Create Drawing

The Create Drawing command allows you to create a drawing and add it to an existing iso area.

1. Select the Create Drawing button from the Batch Environment form.

The system displays the Create Drawing form.

2. Key in a piping area name.

If the contents of the Iso Area field are changed, the system clears all the remaining fields.

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Select the Iso Area List button for a list of available iso areas.

The system displays the List Iso Areas form.

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3. Select an iso area from the form.

4. Select the accept button.

The system returns to the Create Drawing form with the selected area displayed in the Iso Area field.

5. Select the Type field gadget and select the appropriate isometric drawing type that will be associated with the newly-created drawing. Refer to the section Isometric Types for more information on Type.

6. Select the Line field and key in the primary line ID, as defined in the

LINE_ID_DEFINITION of the options file, of the drawing you want to create.

The line ID cannot contain embedded blanks or the backslash character.

The system first checks that the line ID you key in is unique. An error message is displayed if the line ID you key in has already been defined.

To view a list of currently loaded drawings, select the Drawing List button to activate the List Drawings form. The drawings are listed according to area and line ID.

Once a valid line ID is entered, the system loads the appropriate information into the Drawing Number and Iso Dgn Name fields.

If the Line field is changed, the system clears all the remaining fields.

7. Drawing Number / Iso Dgn Name

The system displays the drawing number. The contents of this field depend upon the drawing number option selected in the Define Project Options form.

The system displays the isometric design file name. The design file name is used for naming subsidiary files created during the extraction. The contents of this field depend upon the iso name option selected from the Define Project Options form.

8. Line 2

Key in a secondary line name. This line name identifies a secondary line that will be included in the drawing. The secondary line must be connected to the line identified by the primary line name.

This field is optional.

9. Line 3

Key in another secondary line ID. The same restrictions apply to Line 3 as to Line 2.

This field is optional.

10. Number of Sections

This field is usually left blank. When a line leaves a piping area and then returns at some other point, such that the pipeline in the area exists in multiple disconnected sections, then the number of sections should be specified.

This field allows you to treat a disconnected pipeline in the model as one line. Sheet numbering is continuous. For example, if a line exists in two sections of a model and section one generates three sheets and section two generates two sheets, then the sheets from section two will be sheets four and five of the line.

This option should not be used to extract lines that are not intentionally disconnected. A line may or may not extract if you attempt to use this field to extract a pipeline not modeled correctly.

The next three fields can be used as search criteria when creating batch job input. For more information on batch jobs and search criteria, refer to Create Batch Job Input, page 5 - 89 .

11. Batch Reference

Key in a batch reference number. The batch reference number allows you to group drawings within the isometric environment. If batch reference numbers are supplied, you can later specify, for example, to extract all drawings in a given area with a given batch reference number.

The batch reference number is optional.

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12. Model Status

Key in the model status code. The user-defined model status code helps keep track of drawing status. The following is a list of example codes:

N - Line has not been modeled

M - Line has been modeled but not checked C - Line has been modeled and checked A - Drawing has been extracted and approved R - Line has been revised since last approved

If model status codes are defined in this field, they can be used later when generating a batch job input file.

For example, you could designate that all lines in a given area be extracted with a given model status.

13. Model Revised Date

Key in a date with the format DD-MMM-YYYY. This date indicates when the lines comprising the drawing have been revised. The Model Revised Date field allows you designate for extraction, all lines that have been revised since the last drawing revision.

14. Extraction Number

The system displays the last extraction number for the drawing.

The extraction number is incremented by one each time the drawing is extracted.

This field could be mapped to a text node near the extraction date text node (see the description of the Extraction Date field). The extraction number helps distinguish between two drawings generated on the same day.

Extraction Date

The system displays the last extraction date for the drawing.

The extraction date is automatically updated by the system when batch isometrics extraction occurs.

This field should be mapped to a text node that lies just outside of the drawing border. This will help indicate when the drawing was generated.

Last MTO Date

The system displays the date that an MTO neutral file was last generated for the drawing.

The MTO date is automatically updated by the system whenever an mto neutral file is generated along with the isometric drawing.

15. Sheets Generated

The system displays the number of sheets generated by ISOGEN for the drawing the last time it was extracted.

The number of sheets is automatically updated by the system each time the drawing is extracted.

Each time the revision number is incremented, a new line of data is added to the revision block automatically. Line inputs are specified each time a batch job file is created.

17. Date to Mtl Control

Key in a date that indicates when the most recent MTO neutral files were passed to a material control system. This field must be manually updated.

18. Revision Number

The system displays the latest revision number of the drawing.

The revision number is automatically updated by the system each time a drawing is extracted.

When a batch job file is created, you indicate whether or not you want to increment the revision number during the run. If you do want to increment the number, the system increments the field by one. If the Revision Number field is initially blank, the system assumes that revision zero of the drawing is being generated.

19. Once you have completed your inputs to the form, select the accept button.

The system writes the data to the Project Control Database.

The Iso Area and Line are the required minimum inputs for the Create Drawing form.

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