Insert Symbols

Symbols are inserted using the Symbol Explorer.

Unassigned P&ID Database items can be inserted from the P&ID Data Grid.

For further details, see:

• Insert Symbols

• Insert Valves (for example: check, process, diverter, variable inlet, manual general, globe, 3-way)

• Insert Equipment (for example: vessel, pump, heater, fan, blower, compressor, hoist, fork lift truck)

• Insert Sub-Equipment (for example Electrical Equipment) (for example: electric motor, agitator, tray)

• Insert Inline Fittings (for example; concentric reducer, blind spade, duct fitting, flame trap, end cap, expansion bellows. The category includes spec break and destination flag)

• Insert Instrument Valves (Control Valves) (for example; diaphragm-actuated, piston actuated, pressure relief, also includes vacuum/relief devices)

• Insert Instruments (Balloons) (for example: indicator, controller, I/P converter, PLC, logic box. The category includes interlocks and I/O Rockets)

• Insert Flow Elements (for example: venturi, orifice plate, turbine)

• Insert Nozzles

• Insert Miscellaneous Symbols (items that do not fit into other categories, for example, vessel jackets, revision triangles, pigtail, hexagon, tie points. The category also includes symbols representing equipment of EDL (Equipment Data Location) item type)

• Insert Assemblies (Collections of flow diagram elements or dynamic labels that are stored in a library)

  Notes:
  
  For information on how the three-digit item type codes are derived and how they can help the user to identify the expected behaviour of the objects allocated with them, refer to AVEVA P&ID Internal Type Definitions and their Purposes.
  
  For a new drawing, the first symbols to be positioned are usually major equipment items, e.g. vessels, pumps, electrical equipment etc.
  
  To check the association between items, where this is not apparent in the Engineering Explorer, there is a facility provided to find out which nozzles, electrical equipment etc are associated to a vessel, finding out which I/O Rockets are associated to which instrument. Refer to Show Associations between Items.
  
  After equipment items are placed on the drawing, they can be re-positioned using the Move options on the item's shortcut menus (on the drawing page and the Engineering Explorer). Items can also be copied using the Copy option on the item's shortcut menus. Refer to Move Drawing Objects and Copy Drawing Objects and Labels.
  
  Unwanted items can be removed by using the Delete option on the item shortcut menus. Refer to Delete Drawing Objects.
  
  The equipment items can then be linked by pipes.
  
  Where an instrument valve is placed between the end node of one pipe, and the start node of another, this valve may serve as the source and destination of these pipes, as opposed to the pipe nodes, depending on the type of valve that it is.
  
  Handwheels may be inserted onto instrument valves.
  
  Port valves are inserted in the same way as standard general and instrument valves.
  
  The display of ports on port valves and other symbols can be switched on an off. Refer to Turn the Display of Ports On and Off.
  
  Project configuration may restrict the insertion of a valve or reducer symbol to pipes of specified specifications and sizes. See the Symbols pane of the Spec Driven Configuration Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.
  
  Shortcut keys - the INSERT key opens the Symbol List dialog, the DELETE key deletes the selected objects in the drawing.