Line Fittings Configuration Category

The Line Fittings Configuration Category is divided into two sub-categories:

Settings Sub-Category

The application pane is divided into the following sections.

Number of TAG fields Section

If four tag fields are to be used for project line fittings (Prefix, Type, Number, Suffix), select the 4 Tag Fields option.

If six tag fields are to be used for project line fittings (Block, Function, Prefix, Type, Number, Suffix), select the 6 Tag Fields option.

Line Fittings Symbol Section

This section contains the following settings:

• Line Fittings Label Symbol. If this checkbox is checked a symbol will be placed with line fittings labels. For example, a box may be placed around the labels.

• Manual Placement. If this checkbox is checked, the label symbol is placed manually on drawings by users. If the checkbox is unchecked, it is placed according to the offset values.

• Symbol Name. This field is used to select the name of the symbol that will be placed with the line fitting labels.

• Symbol X Offset. The X offset of the symbol from line fitting labels. Disabled if the Manual Placement checkbox is checked.

• Symbol Y Offset. The Y offset of the symbol from line fitting labels. Disabled if the Manual Placement checkbox is checked.

Line Fittings Label Position Section

The Block, Function, Prefix, Type Letters, Number, and Suffix Position fields in this section are used to set the X and Y coordinates of line fitting label components.

Note: The Block and Function fields are only active if the 6 Tag Fields option in the Number of Tag fields section is selected.

Line Fitting Dialog Box List of Values

If required, from the drop-down lists next to each field, select the list of values against which entries in a tag field are to be validated in Line Fitting properties dialogs.

Note: The Block and Function fields are only active if the 6 Tag Fields option in the Number of Tag fields section is selected.

Inheritance Section

This section contains the following settings:

• If item labels are to be inherited from owner pipes, the fields to be inherited from for each label are specified in the Prefix, Type, Number and Suffix fields, plus the Block and Function fields if the 6 Tag Fields option in the Number of Tag fields section is selected.

• The Browse button adjacent to these fields is used to select the fields to be inherited from. On selection of the button, the following dialog box is displayed:

  

  The fields required are selected using the drop down lists. Following selection, press OK. The selected fields will then be displayed in the Prefix, Type, Number and Suffix fields, plus the Block and Function fields if the 6 Tag Fields option in the Number of Tag fields section is selected.

• The values of line settings labels may be inherited from the sheet attributes entered on the Advanced Drawing Properties sheet. The values entered for these sheet attributes may be values that are common to many items on the drawing, for example, the design area. The inheritance facility enables all items to inherit these common values. The labels of items that do not share these common values may subsequently be edited manually using their properties sheets.

  The Fields from Sheet Attribute fields are used to select which line settings label fields are to inherit values from which sheet attributes. As required, select for each line settings label field the sheet attribute field from which values are to be inherited.

  Note: If a line settings label field is already set to inherit from the owning pipe (see above), this Fields from Sheet Attribute field will not be accessible. Pipe label inheritance takes priority over sheet attribute inheritance.

  Sheet attribute field names are set up using the Drawing Information - Settings Sub-Category.

Label Validation Across P&IDs Section

The project may be set to check that all special piping item line fitting labels in all P&IDs in a project are unique.

• Select Prevent if users are to be prevented from entering project duplicate line fitting labels. If this is attempted, an error message is displayed and the duplicate label may not be placed on the P&ID.

• Select Warn if users are to be warned if they enter project duplicate line fitting labels. The entry of duplicate labels is permitted in this case, but an error message will be displayed on the P&ID, and will accompany the valve label data when exported.

• If no uniqueness validation of line fitting labels across P&IDs is required, select Ignore.

Code Settings Section

The Code Label checkbox controls whether the line fitting code field is present on the Line Fitting Properties dialog.

The Add Code Label checkbox controls whether line fitting codes will be added as labels for line fittings on drawings.

P&ID Reports Export Section

If the Export VPO as Line-Fitting checkbox is checked, generic pipe components (items with symbols of the "VPO" P&ID Type) will be exported to P&ID Reports as line fittings.

If it is not checked (the default setting), they will be exported to P&ID Reports as valves.

This checkbox also control whether the Valves or the Line Fittings properties dialog is used when labelling generic pipe components.

Tag Format Sub-Category

DataSet properties can be defined for Line Fittings so that user-defined attributes (UDAs) can be assigned to such items. One of these attributes can then be selected for export to the Reporting database as the SPP Tag property of Line Fittings.

Line Fitting DataSet properties are part of the SSPTAG DataSet. This must be created before any Line Fitting DataSet properties can be set up.

Click Create Dataset. The SSPTAG DataSet is then created, and the following message displayed:

This only needs to be done once during a project.

Define SPPTAG DataSet Attributes

To define the attribute or attributes that comprise the SPPTAG DataSet:

1. Click Create Dataset Property. The Add New Attribute dialog is then displayed.

   

2. In the Attribute Name field, enter the name of the attribute. This name will be the title of the field used to enter the value for the attribute on the Line Fittings Properties Dialogs.

3. From the Data Type list field, select the required type from long, double or string.

4. If the attribute is to constructed from other dataset attributes, a "Tag Expression", check the Use Tag Expression checkbox.

   Note: If the Use Tag Expression checkbox is checked, the Attribute-Units Pair checkbox and associated fields are disabled. If the Attribute-Units Pair checkbox is checked the Use Tag Expression checkbox and associated button are disabled.

5. Click Set Tag Expression. The Select a Tag Format dialog is then displayed:

   

6. The other attributes in the dataset are listed in the Available Data Properties field. To add an attribute to the tag expression, select it from the list and press Insert Property. The attribute is then displayed in the Tag Expression field.

   Repeat as required to construct the tag expression.

   Press Clear to clear the Tag Expression field.

7. When the tag expression has been constructed, click Ok to close the Select a Tag Format dialog.

8. If the values for this attribute are to be selected from a list of values, select this list from the LOV field. Lists of values are set up in the List of Values Configuration Category of the Administration program.

9. If the Properties dialog field for the attribute is to be automatically completed with a default value from the select list of values, select it from the Default Value field list.

10. If the attribute is to have a unit of measure:

    a. Check the Attribute-Units Pair checkbox.

    b. To restrict the Units LOVs list of values to include only unit of measure lists of values, check the Filter Unit Sets checkbox. Leave unchecked if the list is to include all project lists of values.

    c. From the list in the Units LOVs field, select the list of values from which the unit of measure is to be selected.

    d. From the Units Default field list, select the default units to be used. The available values will depend of the Units LOVs selected. For example, if "Units_Distance" was selected in the Units LOVs field, the Units Default field list will consist of units of distance.

    Note: In drawings and in AVEVA P&ID Reports grids, if a unit of measure list of values was selected in the Units LOVs field, users can choose to display units and unit values in different units of measure from the default. For example, they may choose to display a distance in kilometres instead of metres. Unit values will automatically adjust to reflect the select unit of measure (for example, if changed from metres to kilometres, the value will be divided by 1000).

    e. From the Decimal Precision field list, select the degree of decimal precision required (for example, the number of digits to be displayed after the decimal point).

11. The Label Type field list consists of the Note label type (XNE) supplied with AVEVA P&ID and any Note label types created by users (X0A, X0B, X0C... etc. to X9Z). This list, and the associated Fixed Location checkbox and X and Y Offset fields are for use when setting up dataset attributes that are to be placed on drawings with label symbols.

    Select the required label type from the list and check the Fixed Location checkbox. In the X and Y Offset fields, specify the relative position of the attributes to the label symbol.

    Note: Whether label symbols are being used, which symbols are being used, and the position of label symbols are defined in the Settings Sub-Category.

12. Select Save to save changes and close the Add New Attribute dialog. The attribute details are then displayed in the grid.

13. To close the dialog without saving any changes, select Cancel.

Repeat the above procedure for each attribute required for the DataSet.

Edit and Delete SPPTAG DataSet Attributes

Edit and delete SPPTAG DataSet using the User Defined Attributes - DataSet Sub-Category

Select the SPP Tag Attribute for Export

One of the SPPTAG DataSet attributes can be selected for export to the Reporting database as the SPP Tag property of Line Fittings.

The created SPPTAG DataSet attributes are displayed in the Available DataSet Property list. Check the checkbox of the attribute that is to be exported. Only one checkbox may be checked at a time. Checking a checkbox automatically unchecks any other. Check the NONE option if no attribute is not set as the SPP Tag property.

Check the Export Selected Attribute to Special Piping Tag in Reporting Database checkbox. The selected attribute will then be included in exports of Line Fitting data as the SPP Tag attribute when drawings are synchronized.