Designer

The Instrument Designer User Guide is designed to help you learn how to use the Instrument Designer module of AVEVA Instrumentation. The User Guide describes how to create automated Loop and Termination diagrams from cable and wiring data.

Instrument Designer manages all tasks typically handled by an Instrument Designer during a project life cycle including CAD drawing generation, drawing list management, updating of revisions and printing of CAD files for loop diagrams, termination diagrams, Hookups etc. Instrument Designer can be used to:

• Manage all project drawings and drawing revisions (including batch update, batch revision changes and plotting) from a Graphical User Interface.

• Generate loop drawings from templates with updated attributes from the AVEVA Instrumentation database including:

  • Data from Instrument Engineer (Manufacturer, model number, range, P&ID drawing numbers, I/O, and so on).

  • Data from Wiring Manager (Cables, terminations, wire numbers, and so on).

  • Data from the Designer drawing register (for example, Drawing No, Title, Drawn By, Date) and revision history is automatically updated on all drawings.

• Generate Termination drawings parametrically from the AVEVA Instrumentation database including:

  • Data from Wiring Manager (terminal strips & devices, cables and core markings/wire numbers, etc.).

  • Data from the Designer drawing register (for example, Drawing No, Title, Drawn By, Date etc.) and revision history is automatically updated on all drawings.

• Generate Hookup drawings with Bill of Materials and create bulk Bill of Materials reports for an entire project.

• Access Engineering Data created with other AVEVA Instrumentation applications including:

  • Instrument and Loop data created with the Instrument Engineer application.

• Auto generate field device wiring including Junction Box termination via AVEVA InstrumentationUsing Wiring Rules to Create Data.

• Access Termination data created with the Wiring Manager application.

• Produce reports:

  • Drawing List.

  • Changes to Drawings.

Designer utilizes the AutoCAD application of Autodesk to allow:

• Industry standard drawing/document exchange (data is never lost in a proprietary database).

• AutoCAD is used to define loop diagram layout. You have total control over drawing standards, symbology and drawing format.

• AutoCAD attributes are "linked" to the database for data transfer to each drawing. That is any information that is changed in the AVEVA Instrumentation database (For example, a Tag Number, Cable No, wire marking) is automatically updated in the appropriate drawing (the next time it is updated - updating can be done in batch mode).

• Print/update any number of selected drawings via the Drawing List (Drawing Register).

Loop data entry forms in Instrument Engineer and Wiring Termination forms in Wiring Manager can be accessed directly from within Instrument Designer. Licenses for AVEVA Instrumentation Engineer/Wiring Manager are required to access these forms.

Important: Instrument Designer uses data created by Instrument Engineer and AVEVA Instrumentation Wiring Manager to generate CAD drawing files automatically from the AVEVA Instrumentation project database. Normally this is the last AVEVA Instrumentation module used on a project as Instrument Engineer is used to create instruments tags and assign tags into 'loops'. Wiring Manager is used to create equipment, cables and wiring including terminations. Without this data Instrument Designer cannot create completed drawing files.

For further information, refer to Feature Overview.