Project Structure and Distribution

When symbolic representation is used in a drawing, the same design symbol should be used under the same conditions across an organization irrespective of its size.

Design symbols will usually be held in a Draft (that means, PADD) database in one of the Multiple Databases (MDB) in the master project (MAS) in addition to the master discipline catalogues that already reside there. This Draft database will contain the templates for 2D design symbols that are referenced by the Catalogue. Thus, Draft design symbols will be made available in user projects by including a foreign reference to the MDB in the master project.

As the Draft design symbol libraries will be stored within a foreign project database, then it will be the responsibility of the system/project administrator for the foreign project to distribute them globally. The Global application only distributes databases for a given project. Thus if master project is required at another location, then the system/project administrator must either make that a Global project or otherwise arrange for its distribution.

Note: Use of backing sheets (BACK) should be avoided within the design symbol database since these will complicate distribution of the design symbol libraries.