Area Based ADP

Area Based ADP (Automatic Drawing Production) can be used as an extension to the Draft module of either AVEVA Plant or AVEVA Marine - henceforth known as the "base product" in this document.

Area Based ADP (henceforth known as the "ABA" in this document) does not work with the Marine Drafting Module of AVEVA Marine.

ABA drawings are compiled by selecting predefined areas and templates created by the ABA administrator. An area is a physical box volume within the database defined by coordinates, and a template is a drawing layout with set parameters describing a number of views, graphical representation in the views, and types of labelling.

The purpose of this document is to provide the ABA user with guidance on how to work with the application to produce drawings from the 3D model. A pre-requisite to using ABA is that the ABA administrator has installed and configured ABA for use with the base product. The ABA Installation Guide and the ABA Administrator Guide documents give information on these activities.

ABA allows a user to produce drawings by selecting predefined physical box volumes (known as areas), and matching them to a template that describes the format of the drawing to be produced. A typical example of the work process by an ABA user is updating the drawings after a change has been made to the design model for a maintenance project. The user enters the DRAFT module, starts ABA, selects the area and reproduces all the drawings generated for that area, running the process overnight.

This guide takes the ABA user through all the steps needed to produce new and existing drawings, in a logical order. However, the information has been compiled in a format that should allow a user to reference a particular aspect of ABA to gain specific information.