13. Close the utility by selecting the Exit button
2.3 AVEVA P&ID Project Administration Program
2.3.12 Pipes Configuration Category
The Pipes Configuration Category is divided into four sub-categories:
• Settings Sub-Set
• Labels Sub-Set
• Validation Sub-Set
• Automatic Tag Format Sub-Set
• Settings Sub-Set
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The fields in this application pane are used to set up the configuration properties of pipes.
The application pane is divided into twelve sections.
- Settings Section
If items are to inherit some of their properties from the pipe that they are owned by, the Inherit Item Labels from Owner Pipe checkbox must be checked.
If pipe connection size data is to be output when synchronising with a VPE Workbench database, ensure that the Pipe Size Connection Output checkbox is checked.
Select the default style of process links in the Default Process Link Style field.
Select the default style of instrument process links (also known as "Legacy" process links) in the Default Instrument Process Link Style field.
- Breaks Section
This section contains the following settings:
• The 'Automatic Breaks ON' checkbox governs whether pipes break automatically or not when crossed by another pipe. If the checkbox is not checked, warnings are given that junctions have not been formed when pipes cross each other. If the checkbox is checked, pipelines drawn crossing other pipes will be drawn with breaks positioned according to the setting of the Break Pipe Direction field (see below).
• The Break Distance field is used to set the width of the gap created in the pipe when it is broken by another. This distance separates the break symbols.
• Depending on which Break Pipe Direction button is selected, Horizontal and Vertical, pipes will either break vertically or horizontally, assuming the Automatic Breaks ON checkbox has been checked.
• The Symbol Name field is used to specify the break symbol inserted when a pipe is broken, e.g. LBRK. The symbol name is selected from a drop down list.
• The Symbol Layer field is used to specify the layer on which the break symbols reside.
The layer name is selected from a drop down list.
• The Symbol Colour field defines the colour of the break symbol inserted when a pipe is broken.
The Browse button adjacent to the Symbol Colour field is used to select the colour. On selection of the button, the colour selection dialog box is displayed:
The Colour Code can be selected using the following methods:
• Selection of one of the colours shown in the palette
• By double clicking the Assume Owner Colour hyperlink. Items will automatically assume the colours of the owning items, e.g., the colours of the lines they are inserted into. When there is no owning item, they will be set to the default colour.
• By double-clicking on the Assume By Layer hyperlink. Items will automatically assume the colours of the layers they are inserted into, as set on the Layers Sub-Set the Drawing Configuration Category.
• By manually entering the Colour Code field
Following selection, press OK. The selected colour code will then be displayed in the Symbol Colour field.
- Flow Arrows Section
This section contains the following settings:
• The Automatic Arrows checkbox governs the presence or absence of flow arrows at the direction change points of pipes.
• The Symbol Name field specifies which flow arrow symbol is used. The symbol name is selected using the drop down list.
- Values to Remember from Last Pipe Edit Section
The section contains fifteen checkboxes - Size, Fluid/Service, Number, Area, Specification, Insulation (Table), Insulation (Index), Insulation (Condition), Paint Code, Tracing (Number), Tracing (Size), Tracing (Type), Project Field 1, Project Field 2 and Project Field 3.
A project can be configured so that a value entered in a field in a Properties dialog is
"remembered" by the same field when that Properties dialog is accessed again when labelling another, previously unlabelled, item of that type.
If, for example, the functionality is switched on for the pipe Number field, and a pipe is labelled with a value of "001". The next time a pipe is labelled for the first time, when the Properties dialog for this item is opened, the Number field will automatically be completed with the value "001". This can be replaced by another value if required. This new value will then be the "remembered" value for the pipe Number field.
This functionality is switched on and off for individual Properties dialog fields by checking and unchecking the checkboxes in this section.
- Label Validation Across P&IDs Section
The project may be set to check that all pipe labels in all P&IDs in a project are unique.
• Select the Prevent button if users are to be prevented from entering project duplicate pipe labels. If this is attempted, an error message is displayed and the duplicate label may not be placed on the P&ID.
• Select the Warn button if users are to be warned if they enter project duplicate pipe labels. The entry of duplicate labels is permitted in this case, but an error message will be displayed on the P&ID, and will accompany the pipe label data when transferred to VPE Workbench.
• If no uniqueness validation of pipe labels across P&IDs is required, select Ignore button. Duplicate pipe labels may be entered in different P&IDs in this case. Duplicate pipe labels are still not permitted in the same P&ID.
Duplicate pipe labels are not regarded as duplicates if the pipes in question are connected with cross-sheet connectors.
Note that if the Prevent or Warn options are set, a connection to the VPE Workbench database must be established before labels can be edited. This is because in order to check the uniqueness of labels across a project, AVEVA P&ID refers to the VPE Workbench database.
- Size Consistency Section
If the synchronisation process is to check that nozzle and pipe sizes match and to report any mismatches as errors, check the Enforce Nozzle and Pipe Size Match checkbox.
If this checkbox is checked, any such mismatches must be corrected before the nozzles and pipes in question can be successfully synchronised.
- Populate Specification in Database Section
If specification values are not going to be entered into the P&IDs, but populated in VPE Workbench instead, check the Populate Spec in Database checkbox.
- Inheritance Section
The values of pipe attributes may be inherited from the sheet attributes entered on the Advanced Drawing Properties sheet. The values entered for these sheet attributes may be values that are common to many items on the drawing, for example the design area. The inheritance facility enables all items to inherit these common values. The attributes of items that do not share these common values may subsequently be edited manually using their properties sheets.
The Inheritance section is used to select which pipe attributes are to inherit values from which sheet attributes. As required, select for each pipe attribute the sheet attribute field from which values are to be inherited.
Sheet attribute field names are set up using the Drawing Information - Settings Sub-Set.
- Reducer Setting Section
From the Reducer Label Format list, select the direction in which reducer labels are to be orientated.
If "Flow Direction" is selected, the first part of the label (i.e. the first diameter) is positioned on the upstream side of the reducer and the second part of the label on the downstream side of the reducer, e.g.:
If "Largest size first" is selected, the first part of the label is placed on the wider side of the reducer, the second part on the narrower side:
If "Smallest size first" is selected, the first part of the label is placed on the narrower side of the reducer, the second part on the wider side:
Note: In order for this functionality to work correctly, the list of values for sizes used on the project (Metric Sizes or Imperial Sizes) must set up sorted from smallest size to largest size. Lists of values are set up using the List of Values Configuration Category.
- Cascade Settings Section
By default, when the properties of parent pipe label are edited, any changes to these properties may immediately be reflected in the labelling of the branches off that pipe.
If required, this cascading of changes may be disabled for selected properties. If this is required, check the Disabled Cascading in Branches checkbox.
To select the property fields to be excluded from cascading, select the Browse button adjacent to the Select Fields to Disable field. The Select Fields to Disable Cascading dialog box is then displayed:
Select the fields to be disabled from the list of values and then select the OK button. The Select Fields to Disable field will then list the numbers representing the selected fields.
Note: Fields specified for unique validation (see the Labels Sub-Set below) will still be cascaded regardless of these settings.
- Legacy Settings Section
Check the Use Legacy Process Link checkbox if the pre-AVEVA VPE P&ID 7.2 SP3 type of process links are to be used (PLK item type). These are known as "Legacy" or instrument process links.
If this checkbox is not checked (default setting), process links are drawn as pipes (i.e. as branches between main pipes and offline items - PMA item type) in the process link pipe style.
- Synchronise warning settings or unconnected items Section
If, when a drawing is synchronised, a warning message is to be displayed on the drawing for
“unconnected” items, i.e. items for which owner details are not available, check the Display owner warning checkbox.
• Labels Sub-Set
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The fields in this application pane are used to set up the pipe label configuration format.
The application pane is divided into eleven sections.
- Main Pipe Label Colour Section
The Main Pipe Label Colour field defines the colour of the pipe label that is selected in the pipe label set to represent the main values of the pipe.
The Browse button adjacent to the field is used to select the colour. On selection of the button, the colour selection dialog box is displayed:
The Colour Code can be selected using the following methods:
• Selection of one of the colours shown in the palette
• By double clicking the Assume Owner Colour hyperlink. Labels will automatically assume the colours labelled items. When there is no owning item, they will be set to the default colour.
• By double-clicking on the Assume By Layer hyperlink. Labels will automatically assume the colours of the layers they are inserted into, as set on the Layers sub-category of the Drawing Configuration Category.
• By manually entering the Colour Code field
Following selection, press OK. The selected colour code will then be displayed in the Main Pipe Label field.
- Default Reporting Label Format Section
A pipe may be labelled with labels in various formats. One of these labels may be set as the default label, i.e. the label that will be used to identify the pipe in the database. If required, such labels may be highlighted on drawings by having them displayed in a different colour.
If this is required, check the Default Reporting Label Format checkbox.
To select the colour, select the Browse button adjacent to the Default Reporting Label Colour field, and select the colour from the Colour dialog (see above). The number code of the selected colour is then displayed in the field.
- Source and Destination Formats Section
A different display format from the normal display format (see below) may be used for pipe source and destination labels on a drawing, where the sources and/or destinations are different pipes. This section is used to switch on this facility and to define the required formats.
Check the Source Label Format and/or Destination Label Format checkboxes as required to switch on this facility for source/and or destination formats.
The buttons next to the Select Source Label Format and Select Destination Label Format are used to open the Tag Format Editor field in which the required format may defined.
See the Display Label Format section below for details.
- Pipe Label Format Section
This section contains the following settings:
• When using the properties dialog for pipe labelling, it is possible to toggle between standard and single-field pipe labelling. The Fixed Pipe Label Format checkbox determines which the default setting is. If fixed (i.e. standard) pipe labelling is on, the whole of a pipe label must be placed on the drawing. If switched off, the option is available to place individual fields of the pipe label on the drawing.
• The Pipe Label Format fields are used to select the fields included in pipe labels, and the order in which they are displayed. Pipe labels may consist of up to fifteen fields and must include Size, Number and Specification (unless the 'Populate Spec in Database' checkbox is set) as a minimum.
The Browse button adjacent to the field is used to select the format. On selection of the button, the Pipe Label Format dialog box is displayed:
The Pipe Label Format can be selected by using the drop down lists. A field cannot be selected twice.
Following selection, press OK. The selected Pipe Label Format will then be shown in the Pipe Label Format field as a set of values separated by commas, e.g. 1,3,5,6,10.
The numbers represent label fields are follows:
1. Size
2. Fluid/Service 3. Number 4. Area
5. Specification 6. Insulation (Table) 7. Insulation (Index) 8. Insulation (Condition) 9. Paint Code
10. Tracing (No of Tracers) 11. Tracing (Size)
12. Tracing (Type)
13. Project1 (Project definable) 14. Project2 (Project definable)
15. Project3 (Project definable)
- Display Label Format Section
This section contains the following settings:
• The Display Label Format fields are used to select the types of data displayed in pipe labels, and the order in which they are displayed. Fields may appear in a different order from those of the "actual" pipe label, and fields that are in the "actual" pipe label may be left out, though additional fields may not be included.
At least one display label format must be set up.
Multiple display label formats may set up, one of which will be set as the default. When labelling pipes, the label will default to this format, but another format may be selected if required.
The Browse button adjacent to the field is used to select the format. On selection of the button, the Select a Tag Format dialog is displayed:
The dialog lists the existing display formats.
To set a format as the default, select if from the list and select the Set as Default button.
The current default format is indicated by the word "True" in the IsDefault column.
To edit a format, select it and then select the Edit button. The Tag Format Editor dialog is then displayed. Edit the format as described below.
To delete a format, select it and then select the Delete button.
To create a new format, select the New button. The Tag Format Editor dialog is then displayed.
The Tag Format field cannot be edited. It displays the current display label format configuration (i.e. the selected fields and delimiters).
Enter a description of the format in the Description field. If required, enter any additional information in the Remarks field.
The format is selected by using the drop down lists below these fields. A field cannot be selected twice.
Unlike the "actual" pipe label format, which uses the delimiter entered in the Delimiter field (see below) for every part of the label, the display format may have different delimiters displayed after each label component. Enter a delimiter for each label field used, or leave blank if no delimiter is required.
When the new display label format has been set up, select the Save button. The new format is then added to the list in the Select a Tag Format dialog. If required, set it as the default display label format as described above.
Press OK. The default display label format will then be shown in the Pipe Label Format field, e.g. 1,-,2,-,3,/,4,-,5,. Refer to the previous section (above) for the meanings of these numbers.
• The Delimiter field defines the delimiter separating the Pipe Label Format fields. The use of a '|' character is restricted as this is the delimiter used in the transfer files to VPE Workbench.
• The Unique Validation field is used to specify which combination of fields in pipe labels are to be checked for uniqueness.
The Browse button adjacent to the field is used to select the values. On selection of the button, the Unique Validation dialog box is displayed:
The Unique Validation fields can be selected by using the drop down lists. Following selection, press OK, and the selected Unique Validation values will be shown in the Unique Validation field. e.g. 2, 9, 11.
• The Trim Label Prefix field is used to specify the text prefix to the trim identifier in a trim label. Whenever a trim label is created on a vessel, this word appears in front of the main label. If no prefix is required, change the setting to NONE.
• If a delimiter is required after an area code, the Delimiter After Area Field checkbox must be checked if display label format is not being used.
• If a delimiter is not required after an area code, the program needs to know how many characters are allowed for the Area field. Complete the Number of Characters fields with this value.
Note: Changes to drawings resulting from changes to the Display Label Format settings are not automatically implemented when project drawings are loaded. The user must trigger these changes "manually" in each drawing after it has loaded. See 8.2.3:
Updating PipeTags.
- Project Definable Fields Section
The fields in the Project Definable Fields section specify the boilerplate text for the three project definable fields, which appear on the pipe labelling Properties dialog. These fields are not validated within AVEVA P&ID.
The values in these fields are exported, so the field titles should match those set-up for the Line Tag in VPE Workbench. The fields may be validated during the Issue to Engineering operation into VPE Workbench.
If required, from the adjacent drop-down lists, select lists of values that entries in these fields must be chosen from. If this is not required, select the <NONE> value from the list (this is the default entry). Lists of values are set up on the List of Values Configuration Category of the Administration program.
- Split Format Section
It is possible to place some fields of a pipe label above the pipe and the remainder below the pipe. This is termed Split Pipe Labelling and is controlled by the three fields in the Split Format section.
The Split After Field field is used to indicate which field in the pipe format to split on. The number entered here determines how many fields to count from the left of the pipe label before the split occurs.
The Y offset above line and Y offset below line fields are used to specify the positions of the
The Y offset above line and Y offset below line fields are used to specify the positions of the