Application Modes within PARAGON

To facilitate working within the PARAGON GUI certain menu options will become available to the user depending on what Application is active.

Applications are selected via the PARAGON menu from the main task bar.

The available application selections are:

• General

• Pipework

• Steelwork

• Spec Generator

• Electrical

• Equipment

The General selection contains common toolsets which are available throughout PARAGON. Selecting any other option will expand on the available toolsets providing access to features specific to that application.

When working within an application such as Pipework or Steelwork, the PARAGON GUI uses multi purpose forms. For example it is possible create either a Pipework or Steelwork Specification from the same form by selecting the desired Purpose.

In the above figure the Create Specification World form has the Purpose set to PIPE which would create an SPWL element in the Catalogue database with its Purpose attribute set to PIPE. However it is possible to change the Purpose to another value, these are as follows:

• STL

• PIPE

• BRAN

• REDU

• HVAC

• EQUI

Depending on the application currently selected in PARAGON (as previously discussed) a default selection will be made, for example PIPE will be selected by default when in the PARAGON Pipework application.

Many common forms allow elements to be added to a Defined Storage Area, select the tickbox to do so. for further information of storage areas refer to Storage Areas Form.

In most cases it is possible to discard an action by clicking Cancel.