Feature Overview for AVEVA Electrical - Designer

Electrical Designer handles automated generation of AutoCAD drawings from multi-user project/plant databases. It manages the process of AutoCAD drawing creation, drawing revision update, transferring of data to drawings, parametric creation of termination (wiring) drawings and printing AutoCAD files.

Drawings List Management

• Add/Edit/Update/Delete/Open drawings from the Drawings List (register) manually.

• Add termination drawings automatically from Wiring Manager's Equipment List.

• Add schematic drawings automatically from Electrical Engineer's Equipment Lists.

• Add distribution drawings automatically from Electrical Engineer's Distribution Diagrams Lists.

• Manage drawing revisions (update all selected in "batch" mode).

• Create new revisions using next revision numbers or Update current revisions with new information.

• Updates all drawing data:

  • Drawing title block from Drawings List (titles, drawing no, plant area etc.).

  • Revisions from Revisions history.

  • Engineering Data from any AVEVA Electrical database field.

• Link drawing text fields to any user-defined database field using AVEVA Electrical Datalinks or SQL queries.

• Create/update and print selected drawings in batch mode.

• Print selected drawings in batch mode.

Schematic Drawing Generation

• Create multiple drawings based on user Templates (fully user-definable).

• Edit drawings and update existing drawings without Templates.

• Updates cable/termination data from Electrical Wiring Manager (e.g. Cable, Terminal and Wire Numbers etc.).

• Update title block information (titles, revisions etc.) and stack revision histories.

Termination Drawing Generation

• Create drawings based on:

  • Templates (typically termination schedules).

  • Parametrics/Automated drawing (typically termination diagrams) - user defined parameters - fully automated drawing creation.

• Update cable/termination data from Electrical Wiring Manager (e.g. Cable, Terminal and Wires No.'s).

• Support for cross-patch wiring and links between terminals.

• Support for automatic continuation over multiple drawings (e.g. Marshalling Racks etc.).

• Update title block information (titles, revisions etc.) and stack revision histories.

Installation Detail Drawings

• Assign tags to Installation Detail Type (Installation Detail drawings are user definable using AutoCAD).

• Assign Installation Detail Items from user definable catalogue.

• Automatically create Drawings with Bills of Materials and Tag Lists.

• Generate project Bill Of Materials (BOM) reports (by Plant Area and Total Project BOM).

Change Management

• Report all drawings added, deleted and renamed.

• Report detail changes in each field (e.g. Drawing No. now ABCD was XYZ).

• Log changes for future reporting (e.g. 8/7/99 Drawing No. XYZ: Cable No. 1234 was 4567 etc.).

• View changes by object type.

Integration

Designer is integrated with other AVEVA Electrical applications.

• Schematic Drawings automatically added to Drawings List from Engineer.

• Tag Numbers, service, range, manufacturer, model no. etc. updated from Electrical Engineer.

• Equipment, cables, terminations, wire numbers etc. automatically updated from Electrical Wiring Manager.

• Schematic Drawing No. is passed to Electrical Engineer's Equipment List (Index).

• Drawing number is passed to Electrical Engineerr's Equipment List (Index).

Designer can be used on any existing AutoCAD drawings and enables drawings to be updated from the Electrical databases (Electrical Engineer, Electrical Wiring Manager or user defined) without requiring use of Templates. For example, several single line drawings could be initially generated from a standard SLD definition (Template), then any number can be edited and made non-standard, but the information can still be updated automatically from the original databases.

Reports and associated data can be exported to AVEVA AIM.

User Security Rights

An AVEVA Electrical administrator can set security rights for users to enable/disable access to AVEVA Electrical functionality including:

• Access to AVEVA Electrical application modules - users can be restricted from using any module (license).

• Access to AVEVA Electrical objects can be restricted to read-only (e.g. a user cannot add/edit a drawings) or no access (i.e. the user cannot view an item etc.).

AVEVA Electrical objects include project entities such as cables, equipment, drawings, reports etc. and catalogues, the importing of data etc.

By default, all new projects have the Security Rights features disabled for backward compatibility with earlier versions of AVEVA Electrical. If security is required, it must be turned on using the Security Manager. Users must then be allocated to 'Security Groups' such as Engineers and Designers, Read-Only Users etc. Refer to the Security Manager User Guide for more information.