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AVEVA Plant 12.1 User Bulletin

1. There are several options to help the user add to these lists e Current Element Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 84 12 1 1 Pick Element Current Selection Current List e All Remove removes any selected elements and Clear clears the entire list The application allows a limits volume to be set so that only clashes within these limits are reported If all values are zero then there are in effect no limits to the clash check This can be reset using the Clear button The volume box can displayed using the Display option Clashes Check PIPES Clipping Check CE Clip Box Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Check for Clashes within set Limits only 1000 50 a n From 3851 50 i L Clash To Limit 1093 00 ZRs East w 19000 00 gt Bice Clash From Limit North v 17260 50 Up 24375 40 Volume Current Element v Display Erer EEEL 533w24d Parallel Model Rotate To set limits the Position can be directly input or set using the options Current Element Picked Elements Defined by 2 Picks Current Selection Current List The 3D view has all the expected functionality of a standard 3D view and can be Printed and Saved to file by setting focus to the view and selecting from the View gt Print Graphics and Copy Image opt
2. 7 3 Global Global claim commands Global Claim to an extract commands issued from PDMS now pass only if ALL claims succeed This is a change as in previous versions where the Claim command would pass even when some claims had failed The Running Global Projects manual has been updated with further details Global WCF This option was introduced with PDMS 12 0 SP6 6 to improve the security of all Global communications It is an alternative to the use of RPC which has been used in previous versions of Global It provides an interface to the Windows Communication Foundation WCF as an alternative to Remote Procedure Calls RPC for network communications As a result Global can now exploit the security configurations provided by WCF which is enabled and configured by modifying values in XML configuration files The following security benefits are now available e Transport Layer o Apply security to either the connection ideal for connected networks or individual messages ideal when sending messages over the internet e Bindings o Determine the low level protocol used BasicHTTP textual unsecured wsHTTP textual secured or TCP binary faster but cannot be validated o Determines which ports to use for connections e Encryption o WCE provides many encryption algorithms to protect data en route e Encoding o Tied in with the binding this determines how the message will be sent text slow binary fast or Me
3. Forme pg Foemet Fies ze mmm Gem _ Note The linked Document tickbox is only available for DESI databases this option is not available for other types of databases For details of the operation of this new Global function please refer to section 7 5 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 50 12 1 1 6 5 2 Database distribution form This new form helps visualise where databases are allocated and which location databases are primary This form provides additional functionality to change the primary location of a series of databases It is available from the Data menu in Admin Admin AVEVA PDMS Admin elements A Admin Display Query Settings Utilities Project Data Help Remote Window feannbintanttnaiainnt Fiter TT z System WORL CE Change Management D Ke bassespsassganelbt Inter DB Macros fmin elements Extract Database Control ia Teams Database Allocation D DatabaseDistribution 1 Update Name lt TEAM gt ADMIN lt TEAM gt ASLADMI lt TEAM gt ASSOC lt TEAM gt AVEVANE lt TEAM gt CABLE lt TEAM gt CATADMII lt TFAM gt CATS Synchronise Recover fy TEAM HANGER fg TEAM HVAC The Data Distribution form lists all Databases in the project and maps it against a matrix of locations This uses the common symbols of See indicates the database is primary at this location indicates the databas
4. Re execute RC3 Upgrade to correct LSWID errors 1109 Extra Model folders under MAS project 1110 Replacement ISODRAFT pipespool met file for Sloping Pipes 1111 Equipment Status in the Stabilizer Plant SAM 1113 MAR Set db MPROJECT SYSTEMS to be REFDESI 1112 MAR Recreate FEMWLD HULLRSO FEMWLD 1114 Rem AvevaNetExportConfigAddin xml from project dflts 1115 SAM Sample data Status Control setting 1116 Set HEATING VENTS ZONE attribute PURP to HVAC 1117 Re input Modified TAGS Data 1118 MAR Create DB MPROJECT FABDATA 1119 Replacement Sample data lists 1120 PARAGON Module Definition change 1121 MAR Add dxfinport def file to def folder 1122 Field Duty in view Mechanical Tags DSX spelling mistake 1123 Modify TAGS DBVWs 1124 MAR XPIWLD InstTagAttData amp JBTagAttData in Tags DB 1125 MAR Data gt Lists Folder correction for MARDFLTS 1126 MAR Remove tags_ pmldat files from MARDFLTS 1127 SAM Remove duplicate Lists folder from Dflts gt Data 1129 Tags Sample Data UDA length correction UDA Type Real 1130 SAM Add Mechanical Tag Report Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 141 12 1 1
5. To manage created holes from the Hole Association Manager window select Managed Selected Holes the Hole Management Definition window is displayed Use this window to add single or merged hole penetrations define the hole type penetrating clearance hole shape parameters positioning and an option for the hole to revert to the catalogues specifications To delete a created hole the user is prompted to pick a hole If the hole has no status it is deleted if the hole is Requested the user will be prompted to confirm the deletion If the hole is Approved deletion is not permitted 10 4 4 Utilities All panels within the volume of the selected pipe or HVAC can be added to the 3D view To do this from the Utilities part of the Managed Hole Utility window click Add Structure To view all pipe or HVAC elements within the volume of the selected structural panels from the Utilities part of the Managed Hole Utility window click Add Pipe HVAC To generate and define a report on selected holes click Hole Report The report can then be printed or exported to Excel 10 4 5 Managed hole reports The Hole Association Filter enables the user to specify which Managed Holes to list in the Report Current Holes associated with the Element currently selected element only Graphical Holes associated with elements in Selection the current graphical selection All Managed Holes in the MDB Holes Report Headings may
6. VarChars The current default layout mode is FixChars as this will probably be the least disruptive for existing user Appware so FixChars mode will currently result from either of setup form formname setup form formname FixChars The VarChars mode has several benefits which are explained below Relaxation of Text Width specification requirement All gadgets support an optional explicit width specifier for the displayed Tag and for the interactive Widget to allow greater alignment flexibility However it is unwieldy for the user to always have to specify the tag width and the widget size if the textual content is also being provided explicitly and the user is not trying to achieve alignment of a set of gadgets Gadget tags For gadgets with integral tag text option combo toggle rtoggle text numeric input when the tag text is specified but the TagWidth specifier is NOT i e the user is not trying to create a specific layout for alignment purposes then the precise tag width is calculated for the current gadget s current font and used to size the gadget Note that for other gadgets with tag text displayed as a title frame textpane etc the tag text width is calculated precisely to remove the over sizing or under sizing which happens in previous releases Paragraph TEXT specifier In a similar way to the gadget tag the paragraph gadget s optional TEXT specifier will determine the paragraph width precisely if
7. q var strdgts isDigits lt BOOLEAN gt TRUE J Get value of digits only string Example val strdgts Digits q var val lt REAL gt 1234 Is string letters and digits only Example strmix strlet strdgts q var strmix isLettersAndDigits lt BOOLEAN gt TRUE q var strmix isLetters lt BOOLEAN gt FALSE q var strmix Digits lt REAL gt 1 q var strlet isLettersAndDigits lt BOOLEAN gt TRU q var strdgt lt BOOLEAN gt TRU isLettersAndDigits An Di 16 4 Gadget Enhancements 16 4 1 Gadget background colour enhancements The Textpane gadget can now have its background colour modified using the gadget Background property and method Gadget background colour for gadget types Button Slider Paragraph and Textpane can now be reset to the default which will be different for different kinds of forms by setting the gadget Background property to zero Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 123 12 1 1 16 4 2 COMBOBOX SetDisplayText method It is now possible to set the display text field value programmatically as well as being able to read it me en Ier SetDisplayText STRING text NO RESULT Set the display text field value if the gadget is editable 16 4 3 TEXTPANE force fixed width font The Textpane gadget definition has a new keyword FixChars to force the use of a fixed widt
8. v Automatic Mark Members Automatic Mark Connected v Display Aids v Create list with all connected elements 10 9 AVEVA Cable Design A number of enhancements have been made Of particular note is a new Manual Route Cable task that allows the user manually to create or modify a cable s route between its start and end references For details please refer to the Cable Design User Guide 10 10 AVEVA Multi Discipline Supports 10 10 1 Cable Tray Supports MDS can now support the new cable tray CTRAY elements as used in the Cable Design application A CTSUPP element is used instead of an ATTA Old piping BRAN cable trays and CTRAY cable trays can be supported by the same cable tray support using the Add Rack function as usual Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 87 12 1 1 We 10 10 2 Automatic generation of pads There is a new application default to turn the auto generation of pads on or off the default is on If the setting is on pads are created when using a cursor based creation method CURSOR or CLEARANCE with a PANEL or HPLATE element identified The section type is checked and a suitably shaped pad chosen appropriate to the section type For example triangular shapes are used for angle and square rectangular for flat bar A new Modify pad size button on the Modify Section form enables the user to change the dimensions of an existing pad In Paragon th
9. 1034 HVAC Default Data was simple numeric now with UNITs 1036 Changes to SMM Default UDAs needed in Master project 991 MAS UDA Update for MASTER MDSDICT 1005 Assembly Orientation Workaround Library Update 1022 Update Isometric ADP library 1027 Complete re work of ENGI Data for TAGS module 1037 CATA and SPEC Data to enable Sloping Pipes 1038 Map Build errors in Marine AUT project WELDPLANNING 1039 STAWLD and DBVWWLD elements for Reporting feature 1040 Remove duplicate ASWL in MAR project 1041 DB order correction to mdb CTBHTEST 1042 AVEVANETADMIN Team for Reporting Feature 1043 Spelling Mistake in Project MAR 1044 SAM Project Sample Sheet Graphics Update 1045 Re Order ELBO SPEC Selectors 1046 Modifications to TAGS Data see MC 1027 1047 DB MULTIW access for SAM and IMP projects 1050 Upgrade TTP Project to include MATW 1051 Fix to ELBO SPEC Defaults 1052 Update OD of bends in Pipe Spec A1A 1048 HVAC 7 Segment Bend Correction 1053 Default Stress Groups for Pipe Stress Interface PSI Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 139 12 1 1 1055 MAR project correction for module mode settings 1035 DIAGRAMS Major Update Plant and Marine 1049 Change to default purpose of elec cable zones 1054 MAR Project deficienc
10. 5 2 5 2 1 5 2 2 5 2 3 le OTIMCASUN Cf ssc EE eR a RS Ae E ad TR cea 2 17 ENEE leede TTT 2 18 COMPATIBILITY EE 2 18 PAULO Age taalbatunr saeeiansaantea tua dbtavdeate sauna aiweta rancher S 2 18 SINT EE 2 18 Data Access Routines DARS ecccccceecccceeeeeceeeeeeeceeeeeseaeeeeeeeaaeesaeeaeeeseseaeeeseeeaeeeseeeaaeeees 2 18 NOTICE OF CHANGE IN SUPPORT STATUS sssiesseeese test tssttsstnssinssinstinsstnsstnsstnsstnntnnnntnn stnn nn ennt 2 18 FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS mantoan aaa EES 2 18 Access platforms Stairs and Ladders AG 2 18 Hangers amp Supports HAS 2 19 PDMS leie EE 2 19 DATABASE CHANGES ceisccsscececch sesececsccensecactacecsacesaetscs aueseceraacncctnsetsecesnaceetaatl 3 21 NEW DATABASE TYPE O sis ee tire eth ENEE Dee ee cae 3 21 Engineering Database ariani cai inne bie te ee i ee ie 3 21 Design Reference database seeiis sirsenis ni an aa EEEE REENE E n ATKA EEEa ASEENA 3 21 ACCESS TO DATABASES rea aa a aaa tine Aa han thee hea 3 22 INCREASE IN NUMBER OF DATABASES 0 cccceeeeesceceeeeeceaeeeeaeececeeeceaeeecaaeeseaeeseaeeesaeeesaaeseneeesaas 3 23 felt Be EIN 3 23 DUPLICATE NAMES Cadet die nahn ti ea he etd ee edie 3 23 FLEXIBILITY OF DATA ORGANISATION 3 24 Database VIEWS ett gege vu fhe cant gg de dEEeete ed asada 3 24 Distributed attributes 4 4 EE 3 24 Handling of duplicated names of UDAS and UDETS 2 0 00 eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeees 3 24 Top level element creation in Specific dat
11. ELOON200U300WRT WORLD This is valid syntax but at 12 1 the string evaluates to E100mmN200mmU300mmWRT WORLD This is not valid syntax We must make sure that there is a space between the real value and the next command word Remember that v will output a unit qualifier in 12 1 if v is dimensioned For example if XLEN is 1000mm Iv ce xLen lIs S v mm In previous versions s would contain the value 1000 mm whereas at PDMS 12 1 s contains the value 1000mm mm 16 5 16 New PML objects for Units There are new objects UNIT and MEASURe as well as updates to the REAL FORMAT and STRING objects For details please see the Software Customisation Reference Manual and Software Customisation User Guide 16 5 17 NET extensions for Units There are NEI extensions DbDouble Dbformat DbUnits DbDoubleUnits DbDimension and DbDoubleDimension to assist in units handling These are documented in the NET Customisation User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 130 12 1 1 17 Product Faults amp User Requests 17 1 Outstanding Faults and Issues Please refer also to the Product Release letter included with the release this may have updated information Unless otherwise indicated the following faults will be corrected if at all possible by the time of the next service pack in many cases they will be corrected in an earlier fix release 17 1 1 General issues Internet Ex
12. and query the current default layout mode IPMSYS SetDefaultFormLayout layout is STRING PMSYS DefaultFormLayout is STRING This can be used to help evaluate any existing Appware to determine which forms need layout adjustment For example FMSYS SetDefaultFormLayout VarChars causes any forms without a VarChars or FixChars keyword which are loaded and shown to use the VarChars mode If you kill and re show a previously shown unqualified form it will have the new layout so it is easy to compare the difference FMSYS SetDefaultFormLayout FixChars will return the default to FixChars In VarChars mode forms which have avoided alignment by space padding e g by using TagWidth and Width should not be adversely affected There may be some overall reduction in form width Possible problems are noted above in section 16 2 2 Minimal adjustment could be made by adding the FixChars keyword to restore the old presentation but a layout revamp would obviously be better 16 3 STRING Object Enhancements New methods have been introduced EQNoCase STRING BOOLEAN Ee equal ignoring case with given string isLetters BOOLEAN String is a contiguous string of letters only This includes the letter characters from any Unicode supported language isDigits BOOLEAN String is a contiguous string of decimal digits only This includes the digit characters from any Unicode supported language Digits REAL If String c
13. appropriate type for input and output Input via the command line or GUI also allows the user to specify an alternative unit This does mean some unavoidable changes to the command line so user applications using real attributes will need to be reviewed There are also minor changes to many of the user interface forms The new functions can also be accessed by the NET Units interface as detailed in the NET Customization manual Customers who have written or adapted PML applications may need to check these Some guidelines are given in section 16 1 and explained in more detail in the 72 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Several of the reference manuals have been updated to reflect these changes including Catalogue and Specifications Reference Manual Data Access Routine User Guide Database Management Reference Manual Design Reference Manual Creating The Model Design Reference Manual General Commands Lexicon Command Reference Software Customisation Guide Software Customisation Reference Manual 4 2 1 Supported Dimensions and Units In previous versions of PDMS all dimensioned quantities other than distances or bores were output in units stored in the database irrespective of the current units For example all masses were assumed to be Kg There is a new set of commands to complement and extend the existing units functions These commands control the units of supported dimensions and their dependent quantities e g density and pressure For
14. e the Upgrade drawing on Open option is set to false and the user opens a drawing that is not updated to the current product version e the Upgrade drawing on Open option is set to true but the drawing cannot be opened automatically Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 109 12 1 1 14 12 Linked Files Update There are new ways to update linked objects in a diagram When a drawing that contains linked objects is active the Links option is active in the Edit menu dit View Insert Format To Undo Ctrl Z Redo Chr Ctrl Repeat Copy Drawing Paste Paste Special Select All Select by Type Duplicate tri t GA Find Ctrl F Replace Go to gt There is also an option to Update Diagrams in a batch job 14 13 Determine Connector Re route Style It is now possible to determine a connector re route style for newly created lines For HVAC Pipe and Instrument line types a special option called Reroute has been added This option allows the settings Never reroute or Use shape settings for newly created connector lines By default Never reroute is selected In case the Use shape settings is selected Visio decides which setting will be used Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation amp Element options Annotation styles group 01 gt Pipeline options DI Default options Valve o
15. 11 92 INTELLIGENT TEXT HANDLING ENHANCEMENT sssssesssessrisstssrtssissisttiestisstisstisstnnttnnstnnttnn tt 11 92 EXPORT TO CAD FORMATS EE ii vacdcvbeveccanastedcecheceucagsannddeesetenccpestiascebenes ageastedaipetete 11 92 Support for Unicode Text 11 92 Improved drawing feature export cc eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeesaeeeeeseneeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeaees 11 92 Configurable DXF amp DWG export eeeceeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeceaeeesaaeeeeeeeseaeeesaeeeeaaeseeeeeeaas 11 93 Configurable DGN X0Ft cceccceceeeceeneeceeeee cae eeeaaeeeeneeseeeeeeaaeeesaaeseeeeeseaeeesaeseeaaeseeeeeeaas 11 93 AVEVA ISOMETRIC ADP is sccissnccctepechecaiis edict enana pietia uneia dioe aa iaa aada arna sands tdscvnetete 11 93 PDMS PIPING ISOMETRICS n sssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn n 12 95 NEW OUTPUT FILE FORMATS INCLUDING DDE 12 95 TRUETYPE FONTS iit se2edssa apioa aad adaa a eee a ea Taada eap aa iia SE 12 95 LARGE GOORDINATES isasi naa a aa ii aoaia a a ia 12 96 ADDITIONAL COORDINATE FORMAT 12 96 GOFORMATS ais isisn cided ete lat cei even ae hae eee 12 96 SEIN IS enee eege fat a ne ae te ee eet ee 12 96 GODEGP EE 12 96 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd iv 12 1 1 Ol A eege eene Eeer see EE pe ewer 12 96 DRAWING PIPE SPOOL PSPOOL ELEMENTS sissseeeeessieeriesrresrissrissrississtiesrinttnntrnnennstnn t 12 96 INORTH AR ROV RE 12 97 PIPE PENETRATION SEAL SYMBOL eebe heess
16. 16392 9 163928 15392 9 15392 5 16392 9 163928 31539249 1539215 163929 16392 5 3163929 163927 Total Items 22 Model Rotate When the form is first shown the current element is selected in the Check field Users can change this as they wish by typing any Design name or syntax such as ZONE The element to be checked is always named in this text box The options available are e Check Check the named element for Clashes e Check CE Show the name of the current element and check it for Clashes The Clashes are displayed in a grid with the usual facilities for filtering grouping etc Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Navigate Clash Item J Drag a column header here to group by that column No Clash Type 4 Clash Item Ki Obstructer D Clashed 4 A A gt A gt A gt COE Ier esn eresas ene aa fo ma ea fesh aea wey Toees TuBIBOX_ E H LBE APADA Aste eS Total tems 22 The whole grid can be printed or saved to file by the RH popup menu options Print Preview Save to Excel It is necessary to scroll the grid to the right to see all the information about the clash such as Position Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 81 12 1 1 Clashes 22 Obstru
17. 5 ANSI B16 5 HL HLH We For full details of this important new module please see the AVEVA Tags User Guide 15 1 1 Admin Tab The Tags module includes a new concept for administration There is an Admin tab in the ribbon bar which is only available for users that are e Free users Like SYSTEM e Members of the TAGSADMIN team Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 15 116 12 1 1 Allocating users to the TAGSADMIN team allows superusers or department managers to perform certain admin tasks in Tags engineering without them having to be free users 15 1 2 Tag Deletion In the new Tags module data for a single tag can be distributed over multiple databases to allow for different disciplines possibly operating in different locations For any tag the data for each discipline is stored on a separate object but presented as if on a single object It is thus possible to delete a tag but not have access to delete all of the distributed data and this can result in orphan objects remaining The Delete Tag Orphans pmlmac macro available from AVEVA Support Knowledge Base can be run in the Tags module to find and delete orphan objects Please note that all relevant databases should be current before running this macro it contains a warning It maintains a log of its results including any errors where it is unable to delete an object It may need to be run at different locations to tidy up perio
18. Data Update Lexicon Only 1082 Add xxxDATA to supplied evars bat files 1083 Line Stressing Data re input for TAGS Update 1084 Rename PSI Administration Elements now PIPESTRESS 1086 GTYP PENI now GTYP ATTA HVAC Penetration ATTA s 1087 Modifications to TAGS Data 1088 DIAGRAMS Data Updates to HVAC and Cabling Plant 1089 Replacement options file for marine pipe sketches 1090 Units in cable properties data 1091 Legal Disclaimer mod to MAS Project Description Doc 1092 SAM Project Description Document modification 1093 NOZZLE DIN BLTP mods to BDIA 1094 ANSI Pipe Spec Update for KG Weight 1095 VANTRUNK Angle modifications 1096 Flange Bolting Hole Numbers Diameters MAS ANSI CATA Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 140 12 1 1 1097 CATA Update allow New Bolting SAMPLE and Training 1098 Modify User Facing lt PROJ gt ProjectDescription pdfs 1099 Missing information in the INSUL CATE 1100 OGLAEND CATA SPEC PROP Updates 1101 MAR Default links 1106 Remove IMPERIAL IMP Project from Project delivery 1107 Correction to SPEC Headers for ELBOs 1102 Reset Bspe on F1C to ANSI_BOLTS 1103 Circ BRAN HSTU Pbore modifications 1104 TAGS Model Data Update Lexicon and Tags 1105 Offtol on OLET pointsets 1108
19. Diagrams gt Getting Started gt Application Settings gt Diagrams Options section The upgrade is fully automatic and executes upon application start A report of the upgrade process containing descriptions and locations of the participant files and any problems that might have occurred is available in the Diagrams Message Log 14 4 Admin Settings vs User Settings It is now possible for customers to define and set up which settings should be Admin Settings and which settings should be possible for regular users to change Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 104 12 1 1 The administrative set has the same format as the current version of diagrams options store but is located at a location which is write protected for the user but read write for administrators When an option in the administrative set has a ro value of the access attribute access ro this option s value will overwrite the value set in the user s options store and the option will be disabled greyed out in the Diagrams Options dialogue 14 5 Handling of Units in Annotations With the release of AVEVA Plant 12 1 some changes and enhancements have been made to the handling of Units see section 4 2 In AVEVA Diagrams changes have been made to accommodate the new functionality and to allow presentation of values with or without units in shape text and annotations Some attributes with numeric values are now dimensioned and have
20. Gate Valve Plug Valve Ball Valve Butter Valve Globe Valve be bx 5 By Directional Valve ee AngledValve BallValve Globe Directional Angled Valve Valve GTYP_INST 7 Angled Asimetric Directional K By GTYP_I Angled Asimetti lt gt Masters to update C Add all G i GTYP_INS T Add Stencil If the system changes the GTYP during this operation a warning message is displayed in the batch job log If the GTYP is changed and the existing item has valid a SPRE attribute set the system will try to find the new specification For more information please refer to User Guide Diagrams Utilities Batch Job 14 11 Changes to Upgrade Drawing Function A progress bar is now shown during Upgrade Drawing and the operation can be safely cancelled Appropriate messages are added to the message log on operations start and cancel finish Message Shape Connection DB element Page Time 2 Uporade document D_RO2C09 stoppet 225 shape s processed 85 updated 0 failed 11 41 14 Upgrade document D_F02C039 starting 11 40 40 When Upgrade Drawing is called manually from the Tools menu a status window appears after the operation is completed or was stopped by the user Upgrade Drawing Upgrade document D_R02C09 completed 426 shape s processed 201 updated 0 failed To store changes please save the drawing Appropriate warnings also appear in the message log if
21. HM ZONE SWITCHGEAR EQUI ELECEQUIP_101 EQUI ELECEQUIP_102 EQUI ELECEQUIP_103 EQUI ELECEQUIP_104 R EQUI ELECEQUIP_107 R EQUI ELECEQUIP_108 EM EQUI ELECEQUIP_1084 w i Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 26 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 27 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 28 12 1 1 4 General System Changes 4 1 Unicode character handling Earlier versions of PDMS handled textual data such as element names textual attributes and file names in a manner specific to the various supported character sets used in supported languages This applied to most of the input output and storage This has now changed all textual information in PDMS is represented as Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world s writing systems Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 109 000 characters covering 93 scripts For more details please see http en wikipedia org wiki Unicode Unicode can be implemented using different character encodings The PDMS Internal Format for string data is Unicode UTF 8 format This can handle all seven character sets supported in previous versions of PDMS and potentially many more 4 1 1 Res
22. History Key SE Element History pane Fiter UR G Design WORL II Wi GPWL GroupWorld Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key Cosh Only Changes At v Explorer Annotations Key pane Comment Default session comment Initial Current unsaved session Dito v Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 67 12 1 1 The Element History and Key panes are for information only the Model Timeline and Stamps panes allow selection of a session or stamp upon which to base the display of changes in the Explorer pane and optional highlighting of changes in the 3D view Once a session or stamp is selected changes can be highlighted by clicking the Refresh button at the bottom left of the Add in see above Two modes of change reporting are supported according to the current selection in the drop down list in the bottom right of the Add in Only Changes At shows only the changes that were made when the highlighted session was created This may have been a Savework or as the result of an extract operation such as a flush or refresh as indicated by the Reason column in the Model Timeline table Note that highlighting in the Explorer pane and in the 3D view is always with reference to the current state of the model it is possible that no changes from a previous session will be visible for example if all changes were made to elements that have s
23. Manager Mechanical Equipment Interface Cable Design together with supporting software such as Microsoft s NET Framework Visual Studio 2008 runtime components Infragistics User Interface components etc Optional Global Client Schematic 3D Integrator Multi Discipline Supports Area Based ADP Nuclear Applications Interfaces ExPLANT A ExPLANT I Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 1 12 1 1 Sample data Models and Manuals 1 3 2 Products installed by separate installers Global Server SQL Direct OpenSteel P amp ID ImPLANT I ImPLANT STL PML Publisher 1 3 3 Overview of installation process AVEVA Plant Installers use standard Microsoft Installer MSI technology which facilitates silent installations through standard MSI means Target location or ROOTDRIVE can be specified by use of the Browse button when running each installer Please note that the use of folders with names including a space such as C Program Files is not recommended at PDMS 12 1 Please see section 1 3 4 below if this is important to you By default installations performed using setup exe will be loaded on C and will stop with an error if there is no C drive The default location may be changed by use of the Browse button Alternatively the msi file e g PDMS12 1 1 Plant12 11 msi can be run directly this will by default use the writable local drive that has the largest free space For more details of the latte
24. Plant or AVEVA Marine or used as a stand alone application AVEVA Diagrams Used for creating P amp IDs and HVAC diagrams It saves both the diagram and the engineering objects in the model database AVEVA P amp ID Stores intelligent engineering data with the graphics in an AutoCAD drawing while the designer draws and annotates P amp IDs These intelligent P amp IDs containing tagged items quantities and connectivity data can be loaded into the AVEVA schematic model via Schematic Model Manager or synchronised with VPE Workbench Supports different engineering standards individual company working methods and complex projects containing many hundreds of P amp IDs AVEVA VPE Workbench An integrated engineering database which manages the evolving engineering descriptions of all tagged items in a plant AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator Integrated Schematic 3D environment allows customers to build their 3D model in a controlled manner directly from information on a P amp ID enabling consistency checks between the Schematic and 3D models Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 5 12 1 1 1 4 3 AVEVA Plant Design Products These products focus on the layout and detail design of the plant they create 3D models and produce all associated deliverables AVEVA PDMS is the major AVEVA Plant Design product it includes engineering applications for design of piping and equipment structural duct
25. The most significant change is to allow the alteration of catalogue parameters only Model Settings Parameter Settings 100000 0000 Catalogue Parameters Pressure Insu Unset Design Component Settings Design Angle 90 0000 Design Height 100 0mm Design Radius 225 0mm Model View Settings _ Ony Update Catalogue Parameters Model settings can be altered by the Model View form as well as by the Model Settings form In addition to changing the catalogue parameters the Model View from may change other parameters based on a category s data set For example if the data set includes properties that define design parameters those design parameters in the model settings are set to the default property values from the data set If the Only Update Catalogue Parameters box is checked the Model View form will not update any model settings except those for catalogue parameters Parameterised detail text The GUI will now accept Text Expressions in Detail Text fields these must be entered as valid string expressions beginning with and ending with If the expression is not specified in this way the Detail Text field will be treated as a simple string For details please see section 4 1 15 Detail and Material Text in the Catalogues and Specifications User Guide Copy button for structural catalogue New Copy buttons have been added to the forms for creating structural geometry components a
26. Type Compare Result Modified Attributes Be pl 23996 6082 ASB V 02 SCVALV New Element p 23996 6084 SCTUBING 4 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 1 SCTUBING New Element pl 23996 6088 ASB V 03 SCVALV New Element pl 23996 6090 SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 3 SCTUBING New Element J p 23996 6092 ASB R 32 SCFITTING New Element F E SCTUBING 12 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 2 SCTUBING New Element gt si SCFITTING SEBS D EI SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 3 SCTUBING Deleted Element SCTUBING 1 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 4 SCTUBING Deleted Element SCFITTING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 1 SCFITTING Deleted Element SCTUBING A of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 1 SCTUBING Deleted Element 23996 6078 ASB V 02 SCVALV Deleted Element pl 23996 6080 SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 4 SCTUBING Deleted Element Ss pl 23996 2385 C1101 SCEQUIPMENT Modified Element FUNC d E 23996 4580 C1101 N4 SCNOZZLE Modified Element CATR 4 23996 4755 P1502A SCEQUIPMENT Modified Element DESC Ready A1 51 2003 Pagel Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 103 12 1 1 Note For this function fully to work with the data created by the Diagrams application it requires that SVG files are created for the relevant sessions This is affected by the Keep session files and Cre
27. Type and Name of Shape Import selected shape as f Element types bq be Equipment items 2 way valve udet Pipeline elements valve Pipe components Valve 2 way valve 3 way valve 4 way valve Instrument E Fitting Pipe destination Instrumentation HVAC line elements H AC components Cable elements Shape name GTYP_INST C Directional component M Classify as Instrument GTYPE INST Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 107 12 1 1 When this option is checked in the master item all SCVALV s that will be created from this master will have GTYPE set to INST 14 10 1 Changing existing items Changes on opened diagram It is possible to change an existing SCVALV GTYP from VALV VTWA or VFWA to INST using the shape context menu option Replace Symbol 32314 1313 A150 GA 59 50 Refresh i A Show Text Linebreaks Set Instrument Loop Reference Set Release Status Replace Symbol Replace symbol from Catalogue If your current item has a GTYP different to INST and you replace this shape with a master that has the Classify as Instrument option checked then after shape replace the system will change GTYP from the existing one to INST and give a warning message in the System Message Log Of course this can work the Opposite way around the system is also able to change INST GTYP to VALV VTWA or VFWA Batch changes In case you want to update
28. a S Text labelt Data Binding NewDataSet DIAREF Schema Mees DIAREF Schematic be f Atir E Zeen a DIAREF Schematic Pipes EB DTMPMA Schematic A DTMPMI Schematic S FLUR Schematic Pipes EE FUNC Schematic Pipes BB INPRTR Schematic EBB ISPE Schematic Pipes E LNTP Schematic Pipes Sb NAME Schematic Pi 4 Format String v ReportFooter one band per report p SS SS Summary Angle Anchor Vertically Formatting Rules v bel PageFooter one band per page C auto width Can Grow Cl Can shrink Multiline Word Wrap Quick Reporting Handling of Grouping Where grouping is applied in the search results grid the group layout result will not be maintained when a quick report is generated This is because e This would lead to an inconsistency with quick reporting functionality in Instrumentation e Different layouts need to be maintained for use in the reporting tool for grouped and non grouped quick reports Note To enable group sorting right click on the search results grid column heading selecting Enable Group Sorting and then dragging the column heading of the attribute you wish to group by into the group area of the search results grid see example below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 133 12 1 1 L 100 B 1 B1 L 100 B 1 B2 L 100 B 1 B3 OWNER 00 B 2 2 items A N00 B 2 81 L
29. all items on all drawings you can use the Update symbols according to master shapes option from the Batch Job update Batch Job d li Database tree Search Selection g Ce WORL Grey_Water_Transfer CES SCGROU Project_Stencils Fuel_Oil System_Dia E SCGROU Piping Diagrams BOL SystemDiag OE SCDIAG Hydraulic_Oil MEA SCDIAG Grey_Water_Transfer_Diagram MEA SCDIAG Fuel_Oil_System_Diagram MEA SCDIAG Lub_DilSystem_Diagram CIES SCDIAG Fire H P_S W _Service_System LIES SCDIAG Multilabels LIES SCDIAG Diagram2 Ea Update Diagrams Options eo SCGROU HVAC Diagrams H 2 z Update symbols according to master shapes C Update symbols according to catalogue information C Update annotation formats C Update attribute presentation settings C Ignore stencil settings Publish Update Diagrams C Refresh shapes Select master shapes to use for update 1 selected kg Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 108 12 1 1 Before using this option you have to modify the masters that were used to create valves by checking unchecking the Classify as Instrument check box After that you need to select it using the dialog below Select Masters to update Stencils Masters Piston or Plunger Valve Reduced Hose Valve Diaphragm Piston or Disc or Butterfly Valve Bore Vlave Valve Plung Needle Valve Gate Valve x Ka Ga Hi Plug_Valve Disc or Needle
30. also includes the Schematic Model Manager module which is no longer sold as a separate product 2 4 2 Schematics 2 5 2 6 These products include Diagrams and Schematic 3D Integrator each of which includes a number of enhancements in the 12 1 release and are installed with the main Plant suite Please refer to the AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator and AVEVA Diagrams headings respectively AVEVA P amp ID is also a member of Plant Engineer family but is separately installed and has a separate set of release notes AVEVA P amp ID is fully integrated with PDMS and can save data directly to the schematic model database A new release AVEVA P amp ID 12 1 will be released around the same time as PDMS 12 1 For details of the enhancements included please refer to the Product Release Letter http downloads aveva com 90188 d90188 pdf and the User Guide included with the product Sample Model data An installer option for the Plant suite installs a variety of standard model projects including Master MAS and Sample SAM The old Imperial IMP project is no longer supplied instead there is an Imperial MDB IMPSAMPLE in the SAM project A file for example SAM_Project_description pdf is included in each project folder giving brief details of the purpose and data included in that project The MAS project provides example component data and specifications Component Data All data in the projects is provided as sample da
31. and Drop may be used in the grid for some operations The Grid Control has also been enhanced to support multi element and distributed attribute editing using Database Views Walls amp Floors Toolbar Toolbar popup menu ASL Toolbar Cabling System Toolbar The popup context menu displayed from the Toolbar area has a new entry Penetration Utilities Lock the Toolbars This enables users to lock the position of the toolbars to d NuclearApplications prevent accidental change of layout V History Lock the Toolbars Customize Support for Ribbon Style GUI The system now provides support for the Ribbon interface used in the Microsoft Fluent user interface which may be familiar from Office 2007 and 2010 This is used at 12 1 for the Engineering Tags module only so is not described in detail here The Ribbon style GUI can be customized in the same way as was previously possible for the XML menu based applications such as Diagrams Application update and consistency There are many enhancements to the user interface aimed at improving its consistency and ease of use Some of the most significant are noted here 5 8 1 PML Collections A PML Collection with unlimited scope now collects data from the entire database in other words an empty scope now means ALL rather than NONE This means that the collection operation will take much longer so it may be worth checking any PML functions to ensure that this is what is required
32. as a basis on which users can base company and or project insulation specifications 10 2 3 Bending Machine NC Output A new option Bending Machine NC Output in the Utilities Menu allows users to save a file which contains the bending details of a specified list of pipe pieces To use this the current element must be a Site Zone Pipe Pipe Spool List PSLIST Pipe Spool PSPOOL Pipe Piece List PPLIST or a Pipe Piece PPIECE Reference Data Mass Properties b Pipework Pipe Splitting Pipe Assemblies Pipe Isometric System Isometric Show Pipe System Production Checks Fabrication Machine Manager Bending Machine NC Output This enables you to search for bent pipe pieces filter them and then create a report 10 2 4 Improved production checks The Pipe Production Checks can now use a user defined pipe stock length as well as the bending machine maximum material length MML The Pipe Stock Length is set up in the Pipe Data Table type PDAELE using Paragon the data elements of that table now have a field PStLen for pipe stock length It may be queried using q PStLen on a pipe data table element New Pseudo attributes enable the pipe stock length of a particular implied tube to be queried q ATST for Arrive Tube Stock Length or q LTST for Leave Tube Stock Length The production checks perform two tests on each pipe piece e Compare the pipe piece len
33. associated units For example attribute PRESS of element of type SCPLIN currently has a dimension of type pressure and can have units of pressure psi bar etc All attributes that are dimensioned have current session units If the current session unit for the dimension of pressure is psi and the value of the attribute PRESS is 23psi one can use scplin press to use the value of the attribute in annotation this will produce the value of the attribute in the current units 23 If the units are desired the withunit keyword can be used scplin press withunit will give the result in the annotation text as 23psi The following screenshot shows annotation where the withunit keyword is used 12in Shape Data PIPELINE 232 x Name SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGM Text scplin bore withunit ActType SCTUB Area 0 Arrive 1 Borearray Crfarray v This shows the same annotation without using the withunit keyword 1J1 12 Shape Data PIPELINE 232 x Name SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGM Text scplin bore ActType SCTUB Area 0 Arrive 1 Borearray Crfarray K For more information please see the Diagrams User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 105 12 1 1 14 6 AVEVA NET Gateway A new Publish to AVEVA NET function enables diagrams and their related data to be published to AVEVA NET Please see the Utilities section of the Diagrams U
34. automatic update events Global can continue to work as normal during the upgrade procedure Databases can only be upgraded at their primary location Project upgrade will ignore secondary databases including databases which are undergoing re location as well as extract hierarchies which contain secondary extracts All extracts of any database must be upgraded as a group It is not possible to upgrade a single master or extract independent of the remainder of the extract hierarchy In a Global project this requires the extracts to be relocated to the primary location of the master In ADMIN the Upgrade Status query Q UPGRADE STATUS provides additional information on secondary databases and those which own secondary extracts Global cannot upgrade extract hierarchies which contain working extracts at more than one location and it is not possible to relocate working extracts It is recommended that these should be deleted before upgrade after data has been flushed If all working extracts are at a single location this location should be used to upgrade the master and its extracts 2 8 5 The Upgrade Process The upgrade process will be undertaken by System Administrators responsible for the project at all locations When upgrading multiple projects many System Administrators will need to co ordinate The upgrade process will upgrade one project at a time Customers will need to give careful consideration to the order of upgrade for the var
35. between projects These conflicts may be avoided by creating DBRange elements to define the range of database numbers available for use in each of the projects The database numbers may be between 10 000 and 250 000 these numbers may also be used explicitly in a project that does not use DBRanges A DBRange may be created in Admin under the STAT element in the SYSTEM or GLOBAL database and defines the start DBRBEG and end DBREND of a range of numbers There is a new UNIQUE option for the CREATE DB command to allow the user to create the next database in the defined range for the project a new pseudo attribute NXTDBU gives the next database number within the range For full details please refer to the Administrator User Guide and Command Reference Manual 3 3 1 Admin GUI To create a DB Range a menu in the Settings pull down takes the user to a new form to set values for a DB Range If no range already exists this will create an unnamed DB Range and populate it with the specified values if more than one range is required for the project these should be created on the command line Admin AVEVA PDMS Admin elements kal Admin Display Query Settings Utilities Project Data Wipndo Pce Admin Explorer Fiter C Display Mode Change Password DB Number Range L EI J System wORL a bo STAT S 4 Ea TMWL T SS leads to DB number Range EI m Database Number Range From
36. effect of opening PDMS to the use of EMF from other sources for some purposes The full details have yet to be assessed and will be announced in due course It is proposed to drop the plotfile option at the next major release of PDMS Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 19 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 20 12 1 1 3 Database changes 3 1 New Database types 3 1 1 Engineering Database The new ENGI database holds engineering data that does not normally appear on the schematics drawings It therefore holds more detailed information necessary to fully specify the engineering equipment in a plant For example a schematic diagram might show a pump its name and its major connections and perhaps a little more The engineering database will include electrical data for the motor loading calculations etc process data the process conditions mechanical data etc These data may be owned and controlled by several different discipline engineers This database will make it easy to work with lists of equipment and other tagged items Using a separate database makes it simpler for the schematics and the engineering data to be compiled in parallel and later checked for consistency by using the new Compare Update utility While the Schematics database is optimized for P amp ID data structures and is based on a hierarchical connectivity model similar to the 3D data model the Engineering dat
37. ii To 250000 A Unique button for DB Number on the Create Database form ensures creation of a database within the project s range see picture in section 3 1 2 Duplicate names In general AVEVA Plant products prevent the use of duplicate names within the current MDB However it may be desirable for Engineering or Schematics elements to use the same name as the 3D elements in the Design database PDMS 12 0 allowed name duplication between the DESI and the SCHE databases It is now possible to create or rename an element in an Engineering ENGI database to have the same name as any element in any Schematic SCHE Design DESI or Marine Production MANU database in the current MDB Similarly it is now possible to create or rename an element in any Schematic SCHE Design DESI or Production MANU database to have the same name as any element in any Engineering ENGI database in the current MDB Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 23 12 1 1 3 5 Flexibility of data organisation 3 5 1 Database views Database views provide a way to consolidate data from elements and attributes distributed across databases in an MDB These views are set up by an administrator using the Database Views Editor and stored in the Lexicon DICT database in a Database View World DBVWWL D Users database views may also be saved in a local settings file The Editor is currently available in the Lexicon module under
38. installed by separate mstallers A 1 2 1 3 3 Overview of installation process ccceceeeecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeee scenes caeeeeaaeeeeeeeseeeeesaeeetaeeeeeeseeeeens 1 2 1 3 4 Installation in folders with embedded spaces eececeeeecseeeeeeeneeeeeenaeeeceeaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaeeeeeeaas 1 3 1 3 5 Projects in folders with embedded epaces A 1 4 1 4 AVEVA PLANT PORTFOLIO cccscccscececececeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeeeeeseseseseseeeeeeesees 1 5 1 4 1 AVEVA Plant Version 12 f eisenii deiasdiveneea ceed SEENEN 1 5 1 4 2 AVEVA Plant Engineer Products AA 1 5 1 4 3 AVEVA Plant Design Products AA 1 6 1 4 4 AVEVA Plant Manage Products A 1 7 1 5 AVEVA PLANT VERSION TZA Tanaro iaaiaee naaa aia aaia oaaae iiao iaa aai 1 7 2 AVEVA PLANT PORTFOLIO UPDATES AT 12 1 eessen 2 9 2 1 GENERAD a E E sede taeacometensseeuaeas 2 9 2 1 1 Improved local language Unicode encoding eeeeceeeeeeeeeeeenneeeeeenaeeeeeenaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaeeeeeeaas 2 9 2 1 2 Units of measure extended range Of CONVEISIONS eecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeaeeeeeenaeeeeee 2 9 2 1 3 POTMOrManC dics via eceeeie ecient idee ett ed ee eed eee 2 9 2 1 4 Database ACCULACY EE 2 9 2 1 5 Application update and conslstencn sssrinin ennienni aaa NE R 2 10 2 2 PDMS 12 EE 2 10 2 2 1 EI He dee E E A Deeg E Deeg Dieter 2 10 2 2 2 Drawing IPrOCQUCUOM EE 2 10 2 3 OTHER PLANT DESIGN PRODUCTS deen igeegetigeteege TE Ee ER deeg tege da iaaea atia Eai 2 10 2 3 1 M
39. it thus DB Differences Destination Fie O Screen New Fie O Overwrite Append Filename PDMSUSER DBOutput bt ZE Differences since OSavework OTimeDate Session O Extract Stamp Date HH MM DD Mon Year Session Number Session User gordon smith Database Name CTBXTEST DESI Session No 2 Database Name CTBXTEST DESI Since Stamp Session No 2 Comment Display Default session comment C Highiight Differences Users can explore sessions containing an added element by selecting DB Changes or DB Differences from the Control menu and selecting Session in the Changes Since radio button set 9 3 2 Revert Elements Command A new command can revert an element or hierarchy of elements to a previous state gt REVert ELEment l l HIERarchy lt selele gt AT BEFore lt comparison gt gt Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 63 12 1 1 where the lt comparison gt syntax is similar to that following the SINCE keyword in the DIFFERENCE and OUTPUT CHANGES commands ebe lt date time gt verbrengen LATEST t EXTRACT extno extname S STAMP lt name gt 4 t gt If the BEFORE option is used the elements will be reverted to the state they had before the specified session Ex
40. masses the command UNITS may be followed by KG MASS GRAM MASS POUND MASS TONNE MASS or TON SHORT LONG MASS New DISTANCE options are also provided FOOT DIST and METRE DIST to output and return values in these common units The command which sets the distance units is MM INCH FINCH DISTANCE The new commands use the keyword UNITS to define the units to use for the various dimension types For example UNITS MM DISTANCE UNITS POUND MASS The leading UNITS keyword is optional for MM INCH and FINCH DISTANCE but is required for all new options in the commands listed below The command and functionality of BORE units remains unchanged Some units are unusually for PDMS case sensitive to adhere more closely to SI conventions strict adherence is not always possible due to syntax conflicts This allow a distinction to be made between units such as s econds and S iemens hours and Henrys tonnes and Teslas This does not apply to Imperial units IN or in FT or ft are all valid or to some metric units such as MM which have been supported in previous releases Units that are case sensitive are m s g t K h Pa N V A F Sv d J W C S H T W P G i e metre second gram tonne Kelvin hour pascal Newton volt ampere farad sievert day joule watt Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 32 12 1 1 coulomb Siemens henry tesla watt poise gforce SI prefixes are
41. new Reporting add in based on the reporting tool Xtrareports from DevExpress This can produce sophisticated formatted reports in a wide variety of formats and can also send the results to AVEVA NET via the Gateway It is available in Design Paragon Spooler Draft and Isodraft as well as in some of the Engineer family modules Schematic Model Manager Diagrams and TAGS Running existing reports should be simple For detailed instructions on designing new reports please see the new Report Designer User Guide A chapter in that guide gives some further information about running reports from the Search results grid and from Run Report Reporting eh Run Report Standard Reporting Designer Export b Publish To AVEVA Net Configuration Reference Data In the Tags module it is available from the Home tab in the Ribbon bar Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 37 12 1 1 4 7 r A new PML Reporting API is documented in the Software Customization Reference Manual 4 6 2 Classic Reporting The PML based reporting tool now known as Standard Reporting is still available as before Reporting D Standard Reporting Reports Export gt Quick Reports Reference Data al AlW amp 9 s Tags AVEVA Engineering Project SAM aA Home Data Management View Admin a e K mee ns el Mone 4 Cut LD Select All SX Clear Filters ayy Tiy Jii Vert
42. not necessary in order to enter Cyrillic Hungarian and West European special characters etc These escape sequences which were used for 8 bit non Unicode characters are no longer supported 16 1 4 Use of character It is no longer necessary to use to get the character into a text string in the command line is still supported for backwards compatibility 16 1 5 Deprecation of STRING object methods The built in STRING object methods DLength DMatch and DSubstring are no longer necessary and may be removed in a future release You should now use the equivalent methods Length Match and Substring 16 2 Forms amp Menus The use since PDMS 11 6 of variably spaced fonts improves the look of the PML form and menus interface but has given rise to some layout problems Many other new facilities have improved the possible intelligence of the PML GUI and this release brings a further enhancement aimed at making form layout simpler and better We have removed the need to supply tag width and the widget size specification where explicit text is used to define the gadget Forms amp Menus F amp M uses a system font to provide the character representations on any forms gadgets and menus This system font has variable width characters referred to as VarChars so different characters have different widths A notional character width usually the width of upper case X provides a rough guide to the width of a text string as number
43. now saved in the following location on Windows XP C Documents and Settings lt username gt Local Settings Application Data Aveva and on Windows 7 C users lt username gt Appdata Local AVEVA 2 7 5 Microsoft Office amp fonts AVEVA Plant 12 1 is supported with Office 2007 and Office 2010 The use of the 32 bit version of Office including Visio is recommended on both 32 and 64 bit Windows as issues have been encountered with the 64 bit version Excel interoperability Import of data into a grid control requires an optional component from Microsoft Office This is not supplied with PDMS but is an installation option for Microsoft Office Please ensure that NET Programmability Support under Advanced customization of applications is enabled when Office is installed This will install the Microsoft Microsoft Office Interop Excel dll If this assembly is not enabled invoking the Excel import facility will not work Screen font for GUI The PDMS user interface version 11 6 onwards requires the use of the Arial Unicode MS font which is supplied with Microsoft Office version 2000 onwards and is usually installed automatically when using Windows XP or later For further information please refer to http office microsoft com enus help HP052558401033 aspx If this font is not installed some of the text in the PDMS user interface may become illegible The layout of some GUI forms may also be adversely affected i
44. of characters X notional width Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 120 12 1 1 The recommended system font Arial Unicode MS supports many of the World s character sets so forms can be designed to use non English characters and even to mix different languages on the same form In order to achieve this PML and F amp M now use the Unicode standard as their internal character format 16 2 1 Variable character width based Form Layout The release supports two layout modes namely FixChars and VarChars FixChars is the old layout mode prior to version 12 1 which is based on the use of notional character width to calculate the approximate sizes of textual gadgets and gadget tags Because the calculated sizes are only approximate the user has to make frequent use of the gadget s Width specifier and TagWidth specifier and considerable trial and error to achieve a desired layout VarChars is a new layout mode which is based on measuring precise string widths It is better suited to the use of variably spaced fonts and removes the need for most uses of the TagWidth specifier The benefits of using VarChars are s It tends to produce smaller more pleasing forms without unwanted space No text wrap around except possibly in conjunction with Tag Width s No truncation of explicitly defined text except possibly in conjunction with TagWidth The recommended layout mode for all new forms is setup form formname
45. or a list of valid ranges for numeric attributes These lists are checked when setting the UDA to prevent the use of values outside the valid range A new logical attribute on UDA and USDA elements determines whether the valid values or ranges if such exist are optional The default behaviour remains that the restrictions remain non optional If however this attribute is set TRUE and the UDA or USDA definition is re compiled it will be possible to override the restriction and set the attribute to a value outside the valid range To support this a new method has been added to PML2 Attribute object and NET public interface The new method LIMITSVALIDOPTIONAL ELEMENTTYPE complements the existing LIMITS ELEMENTTYPE and VALIDVALUES ELEMENTTYPE methods The NET database interface class for attributes Aveva Pdms Database DbAttribute has a new method to determine whether the valid values or range is optional for a particular element type public abstract bool IsAllowedOptional DbElementType type 6 4 3 Database Views A Database View defines a table for viewing manipulating data in the database these data may be derived from a single element or multiple elements There is a row in the Database View table for each element that has a particular element type and meets the criteria defined by attribute filters These Filters are similar in concept to those in the search grid In addition if element match criteria ca
46. refer to the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual The process for each will be If all quantities have been stored in the new Database Units e Set the UUNIT for any UDAs e Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted e Any customer appware managing unit conversion or display can be removed or replaced by standard functions If all quantities have been stored in the same unit which is not the new Database Unit e Set the UUNIT for any UDAs e Output a datal file with the dimensions being set to numeric e g UNITS NUMERIC TEMPERATURE e Read the datal file back in with the current units set appropriately so that unqualified values are assumed to be in those units UNITS DEGF TEMPERATURE e Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted e Any customer appware managing unit conversion or display can be removed or replaced by standard functions If quantities have been stored in mixed units with a UDA recording the unit for each Set the UUNIT for any UDAs Set the dimensions to numeric e g UNITS NUMERIC TEMPERATURE Output a file with the attribute values with the value from the unit UDA appended Check the format of the value plus unit conforms to new input format rules Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 35 12 1 1 4 3 4 4 If necessary edit the file with a text editor or script to achieve th
47. the database containing the current element Q DBTE OF PIPE1 will return the encoding of the database containing element PIPE1 ENCODB is a pseudo attribute on the database DB element type only which returns the encoding of the corresponding database In either case the encoding is given as either Unicode or PDMSInternal for legacy databases Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 30 12 1 1 In the case of legacy databases the actual encoding in which text is assumed to be stored is provided by the project settings as in previous releases no change It is important that a project containing any legacy database either directly or as a foreign database has the correct project settings to ensure that character data is interpreted correctly Summary Locally Encoded Legacy Databases e can be opened for read access by both PDMS 12 1 and earlier versions of PDMS e can be opened for write access by both PDMS 12 1 and earlier versions of PDMS but the range of characters which may be used is restricted to the set defined by the project settings e require that the project settings are correct so that characters can be interpreted correctly e can be reconfigured to a Unicode encoded database Unicode Encoded Databases cannot be opened for read or write access in earlier versions of PDMS e can store the full range of Unicode characters available in PDMS 12 1 4 1 7 Graphical output In general P
48. thick lines now stored in system database The upgrade process puts an upgrade number in the databases indicating the level to which they have been upgraded This makes it easy to detect on opening whether a database has or has not been upgraded This upgrade number will also be used by the Reconfigure process 2 8 3 Database Version Control The upgrade version number is used to verify that the versions of the database and the software that accesses them are compatible During application start up databases are checked against the software access may be restricted according to the following table ha Database Upgrade Version Software Version Prei i Rw CX azai e LI aw LI xv Future e g 123 R R Rw k This control ensures that AVEVA software that opens a database is compatible with the contents of that database and thereby prevents accidental data corruption It also ensures that data intended for use with one software version is not modified by a newer incompatible software version X indicates no access however versions earlier than 12 1 do not make this check so cannot detect a database upgraded to 12 1 or later 2 8 4 Global It is recommended that the whole project excluding Foreign databases should be upgraded at once However it is recognised that this needs to be achieved in stages and different locations and databases can be upgraded independently of each other It is not necessary to disable
49. this property may specify the outside diameter of a COUP element that represents a penetration sleeve 2 Itis associated with a FLAN component that is adjacent to a penetration clash with pipe implied tube This allows for a flange clearance hole to be created If the AHDI property is applied the Clearance value is ignored If the AHDI property is not applied Pipe OD Clearance is used to calculate the hole size AHX Property specifying the X dimension of a rectangular hole required for the component a REAL DISTANCE expression If the AHX property is applied the Clearance value is ignored If the AHX property is not applied Component width Clearance is used to calculate the hole size AHY As for AHX but specifies the Y or height dimension of the hole 10 4 7 Hole Association Manager The Hole Association Manager window is used to manage the tasks associated with holes The Hole Association Filter is used to select hole association s and structural elements to be displayed Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 76 12 1 1 Hole Association Filter Current Element List of elements All Managed Holes Discipline Hvac v Status a v Claimed ai zi valid ai Display V Outfitting Panels V Hull Plates C Invalid Hole Associations Penetra ludHYACPenPanelt A CPen HM AS C assed YES JHM ASSOC 0008 DUCT judHVACPenPanelt judHVACPen HM ASSOC 0009 DUCT YES dud
50. update the change highlighting Former DB Changes Dialog The functions of the Query gt DB Changes dialog in earlier versions of PDMS are still available via Utilities gt DB Listing This dialog is very similar the only difference being the initial mode setting This mode can be changed using the Control menu on the DB Listing dialog as shown below DB Listing Zuch Add Clear Output v DB Listing DB Changes DB Differences Browse 9 4 Enhanced attribute export to Review The Export Attribute form accessed from the Utilities menu now allows the user various options to specify the element s to be exported and to pick the export file name from standard file browser Export Attribute File Export Elements ce EQUIP O Database Database elements Elements DrawlList C Export unset attributes Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 69 12 1 1 9 5 9 6 9 7 Weight and Centre of Gravity CofG form The Within Area option has been removed from this form Utilities gt Mass Properties gt Weight and Centre of Gravity as it depends on the INSIDE OUTSIDE qualifier which is not supported for these mass properties DRAFT Explorer The DRAFT Explorer may now be made accessible in Design this is only useful if the Draft databases are also made accessible e g MODE PADD R using the MODULE definition in Admin AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface It is now possible to e
51. updates would of course need a forced update as above On allocation of a new database the propagation of all link relevant documents will be forced to the remote location Recover will force the propagation of all relevant linked documents in the direction of the recover Therefore if you recover a database back to the primary location the linked documents will also be recovered back to the primary location Note The originating location of a document referenced by an extract hierarchy may be unclear For this reason RECOVER and the FORCE option of SYNCHRONISE should be used with caution for extracts Progress and State Success Failure of linked document propagation is recorded in the transaction database Limitations When creating a new location with allocated databases the linked documents will not be transferred These will require a forced Synchronisation after the location has been configured and initialised ALLOCATE will work with Linked documents but location creation with allocated database doesn t unless these are in standard project folders such as INFO ISO or REPORTS Offline transfer is not supported Linked document propagation does not guarantee consistency between files at different locations In particular e Linked documents functionality is primarily intended for files which are part of the data model such as PDF Plotfiles and certain Marine files e Linked documents are not definitely linked to the da
52. 003 D1201 N50 A 57 STABILIZER JA1 51 2003 P1502 180 A 112 JA STABILIZER JA1 51 2003 80 B 14 fam 00 C 131 IC STABILIZER 11 51 2003 1301 FI00 C 121 IC STABILIZER 11 51 2003 E1301 180 B 148 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 D1201 180 B 77 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 1302 150 B 97 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 P1501A B 1150 B 63 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 C1101 g 100 8 82 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 D1201 26 67 140 B 101 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 50 B 9 180 A 118 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 80 B 14 D in Check he Controlled 00 C 311 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 1301 3 EH STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 E1301 Bace Woking Medesin 180 B 144 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 D1201 oD oua a wN booor o root mmmmmomomt DD moo mmm mmm d Diagram Viewer Home Data Management New Select All SK Clear Filters 2 Edit if Vertical View P Reset Cell Feedback Main Project List ol Manage Ia Explore x P Refresh ss Project Valve Lis CS Open s Delete Bt Auto Serge di Quick R F Previous Next Database Lists and Schedules Clipboard Grid Actions A Project Valve List Name Operation Connection Pressure Medium 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 300 RF ANSI B16 5 200 RF ANSI B16 5 300 RF ANSI B16 5 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 200 RF ANSI B16 5 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 150LB RF ANSI B1 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16
53. 1 has been enhanced to allow accurate line widths to be output in all output formats The definitions of the system line styles are held in the System database and set up in the Admin module using Line style Width Definition elements LSWIDDEFINITION in a new Line style World Element LINESTYLEWORLD The upgrade from PDMS 12 0 to 12 1 can do this or PDMS can be left to use its default values The AVEVA sample projects are provided with this hierarchy and new projects will also be created with it present Full details are given in the various Draft User Manuals and the Administrator User Guide 11 3 1 System defined line styles The system line widths of THIN MEDIUM and THICK are now configurable in ADMIN using the new line style hierarchy in the system database By default they have been changed to standard values from the ISO 128 standard which specifies line widths of 0 18 0 25 0 35 0 5 0 7 1 0 1 4 amp 2 0 mm The values chosen for THIN MEDIUM and THICK are 0 25 0 35 and 0 7 mm rather than the former 0 22 0 5 amp 0 7 mm The Minimum pen line width formerly set by a gadget on the Plotting Options form no longer appears This is a parameter of the Plot command and is no longer required as the user has much better control of the widths A very low value will be treated as the minimum width allowed for the format specified PDF DWG etc These may vary or have some special meaning Copyright 1974 to current year
54. 11 The Endpoint has changed from GlobalWcfServiceLib GlobalWcfService to GlobalWcfServiceLib GlobalWcfService 11 1 201011 The sample configuration files provided with Global 12 1 1 contain the new versioned names however if you wish to carry the 12 0 SP6 WCF configuration files forward to 12 1 1 you will need to change the references above in both the GlobalWcfClient config and admindWCF exe config configuration files ADUUID Attribute length This attribute provides a UUID Universal Unique Identifier for the Global daemon It is a string of hexadecimal values for example 92e2714e 0a85 42b0 9d6a 100905aeffc0 Global will not work if this attribute does not contain a valid UUID While reviewing all text attributes for Unicode this one has been shortened to 40 characters the former length of 120 characters is far longer than the maximum possible value Global transfer of Linked Documents Global has been extended to include support for linked documents by propagating any document marked as propagating between two locations By default the propagation of Linked documents is disabled to enable it switch on the Propagate Link Documents setting under the Project menu in Admin see section 6 5 1 The DBLOC element for the Database contains the attribute NOLNKP to determine whether the database should be scanned for link documents This defaults to False indicating that links will be propagated if ena
55. 20 Deprecation of STRING object Methods nent 16 120 TER ANVEN E E A T ee A T AET 16 120 Variable character width based Form Layout 16 121 Possible disadvantages of Variable Character layout cccceeseeeeeeeeeeteeeeseeteeeteaees 16 121 Future change to VarChars as default ccccccccecsessececeeseeeceeaeeeceeeaeeessceaeeeesenaeeeeeeaas 16 122 STRING OBJECT ENHANCEMENTS 0cceesceeeeeeeceeeeeeaaeeeeeeeceeeeceaeeeeaaeseneeeseaeeesaeeeeeeeeeeeess 16 122 GADGET ENHANCEMENTS tannini Jeres inacir danadana daia aiana angia Sa Saadia aiea aaide eia aA aN Sedaaa 16 123 Gadget background colour enhancements ccccceeseececeesneceeeenneeeeeseeeeeessneeeeesseeeeess 16 123 COMBOBOX SetDisplayText method 16 124 TEXTPANE force fixed width font 16 124 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd V 12 1 1 16 5 UNTER EE EE 16 126 RE SN e e Le RRE 16 126 16 b 2 Eetone Klee heeten 16 127 16 537 Arpa and UE 16 127 16 54 New DIMENSIONS ee 16 127 TeSa ue UE 16 127 16 5 6 Design and Catalogue Parameters seesseesseesseesissetetttttnnttnntttnnttnntnntennen ntn nnnn nena 16 127 16 5 7 gt ROUNCING Values aaa E E E S SR 16 128 16 5 8 Testing for Metric or Imperial Distance and Bore Units esseesseseiesssrrsserrssrrrnssrrrnssns 16 128 16 5 9 Save and Restore Units cccceccceceeeeeeeeeceeeee eee eeeeaeeeeaeeseeeeeceaeeseaaeseeeeeseaeeesaeeseeeeeeneess 16 128 16 5 10 Units CONVErSIO
56. 37 REPORT GENERA MON tsnctsedebcetesees tell vteesatereendebaseelestesneccetandcaeetatveciedatedestueeecdt betes degeEeen shee 4 37 New Reporting again EE 4 37 SE ee die EE 4 38 GME PERFORMANGE ees zess car TEA A Ee eege eet B ise Tele A epeendetbens 4 38 USER INTERFACE EE 5 39 ENTRY TO EE Me eege a lee A le 5 39 WNITS OF MEASURE eee Ay Ee 5 39 CUPENL SESSION Die 5 39 Project RE III 5 40 Dataset Properties EE 5 41 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd ii 12 1 1 Re EE te TE 5 41 WORLD AXES ON DEVS E A E E E E A T 5 41 SAVE AND RESTORE VIEWS 0cseseseseseseeeseecscecccccccccceceseceeccccseeeececececeeesseeeeereeeeerees 5 41 EI ee EE 5 42 TOOLBAR POPUP MEN ee Eege EE eege ENEE 5 42 SUPPORT FOR RIBBON GrwvLEOGUl 5 42 APPLICATION UPDATE AND CONSISTENCY cccccccccccececcecceseeceeeecceeceeececeeeseseceseeeeeseeeseseeeeeeeeeeeees 5 42 HM elle eebe ee Ee eege ee 5 42 Attribute display editing ANd valdaton eee ce eeeseeeeeenneeeeeeneeeeeeaeeeeeeaeeeeseaeeeseeaeeeeeeaas 5 42 Auto naming utility enbancement eee ee eeteeeeeenneeeeeeaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaeeeeeeaas 5 43 ADDITIONAL DEBUG INFORMATION ABOUT PML APPLICATIONS n nnnnsossesnnnnnnssnsenennnnnserrernnnnn 5 44 PelpraDOUt ast EAT coe ae cc EE 5 44 PAM Ale eee ee a a deanna naw abet etaaa aah huaakbasoaeeteia ete 5 45 INFRAGISTICS TOOUKIT T 5 45 ADMINISTRATION BE 6 47 ENGINEERING ENGI DATABASE roren e eE SEE S E 6 47 TAGS MODULE DEFINI
57. 3D link elements making link information available in Schematics focosa Mode products when their users do not have access to C Cortroled 2D Reference Only normal DESI databases C Protected Area Number System File Number System Primary Loc PROJECTHUB Propagate V Database Multiwrite Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 21 12 1 1 3 2 Access to databases The complete list of database types apart from system types is now Administrative DICTIONARY NSEQUENCE Parts catalogue and material properties CATALOGUE PROPERTIES 3D Design and Drafting DESIGN amp DESIGN Reference DRAFT PADD ISODRAFT Schematics and Engineering DESIGN Reference SCHEMATIC ENGINEERING In addition MANUFACTURING and NSEQUENCE database types are primarily used by the Marine products Access to the various types of database depends on the product and module being used as well as a user s access as determined by his team membership and any Data Access Controls in use In summary All AVEVA Plant products have full read write access to the administrative and catalogue data in the DICTIONARY CATALOGUE NSEQUENCE and PROPERTIES databases PDMS users can read amp write 3D DESIGN DRAFT and ISODRAFT databases those who need to access Schematic or Engineering data also need a Schematic 3D Integrator license The decision to work in Integrated mode is taken when a user enters PDMS and applie
58. 5 8 2 Attribute display editing and validation A new Attributes Utility replaces the previous Query Attributes and Attributes forms it combines the functions of both and also enables attributes to be edited if access rights permit Attributes that are not Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 42 12 1 1 editable are shown with a grey background feedback is given for inappropriate attribute values The form displays the attributes of the current database element either in a list or by category see pictures below The form allows the user to edit attributes where appropriate and is available in all modules It replaces the old PML Query Attributes form and the old C Attributes form The popup menu provides various new functions such as an ability to set the current element to a reference attribute value The details vary between modules and are documented in the appropriate manuals WRT Element gt dl Track ce EA Categorised Alphabetical Expand Nodes Collapse Nodes Modify Category Filters Manage Category Filters v Display UDAs Display Pseudo Attributes Columns D Settings D Export to Excel Print Preview Track CE Attribute Track CE Attribute x Value es E pe eoo pe Je w Aoo C ea f eg Je ees Je ees Je EE EE ES ee ef Ec f mossa onset Dees Je EE D Design 1 item Focus 1 item General 10 items lsodraft 1 item Mass Properties 5 it
59. 7 EX User Documentation 12 Series User Documentation 12 Series WWE AVEVA Plant Design gt PDMS P General Getting Started With PDMS y Engineer gt Applications Data Checker Utility User Guide Manage gt Modules Design Common Functionality User Guide a ReadMe First gt VON Developer Tools Design Reference Manual Creating the Model a PML Tools Design Reference Manual General Commands Interfaces Design Reference Manual Utilities SQL Direct Database Management Reference Manual y Data Model Reference Manual Data Access Routines User Guide n Graphical Model Manipulation Guide A 3 A A Introduction to Templates User Guide e Schematic 3D Integrator User Guide Status Control Report Designer User Guide Reporting Reference Manual p Le EA A EE CN L Query Reference Manual 174 to current year AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries All rights reserved elp is subject to Disclaimer Copyright and Trademark notice It should be noted that the PDF manuals are no longer supplied separately but may be obtained from the on line help by clicking Printable version on entry to any manual Operating environment PDMS 12 1 is supported on Windows XP Service Pack 3 32 bit and Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit versions Projects are usually installed on a server both Windows Server 2003 amp 2008 R2 are supported 2 7 1 PC hardware configuration A minimum of 4 GB of memory is recommended for t
60. 7 bill housley 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley Reason savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework savework Coho Model Timeline pane Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key DB Type Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design Design DB Name CTBATEST DES CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBATEST DESI CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBATEST DESI CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBCOPY EQUITMPL Comment Create Initial elements Create Initial elements Create Initial elements Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Gites v SITE ATEST ZONE ZONEEQUIP_FROM_C H Q ZONEZONEEQUIP_TO_C H A ZONE ZONERIPE C Element History for ATEST Time 01 03 2010 13 44 47 01 04 2010 16 14 49 pending User Reason bill housley savewok 394 gordon smith savework 396 current pending Model Timeline Stamps Element
61. 8 files with a BOM They are therefore subject to interpretation according to the CADC_LANG environment variable Most of them adhere to the ASCII character set so will work correctly for all supported languages However a few files have been amended to use a new function which must be UTF 8 in order to work correctly in non Latin languages pmllib common functions charactersymbol pmlfnc If this is the case incorrect characters may be displayed or the PML file aborted with unpredictable results after a console error message such as FHSTRC file read transcoding error Could not convert from specified encoding CP949 to Unicode xxxxx USCNVR error 1 at byte 1 of 2 value 146 xxxxx x while converting substring Command was panels The data file pmllib isometricadp data Hvac_Paragon dat also needs to be UTF 8 to read in successfully Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 131 12 1 1 17 1 3 AVEVA PDMS amp associated applications Incident Defect Product En Description number number Module P 39437 Admin Database description greyed out on Create Modify DB form but still active P 39898 Please note there are other instances of this issue P 40377 Admin Unhandled DB error 18 crash when creating a database with a number that is already used in the project and with Description text P 40379 Login It is not possible to login from the command prompt using proj P
62. AVEVA Plant suite Version 12 1 User Bulletin WwWW aveva com Disclaimer 1 1 AVEVA does not warrant that the use of the AVEVA software will be uninterrupted error free or free from viruses 1 2 AVEVA shall not be liable for loss of profits loss of business depletion of goodwill and or similar losses loss of anticipated savings loss of goods loss of contract loss of use loss or corruption of data or information any special indirect consequential or pure economic loss costs damages charges or expenses which may be suffered by the user including any loss suffered by the user resulting from the inaccuracy or invalidity of any data created by the AVEVA software irrespective of whether such losses are suffered directly or indirectly or arise in contract tort including negligence or otherwise 1 3 AVEVA shall have no liability in contract tort including negligence or otherwise arising in connection with the performance of the AVEVA software where the faulty performance of the AVEVA software results from a user s modification of the AVEVA software User s rights to modify the AVEVA software are strictly limited to those set out in the Customisation Manual 1 4 AVEVA shall not be liable for any breach or infringement of a third party s intellectual property rights where such breach results from a user s modification of the AVEVA software or associated documentation 1 5 AVEVA s total liability in contract tort including ne
63. AVEVA Solutions Ltd 11 89 12 1 1 Note the line width resolution of PDF output is currently controlled by a reference printer which is either the user s default printer if there is one or the user s screen resolution If the resolution of the said printer is 600dpi it will not be sufficient to show the difference in width of the example lines on AO One way to prevent this problem from occurring is to set a default printer with a higher resolution say 1200 dpi 11 3 2 User defined line styles User defined line styles will no longer be converted to a multiple of 0 2mm Instead the precise width in mm specified by the user will be transferred directly to the export format 11 3 3 Minimum Line Width The MINLW parameter is configurable by the user in the DRAFT UI and via the DRAFT PLOT command it was used to change the value of both THIN and the minimum user defined line style width It applied only to the hardcopy exports PDF EMF etc and did not affect DXF or AVEVA PLOT files It is no longer required as the line styles are now precisely defined It has been withdrawn from the UI and the PDMSUI dfits plotter_user_defaults file where its default value was defined Its use with the PLOT command is deprecated its value is ignored and a warning given if it is used Note that this means that the user no longer has a way to artificially thicken thin lines on a drawing during export This was introduced at 12 0 and was a side effect of al
64. Associations table right click to select a single hole and activate a popup menu Select Focus on Hole this zooms to the selected hole and clips the surrounding background To return to the normal view de select the clipping and capping options or select a different view Show Tags To show tags and a box surrounding a selection of holes in the associations list check the Show Tags box Translucent Penetrated To emphasise the penetrated items selected in the associations list check the Translucent Penetrated box 10 5 Penetration with Piping Component This new pipe penetration function enables a component such as a watertight bulkhead seal modelled as a COUP to be positioned on either side of the plate being penetrated It can cope with cases where the penetrating pipe is not orthogonal to the plate The component can be shown on pipe sketches and isometrics Isodraft has been modified to add a new SKEY CPCF and a penetration seal symbol Please see section 12 7 Full details are given in the Common Functionality User Guide Chapter 4 Catalogue Requirements are given in Section 4 2 13 Project Configuration for Hole Management 10 5 1 Creation of Penetration Normally a penetration ATTA element is created on the pipe to mark the location of a penetration It is possible to put a pipe component representing a sleeve or penetration seal at the penetration if the piping catalogue is suitably configured Pipe penetration components are mo
65. BCOPY EQUITMPL Primary bm DB MASTER ASSOCDEFN ReadOnly Primary ka DB MASTER CABLETMPL ReadOnly Primary Manage Links is also available with the new Compare Update Utility For More Information please refer to the Integrator User Guide sections 4 7 16 5 2 and 5 3 13 6 Configuration Rules Extensions Integrator s Project Configuration Explorer is now shared with the Compare Update Utility and so can hold rules for comparing elements between design schematic and engineering databases A Rule Set holds all the Rule Groups for a particular pairing of database types For example the sample configuration has a default Rule Set for comparing Design database content against Schematic database content You can add Rule Sets for other combinations of database types e g schematic and engineering for use with Compare Update Integrator Project Configuration Explorer C Mac projects bas1 21 basdflts DA File Edit Insert Project Defaults Assign Action Ip lt Dictionaries Spec Queries lt 39 Compare Colours E Rule Set Default Schematic Design RuleSet Assignee target OOOO O O Rule Set Sample Engineerng Design Rues Value By PIPELINE Engineering pipeline rules Build Action set Da soto FE Wl Mismatch Severt Lang Ee Assign Action CCLASS E 23 Assign Action DUTY lie beegpe gt Top level Rule Groups now have a source type which is the type of element for which they will be applied in place
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67. DMS graphical output 2D and 3D allows only the use of the TrueType fonts set up in the Admin module This will allow you to display Unicode characters which are known to those fonts By default you get font 5 Arial Unicode MS which gives a large range of character sets Restrictions using Draft and Isodraft 2D views For TrueType fonts the TrueType font selected must have the correct character set s present for the language s you want to use Arial Unicode MS has most but other TrueType fonts typically have a subset In this case foreign and mixed language strings will work correctly You can of course use fonts specific to a given language for Unicode characters in that language even if the font name itself is in a foreign character set It is recommended that you avoid using PDMS Wigwam fonts if possible It is not in general possible to have mixed language strings if you use them They are more complicated to setup and work more like 12 0 so are limited compared with TrueType The following restrictions some of which were documented in previous versions of the PDMS Installation Guide apply Far Eastern languages Russian and Hungarian PDMS fonts r Set the environment variable CADC_LANG to Korean Chinese TChinese Japanese CP1251 for Russian or LATIN2 2 Enter admin and change the project to the correct language one of PROJECT MBCHARSET JAP PROJECT MBCHARSET KOR FILE whgtxtd BOLD whtgtxt PROJECT MBCHARS
68. DWG export Improvements also include Symbols and Logos are exported as Nested Blocks differentially scaled symbols are supported Overlays and Design Elements are exported as Nested Symbols Ellipse is exported as an entity AcDbEllipse Layers can be defined and exported new switches control their use for example rules can create new layers set their colour assign elements to layers by type However colour bylayer is not used for objects in the DXF DWG file e Text Alignment has been improved 11 9 4 Configurable DGN export Improvements also include e Symbols Backing Sheets Frame and Logos are exported as cells differentially scaled symbols are supported Cells are exported with Tag data attached The following limitations apply e Although user defined glyphs and line pictures are ignored it is possible to specify a MicroStation custom line style for a given DRAFT pen number e Hatching fill patterns from HPATTERN19 to HPATTERN30 use a common shared cell definition For these Colours Line weight and Line style will not be set e Dimensions are not exported as MicroStation dimensions However they may be grouped 11 10 AVEVA Isometric ADP This add on application has been completely overhauled for PDMS 12 1 It can now be used for drawing detailed drawings complete with parts lists of both HVAC and Cable trays It is fully configurable and produces a fully annotated Isometric style drawing with Dime
69. Den Z Indices Data Display Key Pipe names Hole Manager Associations All pipe Hole Management SubFixing Name PIPE Hole Management Fixing Names Equipment Zones Name HVAC Zones Name x iftrue badref fluref unset namn of HVAC Spool Name ices 00 Pipe names Piping Zones Name lunset A3B unset 1 C Use Rule The FLUREF and ISPE have not been set but the PSPE is set to A3B so the resultant name is unset A3B unset 1 5 9 Additional debug information about PML applications 5 9 1 Help about A new button has been added to the Help About gt Additional Information dialog with a new option to scan all Application Appware files to check if they have been changed Additional Information File Version DAB2_19_0x_ntopt UNI 7 7 0 1 GW5A10 SP 3bintel_nt FLAYER FL5A5 SPLASH 7E3 FLEXLM Client Win32 5 2 0 FLEXNet PML library 308 Nodib rodib 1b Forms library 12 1 0 0001 Interaction manager 12 1 0 0001 DRUID WinFormsDruid 1 0 SGL 12 1 1 0 Attribute Data File Mon 20 Dec 2010 lt SIE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 44 12 1 1 5 9 2 PML alert An additional button has been added to the PML alert dialog to allow extra information relevant to the alert to be saved to file Clicking the Save Support Info button will bring up a save file dialog and allow the user to save the extended information Error 47 15 CP Syntax error OH EEN In ine 1 o
70. Display gt Database Views Editor as well as in the Admin ribbon tab in the Tags module Further information is given for Lexicon in section 6 4 3 A Database View uses a table to define a view of the data which may be derived from a single or multiple elements There is a row in the Database View table for each element of a particular type that meets the criteria defined by filters These filters use the same concept as the search grid If the criteria cannot be expressed using attribute filters it is also possible to define an expression for evaluation A row is present in the table only if all the filter criteria are met This is a very powerful technique which can be used to derive data structures for a variety of purposes in particular List definitions in the Engineering Tags module as well as for the new reporting function see section 4 6 The Excel Import Export functions also work with Database Views which are of particular importance in the integration of engineering schematic and design data 3 5 2 Distributed attributes Distributed attributes enable the definition of objects that have groups of attributes distributed across databases currently restricted to the DESIgn and new ENGIneering database types This enables a number of new possibilities e Improved concurrency o Several users may work in parallel on an object using different sets of data o Simultaneous multi discipline updates on the same object are possible o Clai
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72. ERIC even if their fundamental dimensions have units set Weights and Masses In the past PDMS has not distinguished between weight and mass this has now changed Densities mass volume are in Kg per cu metre and the weight of objects derived from this is in Kgf Pressures Pressures are in Force per unit area Pressure units are supported but whether the pressure is absolute or relative to atmospheric pressure Gauge Pressure is a matter for the user to determine when he sets values No conversion is performed 4 2 3 Upgrading to use new units To take advantage of the new functions attributes need to be set to the correct dimension This has been done for the standard attributes Customers will need it to do it for their UDAs and catalogue and design parameters and properties Any data imported to a Schematic database using Schematic Model Manager will need to have the 12 1 upgrade applied It is not necessary to change all dimensions at the same time For example Lengths are already handled correctly It is expected that angles are stored in Degrees so they will also be handled correctly but users will have to identify which UDAs are angles and set their UUNIT to ANGL This will be done for a project the administrator also needs to determine how to handle each of the dimensions used for other attributes volumes densities pressures etc It is possible to continue as before for any by using the NUMERIC option For details please
73. GI Data for TAGS module 1006 MAR Update sheet 2MZ_SF_02 1 ISO S1 1007 Areas addition to HTEST STABILIZER Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 138 12 1 1 1008 Nuclear Apps Replacement Defaults file NOMMER 1009 Remove Plant Project xxxMAR folders 1010 Set Password for NUCLEAR User 1011 Update Supplied Password details 1012 MAS Recovery from LIMBO of Stub In Components 1013 Correct DETRE for STUB IN PRTWLD BFTWXXT 1014 Weights for DIN Set On Tees and Latrolets 1015 Source ISO Options Folder correction 1016 Global AAA project enable Linked Documents 1017 Reconfigure using hybrid exe to remove excessive TYPEX 1018 Change DB SYSGRP PROCESS to be DESI Reference DB 1019 Remove BAS folder from AAA and AUT INFO folders 1020 Stabilizer HVAC Weights set with Units 1021 Zone ELEC CABLEWAY VWID fix for SAM 1024 DB CTBHTEST PPROJDICT for BAS PPROJECT DICT for SAM 1025 Update Pipe Data Tables for Stock Length 1023 Rebuilt MAR project 1026 MAS additions to support rebuilt MAR project 1028 Re execution of changes to new MAR project 1029 SAM BAS Project mods to enable installation changes 1031 Project Upgrade PROJ NEW 1032 Flange OBST was 0 so did not clash 1033 Fixes to MAP DICE Errors reported on MC 1023 MAR Model
74. GS E PENETRATING WATERTIGHT BLKHD amp DECK 6 JRO C MA PIECE SLOPING 1 0254 ST37 0 10 6 Standard Model Library This new function an early version of which was included in the Marine Outfitting Update 12 0 SP6 10 allows the user to capture multi discipline design elements store them in a library for re use and then create any number of instances of them at any position in the model as required It is accessed from a new Standard Model Library Manager form accessed from the Utilities menu and uses a Create Standard Model Library Item form these vary somewhat dependent on whether a user is a library manager or a general user The first form to appear is the Manager form which can be used to browse the library and add items to it Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 79 12 1 1 Oo Toggle Name Description Library Environment v New Library Library Area Vehicles v New Area Library tem Liquid Gas Tanker w New Item Add to Standard Model Library tem ZONE v Copy O Include S fga APPLDA Liq_Gas_Tanker Ej ZONE Liq_Gas_Tanker 2Z ONE n STDMODELITEM LIQ_G amp S_TANKER STRU TANK_SUPP_B_B BS STRU TANK_SUPP_A_B H STRU TANK_SUPP_B_A P STRU TANK SUPP A A e EQUI TANK EQUI TANK_TOP_PLATES EQUI TANK_PLATE_STRAPS STRU TANK_TOP_PLATFORM STRU UNDERFRAME STRU WAGONPIPES EE EE EPE E H E Navigate ni 6w26d Parallel Model Rotate Create Standard Model Library Item Name iSk
75. HVACPenPanel1 dudHVACPen JHM amp SSOC 0010 DUCT YES dudHVACPenPanelt dudHVACPen JHM ASSOC 0011 DUCT judHVACPenPanel1 judHVACPen JHM 8SSOC 0012 DUCT YES fudHVACPenPanelt JHM ASS0C 0013 DUCT YES judHVACPenPanelt judHVACPen JHM ASSOC 0014 ud HVACPenPanelt TudHVACPen Total tems 8 C Show Tags Elements to manage Manage Selected Holes Add Current Element JudHVACPenPanelt Reset Refresh Select the element specify the filter criteria and structural elements then select Apply Filter The selected hole associations will be displayed in the Hole Associations table If some of the hole associations fail navigate to the hole and use hole management to modify the penetration then select Apply Filter from the Hole Association Manager window To add elements to be managed select Add Current Element To remove the automatically created penetrations select Reset then Refresh Displaying Holes The Hole Association Manager window can also be used to display selected holes in the 3D view mod tom 6 Bock a Penetrating Rem Eemerts to manage Add Currert Bemert 24171874 Reset Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 77 12 1 1 Clipped Hole View The Focus on Hole option can be used to zoom in on a selected hole and remove all other elements from the 3D view Make sure that the clipping and capping options are selected on the active 3D view From the Hole
76. I CHI PROJECT MBCHARSET TCHIN FILE Chineset PROJECT CHARSET LATIN CYRILLIC PROJECT CHARSET LATIN2 for central European Languages II Tei P 3 CH d 3 For Russian and Hungarian change the appropriate font families for example FONTFAMILY 1 LATIN CYRILLIC STYLE 1 FONTFAMILY 1 IR 885902 STYLE 1 Notes e Mixed languages are not supported for PDMS fonts you should expect to see error 121 messages in the console window for these Strings with such invalid characters will not be displayed on the 2 D canvas s Ifusing PDMS fonts AutoCAD will display DXF output correctly only if the correct operating system language is set e g a Chinese machine for Chinese AutoCAD also needs to be set up to access the PDMSEXE AutoCAD fonts directory as described in the Installation Guide As for version 12 0 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 31 12 1 1 4 2 e Unicode strings for Asian languages will not appear correctly for MicroStation DGN v7 output even for TrueType Restrictions Using PDMS plot views Currently PDMS PML Plot views only support PDMS plotfiles they can therefore display only PDMS fonts and not TrueType Units of measure The inclusion of a much wider range of units means that most real attributes now have a default unit usually in SI units for storage and input output User can also set a default unit which must be of an
77. INCH feet and inches US style 20 6 19 32 DECINCH decimal inches 246 59 INCH fractional inches 246 19 32 USINCH fractional inches US style 246 19 32 12 4 3 CODECP Selects the precision number of decimal places for DECINCH Imperial decimal coordinates 0 precision to nearest inch Beie Gens J oe Oo lecimal places Inc 1 precision to nearest 1 10 inch 12 4 4 COIMPP Selects the precision for Imperial fractional coordinates FINCH feet and inches Fractional Precision 1 16 e USFINCH feet and inches US style INCH fractional inches USINCH fractional inches US style 12 5 Drawing pipe spool PSPOOL elements This enables isometrics to be drawn of the PSPOOL elements stored in PIPEs under a PSLIST This is an alternative used by pipe fabrication checking to the SPOOL elements in the SPOOLER database Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 12 96 12 1 1 12 6 North Arrow Text The text shown with the North arrow may be changed by means of the Alternative Text ATEXT 202 The default is N If the User changes ATEXT 202 to LP the symbol will appear as Baan El m Select Atext Drawing Area X 12 7 Pipe Penetration Seal Symbol This new user definable symbol SKEY CPCF represents a Penetrating watertight piece modelled using a COUP element see section 10 5 This is in addition to the similar user definable SKEY CPWP us
78. Ltd 11 94 12 1 1 12 PDMS Piping lsometrics There are several developments in PDMS Isodraft version 12 1 For details please refer to the updated User and Reference Manuals 12 1 New output file formats including PDF Isometrics may now be produced in PDF Image or EMF Enhanced Windows Metafile format This is achieved through an extension of the FILE command for example FILE PDF filename These formats may also be selected from the Options form Administrative Options Comments Basic Metric Isodraft options file Directory Local Filename PDMSUSER piot C Use Drawing name Plots Single bie x Paper length mm PDMS DXF C Output C Output PDF 7 Output Colour Mode Bw v V View One File per Sheet Minimum Line Width mm V Compress PRINT C Output Colour Mode COLOURPLUS y Fit Drawing to Paper No Fit v Minimum Line Width mm Printer Settings Always show Dialog al IMAGE Output Colour Mode COLOURPLUS Format PNG e Minimum Line Width mm Reduction Factor EMF C Output Colour Mode COLOURPLUS Minimum Line Width mm True Type Fonts Z Use True Type Font un BEE 12 2 TrueType fonts TrueType fonts as defined in Admin may now be used on isometrics The user can select the font type for all the text on the isometric including material description by font number e g TTFONT 5 Examples TTFONT OFF TrueType fonts are not used TTFONT ON Se
79. M00 B 2 82 PB OWNER 4100 B 6 2 items L 100 B 8 B1 L 100 B 8 B2 OWNER 100 C 12 3 items amp amp amp OWNER 100 C 13 1 item OWNER 100 C 16 3 items OWNER 00 C 16 3 items Use of summary in calculated fields Where a summary field is used in a report the results of this summary cannot be used in a calculated field This has been identified as a future enhancement A workaround is available Use of the results of one calculated field in another calculated field It is not possible to use one calculated field in another calculated field This has been identified as a future enhancement A workaround is available Not possible to hide group header only In the report designer hiding a group header via the Group and Sort window also hides the group footer However hiding the group footer still leaves the group header visible Workaround To hide only the group header assign the height as 0 to group header PageRange property ignored when the ExportMode property is set to SingleFile DevExpress recommends that the ExportMode should be set to any other value to resolve this issue AVEVA Net Gateway Unicode characters The field list explorer will not display Unicode characters unless the respective language pack is installed The user can specify Arial Unicode font for reporting to display multi byte characters in the report PDF excel etc without installing the respectiv
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81. PROP 7026 0 0 unset S lt DB gt MASTERICABLETMPL DESI 7022 0 0 unset 7 lt DB gt MASTERIDICT DICT 7006 00 unset a lt DB gt MASTERIEQUICATA CATA 7014 00 unset lt DB gt MASTERIHVACCATA CATA 7002 00 unset s lt DB gt MASTER MDSDICT DICT 7323 0 0 unset E up en dr Make selected databases primary at Name Location Id Connection Administered By Description lt LOC gt Hub PROJECTHUB HUB On Adm LOCAL unset lt LOC gt Cambridge CAM On Adm LOCAL unset Change Primary Location 6 5 3 Creation of an event without times The Update event form will now allow the creation of an event without times to run scripts at the remote location To do this create an update event at the current location with the Frequency text box left blank and the Transfer Scripts text boxes filled in When an update occurs between A and B the scripts will be run at B The arguments will be reversed B A For details please refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide Section 4 12 Creating Update Events wrt Transfer Scripts 6 5 4 Remote file details in Admin When querying remote file details at different locations to compare them the results for the different queries are available Each press of the Apply button appends the results to the list on the right of the form This means you can choose different locations and see the information for selected databases together in the list Press the Clear button to empty the results
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83. The saved view can be reinstated when required including a new session of PDMS A saved view consists of three elements e The current drawlist e View properties e g view direction e A snapshot picture of the view when it was saved When selecting which view to restore the snapshot picture is shown to help identify the correct view Note that this snapshot is just a picture captured at the time the view was saved Elements in that picture may have been modified or deleted since the picture was saved so when the view may look different once it is Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 41 12 1 1 5 5 5 6 5 7 5 8 restored In fact it is possible that an empty view may appear if all elements in the drawlist have been deleted or moved outside the view area since the original view was saved The Save amp Restore 3D Views function is accessed via a new icon on the 3D View d Save amp Restore View aag Save Name pb 8 BR 3 OXX 3D View 2 e E a5 S i S Created 15 54 52 16 June 2011 The old numbered saved views are no longer available For details please refer to the Graphical Model Manipulation Guide Grid Control A number of enhancements have been made to the grid control These include an enhanced column setup form a new filter on the row filter an auto fit function and an ability to copy a set of grid cells and paste them into another document In addition Drag
84. This means that text on connectors will be visible after you set the options and accept changes to make it work the connector size must be changed To enable text that has become invisible because of these options the Show Text option in the Shape Context menu must be ticked 14 16 Miscellaneous minor improvements A number of further improvements have also been made to Diagrams for this release e Area Shapes DB representation A new Database Element Type SCAREA to represent Area Shapes has been introduced This allows data to be stored in the database related with Area Shapes allowing them for instance to represent rooms with related attributes and properties Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 112 12 1 1 e Consistency Check Improvements The Consistency Check function now detects further issues that may exist with the objects on the diagram such as bad references and inconsistent use of fluid between connected pipelines e Auto Formatting Rules Improvements The Format to Assign tab in the Rule Details window now includes more options for format type a number of UI enhancements have also been made to the Auto Formatting Rules windows e Diagram and Page References Pseudo attributes that return references to the diagram s and page s on which objects are shown have now been introduced for further types of objects for instance inline valves amp fittings This may help integration wit
85. VA Solutions Ltd iii 12 1 1 10 10 1 10 2 10 2 1 10 2 2 10 2 3 10 2 4 10 2 5 10 3 1 10 4 10 4 1 10 4 2 10 4 3 10 4 4 10 4 5 10 4 6 10 4 7 10 5 1 EQUIPMENT ite At Eed ata ie ate ege 10 71 PIPING eet lente ata eee he ii ata alti btw ea tates alii tama 10 71 Sloping PIPING HE 10 71 Direct setting of Insulation Thickness amp Material 0 cecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaees 10 72 Bending Machine NC Output ccccceeeeececeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeseaeeesaaeeeeaeeseeeesaeessaeeeeneeeeaees 10 72 Improved Production checken 10 72 Material search for Pipe Bending Machine Setup cccceeeeeeeneeeeeeneeeeeeeaeeeeeenaeeeeeeaas 10 72 een 10 73 Steelwork Connectivity Upgrade 10 73 HOLE MANAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS nanne 10 73 Cr ate Holes tege b ann eea oad ae a a ites ee a lene barrie eedesei ai ra aR 10 73 de Meel 10 73 Modify and Delete Holes eee ce ccecceeeeseeceeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeneeeeeeeseaeeeeseeaeeeeneeaeeeenaes 10 74 UNES eneee tere gegen eege Antics banding abit ege ees deena sa et 10 74 Managed hole reports ornk iaa aea Tar aE ANAKARA TAEAE I KaT Paa rA 10 74 Configuration of Hole Management Data 10 76 Hole Association Manager 10 76 PENETRATION WITH PIPING COMPONENT ssssseeessisstsstssiresitssiisstisstnestnsstenstisttnnttnnttnnttnn nt 10 78 Creation Of Penetration ccccccccccecseeceeneceeeeeceaeeeeaaeeeeaeeceeeesaaeeesaaeseeeeeseaeeeseaeeeeaeseeeeeeas 10 78 STAN
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87. abase is instead designed to be used for managing tagged items and keeping list type data This also includes the option of using the new Distributed Attributes mechanism to achieve parallel and concurrent access to discipline specific data The Duplicate Names mechanism allows items in an Engineering database to have the same name as items in the Schematics and Design databases See section 3 4 Duplicate names for more information 3 1 2 Design Reference database Create Database This is a restricted Design database used mainly for administrative purposes it cannot include any SITE or HULL data Its main use is for storing information about 1 Systems and Areas for use in Engineering and Schematics 7 applications It is therefore useful for users who are eS an SE licensed only for 2D applications lt TEAM gt ASLADMIN ASL Administration Team lt TEAM gt CTBATEST unset It is created by setting a flag on the database when it is eee eeng created this is the only way to create it and the flag lt TEAM gt CTBHTEST unset lt TEAM gt CTBITEST unset lt TEAM gt CTBKTEST unset lt TEAM gt CTBSTEST unset cannot be removed at a later date Points to note about Design Reference databases e Engineering or Schematics users can use them e They cannot be the default DB in an MDB e They cannot include SITEs this also prevents the creation of elements below SITEs e They can include Schematic
88. adjustments when using folders with spaces in their names The following batch files or equivalent may need to be considered pdms bat evars bat projectCreation bat bpm bat diagrams bat engineering bat make bat singleds bat multids bat Note the project creation file runs the evars bat file If one file uses separators for PMLLIB all called files must do the same You cannot have a mixture of separators and space separators AVEVA Multi Discipline Supports MDS and Area Based Automatic Drawing Production Similar changes have been to the batch files supplied with MDS amp ABA notably mdsevars bat AVEVA Marine Please note that the same work is less well advanced for AVEVA Marine so this is not yet supported 1 3 5 Projects in folders with embedded spaces AVEVA Plant 12 1 will not fully support projects with spaces in their pathnames as Global and some utilities such as the project MAKE program and Standalone DICE do not yet handle them Work is in hand to remove these limitations but no definite release date is yet set Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 4 12 1 1 1 4 AVEVA Plant portfolio 1 4 1 AVEVA Plant Version 12 1 Most of the Plant Design products were updated and re branded at Version 12 0 to simplify the question of compatibility This practice continues at version 12 1 all Version 12 1 products are designed to work together and in some cases they may also work with earlier v
89. ager Local Settings FE AR a sit VALVCHAR MATERIAL VALVTAG VALVTAG EquipmentDesignStatus G Dictionary WORL a bo STAWLD StatusWorld ta S Ba UWRL VALVTAGUDAS S fg UGRO VALVCHAR_UDA Name EquipmentDesign Status fg UDAACTUATOR Description Equipment Design Status mp fo UDAFUNC EI Status details fo UDAMATERIAL Initial status WorkPending Ba UVALID 1 B Valid values a UVALID 2 Controllable element t EQUIPMENT ira UVALIDS E Other fya UDADN 3 Large icon me Ba UDAACTTYPE Small icon fa UGRO VALVTAG_UDA ze bo UGRO VALVSAFE_UDA E UGRO VALVCOND_UDA e By UDAENVIRCOND fo UDAFUNCTIME E fy UDAPMAX fa UDATMAX fa UDASELTYPE e o DSXWLD 1 E UDETWL TagUdets fa UDETGR SAITEMS Ba UDET VALVTAG fy UDETGR ValveTagXatts Zo UDET VALVCHAR fy UDET VALVSAFE UDET VALVCOND UWRL TEST_UDAS UWRL ATWRL UWRL CADC KVNIDICT UWRL CADC KVNIDESCAT UWRL CADC HVAC UWRL UWRL PMGSchematicUdas STAWLD Statuses b ST ADEF EquipmentDesionStatus fo STAVAL WorkPending DEEA DKCH E STAVAL WorkSuspended E STAVAL WorkStarted Ba STAVAL Rework E STAVAL WorkCompleted E STAVAL Preliminary fo STAVAL Approved Zo STAVAL Released For full details of the various different types of view please refer to the Lexicon User Guide 6 4 2 UDA lists of values User Defined Attributes UDAs and User System Defined Attributes USDAs can have a list of valid values for text attributes
90. also case sensitive for example m means milli and M mega except in their full form e g MILLI and MEGA are both accepted The table below shows the new units of measure and the options available as well as the old ones BORE DIST SQDI CUDI It gives their name or description recognised by the system the assigned hash code the database storage units and the supported standard units for the quantity For example attributes of length have a hash code of DIST are stored in mm and other standard units include inch cm ft metre etc Name of Dimension HashCode Database other specific units comment Word units AbsPressure ABSP pascal bar atm PSI torr mmHg Pressure may be inHg absolute or gauge Acceleration ACCL m s2 gforce gravity Angle ANGL degree radian grade arcmin arcsec Angular Frequency ANGF rpm AngularMomentum ANGM N m s Area SQDI mm2 acre hectare Bore BORE mm in Range limited to mm and inch and Finch Capacitance CAPA farad Charge CHAR coulomb Conductance COND siemens Content PCUD mm 3 Currency CURY USDollar UKPound Euro Current CURR ampere Density DENS kg m3 DensityMANDB MAND kg mm3 Densities stored in MANU database ElectricConductivity CNDT Si m ElectricField EFLD V m2 EMF EMF volt Energy ENER kiloWatthour joule BTU cal EnergyDensity EDEN kg m3 Force FORC n
91. amples REVERT HIER EQUIP AT LATEST reverts the element hierarchy rooted at EQUTIP to the latest saved session REVERT HIER EQUIP BEFORE LATEST reverts the hierarchy rooted at EQUIP to the state it had before the latest saved session REVERT ELE E1301 AT 20 16 26 3 2010 reverts the single element E1301 to the state it had on the given time and date REVERT HIER PIPES AT STAMP StampMilestone7 reverts the hierarchy rooted at PIPES to the state it had at the named stamp REVERT HIER CE AT EXTRACT reverts the hierarchy rooted at the current element to its state in the parent extract The Revert command ensures that every element creation include reorder and deletion and every attribute change is allowed before proceeding If any of these tests fail for example due to legality checks read only databases or DACs then the entire revert operation is cancelled and the following error is generated 43 615 Cannot Revert elements No changes have been mad In this case a series of warning messages is written to the console indicating the causes of the error for example DAC prevents deletion of element DELETE UDET B DAC prevents creation of element 15752 1363 DAC prevents modification of attribute Built on element MODIFY_B VESS1 Element locks do not prevent a Revert operation if those elements were unlo
92. and Imperial English units This has allowed users to work with feet and inch input amp output but with database storage always in millimetres Area and volume units have been derived from the length units Other physical quantities have been handled as purely numeric and have had no conversions applied to them PDMS 12 1 extends these facilities to a much wider range of measures and includes built in definitions and conversion factors for a wide variety of units of measure with standardised storage and efficient conversion These extensions are needed to provide for the much wider range of data now being handled particularly for plant engineering and schematic data These data now include Distance Bore Area Volume Angle Weight Temperature Density Pressure Force Voltage Current Impedance and many others Please note that this does mean that the behaviour of some real attributes is different users PML applications that check or manipulate these values will need to be reviewed Some guidance is available in section 16 5 3 Performance Various application diagnostics have been improved to facilitate the gathering of performance data Using this information system performance has been improved in a number of key areas including e Faster start up with an option to enter any module directly rather than via Monitor e GML Performance improvements for Mechanical Equipment Interface e Indexing by Type an index Dabacon tabl
93. and Import logging dialog no longer has a Cancel button it is also less responsive to Window operations such as move or resize while export or import operations are in progress e The Export and Import logging dialog OK button has been renamed Dismiss For details please refer to the Admin User Guide 6 4 Lexicon 6 4 1 New Lexicon graphical view A new user interface can show a graphic representation of the relationships between Lexicon data entities using nodes and links in the style of UML and entity relationship diagrams There is a series of graphical views which are shown on separate tabbed panes in the Lexicon User Interface There are 4 types of view showing UDAs UDETs status definitions and distributed attributes Each view tab is opened by selecting the Graphical View menu option during a right click on an element of a supported type in the Lexicon explorer The picture below shows a screenshot of Lexicon with the new Graphical View on the right side by side with the Dictionary Explorer and Current Element Editor Individual views are associated with a single database element To open a view select the element of interest in the explorer and click the context menu Each view opens in a separate tab whose title reflects the name of the element for which it was opened Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 47 12 1 1 Lexicon AVEVA PDMS Lexicon Display Edit New Help Schematic Model Man
94. antvagsctbtiessseatacverefoeuedasvaceaes 14 107 SETTING SCVALV GTYP TO INST RATHER THANNALN 14 107 Changing existing Hemes 14 108 CHANGES TO UPGRADE DRAWING FUNCTION sss ssssesssessieserseretrnstrrettstnsstnssrnssrnssrnssrnssrns 14 109 LINKED FIFES WPDATE ebe eege ee Eeer Ee EES 14 110 DETERMINE CONNECTOR RE ROUTE GT 14 110 SETTING DEFAULT VALUE OF STENCIL INBATOH 14 111 AUTO HIDE OPTION FOR SHAPE TEXT FOR SHORT CONNECTORS s ssssessseeseeete eertse rere eees 14 111 Auto hide text by leg lengt erriari aia e TAA e ETE AER 14 111 Auto hide text by text fita serran n a aE E T ET A 14 112 MISCELLANEOUS MINOR IMPROVEMENTS 22 ccceecceceeeeeeeeeceeeeeceaeeeeaaeseeneeceeeeeseaeeetaaeseeeeeeaas 14 112 AVEVA ENGINEERING 0 geegent gNE dE Geen 15 115 EE 15 115 AGM Gab EE 15 116 NET DGletio E 15 117 SCHEMATIC MODEL MANAGER tested cceceseecbesapeeeste vata aaran AE aa aaan aaa a ght Sea AEri Ea 15 118 Ee 18 Te EE 15 118 Units UPQrade ent etegut ee ree E EREATARA AE BAE NE dysieenad eels hie EE E 15 118 Change Highlighting in Diagram c ccceccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeaeeeeaeeseneeeseaeeesaeeseaeeseeeees 15 118 CUSTOMISATION amp PML usgeekeree reese geekeetetegieee dees KENE Seege EEe ER gEeee 16 119 LW leo Severe err E A EE 16 119 Ree EE 16 119 PANS OX AATE A EE 16 120 Removal of X escape Sequences ssssseesistsstntestnttesttttnnttsn atts ttnt tn stanna stnn nn nnen n nnne 16 120 WT TORA EE AEE ES A A A AA A T 16 1
95. are shown on the current units selection form To change the default units for distances or bores select Settings gt Units and choose Distance or Bore dimensions on the dimension table Dimensions other than distances and bores are not controlled by project units so all available units are presented for a given dimension The Distance Units and Bore Units lists show all available units and their optional display formats Only metric distance and bore units are shown in a metric project imperial units are shown for an imperial project Some of these will be AVEVA s standard formats others may be user defined formats added by your system administrator Select the required format from each list For each type of dimension the Example field shows how the currently selected Units format will appear You can enter any desired value here to check how it will be formatted this value has no significance other than to check what it looks like in the chosen format When a unit has been selected from the list of available units click on the Set Unit button to change the current unit settings When you enter a dimension into a text box on any form you can always override the current default units by specifying the units which you are using For example if the current default distance units are millimetres and you enter a dimension of 120 this will be interpreted as 120 mm If you enter 120 inch this will be converted automatically to 3048 mm Property T
96. ase attributes and pseudo attributes to be used in the annotation of drawings It is also possible to use attributes of related elements for example SITE gives the name of site owning the referenced element and there are many options for position attributes PDMS 12 1 has enhanced handling of the more commonly used position attributes POS HPOS TPOS APOS TPOS NPOS POSS POSE DRPS and DELP These may be qualified so as to provide only one of the coordinates For example e POS full 3D position e g W12250 N7890 U3120 e POSE Easting coordinate only e g E12250 W9675 POSN POSU POSX POSY POSZ are also provided Note that the codeword POSE can have two meanings depending on the context for SCTNs it means the POSE attribute Section End Position in other cases it means the Easting of the POS attribute For other position attributes single coordinates can be obtained by using a single index qualifier For example e GCOFG 2 would give the Northing Y coordinate of the Gross Centre of Gravity Positions can be output in format by appending to the codeword For example e POS would give 12250 7890 3120 for the example above For full details please refer to Chapter 14 of the DRAFT User Guide 11 9 Export to CAD formats Significant improvements have been made to the export of DXF DWG and DGN format files from Draft using the configurable drivers Draft_XXX_LI Recommended AutoCAD versio
97. ate SVG on Save Work settings in Diagrams Options as well as the possible use of the Release Diagram to 3D button For more information please see the Diagrams User Guide 14 2 Connection between instrument and process items Offline instrument Offline instrument edeys diysuoiejoy adeys diysuonejoy Be Process Line Valve Valve Process Line It is now possible to use Instrument Relationship Shapes to connect Offline instruments or Actuators to any valid process item The connection point will be created automatically on the shape if connection is possible so the user will not have to create any additional ones beforehand However connection points on in line items that were designed for in line flow connections cannot be used for instrumentation connections Offline instrument A Offline instrument B i a i a i san ei a gt Relationship shape 14 3 Automatic upgrade of Options settings files The Diagrams Options files DiagramsDefaultSettings xml and DiagramsAttributePresentation xml are now automatically upgraded from previous versions so that existing project settings can be preserved in the upgrade process while also gaining access to new settings and options introduced in the latest version The process of upgrade relies on a proper placement of the file containing the options values from an older version of diagrams The proper place for the file is described in detail in the Diagrams User Guide in the
98. ation DGN file which can be used to import these models into MicroStation or other systems such as Intergraph s PDS ExPLANT I can also create associated attributes files in a variety of text formats including HTML AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface Two way interface for data exchange between PDMS and the CAESAR II or TRIFLEX pipe stress systems Piping designers and stress engineers can exchange design and stress information Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 6 12 1 1 1 4 4 AVEVA Plant Manage Products 1 5 These products assist the management of the plant design process They enable global work share clash management and design review AVEVA Global Allows project data to be synchronised between remote sites AVEVA Review 3D visualisation of large complex plant models including walk through animation and high quality photo realistic images AVEVA ReviewShare Collaboration tool that provides a method of tracking and responding to comments and incorporates web based access to a central 3D model AVEVA Clash Manager Provides comprehensive identification recording trend analysis and management of the resolution of design clashes through an approval mechanism AVEVA Model Management Manages clash information object status and deliverable production Comprises products AVEVA Model Object Manager AVEVA Clash Manager AVEVA Connectivity Manager and AVEVA Deliverable Manag
99. avoid the conversion being done twice 16 5 4 New Dimensions Many values stored in PDMS databases had no physical dimension associated with them in previous versions they were treated as purely numeric This includes angles mass pressure density temperature and the electrical quantities added at PDMS 12 0 for the Cable Design The system assumes that all such values that were previously undimensioned are stored in database units e g Degrees Centigrade for temperature Pascal for pressure kg for mass However there is nothing to prevent users from storing these properties in other units We know that some US customers have stored temperature in Fahrenheit and mass in pounds and may even have stored mixed unit values for the same dimension in the same Project e g some temperatures in Fahrenheit and others in Celsius This is likely to cause problems when upgrading from PDMS 12 0 and earlier versions to 12 1 Values retrieved from temperature pressure mass density and angle fields in the database will now be converted into the current working units for that dimension 16 5 5 Angles The database unit for angle properties is degrees At 12 1 it is possible to set the current angle units to Radians or Gradians This can cause problems if an angle is tested against literal values such as 90 180 etc If the current working angle unit is not degrees this will give the wrong result The current recommendation is to disallow users from s
100. be specified Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 74 12 1 1 Discipline Specify holes for all disciplines or a single one specified using the drop down menu Status Specify holes at any Status or at a single Status option using the drop down menu Valid Select all holes or only those that pass or fail the validation tests Note any option other than Not Checked may significantly slow down report generation as all the validation tests will be run for every selected hole Invalid Include hole associations that have any bad references invalid references or invalid data Panels Select holes in panels Apply Filter Refreshes the Hole Report according to the element and filtering options selected Note It is necessary to select Headings required on the report before clicking on Apply Filter because heading data is collected when filters are applied Report Select headings required on the report from three categories information about the hole Headings information about the penetrated item and information about the penetrating item Preview Displays Managed Hole Report window The Managed Hole Report window displays the specified report You can use grid column functions to sort and filter columns before printing or exporting the report Select Print Preview to view the report or select Export to Excel to export it Right click the Hole Associations list to display the
101. bed above This form allows you to access various tasks which administer all aspects of a new Specification The current version is primarily intended for use with piping specifications and may not always be suitable for other specifications Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 8 60 12 1 1 9 PDMS Design 9 1 Model Editor 9 1 1 Offset From Feature option This new option has been added to the popup menu for the following Model Editor modes Model Editor Equipment Editing Quick Pipe Routing and Pipe Component Modification Enter Value Align with Feature Snap to Point Move Handle Cancel Selecting it gives the user a form to specify the offset and then pick the relevant feature rThrough Ppoint e 9 1 2 Structural primitives Primitives owned by structural elements can now be edited in a similar way to Equipment Editing with a right click on the selected item Edit Members of SUBSTRUCTURE Select De Select All De Select Current Hide Remove From 3D View Zoom To Walk To Cancel Primitives owned by the following additional element types are affected STRU SUBS VOLM SVOLM PTRA AREADE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 61 12 1 1 Move Drag Move and Plane Move Commands The Piping Equipment HVAC and old cable tray application now have new positioning menus Structural move commands are unchanged The new forms provide a WRT gadget to allow di
102. ble or SLOTAB that can be referenced by the SLOREF of a SPEC PIPE or BRANCH to specify default minimum and maximum slope The introduction of these new concepts has no effect on existing Cats amp Specs or models The new features are used in Quick Pipe Routing and also for sloping existing orthogonal piping The Paragon GUI has been extended to cover Slope Tables The pipe creation form has an additional option for selecting from a list of slopes and the modify pipe form has the same option for setting branch values The older pipe and branch modification forms have also been changed to include new options for slopes Note If the SLOREF attribute is set at pipe level it is automatically inherited by new branches Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 71 12 1 1 The Model editor has been extensively revised to handle elbows as well as bends and the new P point options as well as adding slope options to the menus A new form can assist in applying a slope to an existing pipe including all the branches within it To display it navigate to an existing pipe and select Modify gt Pipe Slope For full details please refer to the Piping User Guide 10 2 2 Direct setting of Insulation Thickness amp Material This allows the piping designer to choose piping insulation of a given thickness and material rather than setting the temperature and spec for automatic selection New sample insulation specifications are provided
103. bled To determine if a Database can support Link Documents the attribute ISLNKD can be queried The attribute DBLNKP can be queried to determine if the update process will scan this database for link documents The Global update process will scan all relevant databases to determine what linked documents to propagate to the remote location Link Documents are applied to the database through the creation if a LNDESC element The scan will select all link documents that have the LNKPRP attribute set to SEND The document is referenced via the URL link which must have the format file lt pathname gt The file specified by lt pathname gt must exist at both the source and destination locations Usually this is best achieved using an Environment variable to hide installation differences Link Documents fully support the use of spaces in path filenames The Update process only propagates documents that are not present at the remote location It does not support documents that have changed and as a result these will not be propagated over the top of the previous version However it is possible to force the propagation of link documents by using the following command in Admin SYNCHR lt dbname gt LINKDOC FORCE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 7 56 12 1 1 Note There is no UI to support this command This method could be used to distribute the Units settings file for a Global project see section 5 2 2 Any
104. c and square metres for metric projects or cubic feet and square feet for imperial projects At PDMS 12 1 additional units are added for elevations densities volumes and areas If the corresponding files ELEVATION DENSITY VOLUMES and AREAS do not exist suitable defaults are chosen depending on the type of project As elsewhere units are now shown for values As different units and precisions are used for different types of distance this can result in different units being shown on a single form 10 8 2 List of Connected elements To improve performance in Nuclear Concrete Design it is now possible to hide the list of connected elements in the main window This can be changed using the Create list with all connected elements toggle at the bottom of the pop up menu on the main form The administrator can change the default to hide the list by creating a file called HIDECONNECTED in the concrete design sub directory of the project defaults directory Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 86 12 1 1 Create Flight Select structural element indicates read only World Building WALL SITE SAMPLE DES Material WALL_SITE C Level WALL_SITE Cic Group WALL_SITE C C STAIRS Stairs WALL_SITE C C STAIRS 01 v Automatic Add CE Add CE Add CE with Colour Add elements by name Add elements by type Remove CE Remove Al Remove elements by type Apply negatives See negatives No Screeds Include screeds Screeds only
105. cked in the previous state Note that this command is not directly related to the REVERT lt database name gt command available in Admin This command allows an entire database to be reverted to the state it had at a previous session 9 3 3 Change Highlighting via Extract Data Control The Extract Control dialog has been enhanced to highlight outstanding changes in a child extract in the graphical view It can also highlight changes introduced to a child extract by a refresh operation The highlighting is controlled and customised within a Change Highlighting framebox shown below When the Outstanding in Extract checkbox is selected all changed elements in the child extract that have not yet been flushed or issued to the parent are highlighted if they appear in the current graphical view The Colour button allows selection of the change highlight colour using the standard colour palette The Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 64 12 1 1 highlighting is cleared when the dialog is closed or when a subsequent extract operation is performed using the dialog In the latter case the checkbox becomes unselected When the Introduced by Get All Changes checkbox is selected all elements that are changed by the next Get All Changes action or Flush or Issue actions if these include Get All Changes are highlighted if they appear in the current graphical view The same highlighting colour is used as for
106. copy is required for the DB and therefore neither is re adding to the MDB structures required Using RECONFIG SESSIONS in the FROM phase of the reconfigure operation will preserve both the sessions and references Summary Locally Encoded Legacy Databases e can be opened for read access in both PDMS 12 1 and earlier versions of PDMS e can be opened for write access in both PDMS 12 1 and non Unicode versions of PDMS but the range of characters which may be used is restricted to the set defined by the project settings e require that the project settings are correct so that characters can be interpreted correctly e can be reconfigured to a Unicode encoded database Unicode Encoded Databases cannot be opened for read or write access in versions of PDMS prior to 12 1 e can store the full range of Unicode characters available in PDMS 12 1 2 8 9 Units of measure Distance and bore units are handled in much the same way as before and should need no conversion Other attributes will now be converted to and stored in appropriate units The table in section 4 2 1 shows the database units which are used they are thought to be the most commonly used unit Where a database has stored all quantities of a dimension in the appropriate unit the new functions can be used without upgrade Attributes other than distances and bores have the UNIT field set for the first time in previous versions of PDMS they were until now stored as values with no specified
107. ctions Exclusions Limits Options Report Navigate d Clash Item v o maze faro F1 PLANT FLR EA Total tems 22 There are also columns for the primary element that clashes or obstructs any column can be dragged in the grid to group rows for example Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Navigate Clash Item D ash item a Obstructer A gt D Clashed 4 x a Y a A gt As A gt Fi Clash 100 B 2 B1 1 item 100 C 12 B2 1 item 100 C 13 B1 2 items 50 B 9 B1 2 items 50 B 9 B3 1 item 80 4 11 B1 4 items 80 B 14 B1 1 item 80 B 7 B1 1 item kate cle Total tems 22 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 82 12 1 1 The example groups all clashes per branch and then clashes against the same obstruction This is a common useful grouping so there is an option to set the default presentation Clashes Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Reset System Defaults Tolerances Clash colours Touch Gap Major clash items Hi brightred Overlap Obstruction items tomato Clearance View Background white Clash options Clashes Ignored Within Touches are included v PIPE CO sTRU 4 Clashes within branch are included v C BRAN O suss Connections are included x Cetra O FRMWw Fi Clash midpoint positio
108. d can therefore have a significant effect on performance Increasing its size is likely to reduce the amount of network I O so in generally a larger buffer will improve performance However if it is larger than the available memory paging will increase thus offsetting some of the advantages Previous versions of PDMS 12 have limited the buffer to between 32 000 and 51 200 000 integers with a default of in general only 12 800 000 This corresponds to a default of 50 and a maximum of 200 Mbytes with modern PCs most customers found it best to use the maximum value set by use of the BUFFER command in Admin These values have been increased at PDMS 12 1 it may now be set to between 20 Mbytes and Gbyte Default buffer size The default buffer for modules in a new project is now Monitor 20 MBytes Admin Specon Propcon Isodraft Lexicon 200 Mbytes DARs Toolbox Design Draft Paragon Spooler 500 Mbytes Diagrams Schematic Model Manager Tags Specifying the Buffer Size The buffer may be set in Admin for each module or by use of an environment variable for all modules Buffer setting for each module in a project The setting for each program module is usually performed using the modmac mac file during project setup At a later date the ED MOD command may be used to change its value for one or more modules The value may be specified in Mbytes or integers 256000 integers means the same as 1 MByte For e
109. d change from application to application and project to project This flexibility can no longer be supported as storage units must be defined Database storage units have been set to those most commonly used but this will not be universally compatible The UNITS NUMERIC command is introduced for compatibility UNITS NUM ERIC dimension is used to suspend unit conversions on input and output for attributes of the nominated dimension that is e No conversion from the stored value will be made on output Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 34 12 1 1 e No unit qualifying strings will be appended to output values e Input values with no qualifying unit strings will be stored without conversion in the database e If input values have a unit qualifying string a conversion factor will be applied This is of particular value to users who wish to continue storing and using attribute values as now and especially when the values stored are assumed by their system to be in units that are DIFFERENT to those now being assumed by PDMS The system also supports UNITS NUMERIC DISTANCE for completeness When a fundamental dimension s unit is NUMERIC all derived dimensions that use this fundamental dimension will also be treated as NUMERIC For example setting NUMERIC MASS will force densities and pressures to be numeric irrespective of the currently set distance units Derived units can have their units set to NUM
110. d from external sources and exported to external applications by using Excel Import Export utilities AVEVA NET Integration Engineering data can be exported to AVEVA NET Reports Project quality formatted reports can be created direct from the Dabacon databases As Engineering is based on the same platform as the 3D and Schematics tools it is very easy to combine data from these sources into common reports Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 15 115 12 1 1 Tags AVEVA Engineering Project SAM Home Data Management View Admin Line Tog Tag Status 8 Promote M Hitoy ER FA a e pe 35 Excel Import A Demote Statistics Ge 5 e R Issue 5 8 Excel Export gt Approved 75 amp Highlight History Claim Refresh State Publish to Compare Edit Ix Remove Drop AVEVANET Update Link Status Actions Changes AVEVA Integration Import Export Orig P amp ID 100 B 1 N00 B 2 150 A 3 1200 B 4 1250 B 5 180 B 7 150 B 9 DE D 140 B 10 180 A 11 HOO C 13 00 C 12 STABILIZER STABILIZER STABILIZER STABILIZER STABILIZER STABILIZER STABILIZER 11 51 2003 P1502 11 51 2003 C1101 11 51 2003 100 B 2 11 51 2003 C1101 11 51 2003 E1301 11 51 2003 1302A 11 51 2003 P1501A B STABILIZER 11 51 2003 C1101 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 01201 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 50 B 9 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 80 B 14 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 E1301 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 D1201 180 B 14 STABILIZER 11 51 2
111. delled as COUP elements When a penetration component is required select From Pipe Spec in the Specification pull down and select Marker Type COUP Specification From Pipe Spec x Marker Type COUP v The CHOOSE form is displayed showing the couplings available from the piping specification Select the required component and click the OK button Note In the sample MAS project an example of a pipe penetration component can be found in category MACB20OR CHOOSE COUP Setting SPRE Current bore 0 00 From Spec SP DRO C Connections are OFF PBORI STYP SHOP Component Description 150 00 MACB200 TRUE PENETRATING WATERTIGHT BLKHD A DECK PIECE 1 0254 T37 0 150 00 MACB201 TRUE PENETRATION SLEEVE STRAIGHT THROUGH 1 0254 ST37 0 150 00 MACB202 TRUE PENETRATION SLEEVE HALF HALF 1 0254 ST37 0 150 00 MACB2OR TRUE PENETRATING WATERTIGHT BLKHD amp DECK PIECE SLOPING 1 0254 ST37 0 The Hole Management Definition form is displayed If a suitably configured piping component is selected it can be placed on either side of the penetrated plate an additional Flip Side button appears on the form Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 78 12 1 1 Positioning X Offset 0 Y Offset 0 Rotation D g Flip Side Click on the Flip Side button to place the piping component on the other side of the penetrated plate S2 CH Centre Flange FITTIN
112. dically Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 15 117 12 1 1 15 2 Schematic Model Manager 15 2 1 Use of units Schematic Model Manager now uses the new units capabilities rather than its former specific units functions This means that imported data is automatically converted to the appropriate units chosen for the project In the Project Options dialogue the Units tab has been removed The specific Units UDAs have been removed from the default file and will no longer be populated on import Users can choose to use them but will need to set them up as required The Attribute Type is no longer needed in the Attribute Mapping file so has been removed from the Attribute Mapping UI 15 2 2 Units upgrade Schematic data imported prior to 12 1 must be upgraded A check is performed automatically on entry to Schematic Model Manager and the user will be warned if an upgrade is required The upgrade process must be carefully considered by project administrators as it can affect multiple projects and locations Firstly schematic data is scanned to identify changes required Secondly UDA definitions are updated for the appropriate units Thirdly the changes identified are applied to the schematic data Please refer to the Schematic Model Manager User Guide for full details of this process 15 2 3 Change Highlighting in Diagram Changes in Diagrams may now be highlighted in Diagrams Schematic Model Manager and Tags using a n
113. e to return all elements of a given type e Improved Dabacon performance including changes to its memory buffer more efficient claim release and reading writing more than one page record at a time see also section 3 7 1 Work in this important area is on going A Database accuracy The accuracy of large numbers notably coordinates was increased for PDMS 12 0 Coordinates should now be accurate up to the limit of the spatial map 100 km but design graphics can show some glitches close to this limit The limit in PDMS 12 0 of 21 km for Isodraft has been relaxed for this release see section 12 3 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 9 12 1 1 2 1 5 Application update and consistency 2 2 There are many enhancements to the user interface aimed at improving its ease of use and also its consistency between the various different functions and disciplines Improvements include the ability to save 3D views enhancements to piping functions including sloping lines an enhanced Clasher GUI improved hole creation Changes have also been made to improve the way that the system works on Windows 7 with a variety of different locales PDMS 12 1 Many enhancements detailed in chapters 9 to 12 including the following 2 2 1 Design e Many improvements notably to model editing sloping pipelines hole management and change highlighting e A new standard model library and a much enhanced clash det
114. e Description Element Types Access to the full Editor is gained by selecting Element Views from the dropdown list in the View Definition Set area For details please refer to the Tags User Guide Database Views are created automatically to represent element type structures so that users don t have to define them to make element information accessible to the generic reporting tool This means there is already a Database View for equipment elements with their attributes defined in columns 6 4 4 General The User Interface has been changed to help with maintenance and improve consistency In particular the following have changed s New menu on the menu bar s Explorer right click menu now consistent with other modules s Edit Members on the Explorer menu s New element types which have changed the contents of the Explorer Current Element editor and ElementType editor 6 5 Admin GUI changes for Global 6 5 1 Global support for Linked documents Global has been extended to include support for linked documents by propagating any document marked as propagating between two locations By default the propagation of Linked documents is disabled To enable the propagation of Linked Documents switch on the Propagate Link Documents setting under the Project menu in Admin Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 49 12 1 1 EX Admin AVEVA PDMS Admin elements Information Font Families TrueT
115. e and highlighting changed elements in the 3D graphical view The Model Changes Add in is activated and de activated via menu option Query gt DB Changes This replaces the previous DB Changes option though this function is still available via Utilities gt DB Listing see below The Add in is shown in its default layout below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 65 12 1 1 PDMS Design General Application AVEVA Plant Project Basic 3D View 1 Edit View Selection Query Settings Utiities Create Modify Delete Window Help Filter Hangers amp Supports x G Design WOHL amp SITE ATEST H Q ZONE ZONE1 CIVILS H Q ZONE ZONE1 STEELW mp e ZONE ZONE1 EQUIP Ge ZONE ZONE1 PIPES mr DRAW SYSTEM ISO ka DATU DATUMGRID E PIPE PIPE1 T T T1 AER I GASK1 JF FLAN 1 gt REDU 1 H Q SITE ATEST en SITE LEX SITE H Q SITE TAPTEST e H Q SITE NETWORKS 8 TPWL Penetration_Ten KR TPWL Concrete_Temp ml TPWL ROOM DESIGN H Q SITE Steel_Tempiste_ TPWL Ael Tempbte WA TPWL Walis amp Floors_Te APPLDW Sample_Pipe TPWL Equipment Applit TPWL STD EQUIPMED TPWL ADVIEQUIPMED 2 PCOM PIPE1 I GASK3 fp FLAN 19 03 1998 1 ce ver I GASK4 14 07 1989 1 FILT PIPEV FII Ge 14 07 1999 1 I casks 5 04 07 2000 1 El VALV PAD13 04 07 2000 1 Ib GASK6 01 03 2010 1 Del VALV DEEN BEE l It Gee H SS 01 03 2010 1 Of VFWAPIPEIN 02 03 2010 0 fi cask
116. e default value for the Automatic Pads option can be set On or Off in the MDS Admin Data form under the top bar menu Modify gt MDS Application Defaults 10 10 3 Updating client project defaults From time to time new or updated component standards will become available in the MDS catalogue Where users are maintaining their own application defaults databases these changes will not be immediately available because they need to be added to the database A new upgrade tool allows the MDS administrator to update existing standards or add new ones This is useful for users upgrading from a previous version of a project or continuing work on a project that uses a copy of a previous version s MDS APPDEFAULTS database The Check MDS Application Defaults tool is a new feature in the Utilities menu of the Paragon module and is available to administrators who belong to team CATADMIN For details please see the Multi Discipline Supports Administrator Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 88 12 1 1 11 PDMS Drawing Production A number of improvements have been made to PDMS DRAFT and its associated applications 11 1 Extended hatch patterns This development has three components e An additional 12 system defined Fill Styles or patterns bringing the total to 30 These cover patterns such as brickwork and concrete and are shown in Fig 8 6 of the updated DRAFT User Guide e Creation of user defined Fill S
117. e is allocated to this location but is primary elsewhere SR indicates the database is in transit from this location under a pending transaction Database Distribution Database Distribution indicates the database is foreign and allocated to this location Name lt DB gt SAMPLE PADD lt DB gt SAMPLE PPROJCATA lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDESI lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDESIGN lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDRAFT lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDRAFTM lt DB gt X SAMPLE XMANTEST lt DB gt X SAMPLEDXDRAFT lt DB gt X SAMPLEDOXDRAFT lt DB gt X SAMPLEDOOXDRAFT lt DB gt X SAMPLE YDESIGN lt DB gt X SAMPLESYDRAFT lt DB gt STATIDESI lt DB gt STAT DICT DB Number Filename HUB EDD MAW OFF 7201 SAMO00 sam7201 _0001 7600 SA4M000 sam7600_0001 7200 I SAMO00 sam7200_0002 15 IASAMO00 sam0015_0002 14 IASAMO00 sam0014_0002 IASAM000 sam0016_0002 IASAMO00 sam0004_0002 IASAMO00 sam0014_0003 IASAMO00 sam0014_0005 SAMO00 sam0014_0004 SA4M000 sam0015_0003 SAMO00 sam001 4_0006 SAMO00 sam0013_0001 SAM000 sam001 2_0001 Sort By Name v Fitter Make selected databases primary at R Clear Selection Name lt LOC gt Hub SAMCENTRAL lt LOC gt EDSAT lt LOC gt MARTIN lt LOC gt OFFCENTRE lt LOC gt SAMLAPTOP Location Id HUB EDD MAM OFF LAP Connection Administered By Description On Adm LOCAL SAM central hub On Adm HUB Ed satellite On Uninitialis
118. e language pack Reporting Default values in cells When a value is not found the error text Error is given In the UDA definition there is a default value defined which should be in the report Workaround This workaround removes Error from the report field and replaces it with empty string 1 Select the cell label or control in report designer 2 Add the script for before print select new when creating script for the first time 3 Change the text from Error to desired string as below private void label8 BeforePrint object sender System Drawing Printing PrintEventArgs e i if label8 Tezt Error label8 Text Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 134 12 1 1 Reporting document fails to attach to the mail This occurs for PDF files only when you have a Unicode character in the filename it does the save but doesn t send it to Outlook The workaround is to attach to email or right click the file to send it manually Quick Report exception thrown Doing a quick report and then using the HTML VIEW tab throws an exception AA Exception of type DevExpress XtraPrinting Native WordFormatterException was thrown This occurs only with a large number of columns so the report cannot accommodate them within the visible area Large length Reports fail to export at certain formats A 509 page report exports as PDF CSV and TEXT but fails for all other formats If you run
119. e program files and some of these data folders Additional dialogs enable the user to control these better Upgrading from earlier releases 2 8 1 Upgrade overview A number of the enhancements made at PDMS 12 1 require an upgrade to the database Each of these individual changes is referred to as a Part Upgrade In normal use the whole project will be upgraded to the latest version though each part upgrade are in general designed to be optional in that the 12 1 software can work with a database that has not been upgraded and the software will degrade gracefully that is the software will continue to work although some new functions may not be available This means that it is possible for customers to continue to work with Foreign DBs which may be shared with 12 0 or earlier projects and which have not been upgraded included in their projects An example would be a Corporate Catalogue DB used for 12 0 and multiple projects Databases which have not been upgraded will however be read only The following warning will appear when opening an MDB from a project that has not been upgraded Warning xl There are databases with an upgrade number that does not correspond to the upgrade number of this software 12010103 There are 2 databases that are not upgraded to current version They are opened as read only This warning or similar indicates that the project needs to be upgraded to the latest version in order to allow write acce
120. ection utility 2 2 2 Drawing Production 2 3 Draft e Extended line styles and hatch patterns e Improved export to CAD formats DXF DWG DGN e An updated Isometric ADP add on application Isodraft Improvements to Piping isometrics include TrueType fonts new output file formats and production of pipe spool PSPOOL isometrics Other Plant Design Products 2 3 1 Multi Discipline Supports MDS Integration with new Cable Tray features 2 3 2 Global 2 4 Earlier releases of AVEVA Global used Remote Procedure Call RPC for communication between locations A new option to use Windows Communication Foundation WCF in its place was introduced with PDMS 12 0 SP6 6 Global can now use the wide variety of security configuration options provided by WCF providing improved daemon security and robustness Global can now optionally propagate Linked documents which are marked appropriately These documents must be defined using a file URL and any folders used must already exist Plant Engineer Products 2 4 1 Engineering A new AVEVA Engineering product has been introduced together with the release of AVEVA Plant 12 1 This new product includes a new Tags module as well as a new Dabacon database type designed and optimized for Engineering data For more information please see the AVEVA Engineering and Administration sections Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 10 12 1 1 The Engineering product
121. ed Adm LOCAL Martin satellite Off Adm LOCAL Offline location On Adm HUB Sample satellite on laptop Change Primary Location By selecting a number of databases and a location it is possible to change all those databases to be primary to the selected location Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 51 12 1 1 Database Distribution Database Distribution Name Type DB Number Location Description HUB CAM a lt DB gt ADMIN ASLCONFIG DESI 7596 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt ADMIN PADD PADD 7203 PROJECTHUB unset IPROJECTHUB lt DB gt ASSOC ASSOC DESI 7598 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt CATSICATA CATA 7161 JPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt CATS DESI DESI 7160 IPROJECTHUB unset JcDB CATSIPADD Papp Ing PROJECTHUB unset s DEMO DES DESI 730 PROJECTHUB unset e i Ef kp DEMOPADD Papp Va PROJECTHUB unset J of lt DB gt EQUI DESI DESI 7145 IPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt EQUVEQUITMPL DESI 7015 IPROJECTHUB unset JcDB gt EQUUPADD _ PaDD 7146 ROJECTHUB unset J H kp HANGER DESI PBL Tag E unset f E O O E lt DB gt HANGER PADD PADD 7111 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt HVAC DESI DESI 7120 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt HVAC PADD PADD 7121 JPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt MASTERJASLCATA CATA 7010 0 0 unset ii lt DB gt MASTERIASSOCDEFN DESI 7027 0 0 unset amp lt DB gt MASTERICABLECATA CATA 7021 0 0 unset lt DB gt MASTERICABLEPROP
122. ed for a Penetrating piece For details please see the ISODRAFT Reference Manual section 3 27 Symbol Key Reference Index 12 8 Setting Units in Options files Isodraft loads the current units setting when the user enters the module but has its own units for defining bore and distance on Isometrics these are built into the individual Isodraft options files There is no change are to the way that bore and distance units are output but changes have been made to define the units required for some additional items Previous versions of Isodraft output units for Weight Pressure and Temperature these will be interpreted in current units and converted to the correct output value For example Pressure is stored in Pascals but the user may require the equivalent in bar on the iso To ensure this the options file needs to contain the required output settings This is done by adding a block of code for setting units at the end of the options file Each time an Iso is created the options file is run as a macro so appending the correct units settings to this will ensure that Isodraft enter the detailing process with the correct units settings loaded The process of modifying the option file will automatically append the current units so each option file can potentially redefine the current units The standard option setting process is to select Options gt Modify from the main Isodraft menu bar to show the Modify Options form After selecting an options file
123. eessaeeeeaeeeeeeee 17 136 Wee GIOD Ag EE 17 136 17 3 SAMPLE MODEL CHANGES SINCE PDMS 130 17 137 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd vi 12 1 1 Revision History Date Description September 2011 21 09 2011 12 00 00 Initial release of 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd vii 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd viii 12 1 1 AV VA AVEVA Plant 12 1 User Bulletin 1 Introduction 1 1 About this software release AVEVA Plant Suite 12 1 is a major update from 12 0 PDMS and many of the associated products have been enhanced PDMS 12 1 along with many of the other products in the AVEVA Plant portfolio is supplied on a DVD R which self installs using standard Microsoft installation procedures The full software suite is usually loaded onto individual PCs running Windows with the license server and file loaded onto a networked Windows server 1 2 About this manual This manual gives an overview of changes since the previous major release PDMS 12 0 It is aimed primarily at users upgrading from that release those upgrading from earlier releases of PDMS should also read the PDMS 12 0 User Bulletin preferably the edition issued with Service Pack 6 This bulletin also covers many of the associated products supplied on the same DVD R These products fall into 3 families Engineer Design and Manage and these groupings
124. eesseeeecesseeescenseeeseensessonans 8 59 leie Weg 8 59 PARAMETERISED DETAILSTEXT sis cctcheusicecactoaatcnsvnaaebasvenanccavaanectareatucaneasnenacveaay conweatecncroaastinvnanens 8 59 COPY BUTTON FOR STRUCTURAL CATALOGUE ssssssennnenssesieinninnsteririinnnnssrrrrirnnsnssrrirernnnnsennt 8 59 CREATION OF STRUCTURAL SPECS n nsenseeniinaseesirernnnnsserirernnnasenrirernnnnssnrrrernnnasenrirernnnnnenne 8 60 PDMS DESIGN WE 9 61 MODEIEDITOR Ss geet dete ca Ee Eege te ee ee e 9 61 Offset From Feature option cccccecceceeeeeeeeeeaeceeeeeeeeeeeaeaeeeeeeesesecaeaeeeeeeeseesenieeeeeeeeeeees 9 61 Eelef OMINITIVES EE 9 61 Move DRAG MOVE AND PLANE MOVE COMMANDS nssssisssesssssssesesesesesnsnsnsasnsnsesasnsnsnsnsnsasesenne 9 62 Summary of Move Drag Move and Plane Move options ssssssssssnnssesrrnsennnnnennnnnenn nenene 9 62 CHANGE HIGHLIGHTING AND BEVERSION 9 63 Enhanced User Interface for SESSIONS ccccccccccccsecececececececeeecececeeececaeacacueeeauaeeeauanaeaness 9 63 Revert Elements Commande 9 63 Change Highlighting via Extract Data Control 9 64 Change Highlighting via Model Changes Add in 9 65 ENHANCED ATTRIBUTE EXPORT TO REVIEW ccccccccccccececececececececacececececesacacacaceeesaeaeaeaeaeaeanass 9 69 WEIGHT AND CENTRE OF GRAVITY COFG FORMEN 9 70 DRAFT EXPLORER iiiiccivcutsuctiQtandecvavbenkavSbsuenh ee EEN 9 70 AVEVA MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT INTERFACE 9 70 Copyright 1974 to current year AVE
125. ematic Model Viewer o Display criteria for selection of shapes o Display text o Icon png file o Stencil shape For More Information please see User Guide Diagrams Schematic Model Viewer Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 106 12 1 1 14 9 Split Merge for SCBRAN Split Merge functions for SCBRAN are now available in Diagrams To join two branches please select two valid connectors and execute the Join lt LineType gt Branch option from toolbars or menus Join Pipe Branches P amp ID Object Data Shape Wii a Create Pipeline OF join P pe Lines bei Gf Join Pipe Branches i Create HVAC line wt loin HYAC Lines GF Join HVAC Branches Instrumentation Refit Ctrl F6 Refit Ctrl F6 CO Resize Ctrl FS Gi Resize Ctrl F5 rE Reverse Direction a4 SpecSearch Set SCSTYP Ga Reverse Direction Off Page Connector D Nozzle Specification If the join is not possible the system will notify the user in the System Message log To split branches use the Branch splitter symbol this works in the same way as Line splitter 14 10 Setting SCVALV GTYP to INST rather than VALV It is now possible to use INST as a GTYP on SCVALV elements instead of VALV VTWA or VFWA To achieve this the master shape must have the Classify as Instrument GTYPE INST option checked on the Edit Import master dialog Edit Master Wizard step 1 of 4
126. ems Operating Parameters 2 items Positional 2 items Specification 3 items Surface Treatment 2 items D tem 1 item Attributes displayed in a list Attributes displayed by Category 5 8 3 Auto naming utility enhancement This utility has been enhanced to allow the formulation of a name to use an IFTRUE statement which is a PMLI facility For example if you wish to make up a name based on attributes of a PIPE you can use the following PML2 autonaming rule ce fluref namn amp amp ce pspec namn amp amp ce ispec namn amp amp index psp However this rule will fail if any of the attributes FLUREF PSPE ISPE have not been set You can now use the IFTRUE function in PML1 form to do the same by using the following rule Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 43 12 1 1 iftrue badref fluref unset namn of fluref amp amp iftrue badref pspec unset namn of pspe amp amp iftrue badref ispe unset namn of ispe amp amp index Please note that the whole Format must be PML 1 concatenated with the amp It is not possible to mix PML1I and PML2 functions The result of this rule can be seen below Naming Rules Data Input Key Pipe names Scan Level Rule Name i E Element Rules Description Format true badref fluref unset namn of fluref 3 17 amp iftrue badref pspec unset namn of
127. encodings are currently supported Unicode UTF8 Unicode UTF 8 UTFI6LE UTF 16 little endian UTFI6BE UTF 16 big endian UTF32LE UTF 32 little endian UTF32BE UTF 32 big endian ISO LATIN1 ISO8859 1 LATIN2 ISO8859 2 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 119 12 1 1 LATINS ISO8859 5 Cyrillic Windows code page CP932 CP936 CP949 CP950 CP 1250 CP1251 CP 1252 Japanese Shift JIS Simplified Chinese GBK Korean Traditional Chinese Big5 Central European Cyrillic LATIN 1 some extras beware For backwards compatibility with legacy PDMS Projects JAPANESE CHINESE KOREAN TCHINESE Japanese Shift JIS Simplified Chinese EUC Korean EUC Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan for example EUC 16 1 2 Transc exe Transc exe is a stand alone executable program which is used to convert files between different character encodings It may be used for example to convert the default UTF 8 output format to a local format which may be useful if third party systems do not support Unicode Care must obviously be taken to ensure that all characters are available in the target encoding Details of the command line arguments may be found using the command Transc h or Transc Transc L A list of available encoding names or code pages is available using 16 1 3 Removal of X escape sequences The use of Unicode means that the Command Processor X escape facility X X and X is
128. ented out activate all the code lines after the header and ensure that the application is shown on the menu showOnMenu TRUE 2 11 2 Hangers amp Supports H amp S The recommended application for Pipe Hangers amp Supports is the Multi Discipline Supports MDS add on product The old Hangers amp Supports application will be removed at a future release but is available hidden at PDMS 12 1 It can be reactivated by a simple edit to the PML file PDMSUI des addins supp This file is all commented out activate all the code lines after the header and ensure that the application is shown on the menu showOnMenu TRUE 2 11 3 PDMS Plotfiles The PDMS plotfile format has served its users well over the years but has remained unchanged for many years Its scope is quite limited and it cannot cope with some of the more complex documents we now wish to produce In particular it cannot handle text that uses TrueType fonts It was decided that it was more sensible to adopt one or more standard formats rather than extend the plot file Any existing programs using the plotfile would in any case have to be radically changed PDMS 12 can output Adobe s PDF the Windows enhanced meta file EMF and a variety of bit map formats such as TIFF Ii is anticipated that the use of plotfiles in PDMS will largely be replaced by the EMF and its use for output by PDF The EMF is an integral part of Windows and its printing system its use will have the
129. er Clash Manager is also available as a stand alone product AVEVA PML Publisher Allows encryption of PML scripts thereby enabling the use but not the modification of users PDMS applications AVEVA SQL Direct Enables SQL queries on PDMS data thereby simplifying integration of PDMS data into Office applications such as Excel AVEVA QUERY Allows PDMS applications written in PML to access ODBC databases to read or write their data and use it in PDMS applications AVEVA Plant version 12 1 1 The first general release of version 12 1 is 12 1 1 for release in September 2011 This release includes extensive updates to the handling of local language and units of measure as well as many other enhancements listed in this document A new reporting add in see section 4 6 also provides a new method of publishing data to AVEVA NET New products at version 12 1 include 2 new Plant Engineer products e AVEVA Engineering based on PDMS technology e AVEVA Electrical based on AVEVA Instrumentation technology AVEVA Engineering incorporates Schematic Model Manager it also includes a new TAGS module and a new Engineering Database AVEVA Electrical and AVEVA Instrumentation are supplied separately from the main AVEVA Plant DVD their release may be at a later date AVEVA Isometric ADP Automated Drawing Production has been extensively updated and is now available for use with PDMS 12 1 AVEVA Final Designer has been wi
130. erleaf List Editing Grid based editing of list data in the new ENGI database List views can be set up Project Wide by administrators It is also possible for regular users to create and use their own specialized layouts This includes grouping filtering and bulk editing capabilities Multi discipline concurrent engineering By using the new Distributed Attributes and Database Views mechanisms it is possible to allow true parallel work between different disciplines even on the same object Navigation In addition to the list editing it is also possible to navigate the engineering or system hierarchy to find and edit individual items Data Management functions A number of management functions such as Status Control Change Highlighting Attribute History and Extracts are available to manage the lifecycles of engineering objects Change Highlighting It is possible to highlight and report on changes made by different users and disciplines This also includes highlighting of changes made in diagrams Diagram viewer A built in diagram viewer allows users to view and navigate P amp IDs and other schematics Compare amp Update Engineering data can be compared and updated against a number of other AVEVA sources such as Schematics 3D AVEVA Instrumentation etc see Compare Update It is also possible to compare individual items of the same kind against each other to find differences Excel Import Export Engineering data can be importe
131. ersions The Plant Portfolio is now divided into 3 groups of products named after the major activities Engineer Design Manage Many of the Engineer and Design products are built upon a common set of applications of the AVEVA Design Platform which includes the database technology and administrative applications 1 4 2 AVEVA Plant Engineer Products These schematic and engineering products create schematics diagrams datasheets engineering lists and indexes AVEVA Engineering Manages engineering data in an environment shared with the main AVEVA Plant Design tools Its main modules are e Tags which manages information associated with tagged items coordinating data from schematics and engineering products with the option of viewing the corresponding data in the design products e Schematic Model Manager which provides unrivalled features for the consolidation of all P amp ID data for a project independently of the P amp ID authoring tool AVEVA Instrumentation Four integrated program modules support the entire Instrumentation and Control system lifecycle from engineering and design through installation maintenance and modification AVEVA Instrumentation may be integrated with AVEVA Plant or AVEVA Marine or used as a stand alone application AVEVA Electrical A new product for Electrical Engineering based on the proven technology used in AVEVA Instrumentation AVEVA Electrical may be integrated with AVEVA
132. etting the current angle unit to any unit other than degrees but allow users to specify any angle unit in PML Format objects for presentation 16 5 6 Design and Catalogue Parameters Parameters may be set to real numbers dimensioned or undimensioned or to a WORD they may be set individually or as a block There has always been an issue when setting the whole block if a user wishes to Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 127 12 1 1 use a WORD that is also a units keyword such as FEET Now that there are more units keywords it is recommended that PML sets parameters individually which removes any ambiguity For example PARAM 200 200 FEE BWD is interpreted as PARAM 200 60960mm BWD So it is simpler to use the syntax PARAM NUM 1 200 PARAM NUM 2 200 PARAM NUM 3 FEE PARAM NUM 4 BWD Dimensions of Design and Catalogue parameters have not been stored in previous versions Even parameters representing a distance could only be identified when accessed using a DIST data property in a Dataset Parameter dimensions can now be specified when they are updated in the database but there is no requirement to force users to upgrade all parameters This means that when directly accessing a parameter value not using a DATA Property the result returned could be an undimensioned REAL value assumed to be in database units corresponding to the dimension of the parameter or it could be a dime
133. ew Diagram Change Highlighting add in Please see section 14 1 in the Diagrams chapter Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 15 118 12 1 1 16 Customisation amp PML Customers who use their own PML applications appware should be aware that some of the changes made for 12 1 may affect the operation of these applications In particular syntax changes have been made for the better handling of units of measure Every effort has been made to minimise any disruption but some changes are unavoidable Further information is given in the 2 0 to 12 1 Upgrade and Software Customisation manuals this is a summary 16 1 Unicode The command processor now supports Unicode characters and handling of text strings is almost entirely handled using Unicode All PML string variables support Unicode values You can use Unicode characters in PML variable names PML object form and gadget names PML method and function names It is recommended that PML language files should either be Unicode UTF 8 format with a byte order mark BOM present or else strictly 7 bit ASCII basic Latin format so that all characters can be reliably transcoded to Unicode Unicode UTF 16 or UTF 32 encoding big endian or little endian with BOM is also acceptable Other formats may contain characters that will not be recognised if the language is set to anything other than Latin Filenames and directory names can also contain foreign Unicode characters but may cau
134. ewton poundal dyne kgF IbF FoulingFactor FFAC m2 K W Frequency FREQ hertz rpm GaugePressure GAGE pascal bar atm PSI torr mmHg Pressure may be inHg absolute or gauge HeatCapacity ENTR J m HeatingValue HVAL J m3 HeatTransferCoeff HTRA W m2 K Impedance IMPE ohm Inductance INDU henry Inertia INER kg m2 KinematicViscosity KVIS m2 s Length DIST millimetre m in ft cm km mile yard micron thou angstrom LinearDensity PDIS mm 1 MagFieldintensity MFIN A m MagFluxDensity MFXD tesla MagneticFlux MGFX weber Mass MASS kilogram gram tonne pound oz longTon shortTon cwt MassFlow MFLO kg s Momentum MOME N s Permeability PMBT H m Permittivity PMTT F m Power POWE kiloWatt hp watt Pressure PRES pascal RadiationDose RDOS sievert radd rem gray Radioactivity RADY bequerel curie Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 33 12 1 1 Name of Dimension HashCode Database other specific units comment Word units Resistivity REST ohm m RotationalStiffness STFR N m rad SpecHeatCapacity SHCP N K SpecificEnergy SENG J kg Speed SPEE m s Stiffness STIF N m SurfaceDensity PSQD mm 2 Temperature TEMP degCelsius degF K degRankine TemperatureGradient TPDI degC mm ThermalConductivity TCON W m K ThermalResistance TRES K W Time TIME second min hr day month week year Torque TORQ N m UnitMass UMAS kg mm ViscosityDynamic VISC s Pa Volume CUDI mm3 litre ImpGallon USGallon bbl Mbbl MMbbl Volu
135. f Macro c pdms macro1 mac tw rubbish Called from line 1 of Macro c pdms macro2 mac an Save Support Info Smvc pdms macro1 mac 5 10 Infragistics toolkit PDMS 12 1 uses an updated Infragistics Netadvantage toolkit version 10 3 for its GUI The filenames of the Infragistics DLLs no longer include the version number which will make future upgrades easier Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 45 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 46 12 1 1 6 Administration 6 1 Engineering ENGI Database The Engineering database type has been added to the list for database creation Note that the top level database element for Engineering databases is ENGWLD It has also been added to the module definitions modmac mac and as appropriate in the other admin and global forms for selection sorting allocation etc 6 2 TAGS module definition The new TAGS module has been added to the product modules defined by modmac mac and therefore available for use 6 3 GUI improvements A number of features have been added to the GUI to improve its ease of use and make it more consistent with other modules For example 6 3 1 Import from Excel Data for Admin elements such as users teams etc may now be imported reliably from Excel This has resulted in three changes in behaviour e Access Control Assistant ACA is no longer hidden during Import and Rollback operations e The Export
136. f the current mass unit is pounds entering 2 5kg in a field identified as a mass quantity the value that appears in the field will be 5 511b 5 2 1 Current Session Units The Current Session Units selection form has been modified to handle these new units Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 39 12 1 1 Current Session Units Dimension Unit Distance Units Bore mm Mass kg Pressure pascal Temperature degC Force newton Energy kith Power ki Angle degree Time second Current ampere Voltage volt Example 1234 57mm Impedance ohm gt Millimetres lt Centimetres Metres Set Distance Unit This form is available in Design Draft Tags and Diagrams and is shown by selecting the menu command Settings gt Units It controls the current working units and the display of units of measure for most forms Individual fields on some forms may display values in specific units required by that application these fields are not controlled by this form Selecting a dimension on the dimension table shows the available units for that dimension and allows the current units for that dimension to be changed The current unit for each dimension is shown in the table When you enter dimensional data on forms the units applied are taken from default settings For distances and pipe bores these defaults can be set in the project catalogues as before This will determine whether imperial or metric distance and bore units
137. f the screen font size is not set to the smallest size which is usually default This setting is accessed from the Control Panel and is referred to as Normal in Windows XP or Smaller 100 in Windows 7 2 7 6 Graphics cards Due to the rapidly changing availability of hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics cards an up to date list of supported cards is not included in the documentation released with PDMS The AVEVA Product Support website accessible from http www aveva com IT Configuration section contains a list of tested and supported graphics cards Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 13 12 1 1 2 7 7 Environment variables 2 8 PDMS and some of the other products rely on the use of environment variables for various aspects of configuration notably the location of folders for project databases and user workspace There are points to bear in mind for both of these when setting up a user s environment e Write access is required for folders such as PDMSWK and PDMSUSER see section 2 7 2 e An environment variable such as SAMDFLTS which can be set to point to an empty folder if there is no variation from PDMSDFLTS is required to reference a folder for storing configuration details for each project This is now used in several circumstances including the start up of MDS Schematic 3D Integrator or any Engineering Schematic product The installer will now use different default locations for th
138. following pop up menu Navigate to the Association the penetrated or the penetrating item single selection only Add to 3D view Adds the selected holes and associated items Remove from 3D view Removes the selected holes and associated items Focus on Hole Zooms the 3D view to centre on the selected hole and zoom in Clipping is applied if it is enabled single selection only Export list to Excel Exports the report grid to Excel Print list Shows a standard grid print preview for the report grid Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 75 12 1 1 10 4 6 Configuration of Hole Management Data Additional hole size properties on piping and HVAC components are used to control automatic hole dimensions If these properties are not provided the system uses hole management default sizes e g OD for pipe holes Hole Management Design and Catalogue data configuration is as described in the Design Common Functionality User Guide with the addition of new data set properties on selected piping components The following properties are used to control automatic hole sizes Property Name Description DKEY AHDI Property specifying the diameter of the hole required for the component a REAL DISTANCE expression returning the hole diameter The property is used if 1 It is associated with a piping or HVAC component that clashes with the panel at the penetration For example
139. for A1A A3B and F1C 929 Unset PURP on PSI Spec removal from SPEC form 930 COCO for SP DRO7C and DRO7C for Wafer FITT ings 931 Incorrect heading order fix for SPECs in MASTER PIPECATA 938 MAR Area 3M_OUTFITSTEEL rebuilt for PPM examples 939 TRCLIN amp SFCODE settings for Steel Profiles enable PPM 941 Material not set on new components 942 Update Master Catalogue with DIN Weights 958 d065 file change all marine projects SB_SETTINGS_DB 962 SUBS Appended to the reflist of MDS UDA_MDSBRENCHES 963 MAR Add User SUPP to 3 additional Teams for MDS Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 137 12 1 1 964 Tapped Boss Connection correction to DIN Standards 965 HOLD Catalogue for GSC Use 967 SPECs DRO7C SP DRO7C Invalid INST deletion 968 Detail Text for ANSI Schedule Thickness 969 ANSI KG Weight Additions 970 ANSI KG Weight Update for ANSI Components 971 ANSI Pipe Spec Update for KG Weight 972 SPEC A150 Bends Weight Addition 973 Correction to hierarchy position for SCOM 974 PPM Raw Profile file update 975 Remove Module 94 MARINEDIAGRAMS all projects 976 Modified Pipe Sketch Opt file STD 977 Fix A3B EV50 and A3B MBEND 50 error from MC906 978 Add RRULs for Cabling 979 Mod to SAMPLE_HTEST DTL to i
140. gligence or otherwise arising in connection with the performance of the AVEVA software shall be limited to 100 of the licence fees paid in the year in which the user s claim is brought 1 6 Clauses 1 1 to 1 5 shall apply to the fullest extent permissible at law 1 7 In the event of any conflict between the above clauses and the analogous clauses in the software licence under which the AVEVA software was purchased the clauses in the software licence shall take precedence Copyright Copyright and all other intellectual property rights in this manual and the associated software and every part of it including source code object code any data contained in it the manual and any other documentation supplied with it belongs to or is validly licensed by AVEVA Solutions Limited or its subsidiaries All rights are reserved to AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries The information contained in this document is commercially sensitive and shall not be copied reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Limited Where such permission is granted it expressly requires that this copyright notice and the above disclaimer is prominently displayed at the beginning of every copy that is made The manual and associated documentation may not be adapted reproduced or copied in any material or electronic form without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Limited Subjec
141. gth with the stock length for that tube spec If the piece is longer the test will fail regardless of bending requirements e Compare the pipe piece length with the maximum pipe length for the bending machine assigned to this branch or pipe If it exceeds the machine defined value the test will fail These two tests will be performed in the order above and in addition to any other tests such as wall thickness corrosion etc The user will be notified of the success or the reason for the failure 10 2 5 Material search for Pipe Bending Machine setup A Search button has been added to allow the user to search for the appropriate material from all SMTE in catalogue or ISOLI in the Property database with Filters if required Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 72 12 1 1 10 3 Structures 10 3 1 Steelwork Connectivity Upgrade The user interface for connecting structural elements has been improved in various places to use event driven graphics EDG interaction In addition several operations now also work on GENSEC elements including curved members and UNDO is now available for some functions In particular a Connect Ends check box has been added to the form for creating Curved Section GENSEC elements This check box allows the user to specify whether they wish to connect the ends if a suitable start or end point is selected Curved Section Create Methods rrPoereee V Connect Ends Minor changes ap
142. h font This allows it to be used to show simple reports laid out using the lt space gt character The chosen font is Courier New TrueType because it has a reasonable selection of character glyphs nowhere near as extensive as the default variable width font Arial Unicode MS a TEXTPane qname tagte Aner to lt E ganch gt gt gt Ae Ke eer lt EQDOS gt S S 5 555 FIXCHARS FSE EE ACOE lt vshap gt gt managed gadget Example SETUP FORM TITLE textbug dialog dock right NoAlign VarChars Text input and output textbug Te LEXty DANG So aAA Sa PRA SSS ore Lote Oe POR Sa Oa EE ae so Path down hdist 1 vdist 0 1 Default variable spaced font textpane tpl text pane at xmin form anchor l r t wid 43 hei 9 define method initialise initialise on show add data into textpane s 1l 1 Ford Escort s 2 2 Ford Fiesta s 3 3 Vauxhall ova s 4 4 Vauxhall Astra s 5 5 Vauxhall Lotus s 6 16 LandRover RangeRover 62000 s 7 17 LandRover Defender 23999 this tpl val s See over for results Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 124 12 1 1 Variable spaced font pet 137 me ou pase zm f Fixed space font Force fixed spacing font textpane tpl text pane at xmin form anchor l r t FixChars wid 43 hei 9 2 Ford E
143. h other data sources such as Instrumentation e Fixed Shape Text and Label position For tube amp branch labels on Visio connectors when the option Use Control Handle is set and the text of a line is positioned using this the position will be kept when the line is split by inserting a component For all 2D shapes there is now a new Move label with 2D shapes setting in the Annotations section in Diagrams Options This allows the user to have labels with a fixed position for instance Equipment Data Block labels that will not move when the equipment item itself is being moved Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 113 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 15 114 12 1 1 15 AVEVA Engineering A new AVEVA Engineering product has been introduced with the release of AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine 12 1 This new product includes a new Tags module as well as a new ENGIneering Dabacon database type designed and optimized for Engineering data The Engineering product also includes Schematic Model Manager which is no longer sold as a separate product 15 1 Tags The new Tags module provides an easy to use and powerful user interface for engineering users allowing them to work on Engineering Lists amp Schedules and related data Some of the more prominent features and functions of the Tags module are as follows Easy to use User Interface Familiar Microsoft Office 2010 like UI See pictures ov
144. his release especially when installed on Windows 7 PDMS 12 0 will operate with less but system performance will be compromised A screen resolution of at least 1280x1024 is recommended though most users now use either two such screens or a wide screen 1920x1200 display For details please refer to the Systems Requirements Manual 2 7 2 Microsoft Windows Desktop PDMS 12 1 is supported for use on Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack SP 3 or on Windows 7 Business and Enterprise editions Service Pack 1 with appropriate patches A single 32 bit version of the PDMS system is available this is supported on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7 It is no longer supported on Windows 2000 indeed Microsoft no longer offers support for Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2 Please note that User Account Control UAC introduces new security restrictions at Windows 7 and Vista In particular this makes it important to ensure that files that need to be written are accessible by users without Administrator privileges This applies to folders specified by environment variables such as PDMSWK and PDMSUSER which are no longer installed by default with the program executables 2 7 3 Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet Explorer is required for the on line help system version 7 or 8 is recommended as version 9 does not currently work correctly See section 17 1 1 2 7 4 Microsoft NET Framework PDMS 12 1 requires Microsoft s NET F
145. ical View FX Reset Cell Feedback plore i wel D e ex aS Br Open Paste ete Gt Auto Size Columns Te Quick Report ve Database Lists and Schedules Clipboard Records Grid Actions Valves MechTags Lines Z Report Designer x Line Number Description System Description Line Size mm ma Line 2 The reporting functions are largely unchanged however there are some changes due to the implementation of more units handling The effect is that The units output for quantities other than distance will be the appropriate current working unit distances will be given in mm unless inch is specified When Units Conversion is set to Off quantities will have their units appended In this case distances will be in mm with mm appended for example a one inch distance will be shown as 25 4mm When Units Conversion is set to Any mm or Inch the units are not appended but are show as 25 4 or 1 Details are available as before in the Reporting Reference Manual GML Performance There are further improvements to the Geometric Modelling software used in PDMS aimed particularly at speeding up the drawing of data imported using the new Mechanical Equipment Interface Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 38 12 1 1 5 2 User Interface Entry to system Entry to the system has been changed to allow direct entry to any module without the need to go via Monitor The login form is presented w
146. idTypeaB Purpose Standard Model Library Description Skid Structure Type AB Cancel This creates a new element in a Library in the application data world APPLDW the library item is an APPLDA element in an APPDAR A similar form is used to modify these items Libraries Areas and Items are modified or deleted from a pop up menu on the same form C Toggle Name Description Library Environment Library Area Vehicles Library Wem Liquid Gas Tanker Modify Library Delete Library For full details please refer to the Design Common Functionality User Guide manual 10 7 Clash Utility enhancements The Clash utility uses a new form which shows all the options it uses a grid gadget for filtering and grouping and a 3D view of the clash with aid graphics Simple clipping navigation reporting and printing are also available Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 12 1 1 Clashes Check epes Clipping Check CE 2000 00 Clip Box SSES Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report V Navigate clash Wem v Drag a column header here to group by that column No Clash 4 Type Clash Item Obstructer 4 Clashed x YH ZHCHOH 163926 153928 15392 5 15392 9 15392 5 15392 5 ak CH 16392 9 153928 1639249 all 71838206
147. ils please refer to the Lexicon and Admin Command Reference Manuals 3 5 4 Top level element creation in specific database It is now simpler to ensure that top level elements are created in a specific database a DB keyword and name can be added to the NEW command Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 24 12 1 1 3 6 3 7 NEW element_type element_name DB database_name where element_name is also optional database_name is a full database name i e team database For example this command will create a new SITE named MYSITE in the MYTEAM MYDB database NEW SITE MYSITE DB MYTEAM MYDB Dynamic Groups A PMLI collection expression evaluated whenever the group is used may now be used to define a selection for a GPSET The SCOSEL attribute is used to store this selection for example SCOSEL ALL EQUI FROM CLAIMLIST More complex dynamic selections are possible for example ALL PIPE WHERE BORE GT 80 ALL BRAN MEMBERS WHERE SPREF EQ MYSPEC for SITE SITE1 There is a performance overhead in evaluating more complex selection expressions Database performance A number of enhancements have been made to the performance of the Dabacon database see also section 2 1 3 Those noted here are the most visible to users 3 7 1 Dabacon buffer The Dabacon buffer is used for temporary storage of data in local memory an
148. in PML variable names PML object form and gadget names PML method and function names It is recommended that PML language files should either be UTF 8 format with a BOM present or else strictly ASCII basic Latin format AVEVA application appware files are mostly ASCII at present Filenames and directory names can also contain foreign Unicode characters but may cause problems in other systems so it is recommended to keep to ASCII names This applies to some of the systems to which PDMS is interfaced and even to some of the interfaces where PDMS makes use of third party software such as output of DXF and DGN PML Publisher does not currently fully support Unicode filenames AVEVA has also encountered problems using files with non ASCII names in some development tools Further information is given in the PML section 16 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 29 12 1 1 4 1 4 Using Forms and Menus The default system font used by PDMS Forms and Menus F amp M is Arial Unicode MS which contains a large number of the world s alphabets Internally F amp M uses Unicode but can only display the characters accessible in its current system font You will be able to copy and paste Unicode characters from and to textual fields of F amp M gadgets This includes entering characters into the PDMS command window 4 1 5 Using TTY mode You can enter Unicode characters in Teletype TTY mode but the Console Window can onl
149. ince been deleted All Changes Since shows all changes that have been made in all databases in the MDB between but not including the selected session or stamp and the current state of the model This does include any unsaved changes Note that for large models this change analysis can take some time When the Refresh button is clicked and the change analysis operation is complete the explorer tree is updated with annotations which highlight the changed elements in detail An example is shown overleaf The annotations are as described in the Key pane in this example we can see that e The World element and SITE element ATEST are not themselves changed but have changed descendants This helps navigation to the changed parts of the element hierarchy e ZONE element ZONEEQUIP FROM A has member list changes only Since no new or re ordered elements are displayed it can be inferred that all child elements have been removed e CONE element CHANGETYPE UDET CONE A has been modified its type has been changed e EQUI element MOVE5 A VESS1 has been moved from the child list of ZONEEQUIP FROM A into the child list of ZONEEQUIP_TO_A e EQUI element CREATE A VESS1 has been created under ZONE element ZONE1 EQUIP thereby changing its member list 7 User Reason DB Type DB Name Comment 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housle
150. ing cable trays and supports including drafting AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator adds tight integration with the AVEVA Plant Engineer schematic and engineering data It should be noted that PDMS can read data from an AVEVA Marine Outfitting database but cannot read or write Hull data The main add on applications and interfaces are AVEVA Multi Discipline Supports MDS PDMS application for the design of all kinds of supports from a complicated framework with integral hangers to a simple U bolt A standard catalogue of pads sliding shoes straps and clips etc enables the design of consistent reliable and fully detailed hanger and support designs in the shortest possible time Automated production of fully dimensioned manufacturing drawings complete with data for fabrication and erection of the support including Material Take Offs and cut lengths AVEVA Nuclear Applications AVEVA Nuclear Concrete Design PDMS application for the design of complex concrete structures for nuclear power plant AVEVA Nuclear Room Manager PDMS application for managing nuclear power plant design by Room Volume or Area AVEVA Nuclear Concrete Quantities Calculation of the concrete volumes formwork surface areas and slab usable surface areas AVEVA Laser Model Interface LMI Brings as built 3D model data into the PDMS Design environment by interfacing with point cloud data from laser scanning systems AVEVA Area based Automatic Draw
151. ing Production ABA ADP Automated production of volumetric drawings using templates thus simplifying drawing update after changes to the PDMS model Ensures that up to date drawings are always available for maintenance work etc AVEVA Isometric Automatic Drawing Production Iso ADP Automates the production of fully annotated drawings of PDMS HVAC and Cable Tray including a bill of materials AVEVA OpenSteel Allows import and export of files in Structural Detailing Neutral Format SDNF format to and from PDMS Used for transferring data to and from 3D steel detailing packages such as Tekla Graitec and AceCad AVEVA Mechanical These interfaces import and export geometric models direct to and from PDMS Equipment Interface import and export equipment models using the standard STEP AP203 format other PDMS elements may also be exported in the same format AVEVA ImPLANT I Converts MicroStation 3D geometric model DGN files for input to PDMS or REVIEW can also translate associated Design Review DRV files for use in AVEVA Review AVEVA ImPLANT STL Converts stereo lithography STL files from mechanical CAD systems for input to PDMS AVEVA ExPLANT A Exports 3D geometric models from PDMS to an AutoCAD interchange DXF file which can be used to import 3D geometric models into AutoCAD or other suitable CAD systems AVEVA ExPLANT I Exports 3D geometric models from PDMS to a binary MicroSt
152. ions 10 7 1 Reports If a text report of the clashes is required this can be done by ticking the Export report to file toggle on the Report panel The report will be written to file each time a Check is performed Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 85 12 1 1 Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report OO er Export report to file Options Position Listing List O World O Site of accuses Type Check Duplicate BRAN EQul First O Second O Both FRMW HANG PIPE Levels Z REST Clashes Clearances Touches SBFR SITE STRU SUBE SUBS ZONE Report format Header Main Body C Numbering C Obstruction C Primary C Reference Summary Report to file File name SPDMSUSER iMy Report txt Other Changes to the Application e The old Clasher settings forms from Settings gt Clasher have been removed e The old Clasher form is removed but the Menu Utilities Clashes is still the same 10 8 AVEVA Nuclear Applications 10 8 1 Units Nuclear Applications allow the administrator to specify units and precision of three distinct types of distance those used to define stair angles those used in contour editor and those used elsewhere If the corresponding files CALCULATE EDITOR and DISTANCE do not exist sensible defaults are chosen depending on whether the project is metric or imperial For volume and surface area calculations units are in cubi
153. ions which are P lines of SCTNs A d Dimension Origin l This Angular Dimension could be created by by intersection typing the following commands starting at Layer level NEW ADIM Create new Angular Dimension element FROM DIR IDPL TO DIR IDPL Use cursor to pick P lines defining the first and second Dimension Directions DPOS Use cursor to pick a Sheet position through which the Dimension Arc will pass For full details please refer to the DRAFT User Guide section 12 6 Angular Dimensions which has been extensively revised 11 5 Enhanced P line Picking There is now an option for P lines to behave in a similar fashion to P points when creating annotation If enabled on a View P lines appear as the mouse passes over them so that they can be picked They can of course also be made part of the SCTN s permanently visible representation when required on the drawing The number of P lines drawn thus can be limited by use of their PVIF attribute as for P points Performance for Update Design when drawing sections with a large number of P lines will therefore be improved by making suitable adjustments to the catalogue Pseudo attributes PLVIFlag and PLVISibility equivalent to the PPVIF and PPVIS attributes are also available The behaviour for picking is as previous versions when the new option is OFF For full details please refer to the DRAFT User Guide 11 6 Improved performance of extrusions These e
154. ious projects Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 15 12 1 1 The projects will need to be locked for the duration of the upgrade with all Users out of the system The upgrade process will be Ensure all users have exited from project Lock project at all locations upgrade will check for this see below Disable Automatic update events if required Recommended but not essential Expunge all users in the system at the local location Flush data from Working extracts these will not be considered in Global projects they should be deleted Check project using DICE Integrity Checker If DICE reveals issues address them then re run DICE Administrator may want to unlock project while DICE issues are being addressed but will need to exclude all users and Lock project again before final DICE check 8 After clean DICE check 9 Back up project at all locations 10 Temporarily relocate all non Foreign DBs to their master s Primary location 11 Check for No Transient Databases 12 Upgrade the project at each location 13 Optionally Merge Sessions 14 Optionally Reconfigure for Unicode 15 DICE check project 16 Relocate extracts back to their original locations 17 Perform non framework upgrades if applicable 18 Unlock the project ed oa al ta a SE 2 8 6 Locking the Project The project as a whole cannot be locked only individual locations however it is possible to lock all online locations f
155. irely by making the number purely numeric 16 5 14 Dimension of REAL Expressions It is necessary to be able to test the dimension of REAL expressions to validate an expression before storing it in the database This might be used for example to test that an expression for a DDAT property is consistent with the PTYPE of that property The DIMWORD function returns the PTYPE of the dimension of an expression For example Q DIMWORD 1 KG PER CU METRE DENS Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 129 12 1 1 Q DIMWORD 2 pi power 100mm 2 SQDI Q DIMWORD gweight cutlength UMAS Or as a text string description of the dimension which is also valid in format objects etc Q DIMENSIONOF 1 kg m3 Density The units of the evaluation i e current units of the dimension as unit qualifier as a text string q UNITSOF GVOL DNST kg If assigned to a PML variable the result is a text string variable 16 5 15 Other Units Considerations There are some cases in old PML code where positions were constructed as follows x 100mm y 200mm z 300mm pos object POSITION E x string N y string U z string WRT WORLD or pos object POSITION E amp x amp N amp y amp U amp z amp WRT WORLD These expressions will now generate an error because until 12 1 the strings would have evaluated to
156. is Read the file back in Set current units as preferred e g UNITS DEGF TEMPERATURE Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted Any customer appware managing unit conversion or display can be removed or replaced by standard functions If quantities have been stored in mixed units with custom and practice being the only record of the unit which is hopefully rarely the case e For he short term set the dimensions to NUMERIC e Plan to move to more rigorous use of units probably employing a combination of the techniques above Enhanced password protection Password protection was made more rigorous at PDMS 12 0 SP5 Additional checks have been at this release introduced to trap potential error conditions A confirmation dialog as shown below warns if a user is created with no password Confirm No password has been specified new user LH will not be able to login Continue with creation A warning is also given when using the Generate Script dialog if the password for logging in to the project is not correct An incorrect password could cause an invalid password error when the script is later executed Warning Password is not valid for user USERA Please enter and confirm corect Password In addition to the ConfirmID method on the SESSION object an analogous method has been added to the USER object This method also takes a string as argument the s
157. is determines the range of characters that may be present These may be termed Locally encoded or Legacy databases since the project settings are set to match a specific locale Russian Chinese etc Legacy databases are restricted as before to one of the 3 Latin Cyrillic character sets or Latin 1 and one of the 4 Asian character sets By default the encoding is ASCII ISO8859 1 Latin 1 These legacy databases do not need to be modified or upgraded to be used in PDMS 12 1 They may be opened and read from e g as Foreign Databases without restriction since the Unicode standard encompasses all existing local encodings They may also be written to with the restriction that character data may only contain characters in the project defined encoding An attempt to write an invalid character e g a name containing a Chinese character into a Russian database will be rejected with an error Unicode encoded databases cannot be opened for reading or writing with earlier versions of PDMS However is also possible to create locally encoded databases if it is required that they should be accessible by previous versions of PDMS If you need to extend the range of characters in a legacy database RECONFIGURE may be used to convert it to a Unicode encoded database DBTE is a pseudo attribute on all element types which will return the encoding of the database containing that element for example Q DBTE on its own will return the encoding of
158. ith the appropriate splash screen Desktop and Start menu shortcuts are provided for the popular options A new checkbox labelled Integrated Schematics and Engineering determines whether or not the PDMS user will also have read access to the SCHEmatic and ENGIneering databases This option is relevant to customers who also use one of AVEVA s 2D products AVEVA Diagrams or AVEVA Engineering Checking this option allows users to access to these data and is necessary in order to use the Schematic Integrator Addin during the session Design login Project Sample A Username SYSTEM ES Password esseesl MDB SAMPLE Options v Integrate Engineering and Schematics lt C Open Read Only C Restore Views Note The console window may be suppressed by using a noconsole argument to the PDMS start up script It may also be controlled using an environment variable if you wish to run PDMS with the console hidden use set AVEVA_NOCONSOLE TRUE Units of Measure Many values stored in PDMS now carry appropriate units of measure see section 4 2 Many forms throughout PDMS and Outfitting have been modified to handle new dimensions and new units for distance Fields that display values for the new dimensions e g mass temperature pressure may now show units qualifiers Quantities entered into these fields will be converted automatically to the current unit for that dimension For example i
159. k most commonly used to save and restore units is var units units mm DISTANCE Code that must be executed in MM distance Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 128 12 1 1 reset units S units If the current distance unit is Metres or Centimetres this code will not revert back to the original distance units The command units will execute the command MM DIST MM BORE leaving current distance units as MM Old PML save and restore units code must be replaced by the new COMUNITS object 16 5 10 Units Conversions There are several methods used to convert real numbers to distance values in old PML code For example taking a catalogue or design parameter value which is known to be a distance in millimetres and converting it to a distance value in current distance units One of the most commonly used methods is to convert a number to a string append mm to the string and evaluate the string back to a REAL value This will not work at 12 1 Some old PML code converts between mm and inch by dividing or multiplying by 25 4 This will not work at 12 1 because current distance units could be cm metres feet etc 16 5 11 Removing units from a REAL Sometimes it is necessary to work with a real value without units A core method on REAL is provided for this val 123 5mm K val value Qvar Ir lt REAL gt 123 5 16 5 12 Units Display Display of values with or without unit qualifiers is
160. lease is generally up to date with defect fixes in 12 0 SP6 25 17 2 1 Global A large number of improvements have been made to improve robustness this list does not include all the internally identified defects Incident Defect Seu Product Description number number HPD 28918 P 9737 Global Global Claim commands reported as successful when they contain failed claims S P 14829 Global Synchronise causes daemon crash trying to access Global DB when it is already in use by the daemon SI 18399 P 26569 Global Satellite Extract creation screen limitation on length of name and description SI 22674 P 31952 Global Global Location screen Check button does not work for non English locale GE SE Intermittent daemon crashes caused by internal memory problems and other P 37495 faa P 34555 Global Daemon memory leak when using WCF P 36005 Global PDMS cannot access Global configuration files if Read Only WCF only SI 31829 P 36038 Global Problem with transactions to a deleted satellite SI 37204 P 39821 Global Allocating NSEQ DB to Satellite is not working Also fixed in 12 0 SP6 25 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 136 12 1 1 17 3 Sample Model Changes since PDMS 12 0 The following list details each separate change have been made to the standard projects supplied with PDMS 12 1 A summary is given in section 2 5 Reference Description 692 Modified XML req
161. lected TrueType font is used TTFONT 5 Times New Roman font as defined in Admin TTFONT 6 Arial font as defined in Admin TTFONT NONE TrueType fonts are not defined TrueType fonts may also be selected from the Options form see above Note True type fonts may only be used when isometric output files are to be produced in DXF PDF Image or EMF Enhanced Windows Metafile format Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 12 95 12 1 1 12 3 Large Coordinates ISODRAFT can now handle coordinates larger than other limits in PDMS and show them on the isometrics Its limit is now 2 147 483 647 000 mm approximately 2 million km but please see notes about system limits section 2 1 4 It can also display large coordinates such as those encountered when using coordinates related to a GPS datum on the iso 12 4 Additional Coordinate Formats New commands and options on the Annotation Options GUI allow the user to specify format units and precision for coordinates on the iso 12 4 1 COFORMAT Selects the format for the coordinates output on isometrics USER User Defined using Alternative Texts as before Format User D ENU E N U format XYZ X Y Z coordinates SHIP Ship Reference system NUMBERS Purely numeric 12 4 2 COUNITS Selects units for the coordinates Command Units Example MM millimetres 6263 48 CM centimetres 626 348cm METRE metres 6 26348m FINCH feet and inches 20 6 19 32 USF
162. leted in a later session The new Database Distribution allows a collection of DBs to be relocated to P 38903 Global another location If the HUB daemon is down the form will hang until all relocation commands have timed out p 38938 Global Default Drawing files and Stencils are not propagated to location project on creating the new location REMOTE CHECK will fail to run Standalone DICE if the daemon is installed in a P 40174 Global 8 aoi folder which contains spaces partly due to the semi colon delimiter Global WCF cannot process database filenames with large DB numbers unless Global these are named using FINO This is a range error in the validation in the Global P 40736 WCE only WCF Config file Administrators can correct it by modifying admindWCF exe config y FileNumber UpperBound should be 250000 inclusive Please see Pivotal Knowledge Base article 3736 17 1 5 AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator Some errors can appear using Integrator if there is no configuration file local to the project The Integrator Link function can raise an Internal Integrator Error and edits in the Project Configuration Explorer may not be displayed correctly The Compare and Build functions are unaffected and if one of these has been run in the session then the Link function will also work Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 132 12 1 1 The workaround is to copy the file ProjectConfiguration xml from the installed 12 1 1 folder
163. list Results can be stored in a file by pressing the Save Report button which will display a file browser for you to save the results into a text file For details please refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide 6 5 5 Satellite Commands filter for Transactions The Transactions form display can now be filtered so that only Global commands are listed Global commands are defined as those that take place via the Global daemon i e not locally For example an Extract claim made when an owning extract database is NOT at the same location For details please refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide 6 5 6 Enhanced User Interface for Sessions Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 52 12 1 1 Forms that display details of a database session now also include the reason for that the session In particular the DB sessions form available from Query gt Project gt DB Sessions shows it thus DB Sessions Database List S A Display Previous Sessions 15 7 ADMIN ASLCONFIG J ADMIN NSEQ 31 v March y 2010 EI ADMIN PADD Se ADMIN UPADD E ADMIN XPADD oe Session Number 395 CTBATESTIDESI a bil houstey CTBATEST ISOD hom CTBATEST PADD 1 Date 8 41 2 Mar 2010 CTBCOPY ASLTMPL Ee CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY TEMPLATE Comment Default session comment CTBCOPY UCATALOG Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 53 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 7 54 12 1 1 7 1 7 2
164. lowing the user to determine the value of THIN line styles 11 3 4 Plotting user interface DRAFT Plotting Options form The plot utility form accessed from Utilities gt Plot CE gt Plotters no longer has the Minimum Line width fields at top left Plotting Options Colour correction mode Standard Colour Pius Greyscale Black amp White Select one of the available options to print the PDMS plot file Active System command string PDF files pdf DXF General options The Polyline width factor and Character encoding fields DXF General have been removed from the DRAFT DXF General form which is accessed from Utilities gt Configurable DXF output gt Modify gt General General Settings View Number Prefix C Z Coordinates or in Draft administration mode Primitive Thickness Settings gt DXF configuration settings gt General E AE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 11 90 12 1 1 11 4 Enhanced Angular Dimensions Angular Dimensions ADIMs no longer need to Dimension Direction 29 6 have their origin defined if it can be deduced f SEN from the vectors defined by their first two Dimension Breeton dimension points Typically these are directions defined by P lines but they can also be defined by P points For example the figure shows an Angular Dimension with its origin defined implicitly by the intersection of the two Dimension direct
165. lt value to database 14 15 Auto Hide Option for Shape Text for Short Connectors Two new options have been introduced to keep diagrams clean where text is displayed on connectors only when some criteria are met These options are valid for pipelines instrument lines and HVAC lines 14 15 1 Auto hide text by leg length Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 111 12 1 1 This option allows the user to set a minimum size for the tallest connector leg where text will be visible If the tallest leg of a connector is shorter than this default the text will be hidden and the system will note this in the System Message Log It is possible to use metric or imperial units for the distance value To disable this option set it to 0 or blank Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation H General options System configuration Settings stored in drawing Annotation settings Pipe Dimensioning Instrumentation Dimensioning HVAC Dimensioning Dialogues Catalogue search settings Auto formatting rules options CH Element options gt Valve options Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options A E Shape text options Text Offset longitudinal reference Offset longitudinal Offset perpendicular reference Offset perpendicular Text colour Font Show Text on first segment only Annotations for first segment only Auto hide text by leg length Auto hide text by text fit Auto hide
166. metricFlow VFLO m3 s None NONE numerical real attribute WORD WORD used to assign parameter dimensions etc Parameter UNIPAR used for parameter attributes 4 2 2 Other UNITS commands Three additional forms of the UNITS command for the Fundamental dimensions i e those settable are supported UNITS DEFAULT UNITS NUMERIC UNITS MKS and UNITS FPS and UNITS CGS DEFAULT units The default unit of a physical dimension is the database storage unit which is listed in the table above The command UNITS DEFAULT formerly set the DISTANCE default units to mm it now sets the units of all the dimensioned attributes to their database storage units Individual dimensions can be set to their default selectively using the command UNITS DEFAULT dimension DERIVED units The command UNITS DERIVED dimension is valid for compound dimensions such as volume density and pressure It sets the current units for that dimension to be determined by the current units of its primary dimensions most often mass and distance Volumes areas densities temperature gradients and numeric densities can all be set to Derived units Only volumes can be set to specific units NUMERIC Units All attributes that have the UNIT field set for the first time were stored in previous versions as values with no specified unit The units that were previously attributed to their values were determined by use and convention and coul
167. mostly controlled by using FORMAT objects particularly distanceFmt This is still OK in 12 1 The REAL string method now returns a STRING value with unit qualifier 16 5 13 Text Boxes on Forms The main impact on PML forms will be seen on text boxes Instead of these holding the value as a number they will now often by physical quantities most frequently distances but also angles densities masses areas volumes etc When these are populated by the system especially with a format object they will have their current working units attached This means that the width of some input fields on forms must be increased to allow for the unit qualifier ISOU text boxes will also be parsed and in 12 1 all forms of distance will be accepted there was only limited parsing of ISOU text boxes prior to 12 1 Many ISOU fields are now removed from forms and the documentation of how to create them has been removed but they still exist Format parsing is now much more generic including use of user defined unit labels feet labels and inch separators being considered when interpreting input values in text boxes Drop down lists will often have units appended and they might not be the current unit Files written for output and for configuration will have units appended mainly because the string method and and var commands will all generate strings with units attached If this is not wanted then value must be used first remove the unit ent
168. ms may be smaller only claiming the relevant portions of an object e Distribution of an object s attributes across hierarchies and databases o Easier distribution using Global o Reduced need for Global extracts e Simplified access control o It may be sufficient to use database ownership by teams e Data may be included or excluded by database e Extensibility of data structures an alternative to direct use of UDETs and UDAs A binding element is used to achieve this it may bind any number of bound elements but these bound elements can only bind to one binding element The attributes defined on the bound elements are then available on the binding element for both querying and manipulation Details of the configuration and use of distributed attributes can be found in the Database Management Reference Manual and Lexicon User Guide 3 5 3 Handling of duplicated names of UDAs and UDETs UDA keys now take into account database number to remove the possibility of conflicts between UDA names in different databases In previous versions this could occur when merging data from different projects or MDBs A new command in Lexicon allows a user to reallocate existing UKEY values to the new format for UDAs and UDETs They can operate on either a selection of UDAs and UDETs or all in the current MDB The old keys are stored in the attribute OLDKEY for reference Admin commands allow update of project data to use the new keys For deta
169. n o HANG Fi SBFR CREST SCTN Presentation leo V GENSEC C Group Clash Obstruction TMPL PCOJ CWBRAN PLTFRM Clash Obstruction Aid M Clash Position Aid CPANEL Ose HPANEL zone Other options on this panel are covered by the standard DESCLASH defaults In addition to the DESCLASH options there are various other presentation defaults such as the View background colour and options to display aid constructs to in the 3D view Clash ltem TEE 15392 5666 Obstruction BOX 15392 9266 P Clash Position E 11602 N 9949 U 6546 WRT By default each clash is displayed in a clipped view the clip box size can resized by direct input or a slider bar above the view or clipping can be switched off Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 83 12 1 1 Clipping Clip Box 900 00 SKS Sew e38n24d Parallel Model Rotate When checking for clashes the default obstruction is All this mean that the element is checked for clashes against everything in the MDB In practice it is perhaps more realistic to check for clashes against specific obstructions This is specified in the Obstruction Exclusions panel Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Obstructions number 1 2 3 Current Element name ISTEEL IHEATING VENTS ICIVIL Exclusions number 1 name IHANGERS SUPPORTS Current Element
170. nce tab moves an element in a given direction so that its obstruction volume or a P point is a given clearance from another element The clearance is measured in the same direction as the direction of movement The Towards tab moves an element a given distance in a direction specified in terms of another element For details please refer to the Design Common Functionality User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 62 12 1 1 9 3 Change highlighting and reversion This development provides improvements in the management of change including that resulting from the use of extracts These changes fall into four categories e Enhanced sessions user interface to show the reason for each database session e Command syntax to revert an element or hierarchy of elements to a previous state e Improved Extract Data Control dialog to highlight extract changes e Model Changes Add in to explore and highlight general changes to the model There is a separate Comparison add in see section 15 2 3 available from the Schematic Explorer context menu This can show changes related to diagram elements between two database sessions or stamps and can use the SVG Viewer to highlight the changes in colour 9 3 1 Enhanced User Interface for Sessions Forms that display details of a database session now also include the reason for that the session For example the database session form accessed from Utilities gt DB Listing shows
171. nclude MC 830 981 Add OLET to UDA ISOShipCoord 952 Nuclear Apps Replacement Sam and Imp default files 980 MAR sbh_sketch_restrict def NAME_METHOD 4 mod 985 Convert XXXCOM and XXXMIS dbs to UTF 8 Format 986 Add ENGI mode to all Module definitions 987 Rename Mod 91 to MARINEDRAFTING ex HULLDRAFTING 866 Remove Assembly ADP Library from Plant project sets 983 Isometric ADP Data 966 MDS UDA mods for CSUPP element 982 MAR Unset SPRE on SCINST 986 2 Add ENGI mode to all Module definitions 992 Corrections to SP DRO7C 993 Modified pipespool met file mariso STD 947 Nuclear Apps Screeds Mat l options Var Concrete SCTN 956 Instrumentation Update UDAs 988 LSWL elements in system dbs 989 Toe radius fix for AISC taper flange channel 990 HVAC Ppoint fix 994 Modification and recovery LIMBO of Centre Flange Spec 995 Re add ALLP to MDS UDAs MDSCp1 to 3 ELE 997 Enable DAC in standard plant model deliveries 999 Std Model Library Feature UDET Rem Mar Specific UDET 1000 MAR Re input Cable and Cabletrays 1001 Update to spec A1A allow router to autoselect bends 1002 HVAC Area amp weight properties PTYP settings 1003 Nuclear Apps Replacement IMP Defaults file ESCALIER 1004 Password details for supplied projects 996 Add EN
172. nctions Projects that are upgraded from PDMS 12 0 or earlier need a suitable module definition in order to use the new Engineering functions in the new Tags product see above The data will need some reconfiguring e Integrator links world CYMWRL has been moved to Reference database e Shape upgrades in Diagrams automatic when opening a diagram in write mode e Systems moved to Reference Design database 2 9 Compatibility 2 9 1 AutoCAD This release of AutoDRAFT supports AutoCAD releases 2007 2008 2009 and 2010 Note that AutoDRAFT no longer supports AutoCAD 2006 for languages other than English 2 9 2 Final Designer Final Designer is no longer supplied with PDMS the latest version supports only AutoCAD 2006 and works with PDMS 11 6 or 12 0 on Windows XP only Extensive improvements have been made to the Configurable DXF DWG and DGN output capabilities of Draft to provide an alternative means of producing well structured CAD deliverables 2 9 3 Data Access Routines DARs Any customer programs using PDMS Data Access Routines DARs will need to be recompiled and relinked with the PDMS 12 1 libraries Please note that text attributes are now returned in the Unicode UTF 8 format regardless of whether the database is in legacy or Unicode format In previous versions of PDMS they were returned in internal format This change e is of importance mostly to customers using character sets other than Latin 1 though an
173. nd Plines These make it easy for the user to copy an existing element and then modify the expressions rather than start from scratch This approach is similar to that used for the Data Sets Details of the changes are given in the Catalogue amp Specifications User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 8 59 12 1 1 8 4 Creation of Structural Specs In the Specification list form available from menu Display gt Specifications there is now a button Display Spec Pressing this button brings up the Specification form as before except that the form opens in Read Only mode In this state the form UI changes slightly the title includes Read Only and changes the wording of two link buttons from Edit Spec Atts and Edit CAT Atts to Show Spec Atts and Show CAT Atts The Create menus in Steel Work and Equipment have had the Specification menu restored moving the Specification World entry down to a submenu next to Create Specification The Modify menus have had the Specification entry restored i Create Modify Delete Window Help Copy e Catalogue i Section i Category J Specification World Specification Selection Table D Part Text Draft Symbol Set Properties When modifying specifications some non piping specifications cannot be altered by the form Attempting to modify such a specification will put the form into read only mode as descri
174. nhancements are focused on speeding up Extrusions and Panels by improving the handling of their vertices Vertex VERT amp Panel Vertex PAVE elements have 10 p points mostly for dimensioning purposes Each p point number has a particular functional position PO Origin of Vertex Pl Bottom panel face in line with panel vertex P2 Midway through panel in line with panel vertex P3 Top panel face in line with panel vertex P4 P6 Bottom face tangent points for filleted radius at vertex P5 P7 Top face tangent points for filleted radius at vertex P8 Bottom face fillet centre P9 Top face fillet centre There are two changes to improve performance e calculate all the p point positions in one go when drawing them in Draft e omit P5 to PO when the fillet radius is zero as they are coincident with the first four Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 11 91 12 1 1 11 7 Drawing gridlines Plant Design grids GRIDSYstem and GRIDAXis elements may now be added to IDLists but may not be the sole member of the IDList They are drawn using the Centreline Style Colour their GRIDLNs are considered to be of infinite length and so are extended to the VIEW boundary AUTO commands ignore these elements when calculating the VSCA THPOS and SIZE attributes of a VIEW For details please refer to the DRAFT User Guide section 4 2 4 3 and 12 9 11 8 Intelligent text handling enhancement Draft allows all Design and Catalogue datab
175. nnot be expressed using attribute filters it is possible to define an expression for evaluation For example a Database View could be derived from all Equipment elements in the current MDB with a description of Vessel The user also specifies the required columns each can be a database attribute or an expression run against the equipment element The user can also specify how to navigate to related elements such as the owning SITE or ZONE and derive further columns from that element This is similar in concept to a saved search except that editable columns may be derived from several elements Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 6 48 12 1 1 Database Views may be defined and modified in the DICTIONARY database using Lexicon to set up new elements in a new Database View World DBVWWL D Their definition may alternatively be stored as a local settings file similar to saved searches or as part of an application This allows e User defined Database Views for reports ad hoc working etc e Project defined Database Views shared via Global e Application defined Database Views for specialist applications The Editor is currently available in the LEXICON module under Display gt Database Views Editor and in the TAGS module on the Admin tab of the ribbon bar View Definition Set E3 Open CF Close 3 New gt Delete fa Save User Views x Views Database Types Filter m J Views View Sets Nam
176. ns are 2007 2010 as shown in section 2 9 1 The DXF version used is now AutoCAD 2006 so it cannot be supported in earlier releases Recommended MicroStation format is now v8 Additional limitations may apply for earlier releases For full details of configuration please refer to the Draft User Manual 11 9 1 Support for Unicode text Drawing export to recent releases of AutoCAD and MicroStation should now cope with all supported languages for which the computer is set up Full support is not possible for AutoCAD releases before 2007 or for MicroStation DGN v7 format As noted elsewhere see section 4 1 3 it is recommended that Latin filenames are used 11 9 2 Improved drawing feature export These changes should result in a much more usable drawings and in many cases smaller file sizes The main improvements for the 3 formats are e User defined Line styles defined with PATDEF and PATREP but not PATNAM e Fill Styles export in native format hatch entities for all system defined styles 1 30 this includes the new ones see section 11 1 The following limitations apply Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 11 92 12 1 1 e Draft s intelligent blanking primitives are not exported e User defined line styles with Glyphs and line pictures are not supported e Only built in line patterns are supported at present for layer definitions not the full range of configurable line patterns 11 9 3 Configurable DXF amp
177. nsion lt MEASURE gt Mass Now look at the value 1 kg with current working MASS units set to Pounds l unitObject object unit pound massObject setunits unitObject lp 1kg Q VAR p lt REAL gt 2 204622621848781b Q VAR p string lt STRING gt 2 204622621848781b Q VAR p units lt UNIT gt pound Go to a BOX element in the database to see area and volume units being derived from PML calculations q var ce xlen lt REAL gt 510mm larea ce xlen ce ylen volume area ce zlen q var area volume lt REAL gt 102000mm2 lt REAL gt 23460000mm3 q var ce gvol lt REAL gt 23460000mm3 Q VAR area units area dimension lt UNIT gt mm2 lt MEASURE gt Area Go to a SCTN element with a MATREF set to see a compound unit derived from mass and distance UNITS METRE DIST q var ce gweight lt REAL gt 17 794kg Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 126 12 1 1 q var ce cutlength lt REAL gt 0 774996172710133metre unitWeight ce gweight ce cutlength q var unitWeight lt REAL gt 22 959536446628kg m Q VAR unitWeight units unitWeight dimension lt UNIT gt kg m lt MEASURE gt UnitMass 16 5 2 Distance Units Existing PML code has had to solve problems with distance units most of it allows correct presentation in both metric and imperial dis
178. nsioned and labelled Spool Material Take Off Table Location Plan of the Spool in the Main Keyplan of location to nearest Grid Line Revision table Total Weight and Centre of Gravity Drawing output is in PDF format with Material Take off to MS Excel In addition there is a dedicated Toolbar Edit tools and a Print Tool for Multiple drawings Please note that this new release will not work with earlier versions of PDMS and that many areas are significantly different including the following e HVAC Catalogue upgrades e Draft Library elements for True Type Fonts The appropriate changes have been made to the sample data supplied with PDMS Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 11 93 12 1 1 Edit Isometrics Search Edit Tools All Drwgs sel co Drawings f Loop ke oy Keyplan A CH sau 4 D Rev Status Unchecked v layer Y es a Dimn Overall Snap Off HTESTHVAC Drawing POWER_CWAYOO2 Drawing CWAY Gaps Drawing POWER_CwWAY001 Drawing Mu CAD Drawing K e cowonasis Ean Hs Sheet 3 of 7 Sheet 4 of 7 Sheet 5 of 7 Sheet 6 of 7 Sheet 7 of 7 e 8 For full details please refer to the updated Isometric ADP user documentation e Installation Guide e User Guide e Administration Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions
179. nsioned value in the current working units for that dimension A PML UNIT object is provided to help deal with this issue see 16 5 16 below 16 5 7 Rounding Values There may be places in the PML code where values are rounded up down or to the nearest integer value For imperial distances some code rounds to the nearest 1 32nd inch This is done in various ways e g using int and nint functions using FORMAT objects with the DP property set to 0 or DENOMINATOR property set to 32 or by using the Real object string D0 function This is dangerous where the code incorrectly assumes that the current value is in MM The following code would probably have an undesired result UNITS METRES DIST distance 123 45678mm displayedDistance distance string D0O or displayedDistance distance int string The result would be lt STRING gt 0 and not 123mm or 0 123 metres 16 5 8 Testing for Metric or Imperial Distance and Bore Units There are several methods used in old PML code to find out whether the current units are metric or imperial These methods all parse the result of the command VAR units UNITS which returns a string of the form INCH Bore INCH Distance This technique will not work in 12 1 for any current distance units other than mm or inch Code that tests for imperial or metric units must be replaced by the new isImperialLength function 16 5 9 Save and Restore Units The tric
180. ntry to popular modules Please note that there is no thin client installation option as this is no longer supported Existing installations should be changed repaired or removed using Add or Remove Programs from the Control Panel This process will prompt for the original DVD if required This ensures that a consistent product set as tested by AVEVA will be deployed Fix releases patches will use a standard updating process which also checks and if necessary heals the existing installation There is therefore no prompt for location as the system already has this information Fix releases may also be removed using Add or Remove Programs Fix releases are applied to all products installed together not to the individual products The use of the latest fix release is recommended this includes any previous fixes to those products It is important that any files including configuration files or sample data that need to be updated by users are accessible for read write etc so it is strongly recommended that they are not installed with the software Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 2 12 1 1 This is particularly important when installing in Program Files at Windows 7 due to the introduction of User Account Control UAC which brings new security restrictions In particular this makes it important to ensure that files that need to be written are accessible by users without Administrator privileges This ap
181. o penetrate CE to automatically create holes in panels in a selected structure The clash analysis can take a few minutes a progress message and bar will be displayed Once the analysis has taken place the Hole Association Manager window is displayed with the details of the newly created virtual holes Note The Hole Association Manager window is not displayed if no virtual holes are created If more than 30 virtual holes have been created there will be a confirmation message to display the Hole Association Manager window To create holes individually click Create Hole The user will be prompted to pick a panel pipe or HVAC branch that penetrates the selected panel The creation of the hole is identical to the automatic hole creation 10 4 2 Merge Holes Merged holes are individual holes merged together into a single hole To merge holes click Pick holes the user is prompted to pick a Managed Hole fitting to be combined into a single merged hole Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 73 12 1 1 Note A minimum of two holes must be picked Click Merge Holes the software creates a merged hole containing the selected penetrations 10 4 3 Modify and Delete Holes Created holes can be modified managed or deleted To modify a created hole click Modify CE The Hole Modification window is displayed modify the created hole as required the Free Hole Boundary Editor can also be started from this window
182. of the condition setting type of source For More Information please refer to the Integrator User Guide section 6 5 5 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 13 100 12 1 1 13 7 Example Macro Some users may prefer to use a macro to run the comparison The example macro below compares all schematic equipment and pipelines that appear on a particular diagram File compare macro for user guide pmlmac Initialise Integrator lintegratorInit Collect schematic equipment and pipelines that appear on this drawing scgroup Piping Diagrams sctypes SCEQUI SCPLIN diagExp name of diaref eq A1 51 2003 sccoll object COLLECTION sccoll scope scgroup dbref sccoll types sctypes split sccoll filter object expression diagExp Integrator compare method needs array of strings comlist ARRAY do telement values sccoll results comlist append element ref string enddo Set report direct to file and do compare lintegrator setreportvisible false lintegrator setreportpath c mac compareReport xml if comlist size gt 0 then lintegrator compare comlist handle any write error text lsehandle non Write out the compare summary lintegratorSupportHandler printSummary View the report unless running in non graphics mode if not istty then file object FILE c mac compareReport xml if file e
183. ontains decimal digits only then return the positive value represented else return value 1 0 This handles the digit characters from any Unicode supported language isLettersAndDigits BOOLEAN String is a contiguous string of letters and decimal digits only This includes the letters and digits characters from any Unicode supported language Compare strings ignoring case Examples Create STRING object str PyccKun Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 122 12 1 1 Compare it ignoring case with another string q var str eqNoCase pYcCJIuu lt BOOLEAN gt FALSE Compare it ignoring case with mixed case version of itself q var str eqNoCase pYcCKUn lt BOOLEAN gt TRUE Notes The new construct if this attrib eqNoCase Name is more efficient than comparisons of the form if this attrib upcase eq NAME particularly when the check fails It is also more reliable because it doesn t matter what is the case of the value checked against It may be worth revisiting such checks in the Appware and replacing them with the new construction as this could fix undiagnosed defects and improve performance Is string letters only Example Create STRING object Istrlet PyccxmmdkA q var strlet isLetters lt BOOLEAN gt TRU GI Is string digits only Example Create STRING object with Bengali digits for 1 and 2 strdgts x34
184. outstanding changes The highlighting is cleared when the dialog is closed or if the Outstanding in Extract checkbox is selected In the latter case the Introduced by Get All Changes checkbox becomes unselected There is a subtlety to the Flush and Issue actions available in this dialog these operations include an extract refresh by default The exception is in a Global project where the parent extract is not primary In this case a refresh is not included in the operation In order to clarify whether a refresh will occur as part of a Flush or Issue action an indication has been added to the dialog as shown below Extract Data Control Get All Changes From parent extract only From all extract ancestors E Sege Elements el WORL SITE SYMBOLOGY SITE TPWL Defauit_TPWL SITE HS ADMIN SITE HTEST SITE HM_Virtual_Holes GPWL Project_GPWL TPWL Penetration_Template_World TPWL Concrete_Template_Worid Extract Status Prefix Info Change Highlighting M Outstanding in Extract M Introduced by Get All Changes Extract DB Operations Scope Element Hierarchy O Single Element Flush and Issue will not include Get All Changes action Flush Issue Drop will act on all changes made by all users in extract databases in this MDB f Flush Issue l Drop 9 3 4 Change Highlighting via Model Changes Add in A new Add in has been introduced to provide a general mechanism for exploring chang
185. plies to folders specified by environment variables such as PDMSWK and PDMSUSER The Plant Suite installer has been revised to allow the separate definition of suitable folders with different defaults i AVEVA Plant Setup E Initial Configuration Click Next to accept default working folder locations or specify AV VA other paths User Folder Path E AVEVA Plant Data12 1 1 pdmsuser Browse PDMS Work Folder Path E AVEVA Plant Data12 1 1 pdmswk Browse PDMS Defaults Folder Path e AVEVA Plant Data12 1 1 pdmsui DFLTS Browse For full details of the installation options and procedure and the hardware and software requirements please refer to the PDMS amp Associated Products Installation Guide 1 3 4 Installation in folders with embedded spaces AVEVA does not recommend this as noted in the Installation Guide However it is recognised that it may be desirable to install in C Program Files AVEVA or similar in order to comply with common practice Changes have been made at PDMS 12 1 to make this easier From PDMS 12 0 it is possible to use spaces in filenames using the filename command atom enclosed in quotes rather than the ordinary PDMS name starts with and ends with lt space gt However spaces have also been used as delimiters in search paths between the folder names Changes are required to the setting of the environment variables in order to allow spaces in the file or folder names Wi
186. plorer 9 AVEVA does not recommend the use of Internet Explorer 9 In particular it has a fault associated with the use of the CHM online help files when they reference external files such as PDF It is anticipated that a hotfix will be made available by Microsoft during October 2011 Unicode filenames The use of ASCII Basic Latin filenames is recommended for two reasons compatibility with other systems and various specific issues which have yet to be resolved This applies to some of the systems to which PDMS is interfaced and even to some of the interfaces where PDMS makes use of third party software such as output of DXF and DGN PML Publisher does not currently fully support Unicode filenames In particular defect P 39998 reports that the new Reporting function does not currently attach documents with Unicode names to an email when using the option Export the current document in one of the available formats and attach it to the mail icon in the Run Report window When there is a Unicode character in the name it correctly saves the file but it has to be sent manually It is likely to work if the operating system supports the appropriate language Limitations AVEVA recommends that changes to Database Views DBVWs are not made whilst users are live in the system Changes to ATTCOL attributes in Lexicon may otherwise cause Tags to crash 17 1 2 PDMS Applications Appware These are supplied as standard text files not as UTF
187. ply to creation of straight and curved members connection and disconnection and several operations related to joints For details please refer to the Structural User Guide 10 4 Hole Management enhancements The Hole Management Utility which creates and manages penetrations in panels has been improved by the addition of additional catalogue properties in the Pipework catalogue and HVAC penetration components The utility is available only in the Pipework and HVAC Designer applications and accessed from the Hole Management Utilities toolbar To start the application click the Hole Management Utility icon on the toolbar to display the Managed Hole Utility window The main utility form is divided into 4 sections for the creation merging modification of holes and utilities For further details please refer to chapter 4 Multi Disciplinary Penetration and Hole Management of the Design Common Functionality guide 10 4 1 Create Holes In the Clearance field specify the clearance to apply to the penetrating item This is not applied if the software detects a clash with a pipework or HVAC component that has hole size properties Note The clearance can be controlled by the component that passes through the panel if the penetrating component has a Property AHDI for circular or AHX AHY for noncircular in which case these property values will control the clearance For more information refer to Configuration Hole Management Data Click Aut
188. product software names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Solutions Limited or its subsidiaries registered in the UK Europe and other countries worldwide 3 Party Software The copyright trademark rights or other intellectual property rights in any other product or software its name or logo belongs to its respective owner The following 3 party software is included in some of the AVEVA products described in this document e Teigha for don files 2007 2010 by Open Design Alliance All rights reserved e Teigha for dwg files 2003 2010 by Open Design Alliance All rights reserved D Microsoft Office Fluent user interface Fluent is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation and the Fluent user interface is licensed from Microsoft Corporation The Microsoft Office User Interface is subject to protection under U S and international intellectual property laws and is used by AVEVA Solutions Limited under license from Microsoft AV VA AVEVA Plant 12 1 User Bulletin Contents 1 INTRODUCTION BE 1 1 1 1 ABOUT THIS SOFTWARE RELEASE ssssssssesesese se sesnsesrsr ense srsssnsnenenensnsnnsensnsnnnannnnn nnen enenen ennnen a 1 1 1 2 ABOUT THIS MANUA Goisern e case dees eet er eare e ae aa eege ees eh deen 1 1 1 3 SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION AND INSTALLATION cscsscsccecececsesesseseseseeecsesseaeseeeeeeessessaaeeeeeeseeeees 1 1 1 3 1 Products installed by the main AVEVA Plant PDMS installer 2 00 1 1 1 3 2 Products
189. project units files will be configured at the beginning of a project and are unlikely to be changed frequently during the life of a project 5 2 3 Dataset Properties The Type field on the Design dataset properties Catalogue dataset properties and Catalogue category forms has been extended to include the new dimensions For example it is possible to create a MASS property by setting property type to MASS If this is a design parameter or catalogue parameter property the Modify gt Properties form in Design will accept values in mass units and will deal with conversion to current mass units automatically 5 2 4 Decimal Separator PDMS 12 1 requires command and user interface input of all numeric data using the decimal point as the separator for example 0 4 even when the regional settings of the machine would usually use the comma 0 4 This is now also used for display of real numbers in order to ensure consistency At 12 0 SP6 some forms were able to display the alternate format For example search results will now appear like this EE das 5 3 World axes on 3D views A button on the 3D view borders toggles display of the World Axes RK Q en RI AE Be amp e45n35d Parallel Model Display of these axes may also be enabled from the Represent and Graphics Settings forms 5 4 Save and restore views This new feature allows a user to take a snapshot of a view and save it to file
190. ptions Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options Offline instrument options Instrumentation line options Actuator options Instrument relationship shape opl 1 Equipment options Sub equipment Nozzle options Electrical connection options Cable options Multi cable options iil Colour Released to 3D Colour Linked to 3D Colour Pipeline Properties Dialog Custom Pipeline Properties Dialog Description Flow direction symbol s stencil Flow direction symbol a Shape text options HB Blue P BlueViolet ET violet True True Never reroute Reroute Select connector reroute style for newly created lines For More Information Refer to User Guide Diagrams Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams Adding Parts to a Branch Dropping and Connecting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 110 12 1 1 14 14 Setting Default Value of Stencil in Batch To set default values for all items that have been created from particular equipment masters it is necessary to edit the equipment master and set the default value for the new UDA and then run a Batch Job with Update attribute presentation settings selected The master that contains the modified data must be selected Update Diagrams Options C Update symbols according to master shapes C Update symbols according to catalogue information C Update annotation formats Cl Update attribute p
191. ptions files will have no unit definitions until they have been edited and saved e Isodraft does not currently perform any units conversion for UDAs Isodraft will output them in database units Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 12 98 12 1 1 13 AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator Integrator has been extensively updated since its first release at 12 0 some of the developments noted below were first introduced in the Schematics Update Release at 12 0 SP6 8 13 1 New Integrator Object Method Integrator link information stored on CYMLNK elements consists of references to schematic and 3D elements It is possible during project execution for these references to become invalid when elements are deleted A method is provided to clean up CYMLNK elements with invalid references Integrator ValidateLinks Note This method should be used only when all of the schematic and design databases holding elements that have been linked are current on the MDB 13 2 Electrical connections When building an equipment with a template Integrator will try to match schematic electrical connections to 3D electrical connections within the template It already does this for nozzles which are matched on BORE but for ELCONNs it now tries to match on CATREF Details are included in the updated Integrator User Guide Section 5 4 1 Building Equipment 13 3 Whole Diagram Compare The Comparison Options form has been extended with new option
192. r see http msdn microsoft com en us library aa371372 VS 85 aspx i AVEVA Plant Setup Custom Setup Select the way you want features to be installed Click the icons in the tree below to change the way features will be installed T BS Neer PDMS with its applications and z Plant Models separately licensed add ons ae x H Global Client Cable Design Laser Model Interface Mechanical Equipment z Global WCF Cl _X_ Global WCF Client ea Diagrams X v Schematic 3D Integrator o X v Area Based ADP X Multi Discipline Supports Engineering amp z ExPLANT A ExPLANT4 This feature requires 392MB on X Nuclear Applications your hard drive It has 3 of 7 subfeatures selected The subfeatures require 1149MB on your hard drive Location E AVEVA Plant PDMS12 1 1 The main AVEVA Plant Installer includes options to install many of the associated products although for various reasons some products use a separate installer This means that a selection of products can easily be installed together This includes the AVEVA Global client option which enables the use of PDMS or other Plant products with Global However there is a separate installer for Global server which is usually installed on a separate machine such as a server which does not necessarily have PDMS installed There are options to install batch files and shortcuts on the desktop and or in the start menu for direct e
193. ramework 3 5 which is supplied on the DVD and installed if required It should be noted that installation of version 3 5 brings with it several of the earlier versions on Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 12 12 1 1 which it depends It is also possible to install additional versions in order to support older applications such as PDMS 11 6 which requires NET 1 1 The updated version of NET used for PDMS 12 0 SP6 onwards may prevent NET add ins running if deployed on a network This will not usually cause an issue for PDMS for which AVEVA recommends a local installation on each machine but might cause problems for customers running their own add ins NET security can cause issues when running PDMS across the network where the add in assemblies reside on a different machine to the NET runtime The default security level for the local intranet is not set to Full Trust which means that programs may not be able to access resources on the local machine To overcome this the intranet security may be set to Full Trust though this means that any NET assembly may run Alternatively Full Trust may be given to a specified group of strongly named assemblies Trust levels may be set using the Microsoft Code Access Security Policy tool caspol For details please see http msdn microsoft com en us library cb6t8dtz v VS 90 aspx Serialization Please note that serialized settings of the user interface configuration are
194. rection to be specified in terms of a local co ordinate system In addition UNDO has been implemented for all move operations i e when the Apply button is clicked All picks are now EDG picks replacing the old ID style picking This allows most of the pick functions to be replaced by a single EDG pick i e screen P point graphics and element picks can all be done using standard EDG position picks Note that many of the functions provided by these menu commands can also be achieved by using the Model Editor and Pipe Route Editor 9 2 1 Summary of Move Drag Move and Plane Move options The Move commands enable the user to move the Current Element CE in a given direction CE can be moved by a given distance in that direction or it can be moved to a position relative to another element or relative to a plane through a given position For piping and equipment the Drag command moves a piping item together with other components equipment and nozzles connected to it which form a constrained network The new form appears with four tabs Element to Move E vo Distance Through Clearance Towards Parameters Origin Target Relative To No target The Distance tab moves an element a distance in a given direction The Through tab moves an element in a given direction until it reaches a point relative to a plane perpendicular to the direction of movement through another point The Cleara
195. resentation settings C Ignore stencil settings C Refresh shapes Select master shapes to use for update 1 selected Lindl Load log Update Before starting the batch update it is important that Allow individual shape settings to override default settings is checked for items that need to be updated Diagrams Options ES Defaults Attribute Presentation Referenced attributes Allow individual shape settings to override default settings amp Actuator Attribute Label Prompt Visible Visible in Item List Read On Area shape NAME Name f f Branch i AttributeDefin Text SEI Cable ACTTYP ActType e Ge AREA Area E S Se TEREE DESC Description e quiprner DIAREF Diarefarray E t DISTAG Distag e UDET for schematic eng ECRFA SE GF UDET for schematic pum FUNC Function A Fitting INPRTR Inprtref P Ce r Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw v v Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw Iw 11147147714 Cancel If this setting is not checked the default value of the new UDA will instead be taken from Session Defaults If the system changes the database attribute there will be detailed information in the batch job log Please note that the system will not set attribute value for items where a UDA was already defined in shape data If refresh is executed before the update it will add any missing UDA to shape data with a default value Then the system detects it and will not set a defau
196. roject ID The new login screen won t let you log in to a project with NT authentication switched on even as a free user e g SYSTEM the password field is greyed out the moment you select the project The workaround is as follows 1 Run Monitor in TTY mode from command window or shortcut pdms tty 2 In Console enter project user mdb and switch to Admin in graphics e g P 40708 Login proj bas user SYSTEM CTBATEST dev gra admin 3 In Admin add authenticated user connate This application does not yet fully handle the MDS support option An error P 40765 ADP message 2 769 An object does not have a member METHOD may appear when drawing supports for cable way or HVAC 17 1 4 AVEVA Global Global 12 1 does not fully support projects with spaces in their pathnames Work is in hand to remove this limitation but no definite release date is yet set The daemon will work when installed in C Program Files see section 1 3 4 but there is a known issue defect P 40174 Incident Defect SH Product Description number number P 31224 Global RPC Daemon cannot detect if a WCF daemon is already running for current location of the project P 38853 Global PDMS reports 1 504 Unexpected error contacting Daemon check versions match when missing global client dlls P 38602 Global Element claims ean be lost for distributed extracts if ER issue fails This can lead to the error message has been de
197. rom the HUB through Global To do this run the following command from the HUB LOCK AT lt location gt The HUB can be locked without the need for a daemon command using the command LOCK It is possible to confirm whether locations are locked by evaluating the return result from QUERY LOCK AT lt location gt The Hub can also unlock satellite projects UNLOCK AT lt location gt 2 8 7 Extract Hierarchies It should not be necessary to change the extract hierarchy nor to consolidate data within extract hierarchies Therefore the System Administrator should not need to FLUSH ISSUE DROP data between extracts working extracts are an exception to this see below Nor should they need to delete any extract families to leave only Masters However all extracts will need to be relocated to a single location although this does not need to be the HUB Working Extracts Working Extracts cannot be propagated as they are specific to a single location See note in section 2 8 4 Offline Locations Global supports Offline locations without a Global connection Offline locations do not support distributed Extracts but can support stand alone extract families It will not be possible to co ordinate the upgrade from another location if Offline locations are used The Offline satellite databases and standalone extract families will need to be upgraded there and data transferred to the hub in the normal way Copyright 1974 to c
198. rovided single object members have been maintained and hold the values of the first elements of each equivalent array at the end of each operation so previously defined calling code will generally work as before Code using the StatusData pml object will generally continue to work but must be tested and reviewed to see if it can be made more efficient by using the array members For More Information please refer to the Status Control User Guide sections 5 1 5 2 8 1 and 8 3 Tag Compare Update The new Compare Update add in application can integrate data between Design Schematic and Engineering databases as well as data from AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical It enables populations of tagged objects such as equipment and line lists to be compared updated and linked between the data sources Compare Update supersedes the AVEVA Instrumentation Data Update application and is available in several Design Engineer modules Design Tags Paragon Schematic Model Manager and Diagrams AVEVA Instrumentation v A LogOfF Instruments X Accept Al Filters a Refresh VI Update Database Zil Options d 8 TagNo Matched p Matched Against 2 Number of Changes J Changed Attributes a Attributes to be Updated DUGlIGIIGlIG o O ran e Netw sO oran e Iesse al f No Attribute Details For More Information please refer to the new Compare Update User Guide Report generation 4 6 1 New Reporting add in PDMS 12 1 includes a
199. s The Whole Diagram Compare options allow you to set which main types will be included in the report for a Compare Diagram operation Comparison Options B m C Report unpositioned elements o Compare Pipelines and Pipes without their member hierarchies Whole Diagram Compare Lines Equipment HVAC Cable Offline Instruments 13 4 Selector Rules Quotes are no longer required in selector rules for long STYPs as Integrator will automatically include quotes for text selectors For example a rule with SCSTYP OF source operating on an SCVALV with SCSTYP PTFE LINED will generate Choose with STYP PTFE LINED Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 13 99 12 1 1 13 5 Improved Links Administration Integrator no longer automatically creates a Link World Project administrators are recommended to create a separate Design Reference database to hold links and then use the new Manage Links dialogue available from the Integrator gt Settings menu This can be used to create and manage Link Worlds in the appropriate database including consolidating links from separate databases Manage Links Ciel File Edit Database Description fh DB CTBHTEST INTDESI Primary h DB CTBHTEST DESI Primary DB CTBHTEST REFDESI Primary Reference Database Contains Links fa DB CTBHTEST STAVIRG Primary fa DB CTBHTEST ASSOCIATIONS Primary ka DB CTBCOPY TEMPLATE Primary ka DB CTBCOPY ASLTMPL Primary fa DB CT
200. s 02 03 2010 0 bill hous E A BRAN PIPE1 2 02 03 2010 0 __bilhous E PIPE PIPE2 02 03 2010 0 bill hous E K PIPE PIPES lt mD BA recess a L Refresh 1 C highlight sa Seer DERM Ris The Model Changes Add in has two vertically split panes The top split contains a Design Explorer the lower split contains a tabbed pane and controls as shown below Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key Cac nly Changes At v All Changes Since Only Changes At Model Changes Add in tabs and controls The tabbed pane condenses the following displays see over Model Timeline every session for every Design database in the current MDB ordered chronologically Stamps details of every stamp that records session numbers for all of the Design databases in the MDB Element History details of every database session in which the selected current element has changed Key static tree control with images colour and text explaining annotation of changes in the Explorer Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 66 12 1 1 Fiter TT v G Design WORL Gei SITE ATEST H Q ZONE ZONE1 CIVILS fa Kar ZONE ZONES STEEL IAL Time 19 03 1998 10 48 06 07 01 1999 14 13 34 07 01 1999 14 13 34 14 07 1999 11 58 45 pm 14 07 1999 11 58 45 pm 04 07 2000 14 19 12 pm 04 07 2000 14 19 12 pm 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley 01 03 2010 13 44 4
201. s to the whole session PAEAN Design login Project Sample x Username SYSTEM zi Password MDB SAMPLE x Options Open Read Only Restore Views Diagrams users can read amp write SCHEMATICS databases they can read but not write 3D databases Diagrams users can also read but not write the new ENGINEERING database see below Engineering users can read amp write both Schematic and Engineering data they can also read but not write 3D data The table below summarises this Products and corresponding database access Database type PoMS POMS Diagrams Engineerin or Outfitting Integrated mode 8 8 E Admin DICT NSEQ amp Catalog CATA PROP R RW RW R 3D DESI PADD ISOD RW RW RO RO SCHE None RO RW RW ENGI None RO RO RW Keyiconceni Access to a product s own databases is Read Write RW y p Access to other products databases is Read only RO Existing users of Diagrams Schematic Model Manager and Schematic 3D Integrator will require an updated license file Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 22 12 1 1 Increase in number of databases A larger number of databases can now be used in a project the new limit is 250 000 New database numbers from 250 001 to 255 000 are reserved for AVEVA use as well as those from 7 001 to 8 000 It is now easier to avoid database number conflicts when databases are shared
202. scort 2 Ford Fiesta 3 Vauxhall Nova 4 Vauxhall Astrea 5 Vauxhall Lotus 16 LandRover RangeRover 62000 EA LandRover Defender 23999 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 125 12 1 1 16 5 Units This section describes the impact of the 12 1 Units development on PML code and describes PML functions provided to handle common operations with units in 12 1 It should be noted that units can be set to NUMERIC for any physical dimension which prevents any conversion this will behave in much the same way as previous releases but will lose most of the benefits of the new functions 16 5 1 Querying amp Units In order to understand how the Units changes affect PML code the PML writer needs to understand how REAL numbers and PML expressions behave This section illustrates the use of new units functions in 12 1 with a few simple command line examples Look at the effect of setting MASS units using mass unit qualifiers kg and using new methods available on REAL objects Notice that the real variables m and p know that they represent a MASS and that the value stored in the variable p is automatically converted from kilograms to the current working unit funitObject object unit kg massObject object measure mass massObject setunits unitObject Im 1kg Q VAR m lt REAL gt 1kg Q VAR m string lt STRING gt 1kg SP m 1kg Q VAR m units lt UNIT gt kilogram Q VAR m dime
203. se problems in other systems so it is recommended to keep to ASCII names There are also some known limitations at this release see section 17 1 1 Please see section 4 1 for general information about the Unicode changes It should be noted that textual output is now by default in Unicode See below In spite of these extensive changes many PML applications should be unaffected A few exceptions are noted here 16 1 1 Text output As noted in section 4 1 all sequential text files read by PDMS are by default expected to be in UTF 8 format with a Byte Order Mark BOM present to identify them Similarly by default all sequential text files written by PDMS will be in Unicode UTF 8 format with a BOM present A simple command line transcoder is also supplied this may be used in some applications to convert files to a different encoding see section 16 1 2 Environment variables are available for users to modify the way PDMS handles sequential text files CADC_LANG Specifies the file encoding for reading external files which do not have a Unicode BOM present If the variable is unset this defaults to LATIN 1 Files with the following Unicode BOMs will be translated to UTF 8 on reading UTF 16 little endian UTF 16 big endian UTF 32 little endian UTF 32 big endian CADC_LANG_NEW Specifies the file encoding for new files written If the variable is unset the default is Unicode UTF 8 format with a BOM present The following
204. ser Guide for more information Publish to AVEVA NET Select pages to export from drawing Grey_Water_Transfer_Diagram Page 1 Page 2 14 7 Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority Support for line jumps has been introduced in the Auto Formatting Rules feature Two new format types have been added on the Format to Assign tab in the Auto Formatting Rule Details window e Add line jumps allows the user to specify the behaviour of the line when crossing another line shape It can be selected from a list of standard values Add line jumps Always to other v As page specifies Never Always TIA to other s Line jumps style allows the user to specify the style of jump if the line is the one which should break It also can be selected from a list Line jumps style The new settings together allow the user to specify the behaviour of crossing lines depending on defined conditions If the settings are applied properly by rule the result is visible on the drawing and also appropriate values are shown for particular shapes on the tab in the Visio Format gt Behaviour dialog See User Guide Diagrams Working with Diagrams Auto Formatting Rules 14 8 Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic Model Viewer It is now possible to individually control the shape annotations for the element types in the Schematic Model Viewer The following settings can now be made using the options dialog in the Sch
205. ss All the Part Upgrades will be run by a DBUPGRADE command which converts a PDMS 12 0 project to 12 1 This is initiated from Admin using the following commands in the Command Pane or TTY mode lock dbupgrade project to latest unlock This procedure may also be used with Global projects if some additional precautions are taken A brief summary is given below further details are given in the 72 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Earlier projects should first be upgraded to PDMS 12 0 Schematic Model Manager has its own units handling at PDMS 12 0 It also has its own upgrade mechanism which is separately documented the software will advise if it is necessary to run this Units Upgrade Required It is recomended that you run the Schematic Model Manager Units Upgrade Please see the documentation for more information C Don t show this again Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 14 12 1 1 2 8 2 DBUpgrade command The Upgrade procedure is invoked from Admin it controls the upgrade process and runs each Part Upgrade in the appropriate order Upgrades relevant to PDMS that are covered by this process are UKEYs now include database number to avoid duplicates Performance of finding database elements index by type Module Definitions new TAGS module and renamed Marine Drafting module Character handling Unicode representation for names text etc Line widths in Draft widths of thin medium and
206. ssage Transmission Optimisation Mechanism MTOM which will send what it can in text but will send binary data as binary a combination of the previous two e Authentication o At the server side the message is verified to be from a known source at the client side the message is sent to a known receiver Messages can authenticate against a Windows account or via a certificate e Message Validation o Ensure that messages meet a known format by comparing against a Schema Full details are provided in the Global WCF Configuration Guide Other Global manuals have also been updated for 12 1 Global WCF Service name The Global WCF interface name has changed from that in 12 0 SP6 This affects the Global WCF client and server Configuration files The purpose of this is to force an interface change between 12 0 SP6 and 12 1 1 as the databases are not compatible Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 7 55 12 1 1 7 4 7 5 The name has changed from the unversioned name used in 12 0 SP6 This is reflected in the endpoint definition within the configuration files GLlobalWcfClient config and admindWCF exe config The Endpoint has changed from GlobalWcfServiceLib GlobalWcfService to GlobalWcfServiceLib GlobalWcfService 11 1 201011 As aresult the WSDL file is now renamed from aveva globalservice wsdl to aveva globalservice 11 1 2010 11 wsdl The service contract is now IGlobalWcfService 11 1 2010
207. t to the user s rights as set out in the customisation manuals to amend PML software files contained in the PDMSUI and PDMSLIB folders and any configuration files the user may not reverse engineer decompile copy or adapt the software Neither the whole nor part of the software described in this publication may be incorporated into any third party software product machine or system without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Limited save as permitted by law Any such unauthorised action is strictly prohibited and may give rise to civil liabilities and criminal prosecution The AVEVA software described in this guide is to be installed and operated strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of the respective software licences and in accordance with the relevant User Documentation Unauthorised or unlicensed use of the software is strictly prohibited Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries All rights reserved AVEVA shall not be liable for any breach or infringement of a third party s intellectual property rights where such breach results from a user s modification of the AVEVA software or associated documentation AVEVA Solutions Limited High Cross Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 OHB United Kingdom Trademark AVEVA and Tribon are registered trademarks of AVEVA Solutions Limited or its subsidiaries Unauthorised use of the AVEVA or Tribon trademarks is strictly forbidden AVEVA
208. ta only and should be verified for production use Major changes for 12 1 include Improved Project_description PDF files Conversion of all databases to Unicode the new default Addition of OpenSteel test data to BAS project Many corrections to the various catalogues and specs including improved bolting Piping catalogue amended for sloping pipe development Addition of 7 segment bends and many improvements to HVAC catalogue Addition of weights in Kg to ANSI catalogues amp specs Addition of flat bar to the steel catalogue New Vantrunk catalogue update Oglaend catalogue Additional information for Isometric ADP Additional information for Diagrams Tags Instrumentation and Electrical A complete list of all changes logged is included in section 17 2 1 Documentation A great many changes have been made to the documentation set for PDMS 12 1 with all manuals updated Notable improvements to the documentation set include e Anew 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual A Global WCF Configuration Guide introduced with Global WCF at 12 0 SP6 6 Manuals for new functions and products Report Designer Tags Isometric ADP Major update for Lexicon manual A new section on Event Driven Graphics in the Software Customisation Reference Manual A new index page gives access to the online help system which may also be accessed direct from the system using lt F1 gt as usual Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 11 12 1 1 2
209. tabase which references them It is therefore difficult to track such documents once the link description is no longer available e Likewise linked documents may be referenced multiple times This will be the norm for extract databases This makes it difficult to identify the primary location of a document e It is possible to reference Linked documents for other data types of documents such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets e It is possible for users to change documents at the destination location this will lead to an inconsistency between locations The update process does not detect this e Behaviour for extract hierarchies may not be as expected For this reason the FORCE option should be used with caution on databases in an extract hierarchy since it could overwrite the wrong version of the file e No documents are deleted when a database is de allocated For this reason ALLOCATE will always overwrite any pre existing files e There is a strong likelihood that orphan linked documents will be left behind after databases have been merged backtracked de allocated or deleted Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 7 57 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 8 58 12 1 1 8 1 8 2 8 3 Catalogue amp Specifications A number of improvements have been made to the PARAGON module The most significant are listed below Model Settings The Model Settings form has been updated
210. tance units Unfortunately the techniques used are varied and scattered throughout the code New distance units can cause problems in this existing PML code most of which assumes that the only metric measure of distance is millimetres Current metric distance units can now be set to other measures such as centimetres or metres and imperial distance units can be set to decimal feet or yards There are many core functions and a few database attributes that require all values to be specified in millimetres the database storage unit for distance PML code has to protect users working with imperial distances from these core issues by switching units to MM interacting with core and then switching back to saved working units Old techniques used for switching units do not work with the new distance units It is now necessary for PML code to protect users working in centimetres or metres from core functions and data that work only in millimetres One of the most revealing tests that you can do is to use your PML application with the current distance units set to centimetres or metres This is more likely to fail than using imperial units 16 5 3 Area and Volume Area and volume units are new at 12 1 Before 12 1 PML code had to convert the result of an area or volume query i e NSRF or NVOL to the required units This is now done by the core so no unit conversion calculations are necessary in PML This means that all such code needs to be replaced to
211. text by leg length scplin namn ppbo 1 CENTER 0 TOP 0 E Black Arial Got False False 10mm True v Hide text when longest leg length in connector is shorter than default size Set 0 or empty to disable this option 14 15 2 Auto hide text by text fit This option hides the text on the connector if the tallest leg is shorter than the text that is currently displayed on it If this happens the system will note this in the System Message Log Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation General options System configuration Settings stored in drawing Annotation settings Pipe Dimensioning Instrumentation Dimensioning HVAC Dimensioning Dialogues Cataloque search settings Auto formatting rules options Sy Element options gt Pipeline options Valve options Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options E Shape text options Text Offset longitudinal reference Offset longitudinal Offset perpendicular reference Offset perpendicular Text colour Font Show Text on first segment only Annotations for first segment only Auto hide text by leg length scplin narmn ppbof1 CENTER 0 TOP 0 HB Black Arial Got False False 10mm Auto hide text by text fit True Auto hide text by text fit Hide text when current shape text length is longer than longest leg in connector Both options are activated when the connector size is changed
212. thdrawn Extensive improvements have been made to the export of AutoCAD format DXF DWG drawings from PDMS Draft AVEVA SQL Direct has not been updated but works with PDMS 12 1 AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface is not available with the initial release of PDMS 12 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 7 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 8 12 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 AVEVA Plant portfolio updates at 12 1 General These changes apply to PDMS and many of the other products based on the AVEVA Design Platform 1 Improved local language Unicode encoding A major internal change at PDMS 12 1 is that the system uses the Unicode standard for text storage and manipulation rather than the various specific and somewhat proprietary methods that are used in PDMS 12 0 and earlier releases This standard covers all common world languages and special characters and will make it much easier to provide support for additional character sets in future It makes text handling more robust and makes it much easier to relax some of the previous restrictions particularly to the use of Asian 16 bit character sets For example these may now be viewed in the 3D views Inputs and outputs may be in Unicode or local standards 2 Units of measure extended range of conversions PDMS has always provided conversions for distance and pipe bore measurements to cater for the use of both Metric
213. the Excel XLS export it warns you and says use XLSX but fails on doing so It can export to the CSV version that can then be loaded into Excel Even if you select single page versions of the image export it fails Reporting output differs for different Excel formats Exporting the output from Reporting the data exported differs between XLS and XLSX The XLSX format creates VALUE errors in the cells that are PDMS REFs in the DBViews whereas the XLS format creates the data correctly This issue arises because export to XLSX format considers the data in Value object mode by default The workaround is to use the Text export mode please see below XLSX Export Options Export mode Single file Page range Sheet name Sheet Text export mode value Show grid lines Value Text d Export hyperlinks Cancel Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 135 12 1 1 17 2 Corrections amp Minor Enhancements Corrections have been made for a number of defects as reported by customers in service incidents Particular attention has been paid to some of the newer areas of the system such as Schematics and Cable Design This section is not a complete list some of the most significant improvements are listed elsewhere in this document Late changes and those made after the initial release will be listed on the appropriate release letters In addition to those incidents resolved in AVEVA Plant 12 1 1 the first re
214. the optional Width attribute is not provided If Width is provided then it will override the TEXT specification Button text Similarly for the button gadget if the tag text is specified but the Width attribute is not then it will precisely determine the gadget width If Width is provided then it will override any tag text 16 2 2 Possible disadvantages of Variable Character layout This is not an upwards compatible change so there are bound to be forms which will look less satisfactory Forms which have avoided alignment by space padding e g by using TagWidth and Width should not be adversely affected There may be some overall reduction in form width Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 121 12 1 1 Padding of text with spaces to achieve alignment of a set of gadgets will no longer work note this was not recommended anyway Some uses of Align Right may fail with the message Attempt to place gadget off limits of form because the relative sizes of the aligned gadgets will have changed 16 2 3 Future change to VarChars as default The intention is to change the default layout mode to be VarChars at a subsequent release The effect of this will be that setup form formname will result in VarChars mode FixChars mode will then have to be explicitly specified for each form In order to help prepare for this change the FMSYS object has been enhanced to allow users to set the required default layout mode
215. thout Spaces an environment variable might be defined thus set pmllib c usersappware pmllib c aveva plant pdms12 1 1 pmllib With spaces a semicolon delimiter should be used set pmllib c users appware pmllib c program files aveva plant pdms12 1 1 pmllib Note that the must still be used even if there is no search path if the file paths contain spaces set pmllib df1 pmllib Changes have been to the standard AVEVA applications appware to ensure that it works in both cases This work includes problems caused if the PDMSUSER folder is defined with spaces in the directory path AVEVA Global daemon should work when installed in C Program Files provided that PDMSEXE is defined in this way for example Set PDMSEXE C Program Files AVEVA GlobalServerl2 1 1 Batch file changes The PDMS 12 1 installers have been changed to make it simpler to handle spaces in installation folders by using semicolon delimiters rather than spaces Changes have been made to environment variables including those set by evars bat Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 1 3 12 1 1 H Folder paths now end with a backslash Ou All paths are the old DOS 8 3 format compliant except for pdmsexe H pdmsexe is terminated with a backslash and a semi colon This applies to both pre assigned environment variables and those assigned by evars bat Customers who start PDMS using their own procedures may need to make similar
216. tion 4 1 means a change to the way that text is stored in the database DB DBs created using 12 1 onwards will use Unicode existing DBs will continue to work and will not be changed until reconfigured The data elements amp attributes from old DBs will be converted as required according to the character set CHARSET used for the project 3 10 DRAFT Line style world hierarchy System line style widths are now stored in the system database for consistency throughout a project and are initially set to ISO defaults Thin 0 25mm Medium 0 35mm Thick 0 70mm 3 11 Extract Control Include flush capability Enhancements have been made to Extract Control in the Design Engineer modules Design Diagrams and Schematic Model Manager When working in an extract database issuing flushing or dropping an element that has a referencing Integrator link will automatically include the link object The new reference array attribute INCFLU include flush returns any Integrator or Status link elements that reference the current element Flushing issuing or dropping an element with referencing link objects will act on those link objects even if the element itself is not claimed or modified The Extract Control form will display an R label on such elements Extract Data Control Get All Changes From parent extract only O From all extract ancestors Update CE Extract Claimlists User Claimlists Elements H SITE ELECTRICAL_MODEL
217. to modify pick Dimensioning Options A new button Other Unit Settings on this form shows the Current Session Units form as in Design Dimensioning Options Units Input unts Bore nons Output units Imperial lengths inch lt 2ft diameters v Tolerances Offset 0 00 1 32in Inch d Other Unit Settings gt Dimensions Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 12 97 12 1 1 Current Session Units Dimension Unit Distance Units Bore in Mass cut Pressure PSI Temperature degF Force It Energy BTU kw degree second Current ampere Voltage volt Example amp 2 11 16 Impedance ohm Inch gt Feet amp Inches lt Feet USER Feet amp Inches Fractions eg 0 0 0 0 USER Feet amp Inches Fraction eg Op 00 00 00in Tee C Set Distance Unit Save Restore User Setins The units settings can be reset using this form and need to be activated using the Set Unit button Clicking OK on the options form will save the current units setting into the current options file Once an options file has its own units settings these will be loaded before generating isos or modifying the file Notes e Until an options file has been modified the units displayed in the Current Session Units form will be the current Design session units as on entry to Isodraft When an options file has been loaded the units defined in the options file become current Existing O
218. to the folder lt proj gt dflts ModelManagement where lt proj gt dflts is the folder defined in the appropriate environment variable e g Ysamdflts The same result can be achieved by a free user starting up Integrator then clicking on Integrator gt Display gt Project Configuration Explorer then saving the file 17 1 6 New Reporting add in This new feature has a number of known limitations at this release which will be improved in future releases These include Improving performance while running reports in batch mode Background colour not exported in RTF format Watermark fails to display in the report No Copy Cut Paste available in table modifications Changing the Zoom in the Report designer causes Report to crash with Exception error message which you cannot close making it hard to close Tags as Report Designer keeps screen focus Some other limitations may be worked around as follows Drag and drop of DBView array fields to report designer This does not work at present as an alternative you can use an Array field in a report and place a control which can be bound to a field on the report By setting the Data Binding property of the control it can be bound to an array field In the example below a Label has been placed in the Detail section of a report for binding to the array field DIAREF ARRAY OF DIAGRAM REFERENCES v El Detal a a Dh abel Tasks DIAREF Schematic Pi a af chematic ipes GE
219. trictions PDMS has been tested using the same range of languages as previous releases No PDMS font files are available for any other language this means that TrueType fonts must be used on drawings and that therefore it is not possible to produce plotfile output With that restriction it is anticipated that many other languages will work though there are aspects of the Unicode standard that are not yet implemented PDMS currently handles the following correctly e Lett to Right languages and therefore not for example Arabic and Hebrew e Pre composed characters for example the single character a but not the combiners a gt e Upper and lower casing of characters where both cases have the same number of bytes 4 1 2 Textual File handling By default all sequential text files read by PDMS will be expected to be in UTF 8 format with a Byte Order Mark BOM present to identify them This includes PML files Datal files etc Similarly by default all sequential text files written by PDMS will be in Unicode UTF 8 format with a BOM present Further information about changing these defaults is given in section 16 1 1 A simple command line transcoder is also supplied this may be used in some applications to convert files to a different encoding see section 16 1 2 4 1 3 Filenames and PML The PDMS command processor supports Unicode characters All PML string variables support Unicode values You can use Unicode characters
220. tyles has been enhanced to allow the use of non solid line styles Two new attributes have been added to HPATTErns see below These provide values for new Wigwam parameters As a result users can create very complicated patterns e The existing GUI allowing users to pick the system defined Fill Styles has been extended to include the 12 new ones This meant the provision of 12 new icon files In addition hatch and fill patterns are now exported to DXF as the appropriate entities rather than lines See section 11 9 11 2 Line styles User defined LineStyle amp FillStyle elements have a system generated Style Number that should be unique within the MDB These attribute values are automatically created upon element creation However if a DRAFT database containing a Style World STYLWL is added to an MDB that already has a STYLWL it is possible for duplication of numbers to occur At PDMS 12 0 it is the later of the duplicates in database order within the MDB that has precedence when a Style of a given number is used This is opposite to the case of duplicate names where it has always been the first that has precedence At PDMS12 1 1 this has been changed to ensure consistency of behaviour between duplicate styles and names When an MDB contains Styles with duplicate Style Numbers it is the first in database order within the MDB that will be used when that Style Number is used to draw graphical elements 11 3 Line widths PDMS 12
221. uggested password text with leading character It returns a boolean value that determines whether the password is correct for the specified user Example lu object USER MYUSER if u ConfirmID SESAME then Six Status Control A number of small improvements which affect all constructor modules have been made to Status Control New pseudo attributes STVMOD and STVUSE have been added to return the status last modification date and user PML2 qualified attribute queries are now available for status data for example statusDefinitions 1 DesignStatus statusValues ce attribute STVVAL statusDefinitions A new command STM COMMENT has been added to set the status comment without modifying the status value The Status Change Event Methods now take an array of objects as their first argument where previously this was a single element reference in a string The StatusProjectHandler pml object has been modified Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 4 36 12 1 1 4 5 4 6 accordingly and comments show where customised code can be placed Customised code in the StatusProjectHandler pml object must be updated into the new version Code for a single object can generally be inserted in the do loops where indicated by comments The StatusData pml object has also been updated to better handle arrays of objects It has additional members to hold arrays of data The previously p
222. uired for 12 1 only 694 d065mar xml file creation 12 1 only 817 DEPT amp REGI XYZ pos format 12 1 only 830 HVAC Weights 829 MAR Project Additional Bending Machine 845 Template element DESC spelling mistakes 854 Re Reference Associations SAM only 858 SMM UDA Upgrade Configuration db MASTER DICT 860 Add Open Steel Project TST test data to BAS enable Lev2 tests 870 Remove spurious SPWL in marine BAS from TTP project 871 Clean DIAGRAMS drwg data Plant BAS project 852 HVAC Cata PBOR on RECT Grilles SFM and SCOM Ver 853 HVAC Cata New Reducing Profile for SQRD SCTN 861 HVAC Insulation Spec 882 Nuclear Handrailing Fix 872 Make Master Project DBs UTF 8 UNICODE Internal Format 959 Rebuild Master Proj DBs UTF 8 Internal Format 960 Add CTBATEST DBs as PDMS Internal Format LEGACY 961 Rebuild CTBATEST DBs as PDMS Internal Format LEGACY 909 Remove MASTER PIPEOLD from all MAR mdbs 911 HVAC 7 Segment Bend 912 HVAC Cata additions for ISO ADP 914 Function additions for Elec ZONES in HTEST 918 Correction of GPARTS which have incorrect CATREFs 919 New UDA for MASTER MDSDICT 920 Flat bar added to MASTER STLCATA 926 Stud Bolt Description Correction for SP DRO7C 927 Correction of Room Design Rules 928 Create Bolt Spec
223. ulti Discipline Supports MIDI 2 10 2 3 2 GOD REN 2 10 2 4 PEANT ENGINEER PRODUCTS ts cstectivesdecn cutavestevbsetinsvtencentvbawceusyyenesetbhaveessiyanedueysaseensvesnextendesees 2 10 2 4 1 ENQINCONIAG EE 2 10 2 4 2 ENEE e 2 11 2 5 SAMPLE MODEL DATA 2 11 2 6 Helef dg Age 2 11 2 7 OPERATING ENVIBONMENT rann nnen ne 2 12 2 7 1 PC hardware configuration ccccceeceeeeeeeeeececeeeeecaeeeeaaeseeeeesaeeeeaaeeseaeeseeeeseaeeeeaeeeeeeesaas 2 12 2 7 2 Microsoft WiNdOWS cceeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeaeeeeeseaeeeeeseaeeeeeseaeeeeesaeeeeeseeeeeeseeeaeeeeeeeaees 2 12 2 7 3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 12 2 7 4 Microsoft NET Framework AAA 2 12 2 7 5 Microsoft Office amp fonts 0 ccccecccececeeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeceaeeeeaaeeeeeeeseaeeeseaeeeeaaeseneeeseaeeesaeeeeeeseeeees 2 13 2 7 6 Graphics CANS E 2 13 2 7 7 Environment variables AA 2 14 2 8 UPGRADING FROM EARLIER DELEASES eses es esen ns nsns nsns nsns nsns nnan nsnsannn an nnnnnnnnnn enesenn enn 2 14 2 8 1 le ei Ee VT 2 14 2 8 2 DBUpgrade command DEE 2 15 2 8 3 Database Version Control 2 15 2 8 4 GOD A seeiis aaa aaea bade vv see p aa a EA EEEE 2 15 2 8 5 THO Upgrade ProCes aere A O T 2 15 2 8 6 LOCKING the Stee EE 2 16 2 8 7 Extract elle VE 2 16 2 8 8 International characters Unicode eee eececeeeeteeeeeeeneeeeeeeaeeeee teases eeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeetaeeeenes 2 17 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd i 12 1 1 2 8 9 2 8 10 5 1
224. unit other than by use and convention they could change from application to application and project to project This approach is not compatible with automated conversion so the storage units must be defined For compatibility it is possible to set the units to NUMERIC which will disable Units conversion for that physical dimension Disabling a specific dimension in this way means that no advantage will be gained from the introduction of that dimension Previous versions of Schematic Model Manager had special units support for Angle Area Pressure Temperature Volume and Weight values that could be included in the ISO15926 format import file Units UDAs were provided as mandatory UDAs and were attributes on each Diagram element SCDIAG The chosen units for these dimensioned quantities could be set in the Project Options form in Schematic Model Manager In 12 1 the new units capabilities mean that the special units support in Schematic Model Manager is no longer required Data imported in 12 1 will be stored in the appropriate units consistent with Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 17 12 1 1 the data read from the ISO15926 import file The upgrade process for projects moving to 12 1 includes a part upgrade for Schematic Model Manager dimensioned data Please note that the CATA database elements MSET MTYP ATLI USEC and UDEF are no longer used they will be removed from the database in due course 2 8 10 Schematics fu
225. urrent year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 16 12 1 1 2 8 8 International characters Unicode New text files including Datal files will be output by default in UTF 8 with a BOM unless the CADC_LANG_NEW environment variable is set Datal files written from earlier versions will not be UTF 8 but will be read according to the CADC_LANG environment variable or Latin 1 if unset If this is incorrect this could cause encoding problems causing the file to be misread For further information please see sections 4 1 and 16 1 New databases created at PDMS 12 1 will by default use the Unicode character set for textual attributes and names see section 3 1 However no upgrade is required for older databases they will be handled according to the project character set as defined in Admin PROJECT CHARSET or PROJECT MBCHARSET commands They will also be converted according to this setting if they are reconfigured so it is important that it is set correctly In cases where an extended range of characters is needed Reconfigure may be used to convert a legacy database to a Unicode encoded database In the following example legacy DICT databases used to hold UDA and UDET names are reconfigured to be Unicode encoded using Admin 12 1 FROM DB MASTER DICT TO FILE c DICT1 c DICT2 RCFCOPY ALL RECONFIG SESSIONS FROM FILE c DICT1 c DICT2 TO DB MASTER DICT RECONFIG Doing it this way means that no deletion and recreation or
226. within the Plant portfolio are reflected in this document Those aspects that are common between most of the products are generally covered in the first part of the document 1 3 Software distribution and installation Please note that this release requires FlexMan 5 and an appropriate license it will not work with earlier versions For further details of FlexMan License Server releases please see http support aveva com services products flex index asp or for the 64 bit version http support aveva com services products flex flex_releases asp There is a combined installer for PDMS and many of the associated products listed below This can be configured by using the check boxes to install a selection of products in one operation Control Panel gt Add or Remove Programs may subsequently be used to add or remove the individual products at a later date Installations using setup exe will by default install to C The individual msi files will by default use the drive with most free space For more details please see the Installation Guide Setup exe will now record the installations in log files that can be found in the user s TEMP directory This can be found using the environment variable TEMP Normally referenced as 7TEMP 1 3 1 Products installed by the main AVEVA Plant PDMS installer The following AVEVA Plant products are installed with PDMS Always installed PDMS Laser Model Interface Query Diagrams Schematic Model
227. xample ED MOD DESIGN 12800000 is the same as ED MOD DESIGN 50 Mbytes Buffer setting per user Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 3 25 12 1 1 The Dabacon value may be set for a particular user by setting the environment variable PDMSBUF before running PDMS This sets the buffer size in Megabytes for use by all PDMS modules it will be ignored if its value is greater than 1000 For example set PDMSBUF 500 sets it to 500 MByte Querying the amount of unused buffer This may be queried using the command 9 DABACON AVAIL 3 7 2 Dabacon index tables The use of Dabacon index tables has been extended to speed up selection by type UDET or UDA value 3 8 Units of measure This enhancement see section 4 2 enables PDMS to store attribute data in standard units and perform conversions as appropriate The system handles this automatically dependent on the units and also stores appropriate information with parameterised attributes to enable them to be handled A new dynamic UNIPAR attribute has been added to all catalogue elements with PARA attributes namely SCOM SPRF JOIN and FITT and to all design elements with DESP attributes It is a hidden VISI FALSE integer array attribute that may not be listed or queried and holds the set of WORD unit values corresponding to the dimensions of the values in a sibling PARA or DESP attribute 3 9 Unicode storage of name and text attributes The switch to Unicode see sec
228. xists then lintegrator openreport endif endif endhandle endif Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 13 101 12 1 1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 102 12 1 1 14 AVEVA Diagrams 14 1 Diagram Change Highlighting Changes to schematic diagrams can now be highlighted in the Diagrams Schematic Model Manager and Tags modules using a new Diagram Change Highlighting add in This add in enables the database changes between two database sessions to be viewed using the AVEVA SVG Viewer to highlight the changes in colour It also provides a summary of the changes in the list below the two viewer screens It can be accessed from the context menu of the Schematic Explorer amp SCGROU SAMPLE CABLDIA Instruments EI Ki SCGROU SAMPLE CABLDIA Diagrams I Scdiagrams SCDIAG 001 Latest Set Release Status Choose Sessions Diagram ecto Show Diagram iagra WC SCGROU HVAC_Di New S a g eA A DA UserSetings SE A1 51 2003 Page 1 3 A1 51 2003 Page 1 1 A1 51 2003 Page 1 e Z D d LEI KE n DaO Target Session Db 7612 Session 932 Date 2011 08 29 User henrik hultin Base Session Db 7612 Session 929 Date 2011 08 29 User henrik hultin Element REF Kl Element Name Element
229. xport to a single STEP file by specifying a file name instead of a directory name e g export file c project a345 pipel stp Naming of exported items is unique within this file Note It is still not possible to create a multi level assembly hierarchy in a single STEP file Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 70 12 1 1 10 PDMS Design Applications 10 1 Equipment The Create gt Equipment form has been redesigned with several enhancements Equipment may be positioned using graphical picking Attributes are input directly using the creation form rather than a sub form UNDO is available The form is resizable For details please refer to the Equipment User Guide Section 4 Name ipa 2048 Position East 1 2345 00mm North 280 00mm Up 4364 00mm wrt e Attributes Description COMBI FLEX DN150 DN125 Function PUMP Design Code Paint Specification Inspection Schedule 10 2 Piping 10 2 1 Sloping piping The data structure for piping includes two new concepts for better handling of slopes or falls An adaptive or wobbly P point that can accommodate a specified range of angles this is achieved by introducing a tolerance attribute OFFTOL on all types of P point in Paragon A PDIR pseudo attribute defines the actual direction which must be within the tolerance of the nominal direction A Slope element or SLOELE in a Slope ta
230. y accented characters not in the basic Latin ASCII set will also be affected e gives a more standard and hence more useful format for most customers but may be converted to internal format or other supported format using the Transc utility see section 16 1 2 2 10 Notice of change in support status The support status for all full releases of PDMS is shown on the AVEVA web site The release of PDMS 12 1 will trigger a change of status for PDMS 11 6 to Limited in 2012 after a transition period of 6 months At the same time versions of PDMS 12 0 prior to SP6 will change to Inactive 2 11 Future considerations 2 11 1 Access platforms Stairs and Ladders ASL The new application for Access platforms Stairs and Ladders ASL is being improved to provide an excellent tool for stairs single flight in the first release ladders and hand railing Its facilities for modelling access platforms have been removed and will be covered by a simpler approach using the new Standard Model Library The new application will therefore be known as Stairs Ladders and Hand railing The old Access platforms Stairs and Ladders application from PDMS 11 6 is still available though it will be removed at a future release It is available hidden at PDMS 12 and can be reactivated by a simple edit Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 2 18 12 1 1 to the PML file PDMSUI des addins access This file is all comm
231. y correction 1056 PSI System UDA ULEN modification for large group 1058 Environment variables in dO065nnn xml amp project bat files 1059 Project Description update for TAGS and PSI changes 1060 MAR sbd_def1 def file remove redundant settings 1061 Correct Compile error on TAGS UDAs with incorrect UTYP 1062 Recreate cables under ELEC CABLES for missing attributes 1063 SMM Default UDAs 1064 Vantrunk and Oglaend CT SPEC PURP set to TRAY 1065 SAMDEFLTS Model Management folder re instatement 1066 Link TAGS to Design elements 998 New VANTRUNK Catalogue 1030 OGLAEND Catalogue Updates 1057 MAR Bending Machine collision planes 1067 LDIM mods to aid DXF of multi line Projline Text 1068 UDA Minor modifications various 1069 MAR Project Delete GBLOCK SB_OGDB JUMBO 1070 Modify Bolting Spec on A1A A3B and F1C 1072 Update UDAs for DESC and RPTX Attributes 1073 Master DBs in AUTO project with R W access 1074 UDA Changes and SAMDELTS Preliminary Lists for TAGS 1075 Delete unused MDS RBPS UDA UGRO 1076 MAR Module Definition DIAGRAMS PADD R only 1077 MAR Add HULLDRAFT PADD DB to SCHEMATICS MDB 1078 MAR Pipe Assemblies Reset Refs 1079 HVAC Joints Correction FJ8060 1080 TAGS Model Data Update Lexicon and Tags 1081 TAGS Model
232. y display the characters which exist in its currently selected font Console fonts tend to be quite restrictive so you need to select a suitable one In the UK you will probably be restricted to Lucida Console or Consolas which will display European characters but not Asian characters etc 4 1 6 PDMS Databases Unicode encoded databases New databases created with PDMS 12 1 will by default store text using Unicode encoding these may be termed Unicode encoded Databases In these databases Unicode can be used for Names of UDAs UDETs Databases MDBs users teams and date stamps However there are still some restrictions e Names of System Attributes and Elements are ASCII only e Word type attributes continue to be restricted to A Z e Some other text attributes are restricted to ASCII only In particular the following Project oriented attributes are restricted to ASCII only at this release Filenames for databases LOCID remains explicitly at 3 alpha numeric characters Project code remains explicitly at 3 alphabetic characters Project ID is limited to 8 alpha numeric characters Project Number is an attribute of 17 characters recommended to be the same as Project ID Project EVAR is Project code 000 so is 6 alpha numeric characters Legacy Databases Old Databases created prior to PDMS 12 1 store names text attributes and other text strings using an encoding determined by the project settings Th
233. y savework Design CTBATEST DESI Default session comment 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design CTBCOPY ASLTMPL Default session comment 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design CTBCOPY TEMPLATE Default session comment 01 04 2010 16 31 44 gordon smith savework Design CTBATEST DESI Initial 01 04 2010 16 32 06 gordon smith savework Design CTBATEST DESI Changes be Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key C highlight All Changes Since v Annotated Explorer Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 9 68 12 1 1 Clicking the highlight checkbox at the bottom middle of the Add in see Model Changes Add in tabs and controls picture above has an immediate effect on all 3D graphical views if changes are currently displayed in the explorer tree Any changed elements that have graphical representation and are in the drawlist for any active view are highlighted in colour This uses the same customisable colour used by the Highlight element function available via right click menu in the standard Design Explorer Add in Unchecking the checkbox returns the graphical display to normal colouring All panes of the Model Changes Add in are updated and Explorer annotations and 3D graphical highlighting are reset in the following circumstances e further element changes e Savework Getwork and Refresh e User or MDB switch Following any of these operations the Refresh button must be clicked again in order to
234. ype fonts Module Definitions Replicate Expunge NT Authentication P V Propagate Link Documents Data Access Control Initialise Location Locking amp Isolation AO FARAR RTL Note Link Documents are only available in DESI databases Link Document Propagation can be enabled on the command line by setting the GLINKP attribute on the GLOCWL GL element The default is false indicating that Link propagation is disabled for the project To determine which documents require propagation the update process must scan applicable databases As this has a performance impact on the overall time for updates the administrator can select which databases to scan By default all DESI databases will be scanned for Link documents It is possible to disable Link Documents propagation for a single database via the CREATE MODIFY Database form by deselecting the Link Documents tick box E Create Database lojxj lt TEAM gt TEAMA Cris Team lt TEAM gt TEAMB Equpment Teas lt TEAM gt TEAMC Steetwork Team lt TEAM gt TEAMO Pipework Team lt TEAM gt TEAME Mangers And Supports Team lt TEAM gt TEAMF Reporter Team lt TEAM gt TEAMG isodran Team H lt TEAM gt TEAMH Clasher Tean lt TEAM gt TEAMI MVAC Team Creste sme Leg Ostabese Type Oesion D m om a a I Controtes T 20 Reference Onty Casen Fe TZ ECH Fle Number Ka Sate Primary Loc PProvectHue z Propagar F Database
235. ype selection has been changed to allow the dimension of properties in Design and Catalogue Data Sets to be specified 5 2 2 Project Default units Administrators can use this form to set units then copy the file to make those the default Project Units This file will also need to be copied to remote site for Global projects There are Imperial and Metric versions of the units files The Imperial Metric switch is at MDB level so could be varied within a project if essential Although Users cannot switch between metric and imperial in a session they can set the bore to mm or inch regardless of this setting A mechanism is in place to prevent Users over riding Project Units Users or applications can specify which units they are using regardless of project settings On Global projects it is necessary to propagate the units settings file to all project satellites If the Other Data Transfer mechanism has been implemented project units settings files could be propagated in this way Alternatively It would be possible to use Global transfer of Linked documents Once transferred such a file would not be automatically updated but this could be achieved using the SYNCHRONISE LINKDOC FORCE command See section 7 5 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 5 40 12 1 1 Otherwise the most practical method of propagating a project units file is simply to copy it to the appropriate project folder at each site In practice

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