repair or Removewith the previous release number.

Select Remove PlantWAVE PDS_xxx.

Click Finish command button.

You will see the following figure.

. Click Next command button

You will see the finishing install UI as follows.

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Click Close command button

. Double click install file again to install new release.

. Follow the install procedure of Installing PlantWAVE of page 2-3.

Note: You do not need to “Activate” procedure after upgrading PlantWAVE.


3. PlantWAVE Overview

We will discuss something prerequisites of using PlantWAVE to get the output drawings. This chapter covers the following topics. In this chapter, we will discuss about project modealso.

PlantWAVE concept PlantWAVE architecture PlantWAVE feature Project Modes PlantWAVE benefit

PlantWAVE Concept The following is the concept diagram of PlantWAVE. It has the intelligent rules to generate drawings based on the Knowledge Based Engineering concept.

<Fig> 3-1 Concept Diagram of PlantWAVE

PlantWAVE has the functions that allow you to make customized piping GA drawings by applying user’s option, which will be saved to a project file to be reused. The project file will



be discussed in detail later.

Inputs of PlantWAVE

Project database PDS project database contain general information for project management and drawing control (drawing view, area no etc.) It is the input of PlantWAVE .

Design database PlantWAVE uses PDS design database as inputs also. These design data are the piping segment data,piping component data, equipment design data, equipment nozzle data etc. Each item of design data is related with geometrically in PDS as a collection of basic 3D shapes known as primitives type of Microstation design file(.dgn) format.

Design Attributes Design attributes are the input of PlantWAVE also. PDS design model which created with Microstation design file format(.dgn) in PDS environment have this attributes. These attributes that are general attributes and special attributes include the non-geometric information of design models. PlantWAVE extracts the information from the design attributes by applying them to the design models..

Structure Attributes Structure attributes are in structure model which made FrameWorks structure design software for PDS environment. It is Microstation design file format(.dgn). PlantWAVE extract useful data from *.prp file format of Structure file. Structure models are input for PlantWave also.

How to be extracted The input data are extracted from the PDS 3D database by the PlantWAVE pre-processor. The pre-processor is executed by the command of PlantWAVE’s user interface with the given condition and option values.

Output of PlantWAVE

2D Piping GA drawings PlantWAVE automatically generates piping general arrangement drawings in batch style execution very fast. It takes only in minutes per drawing. The output contains the outside dimensions and the label texts of the tags such as pipeline number, instruments, pipe support, reducer, equipment, structure's column with the leader line and the enclosure symbol, if



needed.

Reports per drawing (optional) The report is for the information per drawing and optional by the user. It contains the tag information and the summary of the annotation. It can be exported to the text file or the Microsoft Excel format.

Options It allows user to customize drawings by setting the specified values. All the defined values will be saved to a project file, which will be reused for the next time. There are 4 option groups as <Fig> 3-2 in PlantWAVE such as;

DecorationsOptionsGeneration options Management options

<Fig> 3-2 Option Groups



DecorationsIt enables users to customize the drawing by designing the followings. If you do not use the drawing border for any reason such as testing or checking drawing, you can skip these stages.

BorderNozzle chart Revision history chart

Options There are many options in the options, which will be used to customize the drawing such as:

Layer options for assigning the graphic elements to the specified AutoCAD layers.

Hidden options for making Hidden drawing such as layer control, making symbols for the components etc.

Dimension options for controlling of dimension property such as text font, color and leader etc.

Annotation options for labeling (tagging) of the tag components. Outside options for the control of the annotation placement based

on the view frame. Tag Adjust options to control the annotation and dimensions

according to the view status.

Generation options There may be special cases in the drawing according to its complexity or industry fields. You can control the priority of the annotation placement to enhance the drawing quality. And you can use output filter of the annotating components.

All these conditions and option values you define can be kept by saving them for the next job. They can be reused according to the drawing environment.

Management options It will be used for the drawing naming and preparing the revision history data and title block.

Note: The entire option environment is called the PROJECT in this manual. This PROJECT can be loaded by its name. It will be discussed in Chapter 4 in detail.



Main processors of PlantWAVE The following <Fig> 3-3 shows PlantWAVE workflow.

<Fig> 3-3 PlantWAVE workflow

.

Pre-Processor Pre processor reads the design model and attributes that are referenced in the drawing. There is more than one view in the drawing in general. All the data are extracted and distributed to the related views. The extracted data is refined as the useful data to pass to HSR processor.

At this point, all the coordinates are the model coordinates. They should be transformed into the drawing coordinates by considering the view direction, view scale, view rotation in the drawing.

In general, there are 5 kinds of design database to be read as follows:

Piping design model Equipment design model Structure design model HVAC design model Electric cable tray design model



HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) Processor The piping general arrangement drawing has many piping components, equipments geometry, & others to be described and should be represented by user's requirements.

PlantWAVE has a HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) Processor that automatically converts from 3D model to 2D drawing and generates 2D drawing file, which is called Hiddendrawing in this manual. It is the basic function of HSR to make the 2D flat drawing, which describes that the nearest objects of the viewpoint are visible and the others are invisible if they are overlapped from the viewpoint.

The HSR processor of PlantWAVE uses the smart and fast algorithm for doing this. So it can generate Hidden drawing very fast, even though it is time intensive works to calculate the hidden area with many iteration for getting the exact output according to the user's option.

PlantWAVE has an option for Hidden ON/OFF and various display options with symbol mark. For example, sometimes you may want to apply the component's symbol such as single line pipe, elbow symbol, welding mark etc.

There are 3 types of components which will be controlled how to be represented in the drawing according to the Options > Hidden command as follows.

PipeElbowTee

These components will be written to a specified layer of the AutoCAD by Options > Layercommand.

FSS (Free Space Search & Optimization) Processor As previously mentioned before, the piping general arrangement drawing is very complex and has many components to be annotated. It is very iterative and time intensive job for calculating to find the best location to place the label without interference with others.

Moreover, because each annotation has its text string, leader lines and enclosure symbol such as circle/box, it has to have the intelligent and high-level geometry reasoning function for the high-speed process.

PlantWAVE has an intelligent and sophisticated geometry-reasoning processor (which we call it 2D free space search & optimization processor, FSS processor) for the annotation for the design elements.

This FSS processor plays an important role of the drawing quality and it's very important to do this at a short time for the productivity of the drawings.

All the labels should be placed as short as possible from the origin point of the tagged item



by avoiding the interference with any other geometries, other text strings, leaders and enclosing shapes which were placed previously during the whole annotation process. FSS processor can control to place the label for minimum interference with others, if there is not enough blank space or it is intricate around the tagged item in the drawing. It can make the label go further until finding the location of less interference with others by user's option.

Because PlantWAVE writes the labels based on the design attribute information, it is natural that the labels cannot be made in the drawing, if the tag name does not exist in the attributes data.

Post Processor PlantWAVE post-processor consists of following modules.

Writer Writer is to write the output drawing and the others such as nozzle chart. All output is written by keeping the user's option so as to be controlled after generation of the drawing.

The writer consists of the following modules:

Hidden Drawing writer, which generates the 2D Hidden drawing. Dimension & Annotation writer, which writes the dimension and

annotation on the Hidden drawing. Neutral file writer, which writes the intermediate file for the

internal process of the PlantWAVE Environment & log file writer, which writes the setting, log files

during the drawing generation, which are used for the next job and for managing them.

The output file format of the drawing is DWG of AutoCAD and the others are text or Microsoft Excel format It is available to save to DGN with Microstation V8.

ReporterIt writes the report per drawing by optional.

Drawing Editor The basic policy of PlantWAVE is no modification after automatic generation of the drawing. However, some users may want to modify the output drawing (dimension and annotated drawing) to enhance it. The options that were applied to the writer are used when modifying the output drawing.

This module is tightly coupled with AutoCAD environment. It is very easy to use and intuitive for the AutoCAD user.



The Drawing Editor consists of following 3 groups:

Dimension maker, which is used for the internal (inside view) dimension. There are 2 types such as vertical and horizontal dimension type with or without total dimension.

Dimension modifier, which will be used for modifying the dimension arrangement such as dimension position and the dimension text. It can be done by one click of command icon after multiple selection sets.

Label modifier, which is used for moving the label with the leader line to the other position by mouse clicking with drag/drop. You can see the moving status of the label symbol (enclosure shape) and the leader line during moving them. The leader line and the arrowheads will be rearranged automatically fit for the current placement environment after dropping it. It is the same idea to rotate the label and edit the label text, if needed.



PlantWAVE main features

High productivity

Very fast generation of 2D Piping Drawings

It takes in minutes per drawing and possible to apply various options to the same model. It is easy to make the drawings at a short time for the technical meeting between the departments in the company during the concurrent engineering.

Multiple generations in batch style at a time

It is very important to make multiple drawings at a time. Many drawings will be generated in batch processing by your pre defined options.

Hidden Surface Removal PlantWAVE has a self-developed HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) processor for 3D Models.

You can define the Hidden options such as AutoCAD's layer, components symbol, single/double pipe by size, etc. in the PlantWAVE UI. These options can be used and managed easily after making the drawing. You can control this function as ON/OFF.

Enhanced 2D Free Space Search & Optimization PlantWAVE has an intelligent, sophisticated and highly enhanced algorithm to find/update the 2D blank space for the placement location of the labels. It allows you to avoid the interference of the label such as the text string and leaders with other text or geometry in the drawing. You can control these options in the [Generation] option in the PlantWAVE UI. This is done by FSS (Free space search) processor of the PlantWAVE.

Labeling priority The basic policy of the labels in a drawing is not to overwrite them with each other such as pipes, control valves, pipe supports, nozzles and reducers. It is important to label in good order especially for the intricate drawing.

It is normal to control the label of the line number for the pipe as the highest priority because it has the longest text length among others. You can define the priority of the labeling order according to the feature of the drawing. If you reorder the labeling priority, you will get the different annotated drawing even though using the same input.

Labeling control PlantWAVE has the rules for finding the searching area around the tag item. All labels should



be made as shortest as possible from the origin point of tag item according to the selection option. PlantWAVE has 2 types of label control options in consideration of;

Searching interval density Searching boundary area

Applying many options to customize the drawing PlantWAVE has many options to customize the drawing according to the projects. There are 3 types of options groups in PlantWAVE such as managing options, drawing options, runtime options.

Managing multi-views and composite view The PlantWAVE supports multi views and composite views in the drawing.

Movie show for beginner of PlantWAVE PlantWAVE contains movie instruction file for the beginner. It will be very helpful at the first time after installation to learn how it works. The movie file is Shockwave Flash (SWF) file of macromedia Inc., which shows full UI instruction. PlantWAVE includes Flash player.

2 Levels of Login-IDs It has 2 types of login-id such as “ADMIN” and “GUEST”.

The reason why it has 2 levels of IDs is for some special users who may want to prevent end users who may be your sub-contractor or cooperative company from changing the setting file.

ADMIN can control GUEST by password.


4. Starting PlantWAVE

PlantWAVE features an intuitive user interface, which allows you to start job immediately. We recommend that you will see the movie show, which is started at the STARTUP DIALOG of PlantWAVE. This user interface environment is called stage in this manual.

We recommend that you read this chapter carefully to understand the project of PlantWAVE.

This chapter covers the following topics:

What is a project? Startup dialog Moving from stage to stage and command trees. Create a project Saving a project Loading a project Copying a project Changing a project Deleting a project Status bar Common using in stages

We recommend that this chapter and chapter xx are the important chapter to use PlantWAVE. Because in these 2 chapters, you have to make or give the values as you need. It means that the other stages have the default values, which PlantWAVE supports. If you skip these stages, the PlantWAVE default will be applied to your output drawing.

We will discuss about how to save the setting values in every stage in the “Common using in stages” section.

What is project A project in PlantWAVE contains the information as follows.

The current working environment of the directories.



Project mode information All the setting values to be selected and defined in every stage for

applying them to the drawing generation.

The project is the template that will be reused to make the next drawing by keeping the same condition.

The contents of the project is saved to a file, which has a file extension id “.ini” in its setting directory of the corresponding directory. There are 3 kinds of project files as follows.

Default Type Priority Saving directory Saving file name

CurrentDefault 1 Project directory + “setting” “Project_name.ini”

Project Default 2 PlantWAVE install directory + “setting” "default_set.ini"

System Default 3 PlantWAVE install directory + “setting” “Default_sys.ini”

The “Current Project” file, which has a name of “project_name.ini” is saved to a file when creating a project and the “Project Default” file and “System Default” file is saved at the installation time.

The “Project Default” file will be applied to all the default option values in the UI for every new project. And then if you save an option values after modification based on “Project Default” file, it will be saved to a “Current Project”.

The priority 1 is the highest priority and will be applied to the current project in first. The following is the typical command in the almost stages to save the current option values.

<Fig> 4-1 Typical command to save project file.

System default The file name of the “System Default”, which is the priority 3 of the above table, is “default_sys.ini” and the file location is the “setting” directory of the PlantWAVE installation directory.

It is unchangeable and has the values of the installation time of PlantWAVE. You are not allowed to change this file. It is used to return the values to the initial stage like the installation.



If you use Call SystemDefault command button of <Fig> 4-1 by clicking it in some stage, the option values of the current stage will be returned to the “System Default”. Sometimes, it will be useful for you if you modify the options too much and want to go back as they were.

Project default If you click the check box “Save these options for the Next “New Project” as default values”of <Fig> 4-1 when saving the values in the stage, the changed option values will be saved to the current project file, "project_name.ini" and the “project default” file, "default_set.ini"will be updated also.

“Project default” file will be applied to the new project you will create at the next time. It is useful for you to define the options if you want to use the current specified values as a default values for the next job. When you make a new project, PlantWAVE always loads this file in first.

<Fig> 4-2 Using Project default file

The above figure illustrates how the “project default” file will be applied to a project. It is regarded that the check box “Save these options for the Next “New Project” as default values” was checked in the test1 project(A) and it is not checked in the test2 project(B).

It shows you that the option values of the project “test2” come from the “default_set.ini” that was updated in the project “test1”.



Current project It is the current working environment. In every UI stage, you have to save the values you defined using this save command button if you want to change the current default values.

The default saved file name is “project name.ini” at the “setting” directory of the project directory.



Startup Dialog PlantWAVE always starts from the STARTUP DIALOG as the following figure. There are 3 sessions in STARTUP DIALOG as follows;

PlantWAVE Login

Select Project Stage icons

PlantWAVE Login::

You have 2 User IDs, which are ADMIN and GUEST. ADMIN can modify and save all the options in every stage. However, GUEST cannot modify or save them and only can execute PlantWAVE.

The reason why it has 2 levels of IDs is for some special users who may want to do as follows.

To prevent end users who may be your sub-contractor or cooperative company from changing the project file.

To get the same drawing condition after distributing the project file



to the multiple PlantWAVE licenses.

ADMIN

At the beginning of using PlantWAVE after installation, the default user ID is ADMIN with the 6 digits password “000000”. If you login as ADMIN with this password, you can modify all the options in every stage.

If you want to change password, you can do it Tool > ChangePassword command. You do not need to change the password, if you want to use in general, which means that you want to change and modify all the option values.

However, if you want to prevent your end user from changing the project file after making complete project file, it will be useful not to inform the end user of the password.

If for the correct password of ADMIN, the left of the following figure will be displayed. If for the incorrect password, the right of the following figure will be displayed. And then the end user has to login as GUEST.

Note: If you change the password, the default user ID of the startup dialog will be changed to GUEST. If you want to login as ADMIN, you have to enter the password for it

GUEST user

It is the user to only execute PlantWAVE by receiving the project file that contains the entire drawing generation environment from the ADMIN user. The GUEST user cannot modify the option values. GUEST user does not have the password.

If you do not know the password of ADMIN, you have to login as GUEST user.

Select Project::

There will be empty project list in the following list box of the STARTUP DIALOG at the very beginning of install of PlantWAVE.

If you already have the PlantWAVE projects, they will be listed as above figure.

If you double-click the project name in the list box, it allows you to enter the {Project



Load} stage directly. If you want to enter the other stage, select the project name by clicking it and use the stage icon.

Stage Icons::

If you have to create the project, use stage icon , w which is {New} stage icon. It is in the Project stage group icons.

The following shows you stages for the stage groups. There are 5 stage icon groups in the STARTUP DIALOG as follows.

Stage group name Stages

Project Project New/Load

Decoration Drawing decoration such as border, nozzle chart and revision chart.

Options Options of layer, dimension, annotation, Outside, Tag-adjust

Drawing Generation

View create/import and execute the drawing generation

Management Report, plot the drawing etc.

If you have previously created projects, you can go to the available stage directly as follows;

. Select project name in the list box in the Select Project:: session of STARTUP DIALOG.

Click stage icon such as , which is {Hidden Generation} stage.

The {Hidden Generation} stage will be opened.



Moving from stage to stage

The following is the Icon-Bars and you will see the red line under the stage icon, which is the current stage indicator. This stage indicator will move to the corresponding stage icon according to navigation of the stages.

You can use the command in the menu bar that is the drop-down style. The following table shows you the menu tree of PlantWAVE.

Main Menu Stage Sub-Stage /Command Brief description

Project

New Create a New Project

Load

Project Load Load existing Project

Project Copy Copy a project

Project setting file View project file

Exit Program Exit

Decoration

Border Setting border environment

Nozzle chart Setting options for nozzle chart

Revision chart Setting options for revision history chart

Options

Layer

Pipe Pipe layer including Hidden pipe

Elbow Elbow layer including Hidden elbow

Tee Tee layer including Hidden Tee

OthersEquipment and structure, cable tray layer including Hidden pipe

Annotations Viewframe,dimension, Annotation, chart etc.

Hidden Pipe Hidden options for Pipe

Elbow Hidden options for Elbow



Tee Hidden options for TEE

Dimension Various Dimension Options

Annotation

Line No Annotation options for the pipe

Instrument Annotation options for instrument

Support Annotation options for pipe Support

Nozzle Annotation options for reducers

Reducer Annotation options for nozzles

Equipment Annotation options forequipments

Structure Annotation options for Structure

Special Item Annotation options for valve no.

OthersAnnotation options for marks such as flow, slope and hatching mark.

Outside Distance Distance parameters for

outside annotation.

View annotation View annotations

Tag adjust Pipe dimension Annotation Options for pipe

Outside view

Tag area extension Tag area extension options forinside tags

Drawing Generation

View creation View creation in PlantWAVE

Generation Options

Execution options Execution options for inside tags, output format, unit

Annotation filter Annotation On/Off filtering

ManagementDrawing. Naming &revision data

Output naming and defines revision data

Title block Title block data

1:Hidden Generation 2D Hidden file Generation

2: Dimm& Anno.

Generation

Dimensioned and annotated drawing generation

3: Hidden +Dimm & Anno.Generation

Running above 1) + 2) at the same time.

Management Drawing Management

Make reports for the tagged components in a drawing

Report Report generation



Tool

Project Change Change a Project

PDS DataBase Setting

PDS database connect & extract

PDS File Copy PDS Data File Copy

Current Setting Project Setting View

Current Layer Project Layer View

AutoCAD Menu Load Enables the startup dialog On/Off when starting

Batch Plotting Use for Localization such as Japanese Language.

MicroStation Setting MicroStation Base Setting

Delete temporary file Delete temporary file

HelpPlantWAVE Help Online Help loads

About PlantWAVE Information the current PlantWAVE version.

<Table> 4-1 PlantWAVE Commands Tree



Creating a New Project Stage

Name: {Project New}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Project > New

When starting PlantWAVE, you have to create or load a project in first to proceed. This stage is to create a project and it has the following stage UI.

Project::

In this session, you define the project name and project comments as follows.

To create a new project;



. Open {Project New} stage as the above figure.

. Enter the project name in Project Name: edit field (for example “SAM_1” as the above).

You would normally comment on the project to something meaningful at the Project comments: edit field.

It will be useful for you to remind the contents of the project for the later use.

It is optional and you can leave it as blank.

Project Folders::

In this session, you define the project directory. The session UI is as follows.

To define the project directory;

. Click

You will see the following popup dialog box.

You can select the disk such as D:, E: etc.

If you want to point out the directory, you have to double-click onthe name of directory.

Note: If you click the directory not by double-clicking but clicking once, the directory level will not be changed. The current directory name will be displayed in the Current folder: field in the bottom of.



<Fig> 4-3 Project Folder setting UI

. If you want to make new directory under the current directory, click Add Folder at the right top of the above figure.

You will see the following dialog box.

If the current directory name is “d:\SAMPLE_TEST”, the project name is “SAM_1” and then you click Add Folder, the new folder name will be “d:\SAMPLE_TEST \SAM_1” as default.

You can edit this directory name and then click OK.

The current folder: field at the bottom of the above figure displays the actual current folder name.

. Click Check Folders to see the directory structure for the current project.



PDS Database Setting::

In this session you define PDS Database Setting also.

UI as follow

. If you click above PDS DataBase Setting button, you can see the dialog as follows.

Two types database interface(Oracle, SQL Server) are available

. Project database and Design database are required.

Ask your database administrator to connect data source.

Example of FCC Project User



. You can click the database dump key button to gathering data from database. Extracted data are save “project \\ Dbtext “ directory. It takes more 10 minutes.

Project List::

All the projects you did will be displayed in the following project list. This list comes from the “list_prj.ini” file that is saved to a PlantWAVE install directory. For example, if you installed PlantWAVE at the directory “C:\Program Files\PlantWAVE_PDS” as default, this file is in “C:\Program Files\PlantWAVE_PDS/setting”.

It is not selective and only displayed. (PlantWAVE uses gray color background in the list for the only displayed list). If you want to select and modify it, you have to visit to {Load}stage.

This list is also displayed in the STARTUP DIALOG when you restart PlantWAVE.

Note: The blue circle flag in front of project name represents that the project is normal, which means that the project folder and project file exist normally. The normal flag of project is “passed” in the “Status” column as the above figure. If the project folder or project file of “setting” directory are deleted by windows command not by PlantWAVE UI, the flag will be changed to error flag .

Save & Clear If you finish to create a project, save it using save command. If you want to reset the data, click clear command. The following is the save and clear command of {New} stage.

Save a project All the project information will be saved to a setting file and the saved directories are as follows.

Field name in UI The directory will or should contain.

Border Border files

DBText Database text file extract from PDS



Output Output files, which will be generated by PlantWAVE

Pipe Piping Model design file location(.dgn)

Equipment Equipment Model design file location (.dgn)

CableT Cable duct design file location (.dgn)

Structure Structure model file location (.prp)

Others Other design file location (.dgn)

Setting Project option files, as you will define.

Vad View information file

Working Temporary files for the PlantWAVE

Hidden PDS Hidden Drawing (dgn)

The saved information will be written to a file, "project_name.ini" in the directory of "setting" in the current project directory.

The following is the sample of the project file. This value will be applied to a current loaded project to generate the output drawing.

Note In the beginning stage when creating the project, only the setting file, “project.ini” file, will be saved to a setting directory and all other directories are empty. If you want to modify the saved project, you have to move to {Project Load}stage.

Loading a project Stage

Name: {Project Load}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Project > Load > Project Load

The basic idea of project in PlantWAVE is to allow you to reload a project previously defined. If you do not want to modify the project that was previously created, you can go to {DrawingGeneration > Hidden + Dimm & Anno } stage directly in the STARTUP DIALOG after selecting the project name.

However, if you want to manage the project for the following reasons except creating a



project, you have to visit this stage {Project Load}.

When you want to modify the existing project. When you want to copy the project. When you want to delete the project.

When you want to check the contents of project file

Project load It is used to load an existing project. To load a project;

. Select the menu Project > Load > Project Load to open it as the above figure.

. Select a project by clicking it in the PROJECT LIST box and click Load.

You can use double-clicking the project name also.

The loaded project information will be displayed in the corresponding fields.

. If you want to modify the data, you can do it here or in other stage.

All the modified values will be updated to a loaded project file.



Note It is more convenient for you to use Project load icon after selecting a project name in the STARTUP DIALOG. Once the project is loaded, all the corresponding option values will be loaded according to every stage of PlantWAVE.



Save and Delete a project If you modified the project in the {Project Load} stage, you have to save it. The followings are the save or delete command buttons.

SaveIt is used to save a project. It is same command as {Project New} stage.

SaveAsIt is used to save a project file as other name. It is very convenient command to copy a project by keeping the same directory conditions as before. The coping project file will be saved to a same directory of copied project file.

The following is in case that you load “SAM_1” project and copy it to “SAM_1_AA” project.

Note If You save a project using SaveAs command and go to other stage, all the changed values and options will be saved to a coping project file. It is used to apply different options to the same input drawings.

DeleteIt deletes a project file only in the “setting” directory of the project folder. The directories will remain. If you want to delete the project folder, you have to delete it using windows command.



R-DeleteIt means recursive delete, which will delete all the files and directories of the project folder.

The following example shows you how the above commands work.

Example of saving & deleting . Go to {Project New} stage and create a project by name “SAM_1” at

the project folder “d:\Sample_Test”.

. The directory will be as follows and the project file “SAM_1.ini” will be saved to a “d:\Sample_Test\SAM_1\setting” directory as follows.

. Create a project by name “SAM_2” at the project folder “d:\Sample_Test”.

. The directory will be as follows and the project file “SAM_2.ini” will be saved to a “d:\Sample_Test\SAM_2\setting” directory as follows.

. Move to {Project Load} stage.

. Select project “SAM_1” and click Load.

. Click SaveAs command button and copy it to “SAM_1_AA”

It will be saved to a “d:\Sample_Test\SAM_1\setting” directory as follows.



The current project will be “SAM_1_AA” project.

If you move to other stage and save options, all the information will be save to a “SAM_1_AA” project.

. Select “SAM_1” to delete and click Load or double-clicking “SAM_1”.

. Click Delete.

Project “SAM_1” was deleted.

However, the project folder will remain. (Only the project file was deleted)

. Select “SAM_2” to delete and click Load or double-clicking “SAM_2”to load.

. Click R-Delete.

The project file with project folder is deleted.

If there are other project files, the warning message will be displayed.



Copying a project Stage

Name: {Project Load} > {Project Copy}

Stageicon: N/A

MenuTree: Project > Load > Project Copy

By similar way of the creating a project, you can copy a project to different project name. It is useful for you to do in case of the followings.

If you want to change some option based on the existing project. If you want to backup all the files or the files you select which

project folder contains. When you need a different directory structure by modifying the

existing project. The following is {Project Copy} stage UI.

To copy a project:

. Select the menu Project > Load > Project Load to load the project.



To copy the project, you have to it, in first.

. Select a project by clicking it in the Project List box and click Load

. Move {Project copy} sub stage by clicking {Project copy} sub-stage..

The copied project information will be displayed

. Type the required name of coping project name and/or project comments at the following edit field.

. Select coping folder by clicking Select Folder.

<Fig> 4-3 will be displayed.

If you want to make new directory under the current directory, click Add Folder

. Click OK after confirming the current folder: edit field.

. Select check box of listed item of the above figure.



If you want to copy the project folder except the “Output drawing Files” directory, leave it as Not Checked as the above figure..

You can use Select all or Unselect All or Reverse command button.

If you check all the check boxes, the copied project folders will be copied to a different project folder like the backup style.



Common commands using in stages There are some common sessions throughout PlantWAVE stages. It will be used frequently to define the followings.

Save options Color selection Defining text property Defining Line weight

Saving options The following is the typical command in the almost stages to save the current option values.

Call Options If you use Call Options command button, Add Options

Options Option

Add Options If you use Add Options command button, Option



OK Call Options Option List Option

Applying current setting to default value It is possible to apply the current setting environment to the next project after exiting PlantWAVE. If you click the check-box of the following figure, the current setting will be saved to a “default_set.ini” file in the setting directory of the PlantWAVE installation directory. Because PlantWAVE starts by loading “default_set.ini” file, all the default values will be displayed all the fields in every UI session.

This allows you not to modify your favorite values in every restarting of PlantWAVE.



Save & Cancel It’s the save or cancel command for the current stage. If you want to save the options of the current stage, you have to click Save before moving to the other stage.

This Save command is not selective until any values are changed in every field in the current stage.

Color setting You will have to set the color for the options frequently in the PlantWAVE UI. To set color;

. Click browsing icon

The following SELECT COLOR DIALOG will be opened.

<Fig> 4-4 Select color dialog

. Click the color you want to select at the any color box in the fields such as Standard Colors, Gray shades or Full Color Palette.

The selected color will be displayed in the Define color: field.

In the Current Color: field, your current color is displayed.

. If the selected color in the Define Color: field is fit for your choice, click OK.

The dialog will be closed.

Text property PlantWAVE supports 11 text styles, which are the compatible with the text property of



AutoCAD. You can redefine the new text style such as “standard”, “style1” etc. by giving the specified characteristics to them.

PlantWAVE supports the almost using “shx” font and 2 types of big font of AutoCAD. The registered text style will be applied to the others such as annotation text also.

The Session UI is as follows.

<Fig> 4-5 Text property setting UI

To define the text property;

. Set the color by clicking browsing icon of Text Color: ofthe <Fig> 4-5.

SELECT COLOR DIALOG of <Fig> 4-4 will be opened.

Select color by Color setting page 4-27.

. Set the Text style by clicking browsing icon of Text Style: of <Fig> 4-5.

TEXTSTYLE DIALOG will be opened as follows.



<Fig> 4-6 Text Style dialog

. To make new text style;

A. Select style name by clicking it.

PlantWAVE supports 11 text styles, which are in the standard and style1 to style10.

B. Select font in SHX Font: field.

There are 13 shx fonts in the list.

The default is “romans.shx”

C. If you want to use Big font, click Use Big Font check box as on.

It is for the Non-English text font such as Japanese font.

And then you can choose one of “bigfont.shx” and “extfont.shx”.

D. Type width Factor in its edit field.

It is the width factor of the character string for the



dimension text. It is the same that AutoCAD uses.

If you change this value less than 1.0, the length of the text string will be shorter than the previous length.

The default value is the 1.0.

E. Click Change

You can confirm the changed font at the Preview: fieldbefore changing it.

F. Click Save TextStyle

G. Click OK.

. Enter Text Height at its field.

The default is 2.5mm

. Click OK.

Line Type PlantWAVE supports Line type of AutoCAD as follows;

To load the line type;

. Click Browsing icon of the line type: field.

The following dialog will be displayed.

. Select line type by clicking it.

. Click OK



<Fig> 4-7 Line type of AutoCAD

Line Weight You can select line weight at the following.

. Click drop down list box icon of Line weight.

The following list will be opened.

. Select number of line weight.

Arrow type You can select arrow type as one of the following.

To select the arrow type, select it by clicking it and click OK.



Status Bar You will see the bottom of the PlantWAVE UI in every stage. It will be useful for you to confirm the current project name & project mode, if you have many projects you already made and change a project from time to time according to the drawing condition.

This is the information about the current project as follows;

Project name Stage name Stage ID Date and time


5. Border

StageName: {Border}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Decoration > Border

From this chapter to the chapter 7, Revision History Chart, it’s a stage of {Decoration} main menu. If you do not use the drawing border for any reason such as testing or checking drawing, you can skip this stage. In this stage, you can design your own drawing border for the customized output drawing. This chapter covers the following topics:

Loading your company standard border file Positioning key-plan / north-mark Settings of the drawing title block and the Grid number.

The following is UI of {Border} stage.

5. Border


Loading Border file You may have your own border files according to your company standard or project standard. You can customize the border drawing by copying your existing border file. The loading of border file allows you to load it after coping it to the “border” directory of the project folder when setup the PlantWAVE project.

If you save a setting for the border in this stage, the separate border setting file, which has a file extension of “.set” will be created at the same directory of the copied border file.

Once saving the border file and if you load the border, the border setting file will be loaded with the customized border drawing in the AutoCAD.

Border file::

To load border file;

. Click Load

The following BOARD LOADER popup box will be displayed.

5. Border


. You have 2 options here.

If you want to customize border file after coping the existing border file to the project folder, go to 3.

If you want to select the border setting file as shown the right side of the above figure, go to 4.

. Click Copy Border

The STANDARD OPEN dialog box that allows you to browse and select the desired border file will be opened.

Select your border file by clicking it and click open windowcommand.

The selected border file will be added to the list box of BORDER LOAD popup box.

Click border file in the list of BORDER LOAD popup box and click OK.

Note: At this time, the border file will be copied to the “border” directory of the project directory. There may be multiple border files in the “border” directory of the project directory according to the projects. This Load of Border file:: session only copies the border file to setup and customize it. The border setting file will be created when clicking Save of stage command.

Size::

It is better to give the size of paper to the loaded border file. The selected size

will be displayed at the 3rd column of the BOARD LOADER popup box.

5. Border


Note: The size of loaded border file does not changed by this size option. This size is for only identification to load the border file later. Therefore, you have to know the actual size of loaded border file.

Key-Plan and North mark::

You can define the location of the key-plan and/or north-mark in the border drawing. You have to have them as DWG file to load it in the UI.

The following is the UI for loading these files.

To load key-plan files;

. Click the browsing icon of the key-plan field.

The STANDARD OPEN dialog box will be opened.

. Select key-plan file you already have and click OK

You will see the loaded file name in the Key Plan: field.

After loading them, you have to locate them as you desire as follows.

To locate key-plan the AutoCAD;

. Click the position locate command of Key Plan: in the above figure.

AutoCAD will load the border file that you loaded in the Border file:: session.

. Pick the point you want to locate it using mouse-left button.

The coordinates of picked point will be displayed in the X Y: filed of Key Plan: after returning to PlantWAVE.

. If you want to confirm the position, click Display in AutoCAD at the lower-left corner of {Border} stage UI.

It shows you the positioned key-plan in AutoCAD as shown below.

You will see the key-plan at the origin of border file, at the lower left corner of the AutoCAD screen, if you click Display in AutoCAD before positioning it.

5. Border


<Fig> 5-1 Key-plan and north-mark in the border file

. If you want to apply the scale, enter the scale factor at the Scale: edit filed.

The default scale factor is 1.0.

When applying the scaling it, the origin of key-plan is the lower-left position of it and the origin of north-mark is the center of north-mark.

The positioning of north-mark is same that you did in positioning of key-plan. <Fig> 5-1 is the border file that the key-plan and north-mark are loaded and positioned.

Note Once loading the border file, key-plan and north-mark drawing, these files will be copied to a directory, which has a name of “Block” under the “Border” directory of the project directory. If the loaded file does not exist in the “Block” under the “Border” directory of the project folder for any reason such as deleting it by the windows command, the error flag of X in the red circle as shown below will be displayed.

5. Border


Scale Bar

CAD Scale Bar (Block) Location (x , y)

Scale Scale Drawing

5. Border


Title block 1 You can define the position and properties of the output text characters in the title block of the drawing border. The following is the UI for this title block.

< Title block 1> sub-stage of {Border} stage offers the following contents of the title block.

Drawing No. Drawing Title1 Drawing Title2 Drawing Title3 ScaleArea Notes

The labels of title have the following text property.

The coordinates X and Y of the text placement Text style Text Height Text Justify Text Rotation Text color

To define the property of the Drawing title;

. Confirm whether the border file is loaded or not.

If you already load the border file in the previous session, you can go to the next step.

If the border file was not loaded, you can load it at Border File::session on page 5-2. And go to the next step.

5. Border


The following sample title block is (A) that is located in the right-bottom of <Fig> 5-1.

. Click the position locate command of Drawing title: field.

AutoCAD will load border file.

. Pick the point for the Drawing title using mouse-left button as the above figure.

The coordinate of X and Y will be displayed in the X: and Y: filed of the Drawing title: field

. Click the browsing icon of TextStyle: field.

The dialog of TEXTSTYLE will be opened.

Refer to the setting for the Text property of Common commands using in stages on page 4-27.

. Skip or modify the text height in the Text Height: field.

The default text height is 3.0 mm.

. Select text justification style in the Justify: field such as “left”.

. Enter text rotation angle in degree in the Rotation: field, if you need.

. Select Text color: in the Text color: filed such as “yellow”.

You will see the following result after defining the above.

. Repeat the above for the other items by the same method.

Note The actual input text of the drawing title will be made in {Management option} stage, which is the DrawingGeneration > Management Options menu

5. Border


tree. The output text of the drawing title can not be made in {Hidden Generation}stage. It can be made in {Dimm & Anno Generation } stage

5. Border


Title block 2 It is continuing UI for the <title block 1> sub stage. It has the following items for the title block.

It is same way to define this title block 2 as you defined at <title block 1> sub stage. The following is the UI for <title block 2> sub stage.

Revision no. DateDescriptionChecked By Reviewed By Approved By App. By Client

Title block 3 If you need your own label that is not shown in title block 1 or 2, you can make it at <title block 3>

5. Border


To add your label;

. Edit it at other: filed

For example, if you need “sheet” label, edit it at other : field.

Do as you did it before.

The label of “SHEET” will be displayed in the title block at your specified position.

Grid No. It is the sub-stage of the {Border} stage for designing the grid in the drawing. This grid will be used for the equipment nozzle chart.

5. Border


Base Position::

The nozzle chart of the drawing may be the right side of the above figure and the location can be set by selecting the following.

To set the location of the Grid number;

. Select one of the Start Location: lists in the Base Position::

For example, select UpperLeft.


If you already load the border file in the previous session, you can go to the next step.


. Click the position locate command of the Start Point: filed.

You will see the border file and AutoCAD prompts you to pick the point.

You can use end of command of AutoCAD in AutoCAD command window to use snap point as illustrated in the following figure.

Pick the point by mouse-left button using snap point.

The coordinates of the picked point will be displayed in the Start

5. Border


Point: field.

. Select Numeric or Alphabet and enter the distance in the following X-axis:: session UI below.

If the upper-Left corner of the drawing is as the right side of the above figure in step 3, the x-axis is numeric.

To enter the distance, use dist AutoCAD command in AutoCAD command window as below for finding the distance between “p1” and “p2” as the right side of the above figure in step 3.

You will see the distance of X, Delta X=71.75 in above.

Enter this distance at the Distance: field as the above session UI.

. Select Numeric or Alphabet and enter the distance in the following Y-axis:: session UI below.

If the upper-Left corner of the drawing is as the right side of the above figure in step 3, the y-axis is alphabet.

To enter the distance, use dist AutoCAD command in AutoCAD command window as below for finding the distance between “p1”

“ ”

You will see the distance of Y, Delta-Y=-50.0 in above.

Enter this distance at the Distance: field as the following session UI

5. Border


Key Plan Hatching

Hatching Mark

Hatching

Hatching Color

Hatching Color

Model Position

Model Position

5. Border


Key Plan Scale

Key Plan Scale

Key Plan Angle

Key Plan Angle

This Drawing

This Drawing Text : Display This Drawing Text

Save Border setting You have to save using Save command the setting in this stage after defining or giving values to the options. The following commands are the save/delete setting commands.

5. Border


The setting file name will be “Border name.set” in the “Border” directory of the project folder. (For example, if your border file is “A0_BORD.dwg”, the setting file will be “A0_BORD.set”.

If you want to save the setting file to another name, click SaveAs command. If you use SaveAs, the border file will be saved to the setting file name also. It means that the border file and the setting file name are always same.

You can delete this setting file by Delete.


6. Equipment Nozzle Chart

StageName: {Nozzle Chart}

Stage icon:

MenuTree: Decoration > Nozzle Chart

This stage is to define the equipment nozzle chart in the drawing. You can customize the followings in this {Nozzle Chart} stage.

Nozzle chart location Color of the text and line in nozzle chart Equipment text, Nozzle text property Grid On/Off, Size unit Flange table data setting and edit/add Nozzle chart column format

The following is {Nozzle Chart} stage UI.

6. Nozzle chart


Location::

The nozzle chart of the drawing may be the right side of the above figure. The location of the nozzle chart can be set by selecting the following.

To point the location of the nozzle chart:

. Select one of the Justify: lists.

The UpperRight is default as shown the right side of the above figure..


If you already load the border file in the previous session, you can

6. Nozzle chart


go to the next step.


. Click the position locate command of the Point: filed.




The coordinates of the picked point will be displayed in the Start Point: field.

Chart Color::

You can give the color of the chart line at this session. The following is the chart color session of the nozzle chart stage.

To define the color;

Refer to Color setting of Common commands using in stages on page 4-27

Equipment Data::

The Nozzle chart is composed of nozzle data with equipment name. You can define the text property of equipment as follows.

6. Nozzle chart


Row height: The height of the row for the equipment text.

Text Property: The text property of the equipment text. Refer to the Text property of Common commands using in stages on page 4-27 for the setting of Text Property.

Grid No: The On/OFF option whether you will use the grid number or not in the equipment data row. If you use as ON, the grid no such as (1,A) in the red box will be displayed as the following figure.

Nozzle Data::

In this session, you can define the followings.

The text property of nozzle text. Size unit. The Flange data setting

Row height: The height of the row for the nozzle text.

Text Property: The text property of the nozzle text. Refer to the Text property of Common commands using in stages on page 4-27 for the setting of Text Property.

Size Unit: The selection of the unit of nozzle size.

6. Nozzle chart


Nozzle Rating & Code Setting :

Nozzle Rating Code DB Value

PDS Default PlantWAVE Default

Label & Column Width::

It is an UI for the arrangement of the column sequence and the column labels of the nozzle chart. You can design it as the sequence order and the names of your company standard.

The following is the session UI.

The sequence order as shown the above is the default of PlantWAVE. If you change this format, do as follows.

. Change the text at the field you want to modify. For example change the text of “ELEV.” to “Ele” at the Elevation: field.

. If you want to change the sequence order for “Size” as the third and “Direction” as the second, make the number of “Size” into “3” and “Direction” into “2”.

The numbers you select will not be overlapped automatically.


7. Revision History Chart

StageName: {Revision_History chart}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Decoration > Revision _chart

This {Revision History Chart} stage is for designing the revision history chart in the drawing. If you do not use revision history chart for any reason such as testing or checking drawing, you can skip this stage. You can define the followings;

Revision history chart Location Text property, Text/Line color of the chart Write options Item sequence order with column format

The following is the UI for this stage.

7. Revision history chart


How to define the setting of this stage is similar to the stage of {Equipment Nozzle Chart}of previous chapter. In this stage, you define the setting variables for the revision history chart, which will be used at the {Management Option} stage. The actual input data of the revision history chart will be in the {Management Option} stage.

Location::

The revision history chart of the drawing may be the right side of the above figure and selecting the following can set the location.

To point the location of the revision chart;



. Select one of the Justify: lists.

The UpperRight is default.


If you already load the border file in the {Border setting} stage, you can go to the next step.


. Click P> of the point field.




The coordinates of the picked point will be displayed in the Point:field.

Chart Color::

You can give the color of the chart line at this session. The following is the chart color session of the revision chart stage.

To define the color;

Refer to Color setting of Common commands using in stages on page 4-27

Revision Data::

The Nozzle chart is composed of nozzle data with equipment name. You can define the text property of equipment as follows.

Row height: The vertical distance between the lines of the chart.



Text Property: The text property of the text in the chart. Refer to the Text property of Common commands using in stages on page 4-27 for the setting of Text Property.

Data Order

ASCEND : Revision Data

DESCEND : Revision Data

Write option::

You can select one of the followings to make the revision history chart.

Only Data Label + Data Label + Data + Chart Line

The following figure is the sample of the revision history chart

Only Data: It is to add the only Data of the above figure.. It means that you already have the Label and Chart Line in your border file that will be inserted to the output drawing.

Label + Data: It is to add the Label and Data without Chart Line. It means that your border file already has the chart line.

Label + Data + Chart Line: It is that your border file has no data for the revision history chart. If you select this option, All the information of Label, Data and the line will be added to your output.



Label & Column width::

It is an UI for the arrangement of the column sequence and the column labels of the revision history chart. You can design it as the sequence order and the names of your company standard.


. Change the text at the field you want to modify. For example, change the text of “Description.” to “DESC” at the Description: field.

. Change the width for the label of the column field, if y

If you enter 0 at the with field, the output will not be made.

Note You have to click Save command button to save them before exiting this stage.


8. Layer Options

StageName: {Layer}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Options > Layer

There are many components to be described in the piping general arrangement drawing. It is useful for you to place them in the specified AutoCAD's layer with specified values. PlantWAVE has many options to customize the drawing, as you need. From this chapter 8 to the chapter 16 Management Options, we will discuss about the definition of option, how to use them etc.


Option values for layer property How to define the layer property.

Option values for the layer property

PlantWAVE supports the following property for the layer definition.

ColorLine type Line weight

All the above will be based on the AutoCAD property and you can change the value by clicking the browsing icon in every UI field. Refer to Color setting, Line Type, LineWeight of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

8. Layer Options


You can recall this layer after generation of the drawing and give the other values to each layer to easily modify it

8. Layer Options


Layers of components PlantWAVE does not use Microstation design file that is created by PDS environment. PlantWAVE creates the Hidden drawing directly. You have to define all the property of layers.

The followings are the UI for the layers of each component case.

Each case (Elbow, Tee, etc.) are similar with pipe case.

<Fig> 8-1 Pipe layer setting UI

Some elements such as pipe, elbow and Tee are classified by HIDDEN element or not. The following tables show the layers for the corresponding items.

Pipe Line Hidden status Components Layer Name

Not Applied Pipe Double Line D_PIPE PIPE Single Line S_PIPEPIPE Center Line C_PIPE

Applied PIPE Double Line (Hidden) H_D_PIPE PIPE Single Line (Hidden) H_S_PIPE

8. Layer Options


Elbow / TEE Hidden Components Layer Name

Not Applied

ELBOW Double Line D_ELBOW ELBOW Center Line C_ELBOWTEE Double Line D_TEE TEE Center Line C_TEE Elbow/Tee Cross Line CROSSElbow/Tee Weld Mark WELD_MARK Elbow/Tee Circle Mark CIRCLE_MARK

Applied ELBOW Double line (Hidden) H_D_ELBOW ELBOW Single line (Hidden) H_S_ELBOW TEE Single Line (Hidden) H_S_TEE

EQUIPMENT/STRUCTUREHidden Components Layer Name

Not Applied

Equipment EQPStructure STREquipment Center C_EQP Structure Center C_STR

Applied Equipment Hidden H_EQP Structure Hidden H_STR

OthersHidden Components Layer Name

Not Applied

Other Components OTHER View Outline VIEW_LINEVertical Pipe Mark PIPE_MARK Outside Data OUTSIDE Annotation ANNOTATION Dimension DIMENSION

Applied Other Components Hidden H_OTHER

Hidden Components The followings are the collection of Hidden layers based on the above tables. They are controlled by the command of Hidden On/Off. If Hidden On, The following elements are created in the output drawing in their layers.

Element Components Layer Name

PipePIPE Double Line (Hidden) H_D_PIPE PIPE Single Line (Hidden) H_S_PIPE

Elbow ELBOW Double line (Hidden) H_D_ELBOW ELBOW Single line (Hidden) H_S_ELBOW

Tee TEE Single Line (Hidden) H_S_TEE

8. Layer Options


Equipment Equipment Hidden H_EQP Structure Structure Hidden H_STR Others Other Components Hidden H_OTHER

<Table> 8-1 Components in the Hidden Layers


9. Hidden Options

StageName: {Hidden}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Options > Hidden

PlantWAVE separately generates 2D Hidden drawings that are generated by HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) processor of PlantWAVE, which will be called Hidden drawing in this manual.

Users can customize the Hidden drawing by using Options > Hidden in this chapter. The Hidden drawings will be written in AutoCAD file format (DWG) with the Options > Layerthat was discussed in previous chapter.

The final 2D output piping drawing, which will be called OUTOUT drawing (sometimes dimensioned and annotated drawing) in this manual, will be written on the Hidden drawing. So this Hidden drawing is an input to a PlantWAVE Writer.


Hidden Surface Removal Selective pipe line mode Hidden ON/OFF Pipe Hidden Option Elbow Hidden Option (Weld Type) Elbow Hidden Option (SW, THD type) TEE Hidden Option

9. Hidden Options


Hidden Surface Removal In 3D piping model, it is represented and manipulated using a set of geometric primitives such as cylinder, torus, box and they can be divided into the polygons. One of the bottlenecks associated with this is determining which polygons (or parts of polygons, planes) are visible from a given viewpoint and viewing direction.

It is equivalent to discover which polygons (or parts of polygons, planes) are hidden from the viewpoint. Algorithms that perform this task are known as Visible Surface Determination or HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) algorithms. This is general concept of the HSR algorithm of the PlantWAVE.

The piping general arrangement drawing has many piping components, equipments geometry, & others to be described and should be represented by user's requirements. PlantWAVE has a HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) Processor that automatically generates separate 2D drawing file, which is called Hidden drawing in this manual. The HSR processor of PlantWAVE uses the smart and fast algorithm for doing this.

PlantWAVE has an option for Hidden ON/OFF and various display options with symbol mark. The followings are the sample figures for the example of Hidden ON/OFF.

<Fig> 9-1 Hidden On/OFF

In case of (d) of <Fig> 9-1, the pipe is displayed as single line with elbow symbol. Like this, PlantWAVE can generate the drawing applying the user's option by replacing the result of the Hidden Surface Removal with various symbol mark.

You can select the option as (b) of <Fig> 9-1 (all Hidden Off), which is as shown real. This option may be used in general projects.

9. Hidden Options


Some user may select as (d) of <Fig> 9-1. This option is fit for the projects of the detail piping drawing like traditional manual style. All these explanations will be discussed in detail later chapter.

PlantWAVE supports the 6 view directions such as top, bottom, front, rear, left, right. The HSR of PlantWAVE makes the Hidden drawing according to these view direction. The general rule is that the nearest object of the view-point is visible and the others are hidden from the view point. However, there are many rules to be conflicted with each other in 2D piping drawing. For example, there are single/double pipe display, symbols for the elbow and TEE etc.

PlantWAVE generates Hidden drawing very fast, even though it is time intensive works to calculate the hidden area with much iteration for getting the exact output according to the user's option.

9. Hidden Options


Selective Line Display & Hidden On/OFF

Selective Line display A pipe is a major component of the general arrangement drawing. So it is needed to describe in detail for the technical information exchange or for the construction. PlantWAVE supports the line mode such as single, double or mixed line mode. In general, mixed type (both mode) can be used according to the pipe size.

The following is the session UI for the selective line mode.

You can select the pipe size in the drop-down list of the Both field. The following is the table of the pipe line mode.

Mode SelectedPipe size Description

Single All All Single line

Double All All Double line

Both Selectedsize

Greater Than Double line

Smaller than or Equal to Single line

Note In BOTH mode, selected size will be single line and the pipe greater than the selected size will be double line mode. The selective line mode will be applied to the elbow or Tee also.

Hidden Line On/Off You can make the drawing as Hidden turn "On" or "Off" by selecting the toggle option of the Hidden ON/OFF as follows;

The data for Hidden On or Off is the data that is in the <Table> 8-1 Components in the Hidden Layers.

9. Hidden Options


If Hidden Off, the elements and the layers will not be created. So if you want to control the Hidden layer, you have to select Hidden On and then use Hidden Off for the elements you want to manage.

The followings are the sample outputs according to the Hidden ON/OFF option. <Fig> 9-2 shows you 2D drawing applied Hidden Line All ON.

<Fig> 9-2 Hidden ON Option output

If Hidden OFF, the hidden components (A) of <Fig> 9-2 will not be seen as <Fig> 9-3. And the line type of such hidden lines is defined in {Layer} stage.

<Fig> 9-3 Hidden OFF Option output

9. Hidden Options


Pipe Hidden Option

Single line If 2 single lines are crossed each other with different elevation like the following figure, the gap distance can be given by user as follows.

Equal to pipe OD: If it is selected, the gap distance of the lower pipe will be same as the pipe out diameter.

Fixed Gap distance: All the gap distance will be same.

The fixed gap distance option is useful for the small single pipe or big single pipe. Because if the Equal to Pipe OD: option is applied, it will not be easy to find which one is upper elevation for the too small or too big pipe.

Note: If user gives the fixed distance, all the same distance will be applied to the hidden single pipes regardless of the pipe size.

Double Line You can select center line on/off in case of pipe double line as follows..

If Off selected, the centerline will not be created as the right side of the above figure.

9. Hidden Options


Insulation You can select Insulation level and display Options as follows

Remove Insulation level : Level

Display Insulation level : Level Hidden

9. Hidden Options


Elbow Hidden Options There are many options for the elbow descriptions in PlantWAVE. It enables you to make the drawing in detail. If you do not need this kind of options, the default values of PlantWAVE will be useful.

Hidden options of Weld type Elbow The following is the {Elbow} sub-stage for Weld type elbow of {Hidden} stage.

90 Degrees Weld Type::

Center Line: On/Off option for elbow

Cross line: On/Off option of the cross line for elbow

Distance A: It is the extension line distance of the cross line when cross line is "ON". It is applied only for the single pipe mode. The default value is 1.0 mm.

Distance B: It is the extension line distance of the cross line when cross line is "ON". It is applied only for the double pipe mode. The value of this option is the scale factor of the pipe's OD (Out Diameter). The default value is 0.8 mm.

Weld dot size: It is Weld type use dot as a weld symbol. The size of the dot is defined in millimeter. The default value is 0.4 mm

Angle C: It is the opening angle when the elbow goes upwards. The

9. Hidden Options


default value is 30 degree

Note: The weld dot is displayed at the elbow connection point of the pipe. However, if the elbow is placed vertically up and down and the weld dot is located at the center of the vertical pipe, it is not displayed in PlantWAVE.

Non 90 degrees Weld Type Elbow::

It illustrates the 45 degrees elbow or trimmed elbow as the right side of. In this session, the same concept of 90 degrees elbow is applied except the distance E.

This E value is automatically calculated like as follows;

E = pipe OD * cos | 90 - elbow angle |

Hidden options of SW & THD Type Elbow The following is the {Elbow} sub-stage for SW & THD type elbow of {Hidden} stage.

9. Hidden Options


SW and THD Elbow::

The first figure of the above figure is Round type and the second is the Square type.

Use: The selecting option for the elbow between Round type or Square type.

Center Line: Centerline On/Off option.

Cross Line: Cross-line On/Off option.

Distance A: It is the extension line distance of the cross line when cross line is "ON". It is applied only for the double pipe mode. The value of this option is the scale factor of the pipe's OD (Out Diameter). The default value is 0.8 mm.

Distance B: It is the extension line distance of the cross line when cross line is "ON". It is applied only for the double pipe mode. The value of this option is the scale factor of the pipe's OD (Out Diameter). The default value is 0.8 mm.

Angle E: The opening angle in degree when the elbow goes upwards. The default value is 30 degree.

Distance C,D: It is the line of elbow. It is the OD (Out Diameter) of the pipe and you can define the minimum size for this. The default value of the minimum is 1.5 mm. If the pipe size is less than the minimum value you defined, this minimum value will be used.

Trimmed Elbow: It is the same idea of the case of Weld type elbow. You can select either one of the using the minimum size or not as the above figure.

9. Hidden Options


Tee Hidden Options As similar to the elbow, the PlantWAVE has a {Tee} sub-stage of the {Hidden} stage.

The following illustrates the {Tee} sub-stage.

Tee Options::

Center Line: Centerline On/Off option.

Distance A: It is the open distance in case of vertically goes down from the horizontal pipe.


10. Dimension Options

StageName: {Dimension}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Options > Dimension

PlantWAVE generates dimension and annotation on the 2D Hidden drawing. The dimension options follow the rules of AutoCAD dimension property. These dimensions and annotations can be modified very easily by using the Drawing Editor of PlantWAVE, which will be discussed in chapter 20 later.


Dimension text Dimension line/ extension line Dimension arrow

The following is the {Dimension} stage UI.



The following shows the general identification for the dimension property. All

the property of dimension and text are compatible with the ones of AutoCAD.

Text::

In this session, you can define the dimension text property.



Text_Property: Refer to Text property of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27.

Text_Offset: It is shown at the above figure. The default is 1.0 mm.

Text_Precision: It is a numeric precision of the dimension text. If you select "0" as a text precision, Integer value will be applied.

Dimension Line::

In this option, you can define the dimension line color and the dimension line distance.

Dimension Line Color: It is to change the dimension line color by selecting the browsing icon. Refer to the Color setting of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

Dimension Line Distance: It is the line distance is the distance between the levels of the dimension when making the internal dimension of the view. The default value is 3 mm.

Note: The internal dimension means the dimensions of the inside view. They are the dimension of the pipes, and any other dimensions of the components you select. These dimensions will be made easily by using the Drawing Editor of PlantWAVE.

Extension Line::

You can define the values of the followings and it was shown as the following figure.



Ext_line_colorz: The dimension extension line color.

Ext_line_extension: It is the extension distance from the dimension line. The default value is 1.5 mm.

Ext_Line_Offset: It is a gap distance from the dimension origin and the start of the dimension extension line. The default value is 1.5 mm.

Arrow::

It is possible to define the dimension arrow size and the type as

Arrow Size: It is to give the size of the arrowhead. The default is 2.5 mm.

Arrow Type: It is to select the type of the dimension arrow. Refer to . Arrow type of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-31


11. Annotation Options

StageName: {Annotation}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Options > Annotation

PlantWAVE has many options to customize the output drawing, which has many labels. Labels can be attached to the design items and used to display the attributes of them. In this chapter, you will see how to control the content, format, and appearance of the labels.

You can define sets of rules for the labeling such as;

To what design item the labels will be applied? What kind or what type of labels will be used? How will they be applied?

If you define your own settings, they will be save to a project setting file. PlantWAVE automatically generates the annotated drawings based on this project setting file very fast. This annotation process is executed by PlantWAVE FSS Processor, which is equipped by intelligent reasoning and very high speed algorithm.

This chapter covers the annotation for the following topics.

PlantWAVE FSS processor Inside Annotation vs. Outside annotation Annotation rules of PlantWAVE Option commands in Annotation UI.

The {Annotation} stage is divided into 9 sub-stages such as;

Line No Instrument Support NozzleReducer



Equipment Structure Special Item Others

The following is {Annotation} stage UI.



Inside Annotation vs. Outside Annotation PlantWAVE has 2 types of the annotations based on the view frame in the drawing. One is the annotation that is placed inside the view, which will be called Inside Annotation in this manual. The other is the annotation that is placed outside the view, which is called OutsideAnnotation.

Outside Annotations

Pipeline Number Equipments Structure columns

Inside Annotations

Pipeline Numbers Instruments SupportsNozzlesReducersValves Others

The placement locations of the labels for the components are defined as above. For example, instruments, pipe supports, nozzles, reducers will be placed inside the view and equipment & structure will be placed outside the view.

However, the labels of the pipeline number will be placed in both sides.

Outside Annotation In this section, we will discuss about the annotation outside the view. Inside annotation is described in the section of Inside Annotations on page 11-3.

Pipe Line Number

Object Selection

All the clipped pipes by the view frame by the Options > Tag Area Adjust> Pipe Dimension Area command in the section of XX.

The basic idea of the dimensioning and labeling the pipe line number in PlantWAVE is to make only one annotation in the view except the special case. For the pipes, the priority of



the outside annotation is higher than the priority of the inside annotation. If the dimension with label of the pipeline number is placed outside the view, it will not be made inside the view. You will decide the placement location of the labels for the pipeline number by applying the view percentage of the view size. It means that they can be placed either inside or outside by user's options. This view percentage will be discussed in section XX.

In the following figure, the outside annotated pipes are 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 8 and the inside annotated pipes are 1 and 6 , if they have different line number tag. If they have same pipe line number, one of 1 and 6 will be inside annotation.

In case of the percentage is applied like "P" in the above figure, the pipe segment 1 will be outside annotation because the end point is located within the view percentage.

And 6 will not be annotated if 1 and 6 have the same pipe line number. If 1 and 6

have the different pipe line number, only 6 will be inside annotation of the pipe line number.

Note: The view percentage can be applied at 4 sides of the views with same or different value. The default value is 10 % of the view size such as X, Y in XX. This will be discussed in the chapter XX

Annotation Method

PlantWAVE has the 3 types of labels for the pipe line number of outside annotation as follows.

(1) Only line number (2) Line number + elevation as single line display (3) Line number / elevation as double line display

In case of (1) or (2) is the single line display. So there is no other way to describe them. However, in case of (3), it is different way to describe it according to the situation. In case of (3), if the gap of the pipelines in the outside dimension area is enough space to place a pipeline number by double line text, it will be made by double line text.

The double line text consists of the pipe line number in the upper side and the Center



elevation (“CL” or user defined text) and bottom of pipe elevation (“BOP” or user defined text) in the lower side.

But, if the gap of the pipe is not enough to place as a double line text, which may cause the overwritten on the other pipe's text, it will be placed as single line text (the pipeline number only).

These pipeline number of the single line text will be grouped by the same elevation, and pointed by the same elevation text with Bottom of pipe elevation (BOP) only as the following figure.

<Fig> 11-1 External pipe labels

The following is {External} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage for the outside annotation of pipe line number.



The session UI of Tag option by size:: and Elevation Prefix:: is used for {Internal} sub-stage also.

Tag option by size (OD)::

You can select ALL: or Over the size: for the labeling pipes. If you select the pipe size, the labeled pipes will be the pipes have the bigger size than the size you select.

ALL: All the pipes will be labeled.

Over the size: It shows you the selected pipe size is 2 inch and half. The labeled pipes are the pipes that are equal to or greater than 2 inches and half.



Elevation prefix::

Center elevation : CL Bottom of Pipe : BOP. Top of pipe : TOP. WorkingPoint : WP

Line No. display style::

There are 3 kinds of line number display styles for the label of the external line number as follows. Line number style 1 and 2 are single line display and line number style 3 is the double line display.

Line No. Display Style Examples

(1)ONLY Line No.

(2)Line No.(Elevation)



(3)Line No. Elevation

Elevation Option::

It is the elevation style selection and it follows the definition of the elevation prefix text.

It has 4 types as follows.

CENTERBOPTOP Mixed(CL+BOP.)

If Mixed selected, it will be displayed as Center elevation + Bottom of pipe as (3) of LineNo. display style::.

Inside Leader Line::

It is the On/Off option to display the leader line of external pipe label. If on, the leader line points the pipe element as the first example of the following figure.

Inside Leader Line Examples

ON

OFF



Alignment Style::

It is the justification style of the external pipe label. The following is the session UI for this.

The Outside: option is default. If Outside:, the alignment style is as the above figure.

If Inside:, the alignment style is as follows.

LINE NO::

It is text property of the pipe line number such as text style, text color and text height. The following is the session UI.

To change the text property, click browsing icon Refer to Text property of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

Leader & Offset::

It is the leader line property and the text offset distance from the leader line. The session UI is as follows.

To modify it;

. Click browsing icon



The following LEADER & OFFSET PROPERTY DIALOG will be opened.

. Select the color by clicking browsing icon

. Enter the height for the offset distance at A: field in millimeter.

The default is 0.5 mm.

B: edit field is not available for this UI.

. Click OK

Elevation::

It is text property of the pipe elevation text such as text style, text color and text height. The following is the session UI.

To change the text property, click browsing icon Refer to Text property of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

Grouping Level::

The external pipe labels can be grouped if the neighbor labels have same BOP (bottom of pipe) elevation. Refer to <Fig> 11-1. There are 3 kinds of Grouping level option such as level 1:, level 2: and level 3: as follows.

Level 3: makes the labels group bigger than Level 1: does in case that the neighbor labels have same elevation.

There are various situations to make the groups for the external pipe labels by considering



the same BOP. The default is Level 2: and it is recommended to use in general.

Grouping Elev. arrow::

It will be used for pointing the labels that has same BOP elevation of the external pipes. The session UI is typical UI for this.

Refer to Arrow type of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-31.

Equipment Tag

Object Selection

All equipments in the drawing will be labeled.

Annotation Method

There are 2 options to place the equipment labels. One is to place it inside the view and the other is outside the view. The labeling style is double line text, which is equipment name in the above and coordinates in the below with the cross line in the equipment geometry. The label text will be double size height of the pipeline number text.

If in case of overlapped between the equipment label and pipe line number label outside the view, the equipments label text has the priority than the pipeline number. So the pipe line number label is moved aside.

The following is the {External} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage



Labeling position::

It has 2 options to place the equipment labels as follows.

If Internal(Inside): is selected, the label will be placed in the equipment origin point. If External(Outside): is selected, the equipment label will be placed in the 2 sides of the view by the short distance calculation between the equipment tag point and the view boundary.

The following figure shows you 2 sides’ labels for one equipment. It means that one equipment has 2 placement locations in the view sides, if External(Outside): is selected.

These 2 sides are North & East or North & West or South & West according to the short distance based on the equipment tag point.

Note: The notation of the direction will be N, S, E and W, which stands for the North,



South, East and West. N & E means the + coordinates and S & W means the minus coordinates in axis of X/Y.

Center Line::

It is the option of On/Off to draw the equipment center line. If selected On, the cross center line will be displayed.

Coordinate::

The following is the session UI to select On/OFF.

It allows you to add the coordinates to the equipment label. If On, the model coordinates will be displayed under the equipment label as the above figure.



EQP TAG NAME::

It is text property of the equipment label text such as text style, text color and text height. The following is the session UI.

To change the text property, click browsing icon . Refer to Text property of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

Coordinate::

It is text property of the equipment coordinates text such as text style, text color

and text height. The following is the session UI.

Leader & Offset::

The following is session UI.

To change the property of leader line, refer to Leader & Offset:: of Pipe Line Number section on page 11-9.



Structure Column Tag

Object selection All structure columns in the drawing will be labeled.

Annotation method There are 2 options to place the structure labels. The structure labels will be placed in the 2 sides of the views.

The following is the {Structure} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage.

Label Position::

It has 3 options according to the view side as follows.

If you select UP: in view side 1 and LEFT: in view side 2, the structure column label will be displayed in the north and west direction of the view.



Label Overlap with Line No.::

If the drawing has many external labels such as pipes and equipments and you select “Off”, the labels of pipe and equipment should be moved to avoid overlapping with structure label. Because the structure labels has the priority to be placed in first. In this case, the drawing may look like complicated.

This option is for defining the overlap On/Off with other labels such as pipes.

If you select “On”, it allows you to overlap the structure label with others. If “Off” selected, the other labels cannot be overlapped with structure label.

This option of “On” will be useful in this case sometimes.

Text::

It is text property of the structure column label text such as text style, text color and text height.



Leader & Balloon Size::

It is the enclosure shape of structure column is circle type. You can define the color and size of the balloon. The default size of balloon is 8 mm.




Get column name method

Column Input Data : Col Framework Name Col

Grid Data (Circle & Text) : Grid Text Col

Column Name Format

Column Input Data Name Format



Inside Annotation The PlantWAVE has 7 kinds of components for the inside annotation as follows:

Pipe line numbers Instruments Pipe supports NozzlesReducersSpecial Items Others

Except the labels of line number of the pipes, all the other labeled items have the only one label per one item. However, one pipe consists of several or many line segments in general. These segments are created by the direction change or connecting the in-line components when modeling.

PlantWAVE will determine the outside labels of the line number in first rather than the inside labels. Therefore, the inside labels of the line number are the rest of the outside labels of the line number as described in Pipe Line Number of Outside Annotation section on page 11-3.

PlantWAVE has to determine which segment should be labeled in consideration of the following 2 steps.

. Pipe selection

Which line number of the pipe should be placed in first among all the pipes in the drawing? The pipe of the biggest size has the priority to all the pipes for the pipe selection..

. Segment selection

Which segment is the best to be labeled after selecting the pipe that has a same line number?

Once the location of the pipe label is fixed to place, the other labels should not be placed in the same area, because it was already reserved.

The pipe of the biggest size has the priority to all the pipes for the pipe selection of the above.

Pipe Line Number

Object Selection

It is the prerequisite work for the PlantWAVE to select the best line segment for labeling among the many segments of one pipe that has a same line number. In general, the pipe is consist of 3 directions (X,Y,Z) segments with connecting elbow and sometime with non



orthogonal (slope) line segments

The following is the main consideration for the segment selection of pipe.

Connecting to the other drawing or not Segment's direction Pipe size of the segment Elbow angle & type

The following is the priority rule of PlantWAVE in consideration of the Plan View (Top View). You have to consider the view direction for the understanding of the other views such as front, left, right view based on the following explanation. Of course, the segment of the biggest pipe size has the priority than others among the segments that have the same priorities.

. Priority-1

The vertical clipped segments of pipe by the virtual plane of the view that will connect to the upper view volume in the model.

It is the important pipe that may be displayed in the other view or other drawing. So, you can confirm the coordinates between them.

This kind of pipe will be displayed by the symbol of pipe section mark such as hatching mark.

. Priority-2

The pipe of the biggest size among the all X or Y direction segments in the same line number of the pipe

. Priority-3

The orthogonal pipe segment such as X or Y direction with vertical segment connected by 90 degrees elbow.

. Priority-4

The orthogonal pipe segment such as X or Y direction without vertical segment, flat turning, connected by 90 degrees elbow

. Priority-5

The one of the rest of the pipe segments sorted by pipe size, which were not selected in higher priority

If there are no blank space to place the pipe line number label by other graphic element, the next priority will be effective)



Annotation Method

If you define the labeling style for the line number of the pipe as a double line text string, PlantWAVE has the 2 types of annotation style for it as the following table.

Line number style Description

Style-1 Pipe line number

Coordinate

Style-2 Pipe line number

Elevation + one of X or Y

. Style-1

This type is for pointing the exact point of the pipe's location. The priority-1 will use this style.

The coordinate consists of "N" that stands for "north" (if it is minus sign then "S") and "E" (if it is minus sign then "W") that stands for "east".

. Style-2

This type is for the label of the pipe segment except the priority-1.

The elevation is described as "CL" that stands for "center elevation" and the coordinate is described as one of 4 such as "N", "S", "E" and "W".

If the segment is X direction, "N" or "S" will be used.

. If the segment is Y direction, "E" or "W" will be used.

<Fig> 11-2 Inside label of the Pipe line Number

The coordinate is depends on the segment direction. So if for the X direction segment, the



"N" or "S" will be written and for the Y direction segment, the "E" or "S" will be written.

Note In case of D or E in <Fig> 11-2, no arrow will be used in the line number. If it is selected “Elevation only “ in Line No. Display style:: session, the coordinated will not displayed in above. The coordinates of D is N (North) and coordinates of E is E (East).

In <Fig> 11-2, A & E are the pipe label of Y direction segment and B & D are the pipe label of X direction segment. C is the section mark of the vertical pipe, which is clipped by view plane in the model.

Note It is written for the slope line segment as “WPCL” that stands for “working point center elevation” instead of “CL”. The description text of “CL” or “WPCL” will be defined by user’s option in the UI.

The following is the {Internal(Inside)} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage.



Elevation option::

The elevation option here is same that of the external line number label. The selected elevation will be applied to Line No. Display style::

It has 4 types as follows.

CENTERBOPTOP Mixed(CL+BOP.)

Line No. Display style::

In general, the internal label of the line number consists of the Line No. and/or other information. The other information is as follows.

Elevation only Elevation and Coordinates

Elev : Only elevation will be displayed as other information.

Elev + Coord : Elevation and coordinates will be displayed.

There are 3 types of style for the line number configuration as follows.

Only Line No: Only Line number will be displayed at a one line.

Line No. (Elev or Coord.): If you select “Elev+Coord” in the above option, it will be as the follow figure. If you select “Elev” only, the coordinates will not be shown in the follow figure.

: If you select “Elev+Coord”, it will be as the follow figure. If you select “Elev” only, the coordinates will not be shown in the following figure.

Line No. Elev. or Coord



Line No.::

It is text property of the line number label text such as text style, text color and text height.


To change the text property, click browsing icon. Refer to Text property of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

Coordinate or Elevation::

It is text property of the coordinates and elevation of the line number label such as text style, text color and text height. The following is the session UI.

To change the text property, click browsing icon. Refer to Text property of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-27

Leader & Offset::





Arrow::

It will be used for pointing the internal line number. The session UI is typical UI for this. Refer to Arrow type of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-31.



Instruments

Object selection

All instruments that have the labels in the drawing are labeled.

Annotation method

All the labels of the instruments shall be placed as near as possible without interference with other labels especially other labels of instrument. And also, the leader line shall be no interference with enclosure symbol of other labels.

The following figure shows you the {Instrument} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage.

Type of instruments label enclosure::

There are 8 types of label enclosures for instruments as follows.

CircleDiamond RectangleEllipse



Hexagon1 / Hexagon2 Octagon1 / Octagon2 The following table shows you the instrument label enclosure. You

can select one of them by clicking it.

Circle Ellipse Rectangle Diamond

Hexagon 1 Hexagon 2 Octagon 1 Octagon 2

<Table> 11-1 Instrument label enclosure

Label Display::

You can define instrument label name format and cross line on/off. The session UI is as follows.

There are 3 types of format for the instrument label in the enclosure symbol as follows.

One line Two lines Three lines

Delimiter: If the instrument label has the delimiter such as “-“ in its



name text and if you want to make the label as the format of 2 or 3 lines, you have to define the delimiter. You can edit it in the “Delimiter” edit box. The delimiter can be more than one. So you can give 2 types of delimiter by entering both “-“ and “$”. For example, if the instrument label is “PG-100$A” and you want to make it as 3 line, you have to select 3 line option and edit 2 characters “-“ and “$” in the edit box.

Center Line: If you select Center Line “OFF”, the second enclosure of the above UI has no centerline.

Text::




Arrow::

It will be used for pointing the internal line number The session UI is typical UI for this.


Leader & Size::

It is option for defining the leader color and the size of instrument enclosure. The size A and B is shown <Table> 11-1.



Pipe Supports

Object selection All pipe supports which have the labels in the drawing will be labeled.

Annotation method As same as labeling option of the instrument, it is possible to apply the options to the pipe support such as enclosure symbol and text property etc.

The following is the {Support} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage.

Leader Style::

There are many orthogonal lines in the piping drawing. So it is useful to use the Non-orthogonal style leader line for distinguishing it from other orthogonal lines, which may be the pipes. PlantWAVE has 2 types of leader line for the pipe support, which are Ortho or Not-Ortho style leaders.

The following figure shows 2 types, which are Ortho and Not-Ortho type.



Support Elevation Tag::

It is possible to add the elevation of the pipe support by selecting “ON” in the following session UI.

Type of support enclosure shape::

There are 5 kinds of enclosure symbol for the pipe support as shown below.

Support tag::

It is text property of the line number label text such as text style, text color and text height. The following is the session UI.




Leader & Offset::

It is option for defining the leader color and the size of instrument enclosure. The size A and B is shown in the above sub-stage UI.

Arrow

It will be used for pointing the pipe support. Refer to Arrow type of Common commands using in stages section on page 4-31.

Nozzles

Object selection All nozzles that have the labels in the database will be labeled inside the view.

Annotation method It is the simplest labeling. The label of the nozzle is simple to place, because it has short length of the text string. Therefore, it is natural to make the labeling priority the lowest among the tagged components.

The following is {Nozzle} sub-stage UI of {Annotation} stage.



Label Prefix::

You can select between the following.

As it was: It allows you to use the label as it was in PDS.

Add prefix: It enables you to add the prefix character that follows at the edit filed. You can enter the character such as “#”. The nozzle label will start from the prefix character as you defined.

Leader (On/OFF)::

It is the On/Off selection option of the leader line of nozzle label.

Label Display::

The default nozzle name in PDS is use as it was. So it can be extracted with user input. If you want to exclude the equipment name, you have to select Exclude Equipment Name:option with the delimiter character.

You can define the delimiter at the edit field such as “-“.



Nozzle tag::




Leader & Offset::


Arrow

It will be used for pointing the pipe support. The session UI is typical UI for this.




Reducers

Object selection

All reducers that have the labels in the database will be annotated.

Annotation method

It is the same way in case of the labeling of the nozzle. The following is the option UI of the reducers.

Tag name style::

You can select one of the followings.

This name can be edited at the “Reducer Type Labeling” field. The default is the MAIN x RUN ECC (or CON).



Tag Name Unit::

You can control the tag name unit between Metric or Inch-feet. If you select MAIN x RUN ECC (or CON): and Inch-Feet:, the label will be as the stage UI in above.

Reducer Type Labeling::

You can edit reducer type name at the following edit field.

Reducer Tag:



3

3

Leader & Offset::




Arrow

It will be used for pointing the pipe support. The session UI is typical UI for this.




Special Item. If you made valves using its attribute in PDS, The valve labels are set and used in the same way that applies to instruments.

See {Instrument} sub-stage in Instruments section on page 11-25



Others This sub-stage offers you to make the followings.

Hatching mark for vertical pipe Flow mark Slope mark

The following is {Others} sub-stage of {Annotation} stage.

Vertical Pipe Hatching mark::

There are 2 types of pipes, one is a single pipe and the other is a double pipe as discussed in selecting pipeline mode. This hatching mark is created automatically, if the view plane of 3D view volume in the model clips pipes. For example, if the pipe passes by view plane to the upper view volume from the lower view volume, this mark is created with the same size of the pipe.

The next figure shows you the section mark of the pipe. The left figure shows you section symbol in case of the single line and the right figure shows you the section mark in case of the double line.



Mark Display: It is options that you will make the hatching mark for the single pipe only or double pipe only or both. If both: selected, you have to select the size. The pipes that are over the selected size will be the hatching mark for the double pipes.


Equipment Hatching

Equipment Cylinder Top Cutting Hatching Option

Platform Hatching & Elevation



Point String (type=6) Option level Size Color

Hatching

Flow mark::

You can add the flow mark for the pipe. There are 2 methods, which are the data extracting method from the attributes in PDS.

The attributes in PDS for the flow mark should be as you select. The following is the session UI.

Color & Size: If you click the browsing icon , you can set the size and color for the flow mark.

Slope mark::

If the pipe is sloping, the slope mark will be displayed.

Slope mark: If you click the browsing icon , you can set the text property.


12. Outside Options

StageName: {Outside}

Stage icon:

MenuTree: Options > Outside

This chapter illustrates the definition of the {Outside} stage, which offers you distance options and view annotation options.

This stage consists of 2 sub stages as follows;

DistanceView Annotation

The following is {Distance} sub-stage of {Outside} stage. {Distance} sub-stage offers you to define the distance for the dimension level, external pipe, pipe elevation, equipment and structure. {View Annotation} sub-stage offers you to add the view information such as elevation, coordinates and match-line information.

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Distance

Outside label::

The followings are the distance parameter for the pipe, equipment and structures. Thisdistance means the end position of the leader line of the items from the view frame.

Pipe/Eqp. Dist : It is the distance of the label of the pipes or equipments. The default is 60 mm.

Elev. Dist : If the adjacent pipes outside the view have the same elevation, they can be grouped and be pointed by the elevation leader line as “bottom of pipe” elevation text. Refer to Annotation Method of Pipe Line Number in Outside Annotation section on page 11-4. The default is 55 mm.

Str. Dist : It is for the structure column annotation distance. The default is 30 mm.

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Distance parameter::

There are several options for the outside dimension levels. The following table is for the general case, which has 3 levels for the outside dimensions.

Dimension Level Dimension for Name in UI Defaultdistance

Level_1 The pipes Dist A 7 mm

Level_2 The Equipments and the Structure

Dist B 5 mm

Level_3 Global Dist C 5 mm

The Level_3 is always applied at a given position. However, Level_1 and Level_2 are differently applied according to whether the view has the dimension of pipe or equipment respectively or not.

For example, if the view does not have any dimension of pipes, only Level_2 and Level_3 are created at a given distance.

Dist A: The distance for the first level dimension, which are for the pipe, equipment and structure dimension.

Dist B: The distance for the second level dimension, which are equipment and structure dimension.

Dist C: The distance for the third level dimension, which is global dimension.

E1: If there are several elevation texts to point other pipes in the near area, the leader lines of the elevation text should not be overlapped. So it is needed to have the gap distance among these leader lines as <Fig> 11-1. The default is 1 mm.

E2: It is the distance between the starting leader lines of the elevation text, which is the nearest leader line from the view frame. The default is 50 mm.

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12. Outside Options


View annotation This sub-stage is for the view annotation and it has the following options.

View elevation View match line information View coordinates

The following is {View Annotation} sub-stage of {Outside} stage.

View Elevation::

It is the view elevation for the view frame. The format will be “EL.” + number + “~” + “EL.” + number.

Text property: It is text property of the view elevation text such as text style, text color and text height.

A: It is the gap distance from the view frame. The default is 75 mm.

Justify: You can select among LEFT:, CENTER:, RIGHT:. It is always based on the bottom of view frame.

Match Line Information Data


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Text property: It is text property of the view elevation text such as text style, text color and text height.

Offset A: It is the gap distance from the view frame. The default is 1.0 mm.

Justify: You can select among LEFT:, CENTER:, RIGHT: at the corresponding fields.

View Coordinate::

It enables you to add the view coordinates at the specified position. This coordinate comes from the design DB automatically.

Box out: If you click this check box as “On”, the coordinated in box will be displayed.

Text property: It is text property of the view coordinates text such as text style, text color and text height.

Position: There are 3 types for positioning the coordinates. They are ALL:, TopLeft/BottomRight: and BottomLeft/TopRight: as the above figure.


13. Tag Adjust

StageName: {Tag Adjust}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Options > Tag Adjust

This chapter illustrates the options how to adjust the placement of the dimension and the annotation. This option is useful to customize your drawing.

This chapter covers the options for the following topics.

Pipe dimension Tag extension

The following is {Pipe dimension} sub-stage of {Tag Adjust} stage.

13. Tag adjust


Pipe Dimension Option PlantWAVE has the useful options to customize the piping GA drawing for the outside dimension and annotation selection of the pipes.

The dimension and annotation for the equipment and structure column inside the view frame are always created. However, you can control the dimension and annotation for the pipes by giving the values, which is the percentage of the view size (view width & view height) to 4 sides of the view frame respectively.

If zero percentage applied as the following figure, the selected pipes are A and D that are just clipped by view frame.

Therefore, only the dimension and annotation of the pipes A and D will be made.

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If 15 percentage of top side and 15 percentage of bottom side as shown in the following figure, the selected pipes are A , B , D and E that are clipped by virtual line of its percentage.

The dimension of the pipes A , B , D and E will be made in this case.

Tag Extension Options PlantWAVE has the basic idea to place the inside labels inside the view. However, it is needed to place the inside labels beyond the view frame in case that the drawing has many labeled items inside the view, especially near the view frame. This sub-stage allows you to place the inside labels beyond the view frame by giving the percentage value to the view..

The following figure (A) shows you that the extension percentage is 0 by default and the label enclosure and leader lines are overlapped each other.

13. Tag adjust


In this case, if you give the values, which are 20% of the top view and 15% of right view as the above figure (B), the labels will go over the view frame.

If your drawing is complex and has many tagged items near view frame, it’s better to increase this value.

If applying 0 %, the inside labels will not go over the view frame. It means that there is no extension area for the inside annotation. In this case, all of the inside labels will be made within the view frame.

Note PlantWAVE do not detect whether the labels placed in extension area interfere with outside dimensions or not. If there is enough space to place the labels inside the view, the labels will not

13. Tag adjust


go over the view frame even though you gave the extension percentage.


14. View Import/Create

StageName: {View import/Create}

Stage icon:

MenuTree: DrawingGeneration > View import or View Create

PlantWAVE has the default values in every stage, which can be used without modification to make drawings. However, you have to prepare the input data or import the data from PDS in this stage.

In this manual, the 3D clipping volume in the 3D model will be called view volume and graphic boundary in the drawing will be called drawing view or view. PlantWAVE offers you to import such a drawing view interactively in this stage.


Drawing views of PlantWAVE What is VAD? View import

Drawing View of PlantWAVE A drawing view (which is called view in this manual) is a 2 dimensional rectangular shape in the drawing, which contains the graphics of 3D model files. The view has referenced models that may have either one or more than one of the 3D piping models, equipment models, structure models or others.

There may be more than one view in the drawing and all the geometry data in 3D models should be clipped by the view plane.

They should be transformed from the 3D model to the drawing (exactly speaking it is the view) according to their view information respectively. The view information has referenced model specifications, the position, view scale and view rotation.

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The PlantWAVE has 3 types of the views according to their location and the adjacency in the drawing.

Single view It is the simple view style and one view in the drawing as the above figure.

Multi Views There may be more than one view in the drawing. Each view may have different view information respectively.

In this case, the views should be separated each other in the drawing even though they stand close in 3D model, which divided by virtual plane of the view in 3D model.

So the outside dimensions of the view will be placed for the each view.

Composite view It is similar to the multi views in respect of having multiple views in the drawing. It is useful

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to describe the 3D model by composite view as the following figure.

For example, if you want to make the drawing using the model of the left side in the above figure and supposing that view 2 and 3 are complex to describe as one view, it is better to separately place the views in the drawing as the right side of the above figure.

Note In the composite view, the dotted line between 1 and 2 of the right side in the above figure will not be displayed in the drawing. So the view 1 and 2 looks like a one view.

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What is VAD? The VAD (View Arrangement Definition) file contains that;

General information How many views in the drawing and its name. The referenced 3D models for each view. The clipping information (view volume) in 3D model. View definition such as size, the placement coordinates in the

drawing. Transformation information such as view scale and view rotation

The VAD file consists of 2 parts and one is the global information and the other is the information for each view.

Division Contents

[GENERAL] Border, drawing name, drawing title, notes etc.

[VIEW_LIST] View namesreferenced model names

[EACH VIEW] View name3D view volume 2D view location reference list, view direction view scale rotation angle match-line text

The VAD file contains the information as the above table and will be used to the {Execute}stage.

The HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) processor of PlantWAVE will use this information to clip the model and transform the data from 3D model to the view in the drawing.

View create from PDS This stage is the core stage in PlantWAVE.

The following figure is {View Creation} stage UI and it consists of several sessions as follows.

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VAD file Import Excel file Select Reference model View volume in 3D model View arrangement in 2D drawing View names / All reference models Edit match line data & view information Save & delete VAD file

PlantWAVE has to have the model files and related database in its project folder to generate the output drawings. So you have to copy your models and database to corresponding directories of the current project folder.

No. Directory name The directory should contain.

1 Pipe Piping models

2 Equipment Equipment models

3 Structure Structure models and Column naming file created by PlantWAVE.

4 Border Border template (project standard)

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5 Other Geometry files that were created by 3rd software or Microstation itself.

The model files in “Other” directory will be used only for the hidden drawing

VAD File

You will start from this session to name VAD file to create or load existing VAD file to check or modify.

Click New VAD

The following input dialog will be displayed

. Enter VAD name such as SAM_1 which will be the drawing name

Click OK

. Go to the next View Creation:: Session.

Note Load VAD and Import Excel File that is for loading multiple VAD files in Microsoft Excel format. It will be discussed in the section of chapter 14-13

Save VAD File::

If you finish view creation, you have to save it using Save icon

The Saved file is VAD File. You can save it to other name using SaveAs

Also You can delete it using Delete

View Creation::

In this session, you will create views by the name of you defined in the above.

Basically a drawing can have multiple views. If you finish to define one view in this session, you have to save a view information using View Save

The saved view name will be listed in View Names list-box.

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To name a view;

. Enter view name such as “View 1” in the View Name:

. Go to Select Reference Models:: session.

Select Reference Model

In this session you have to attach the models to the drawing by referencing it.


Model Referencing

To attach the models

. Click Reference

The following select dialog will be displayed

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. Select reference model in the list box by clicking it.

You can use mouse with shift/ctrl key for the multiple selection.

You can select the files by the options below.

. Click OK

The reference files will be listed in the Reference Model List.

These files will be attached to the current drawing.

Remove referencing

To remove referenced models;

. Select model in the Referencing Model List

. Click Remove

The selected model will be removed from the list.

View volume in 3D Model::

You have to define the 3D model information of the clipping volume that will be transformed into the 2D drawing view.

You can create volume with direct input by keyboard.

It is simple to input the coordinates(X, Y, Z) in the appropriate field. If you already have the data of the view information, you may use this method.

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To input directly,

. Select the view direction such as Top or Front in the Direction: drop-down list.

The Direction: drop-down list contains the 6 views such as Top,Bottom, Front, Back, Left, Right.

. Input the coordinates for 2 points in the in the First Point: field and Second Point: field.

. Input minZ and maxZ value of the elevation in the Elevation: field.

Go to View Arrangement in 2D Drawing:: session.

View Arrangement in 2D Drawing::

In this session, you will define the transformation information from 3D to 2D, which are the location point, view scale and the rotation.

Above is session UI

To define the transformation information;

. Enter the coordinate of the 2D drawing.

It is lower left point of the view rectangle.

. Set a scale.

Select one of listed scale or edit your own scale.

. Set the rotation angle in degree among 0/90/180/270.

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It is counterclockwise direction.

If you want to define the above in AutoCAD seeing the view status or size visually, click View Arrangement in AutoCAD

It will be discussed in View arrangement in 2D drawing:: session on page 14-21

View Save::

If you finish to define one view, you have to add it to the View List::.

To add the view

. Click View Save

The view names will be added to VIEW NAMES list-box as follows.

The referenced site name will be listed in the ALL REFERENCED MODELS list-box as the above.

Edit Match Line Data & View Information::

You can add the match-line data, if necessary as follows.

To add the match-line data

. Click Edit Match Line Data & View Information.

The following UI will be opened.

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. Type information in the above UI.

The direction is model based as the following figure

. Click OK

Loading VAD & Import from Excel file

To modify the drawing information, you have to load VAD file. You can import multiple drawings information from Excel file.

Load VAD File::

To load an existing drawing information to check or modify,

. Click Load VAD

The following VAD LOAD DIALOG will be opened.

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. Select VAD file by clicking.

. Click OK

. Click OK

. Click Cancel

. Click Save to save VAD file.

Import Excel File::

It allows you to import multiple drawing list from Microsoft Excel file. It will make the VAD file in batch style.

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To import Excel drawing file.

. Click Import Excel File

The following SELECT EXCEL FILE DIALOG will be opened.

Select file using browsing icon

You can see the format of this Excel file in the “Setting” directory of the PlantWAVE installation directory. The file name is “DrwData.xls”.

. Click Generation

Click Exit

The VAD file will be saved to “VAD” directory of the project folder

View Arrangement in 2D Drawing::

If you click View Arrangement in AutoCAD, you can see the right side UI in AutoCAD.

You can do the followings by this UI.

Move view Rotate view Scale view

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Moving View

The following <Fig> 14-4 shows that the drawing that has 3 views in a drawing.

The inner box is a view frame and the outer box is an outside annotation boundary as shown<Fig>14-4. The “view_2” and “view_3” stand close, which is the composite view and overlapped a little between “view_1” and “view_2”& “view_3”.

The base point of the <Fig>14-4 is which point you use to move it. The default is the lower left point as shown.

<Fig>14-4 View arrangement in AutoCAD

To move the view

. Click view arrangement in AutoCAD.

AutoCAD will be loaded and displays as <Fig>14-4

. Click one of the view edge that is in yellow color you want to move, in first.

If you want to move the “view 1”, click any yellow colored view edge line of the “view_1”.

. Select the Base point in the VIEW_SETTING DIALOG.

If you select the check box of the center, it will be moved based on the center point.

. Click Move in the VIEW_SETTING DIALOG.

. Click yellow line of the view edge by using mouse left button.

. Move to the location, as you want to place it using mouse dragging.

. You will see the extension leader line as follows.

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. Drop it.

. Click Save & Close if you want to finish. You will see confirmation dialog to select “yes/no”.

If you want to save it select “yes”, if not select “no”.

Rotating Scaling

You can rotate the view using Rotate command in the VIEW_SETTING DIALOG. The view will rotate as 90 degrees by clockwise only

To rotate the view

. Click the view edge line that you want to rotate.

. Click Rotate

. Click the view edge line again.

. Click Save & Close if you want to finish.

Note: The pivot point is the Lower Left point of the view. If you want to rotate and move, it is easy for you to rotate the view in first and move view later.

Scaling View

It changes the scale by selecting or entering the new scale

To apply a scale to a view

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. Enter the value such as “50”

. Click the scale command button.

. Click the view edge line you want to apply it.

Saving & Returning To PlantWAVE

If you want to apply the current status that you modify after clicking the Save & Close command button, select “Yes”. If not, select “No”.

You can see the updated information in the View arrangement in 2D drawing::

If you select “yes” after moving or changing the view.

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StageName: {Execution Options}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: DrawingGeneration > Execution Options

This chapter and chapter 16 illustrate how to set the options for executing PlantWAVE. We call it RUNTIME options, which are {Execution options} and {Management option}.

The following topics are covered in this chapter.

Unit/Output format Defining the labeling priority Searching Density/Boundary

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The following is {Output Option} sub-stage of {Generation options} stage.

Output Options The output drawings are influenced by the control of the options, which are especially labeling priority, searching density and searching boundary. Of course, PlantWAVE recommends the system default values for that, if not the special drawing condition. If you change the default values, the drawing can be generated as different output.

Unit::

PlantWAVE supports metric and inch-feet both. You can select it by your project environment as follows.

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Output format::

PlantWAVE supports 2 types of output format as follows.

AutoCAD DWG ( 2000 or 2002 or 2004) MicroStation

The default is DWG format of AutoCAD 2000, 2002.

Labeling priority::

There are 5 kinds of design items to be controlled for the inside labels in PlantWAVE as follows;

Pipes (line number) Instruments Pipe Supports NozzlesReducers

You can control which kinds of labels should be placed in first in the drawing. It is the natural that the label has the longest label text and biggest enclosure symbol should be placed in first in general.

Once the label is placed in some area according to the priority order, its area will be reserved by it. It means that other labels will not be placed in this reserved area to avoid the interference with others. The follo wing is the session UI.

The default priority is that:

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. Pipe line numbers

. Instruments

. Pipe Supports

. Nozzles

. Reducers

As the above, pipe line number labels have the highest priority to others and are placed in first. Because it has a longest text strings of the label.

To change the priority;

. Click RE-Order command button.

. Click the item name according to the priority as the right side of the above figure.

As the order you select, the names will be inserted from the top, which are the highest priority.

Searching Density::

The following UI is for selecting the density mode

SPARSE MODE: PlantWAVE finds the blank space to place labels by the interval of sparse step. You can save the runtime by this option. However, it may not be made sophisticated placement of labels.

AVERAGE MODE: This is default option. It allows you properly balanced option between the runtime and elaboration of the drawing.

DENSE MODE: PlantWAVE finds the blank space to place labels by the interval of dense step. It may take long time to process. We do not recommend this option except special case of drawing.

Caution: If you select this dense mode with big searching boundary option, it take long time to get the output.

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Searching boundary options::

It is the searching boundary based on the tag origin point for the internal labeled items.


FAST MODE: The searching area is the smallest. So it is the fastest

among 3 options to execute. It allows you to make labels of inside view as shortest distance as possible from the tag origin point. If PlantWAVE finds the proper space to place label within the searching area without interference, it will be selected. However, it may be overlapped with other labels in case that many graphic elements with many tagging items exist around the tag origin point.

MIDDLE MODE: PlantWAVE recommends this option. The searching area is extended from the FAST MODE: option and it takes longer than the FAST MODE: option. If not found of no interfering label with others in the limited searching boundary, the label string and enclosure shape will be placed with minimum interference (overlapping). With this option, the priorities between the shortest distance from the tag origin and no interference with others will be balanced properly.

DETAIL MODE: The searching area is the biggest and it takes longer to execute than MIDDLE MODE: option. With this option, label with enclosure symbol may go further than MIDDLE MODE: option, if there is not enough blank space to place the label. By this option, the label that is not to interfere with others takes precedence of the label that has shortest distance from the tag origin point. To define the searching boundary for each label, click the check circle for each tagged item.

If you want to apply the same option to all tagged item, use one of the command button such as FAST, MIDDLE and DETAIL.

The default is MIDDLE.

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Caution: If you select DETAIL option, it may take long time to make the output. We recommend MIDDLE option as default.

Output Example The followings are the example of the labeling priority and the function of searching boundary. You can find the difference with each other.

The labeling priority 1 is the highest priority and the items of it will be reserved in first in the drawing.

. Executing by default options.

Labeling Priority Design item Interval density Searching boundary

1 Pipe Average Middle

2 Instrument Average Middle

3 Pipe support Average Middle

4 Nozzle Average Middle

5 Reducer Average Middle

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<Fig> 15-1 Result with default option

. Execute PlantWAVE by the highest priority of the Instruments.


1 Instrument Average Middle





. This example shows you that Instrument has the highest priority to others to be reserved in first in the drawing.

. Because the pipe has the various locations to place the label, some labels of the pipe will be moved to another location.

. Compare the <Fig> 15-1 with <Fig> 15-2.

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<Fig> 15-2 High labeling priority of instrument

. Executing by the searching boundary as DETAIL option of the instrument



2 Instrument Average Detail




. As discussed before, by the control of DETAIL option, the instrument label may go further from the tag origin point.

. However, they can be controlled to avoid the interference with other objects such as other labels or background graphics.

. Compare <Fig> 15-1 with <Fig> 15-3 to confirm it.

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<Fig> 15-3 Searching boundary as DETAIL option for the instrument

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Annotation Filter In this stage, the labels can be filtered by toggle style On/Off option. All the output can be filtered in this stage even though you have defined the options in the previous stages.

Inside labels (On/Off)::

The following figure shows that only instruments labels can be output in the output drawing. You can use All ON / All OFF , which are the command to change On/Off at a time also.

Outside dimension::

You can select one of the followings for the outside dimension as the following session UI.

. Only Pipe dimension

. Pipe & Equipment dimension.

. Pipe & structure dimension.

. Pipe, Equipment and structure dimension. (ALL)

. No dimension.

You may use the above 4 in general, which is default of the PlantWAVE. All the levels are fixed for the specified dimension items. If you select above 4 and there is no dimension item, only the global dimension, which is the view size, will be made. And if you select 5, no dimension will be made.

If your current job is only for checking the inside items such as instrument labels not for issuing drawings,

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you can save the runtime a little by selecting no dimension option.

Refer to Distance section on page 12-2 for the distance option for the outside dimension levels

Note: In the above figure, the dotted dimension A will not be made, because the dimension value of level_1 equals to the dimension value of level_2. In this case, the dimension of the higher level will be made.

Pipe Elevation Tag::

You can select ON: or OFF: for the pipe elevation tag. If you select ON, All the elevation tags of the elbow that has changed elevation will be labeled.

Draw/View Data(On/OFF)::

You can select ON: or OFF: as toggle style. Though you already define the options for the following items, if you select OFF: for it, the output will not be made.

Title Block: It allows you to add the title block or not by checking the check box.

Nozzle Chart: It allows you to add the nozzle chart that was defined. If you select ON, the nozzle chart will be displayed.

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Revision history chart: It allows you to add the revision history chart by selection it as ON.

Key Plan: Key plan will be inserted if you select ON.

North Mark: This block will be inserted, if you select ON.

Match Line Information: The text string that you defined in Click Edit Match Line Data & View Information. section on page 14-10will be displayed.

View elevation volume: It also displayed at the position of you defined, if you select ON at the check box

View coordinates: It also displayed at the position of you defined, if you select ON at the check box


You can use All ON / All OFF , which are the command to change On/Off at a time also.


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StageName: {Management Options}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: DrawingGeneration > Management Options

This chapter illustrates how to define the options for naming output, which enables revision control of the drawings and allows you to add the revision history data and the title block to the drawing.

This stage has 2 sub-stages as follows.

Drawing Naming & Revision Data Title Block

The following is {Drawing Naming & Revision Data} Sub-stage of {DrawingGeneration} stage.



It allows you to define the output file naming including version control and to add the current revision data or revision history data to the drawing.

Hidden Drawing::

It is the hidden drawing file naming. If you want to add the prefix or suffix to the hidden drawing, enter the text string at the edit field below.

The hidden drawing will be created as the name of “prefix+VAD file name +suffix” in DWG file format.

Note: VAD file id view file, which is created by PlantWAVE. Refer to XX.

Version Number::

You can select ON/OFF with delimiter character as shown the above figure.

ON: It allows you to add the version number at the end of the drawing name. For example, if your drawing is “mydrawing.dwg” and the delimiter character is “$$” at the first time running, the file name will be “mydrawing$$1.dwg”. This version number will be increased by 1 in every executing. At the second time, it will be “mydrawing$$2.dwg”

OFF: if it is selected, the version number will not be added.

DIM & Annotated Drawing::

It is the output drawing file naming, which is dimensioned and annotated.

If you want to add the prefix or suffix to it, enter the text string at the edit field below. The concept of this session is same as Hidden drawing:: session.



Current Revision data::

You may need to annotate the drawing preserving the drawing history. If you define this data, it will be displayed at the Title block 1and



Title block 2 of chapter 5 Border on page 5-6, 5-10.

Rev No: It is the revision status character, which will be inserted in the revision symbol (triangle) in the revision history chart.

Date: If you do not give the specific date characters, the date format in the right side will be inserted.

Description: Enter the drawing description.

Drawn by, Checked by:, Reviewed by:, Approved by:, Approved by Client: Enter the person name.

Revision History data:

You can set the revision history data of the revision history chart, which was discussed in chapter 7 Revision History Chart on page 7-1.

To make the revision history data;



. Click Revision History Data

The following REVISION SETTING DIALOG will be opened.

. Input revision data as follows.

Click Add/Edit after finishing input.

Your data will be put in the list box as follows.

To remove data, click the row in the list as the above figure.

If the same Rev. No: is in the list, it will not be added to the list. You have to increase this Rev. No.: to add.

To delete data, click it in the list and then click Remove



. Click Save

. Click Exit

You will see the following figure.

. Select Revision data by clicking it in the list.

You can use Select All, Unselect All, Reverse.

If clicking Reverse, the selected data will be unselected.

Only selected revision data will be output to the revision history chart.

For example, Rev No. 1 and Rev No. 3 will be output to the revision history chart in the above figure.


17. Executing PlantWAVE

This chapter illustrates how to execute PlantWAVE by the options you defined in the previous chapters. It is very simple to execute. It is only needed to select the file names and then click the execution command.


Icon explanation Hidden Generation Dimension & Annotation Generation Hidden + Dimension & Annotation Generation Viewing the options you define

There are 3 types of executing stages, which are the separate stages as the following table and you can go to them by selecting the stage icon in the STARTUP dialog.

HiddenDrawingGeneration > 1:Hidden

Only Hidden process

Dim & Anno DrawingGeneration > 2:Dim & Anno

Dimension & annotation using Hidden drawing

Hidden+Dim & Anno

DrawingGeneration > 3:Hidden+Dim & Anno

Execute at a time (Hidden + Dimm & Anno)

The reason why PlantWAVE has 3 separate execution stages is that it allows you to make dimensioned & annotated drawing using same hidden drawings, if it was not changed, by giving the different options to the option stage.



Hidden Stage

Name: {1:Hidden}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: DrawingGeneration > Hidden

This stage is for only generation of the Hidden drawing as we discussed before. The following is the directory and file names of this stage.

I/O Directory name Files

Input “project folder/VAD” VAD files

Output “project folder//Output/Hidden” DWG file

The hidden drawing will be created by HSR processor of PlantWAVE.



Input-VAD Files::

The input files for this session are the VAD (View arrangement definition) files, which are view information file. These VAD files are in the “VAD” directory of the project folder.

To select VAD files for executing:

. Click the VAD file name in the list box as the following figure.

The check sign will be displayed in the check box in the beginning of the line as follows.

. The selection mark will be displayed in blue color for currently selected VAD file.

You can click anywhere of line using mouse-left to select it



Passed or Error::

PlantWAVE displays the status flags in the list before running. It allows you to confirm whether the status of input is ready for being executed or not. They are “Passed” or “Error” in the last column of the VAD lists as shown below

Passed: It means the status of input is ready for execution without error.

Error: It means the status of input cannot be executed by any reason.



PlantWAVE skips the list when running which has “error” status flag even though you selected it.

Note: If the status flag says “error”, you have to check the files in the VAD directory.

Outputs::

This session is for listing the hidden drawings after finishing the execution of this stage. The following is the session UI.

The directory name of saved files is “project-dir/Output/Hidden”. You can load the drawing in AutoCAD to review it by double-clicking the file name in the list box.

You can delete them by using the command button Delete or Delete All.

Delete: It delete the file in the directory one by one

Delete all: It deletes all the files in the directory.

Note: It actually delete the file in the directory

Hidden Generation::

After selection of input files, you can execute it by the Hidden generation



Status::

It allows you to check the running environments by seeing it before running as shown the following figure.

If you find the unexpected values in the option list, you should back to redefine them and return to this stage.

If you want to confirm in detail, you can use the {Current Layer} and {Current setting}, which are under the {Tool} Main menu.



StageName: {2:Dim&Anno}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: DrawingGeneration > 2:Dim&Anno

This stage is {2:Dim&Anno} stage to make a final output drawing. The hidden drawings that were generated in {1:Hidden} stage will be used as input for this stage. The following is the stage UI.

The following is the directory and file names of this stage.

I/O Directory name Files

Input “project folder/VAD” VAD files

“project folder /Output/Hidden” DWG files

Output “project folder /Output/DimAnno” DWG files



Note: Regarding inputs of this stage in above table, the output, which is dimensioned and annotated drawing will be added to the Hidden DWG file of input.

Input-Hidden drawings::

There are 2 types of hidden drawings in PlantWAVE as discussed before and you selected the hidden drawing style was decided in the {Project} stage when defining project mode.

In fact, the real input is VAD file and the hidden drawing in the second column is followed by VAD file. PlantWAVE keeps the latest hidden drawing for the VAD file, which will be applied to the output drawing.








Passed or Error::

PlantWAVE displays the status flags in the list before running. It allows you to confirm whether the status of input is ready for being executed or not. They are “Passed” or “Error” in the last column of the Input – Hidden drawings lists as shown below







Outputs – DIM & Annotated drawings::

This session is for listing the output drawings after finishing the execution of this stage. The following is the session UI.

The directory name of saved files is “project-dir/Output/Hidden”. You can load the drawing in AutoCAD to review it by double-clicking the file name in the list box.

You can delete them by using the command button Delete or Delete All.

Delete: It delete the file in the directory one by one

Delete all: It deletes all the files in the directory.

Note: It actually delete the file in the directory

Generating Dim & Annotated drawings::

After selection of input files, you can execute it by the Dim&Anno Generation

Status::

It allows you to check the running environments by seeing it before running as shown the following figure, which is the filtering status of output.

If you find the unexpected values in the option list, you should back to redefine them and



return to this stage.

Hidden+Dim & Anno Stage

Name: {Hidden+Dim & Anno}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: DrawingGeneration > 3:Hidden+Dim & Anno

This stage is for the execution of {Hidden} + {Dim & Anno} at a time. The following is the {Hidden+Dim & Anno} stage UI

The following table shows you the input/output files of this stage.

Directory name Files

Input “project folder /VAD” VAD files



Output “project folder /Output/Hidden” DWG files

project folder /Output/DimAnno” DWG files

In this stage, you select only the VAD files as inputs. The outputs will be Hidden drawings and the dimensioned & annotated drawings both.



Inputs – VAD Files::

The input files for this session are VAD VAD (View arrangement definition) files. These VAD files are in the VAD directory under the project name.








Passed or Error::

PlantWAVE displays the status flags in the list before running. It allows you to confirm whether the status of input is ready for being executed or not. They are “Passed” or “Error” in the last column of the VAD lists as shown below







Outputs::

This session is for listing the hidden drawings after finishing the execution of this stage. The following is the session UI Outputs

This session is for listing the output drawings that are Hidden drawing and output drawing, which is dimensioned and annotated drawings after finishing the execution of this stage. The following is UI of this session.

Generating Hidden+Dim&Anno Drawings::

After selection of input files, you can execute it by Hidden + Dim&Anno Generation

Status::

It allows you to check the running environments by seeing it before running as shown. If you want to confirm in detail, you can use the {Current Layer Option} Executing Hidden Generation

It allows you to check the running environments by seeing it before running as shown the following figure, which is the layer status and filtering status of output.


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StageName: {Management}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Management

This chapter illustrates the function of drawing management, which is how to manage the issued drawings and how to get the reports.

In this release of PlantWAVE, it has a few functions of drawing management and it will be added more powerful functions in the next release including revision control. There are 2 types of reports in the current release of PlantWAVE and it will be upgraded in detail from the next release also.


Drawing Management Report

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Drawing Management The following is {Drawing Management} stage UI .

You can check the drawing production history in this stage.

To check it;

. Click VAD file name in the VAD Files list-box.

The production history is displayed as the above figure.

If you click purge, the latest history will be remained.

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Report Stage

Name: {Report}

Stageicon:

MenuTree: Management > Report

It allows you to generate the report for the drawing. The {Report} stage UI is as follows.

The current release of PlantWAVE supports 6 types of report as follows.

Pipe list Instrument list Support list Equipment list Nozzle list Tag list

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Nozzle Report::

For example, to get the Nozzle report;

. Click VAD name in VAD file list-box.

. Click Nozzle List

The following nozzle list will be displayed.

To make the Excel file, click Excel Out


19. TOOL

This chapter illustrates the miscellaneous functions. This chapter covers the following topics.

Project change PDS DataBase Setting PDS File Copy Current Setting Current Layer AutoCAD Menu load Batch Plotting MicroStation Setting Change Password Delete temporary files

Project change It allows you to directly load another project during processing a project. All the values in every stage will be changed immediately to a changing project. It is sometimes useful to confirm the option values by changing a project to an existing project that you want to see and then you can back to an original project by re-changing a project.

To change a project:

. Click project change icon or select the Project > Change command.

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You will see CHANGE PROJECT dialog as the above figure.

The current project name will be displayed in the status bar at the left bottom of stage UI.

. Select the project name by clicking it in the list

The current project name will be displayed in the right upper corner of the dialog.

You can select it by double-clicking without OK command.

. Click OK

Note: This option is not available at the Project stage. Because you can change a project by load command in a project load stage.

PDS Database Setting It used to extract PDS database to available text file. You need username and password to access database.

Your database system manager can assign username and password to you

Database Provider

You can chose database provider your own PDS database system.

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Database Dump

Click database dump button. And then extracted text file from PDS database system saved DBText project directory.

PDS File Copy

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Item Path

Get Item Path PD_TABLE_115 Path Display

Copy Item Check

Copy File Copy

Current Setting It shows that the current setting file, which is the project file. You can check it if you need.

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Current Layer It is used to see the current layer setting. It is possible to export it to Excel file using ExcelOut.

AutoCAD Menu Load

If you select this option "yes", the menu will be loaded automatically in AutoCAD.

<Fig> 19-1 Drawing Editor menus in AutoCAD

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<Fig> 19-2 Drawing Editor icons in AutoCAD

The Drawing Editor will be discussed in detail in chapter 20.

Batch Plotting If you have many drawing outputs to plot, this stage will be useful for you. The following UI is this {Batch Plot} stage UI.

<Fig> 19-3 Batch Plot UI

The selection items and values follow the definition of AutoCAD Plot command.

Select files::

To select the plotting drawings:

. Select disk & directory as the following figure.

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. Click the file name in the left list box.

You can select all drawings using the button.

You can unselect drawings in the right list box using button.

You can use or button to select all or clear.

Plotter Configuration::

You have to select plotter as follows.

Name: Select plotter to assign in drop-down list

Paper: Define the paper size.

NumberOfCopies: Choose the number. Default is 1.

Plot Area::

Specifies the area of the drawing to be plotted.

Limits: When plotting a layout, plots everything within the margins of the specified paper size, with the origin calculated from 0,0 in the layout.

Extents: Plots the portion of the current space of the drawing that contains objects. All geometry in the current space is plotted.

Display: Plots the drawing that is in the last status when saving it a to file.

Plot style table::

Color-dependent plot styles use the numbers from the AutoCAD color index to create a plot style table with a .ctb file extension.

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You can select one of them in drop-down list as shown the following figure.

Pltot to Files

Plotting

Drawing Orientation::

Specifies the orientation of the drawing on the paper for plotters that support landscape or portrait orientation. You can change the drawing orientation to achieve a 0-, 90-, 180-, or 270-degree plot rotation by selecting Portrait, Landscape, or Plot Upside-Down.

Portrait: Orients and plots the drawing so that the short edge of the paper represents the top of the page. The longer edge of the drawing is vertical

Landscape: Orients and plots the drawing so that the long edge of the paper represents the top of the page. The longer edge of the drawing is horizontal

Plot Upside-Down: Orients and plots the drawing upside-down. If you select this with above 2 commands, the

The following is the drawing status by the command.

Orientation Portrait Landscape

Plot Upside-Down No (Default) Yes No (Default) Yes

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Drawing status

Plot Scale::

It controls the relative size of drawing units to plotted units. The default scale setting is 1:1 when plotting a layout. The default setting is Scaled to Fit:.

Plot offset::

It specifies an offset of the plotting area from the lower-left corner of the paper. In a layout, the lower-left corner of a specified plot area is positioned at the

lower-left margin of the paper. You can offset the origin by entering a positive or negative value. The plotter unit values are in inches or millimeters on the paper.

Center the Plot: If you check the check-box of Center the Plot:, it automatically calculates the X and Y offset values to center the plot on the paper.

X: Specifies the plot origin in the X or Y direction.

Y: Specifies the plot origin in the Y direction.

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MicroStation Setting

Change password At the beginning of using PlantWAVE after installation, the default user ID is ADMIN with the 6 digits password “000000”. If you login as ADMIN with this password, you can change the password for “ADMIN” at the following UI.

Note: You can change the password for by “ADMIN” login-id. If you login as “GUEST”, you can not change the password for “ADMIN”

Delete temporary files

Temporary Files

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Help PlantWAVE supports Online-Help and movie instruction. To see the Online-Help or Movie instruction, click in the main menu tree..


20. Drawing Editor

This chapter illustrates how to modify the output drawing generated by PlantWAVE. This utility will be useful to enhance your drawing for the detail drawing work, if you need.


Using Icons. Dimension editor Annotation editor

The Dimension Editor will be used for the followings:

Vertical dimension text alignment Horizontal dimension text alignment Modifying the dimension text Creating vertical dimension Creating horizontal dimension Converting from dimension arrowhead to dot.

The Annotation Editor will be used for the followings:

Editing the label text Moving the label position. Rotating the label

Note: You have to use TOOL > AutoCAD Menuload to load menu and icons of the PlantWAVE drawing editor in AutoCAD. The commands of drawing editor will be under the PlantWAVE top command in AutoCAD. Refer to AutoCAD Menu Load section on page 19-5

20. Drawing editor


Using icons If you want to modify the output drawing of PlantWAVE, you can easily use the icons/command of the Drawing Editor as shown <Fig> 19-1 and <Fig> 19-2 in AutoCAD. The following table shows you the explanation of the icons of the drawing editor.

EditorIcon Command Description

Dim. Text Alignment Left

Left-justifies the dimension text along the dimension line.

Dim. Text Alignment Center

Centers the dimension text on the dimension line.

Dim. Text Alignment Right

Right-justifies the dimension text along the dimension line.

Dim. Text Placement Above

Positions dimension text on the above side of the dimension line

Dim. Text Placement Middle

Positions dimension text on the center of the dimension line

Dim. Text PlacementBelow

Positions dimension text on the below side of the dimension line

Dim. Text Edit Modifies the dimension text

Dim. Text Move Moves the dimension text to another location

Dim. Text Make Makes the dimension vertically or horizontally.

Change DotLeft, Top

Converts from the arrowhead that is in the left or above side to dot style.

Change DotRight, Bottom

Converts from the arrowhead that is in the right or below side to dot style.

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Change DotCenter

Converts from the arrowhead that is in the both side to dot style at a time.

Label Move Moves the label symbol, text with leader line by drag and drop style

Label Rotate Rotates the label symbol, text with leader line by drag and drop style

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Dimension Editor The dimension editor is used for modifying the dimensions in various ways. The following figure shows you the center-justification of the dimension as a default.

<Fig> 20-1 Center-justification

Alignment of the dimension text It is the command for alignment of the dimension text horizontally such as left, center or right.

To use this function:

. Click the Dim. Text alignment icon or command in AutoCAD.

According to the direction of justification, use center, left or rightcommand or icon.

. Click the dimension

The multiple selection of the dimension is available.

. Press Enter key after end of the selection.

<Fig> 20-2 is the result of the left-justification and <Fig> 20-3 is the right-justification. The center-justification is the default as

<Fig> 20-2 Left-justification

<Fig> 20-3 Right-justification

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Placement of the dimension text It is the command for placement of the dimension text vertically such as above, middle or below.


. Click the Dim. Text placement icon or command in AutoCAD.

According to the direction of justification, use above, middle orbelow command or icon.

. Click the dimensions.


. Press Enter key after end of the selection.

<Fig> 20-4 is the result of the Center placement and <Fig> 20-5 is the below placement.

<Fig> 20-4 Middle placement

<Fig> 20-5 Below placement

The default is the above placement as.

Dimension Text Editing It allows you to edit dimension text in case that the dimension value is not expected value by applying the drawing scale and precision.

The dimension property will be preserved after editing the dimension text.


. Click Dimension text Edit or PlantWAVE > Dim. Text Editcommand in AutoCAD top menu

. Click the dimensions

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. Press Enter key after end of the selection

The following TEXT MODIFY dialog will be opened.

This dialog will be displayed according to the order of your selection, if you select more than one dimension.

. Enter the value for the dimension

Click OK

Dimension Moving It allows you to move the dimension to where you want. The dimension property will be preserved after moving the dimension text.


. Click Dimension text move icon or PlantWAVE > Dim. Text Move in the AutoCAD top menu

. Click the dimensions using mouse left button.

. Drag it

You will see the extension line as the following figure.

. Drop it by clicking the dimension placement position.

The dimension text will be moved to the location where you select.

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Dimension Creating You can make a dimension using this function. It has 2 functions, which are the function of horizontal dimension and vertical dimension. To make a dimension you have to know the drawing scale.

Total Dim: If you make this check box as ON, the total dimension will be created.

Normal: All the dimensions will be created by the default setting such as center-justification and above-placement of the dimension text.

ZigZag: If you make this check box as ON, the dimension text will be as the order of above-placement and below-placement one by one.

Creating Horizontal Dimension To make a horizontal dimension;

. Click Dimension Make or PlantWAVE > Dim. Makecommand in the AutoCAD top menu

DIMENSION EDITOR dialog will be opened as follows.

. Input the scale

If the scale of your drawing is 1/30, enter "30" in the Scale: editfield

. Click Horizontal

. Click the object that you want to make a dimension.

The end point box will be a guide for you to select the object <Fig>20-6.

You will probably select multiple objects.

. Press Enter key after final selection of the object.

. Drag the mouse.

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You will see the extension line while moving the mouse.

. Drop it by clicking the dimension position.

<Fig> 20-6 Using AutoCAD command

<Fig> 20-7 Horizontal dimension

<Fig> 20-8 Horizontal dimension with total dimension

If you select the Total dim check box, the total dimension will be made as <Fig> 20-8

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Creating Vertical Dimension It is the same method to make a vertical dimension as the horizontal dimension.

The following figure is the vertical dimension using Total dim: as ON. The dimension text of total dimension was moved to the right a little using Dimension moving as mentioned Alignment of the dimension text section on page 20-4

Dimension by Zigzagging This is for making the dimension up and down based on the dimension line. This is only available in case that the dimension width is not enough to place the dimension text on the dimension line.

The dimension text "143" was moved to the below of the dimension line. The arrowhead was changed by the function of Dots both sides in section.

Converting from Arrowhead to Dot It is used for converting from the arrowhead to dot in the dimension line. It is sometimes used for the narrow dimension in the drawing.

There are 3 types for the direction of the dimension line as follows.

Left Top Right Bottom Center Dot.

To convert from the arrowhead to dot:

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. Click Chang Dot icons or command in AutoCAD.

According to the direction of justification, use Left Top, Right Bottom or Center Dot command or icon.

. Select by clicking the dimension

The<Fig> 20-9 is the result of Top Left, <Fig> 20-10 is BottomRight and <Fig> 20-11 is Both sides of the change Dot command.

<Fig> 20-9 Top or Left

<Fig> 20-10 Bottom or Right

<Fig> 20-11 Center dot

Dots both sides is needed double-clicking and others will be done one by one.

Tag Move PlantWAVE can place the tags and its enclosure with leader line at the best position. However, there will be overlapped tags in the complex drawing. You can use this utility to move the tags with tag rotate command.

To move the tags:

. Click Tag move . or PlantWAVE > Tag move in the AutoCAD top menu

. Select the annotation you want to move by click it.

. Drag it

You will see the extension line while moving it as the first figure

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of <Fig> 20-12.

. Drop it

You will see the moved result as the second figure of <Fig> 20-12.

<Fig> 20-12 Moving the annotation

<Fig> 20-12 is moving the instrument tag and <Fig> 20-13 shows you the moving the pipe line number tag

<Fig> 20-13 Result of moving the annotation for the pipe line number

Note: The direction of the arrowhead will be rearranged to point the component for the correct direction after moving.

Tag Rotate You can use this utility to rotate tags.

To rotate tag:

. Click Tag rotate or PlantWAVE > Tag rotate in the AutoCAD top menu.

. Select the annotation you want to rotate by click it.

. Rotate it as your direction.

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You will see the rotating label while rotating it as

. Drop it

You will see the rotated result.

The leader line will be repositioned to point the tagged item properly.

Edit label Text You can edit and modify the label text using the function of AutoCAD. The function ddeditwill be used for modifying it.

To modify the annotation text:

. Enter the function name, ddedit in AutoCAD command window.

. Select the annotation by clicking it.

You will see EDITT EXT dialog as follows.

. Enter the text such as "E53".

The following figure shows you the modification of the annotation text of the instrument. The previous annotation text was "E51" as <Fig> 20-12 and it was changed to "E53" as the following figure.)

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