Configure Equipment for Use With the Hole Management System

Equipment penetrations require specific elements to be created within the equipment hierarchy to represent the hole that is required when an equipment item penetrates a panel. The penetration required is represented by an extrusion element (EXTR or NXTR) stored in the equipment hierarchy. The element contains a loop element (LOOP) and vertices (VERT elements) to define the shape of the hole required. Which is called the penetration profile.

The extrusion to be used as the penetration profile is first created in the equipment or design template, and is then identified using the Identify Penetration Shape window. The window creates two elements owned by the equipment or design template element. The first is a Port Set (PORS) element that must have its Purpose attribute set to HOLE, which owns a port (PORI) element which has a reference to the penetration profile extrusion.