Drawing Page Menus

Items on a drawing page have shortcut menus accessed by right-clicking on the them. The options displayed depend on the item selected. Shortcut menus are also available for the drawing page itself.

All items on a drawing page have a number of common options:

• The Enter and Cancel options are used to complete or abort commands on the selected item(s).

• The Repeat Last Command option is used to repeat the last selected command.

• The Copy, Paste, Delete, Rotate and Move options can be used to perform these actions on individual items, or on collections of items. For example, these options can be used to copy, paste, delete, rotate or move a single item, or a group of items selected using the mouse.

• The Properties option opens the Properties dialog for the selected item, which can be used to enter the labels and other details of the drawing or item. Refer to Properties Dialogs.

• The Typicals option is available if the Typical Items facility is enabled at project level, and if the item has been labelled with the minimum mandatory data for the item type. The option provides access to a dialog for the entry, deletion and modification of the typical data. Refer to Label Typical Items.

• The Create Symbol option is used to access the Symbol Editor.

The menus for pipes, pipe start nodes, trim pipes and so on include the following additional options:

• The Fillet option is used to create curved edges on pipelines, signal lines or between two selected line objects. Refer to Fillet Drawing Objects.

• The Segments... option opens a sub-menu which consists of options for adding, merging, deleting and adding elbows to pipe segments. Refer to Add Pipe and Signal Line Segments, Merge Pipe Segments, Delete Pipe and Signal Line Segments) and Add Elbows to a Line.

  

• The Pipes... option opens a sub menu which consists of options for merging pipes, splitting a pipe into two new pipes, splitting a branch off a pipe, reversing the flow of a pipe, converting process links to "Legacy" process links and vice versa, and setting the the piping network source and destination. Refer to Merge Pipes, Branches and Signal Lines, Split Pipes and Signal Lines, Split off Branches, Reverse Pipe and Signal Line Flows, Switch Process Links between "Legacy" and "Non-legacy" Process Link Types) and Overwrite Piping Network Source and Destination Reported at the Line List.

  

• The Extend option is used to change the length of a line (for example, a pipe, process link or signal line). Refer to Change the Length of Lines.

• The Break option is used to manually insert a break in a pipe. Refer to Break Lines.

• The Refresh Pipe Arrows option is used to redraw the automatically placed pipe arrows (flow direction indicators) of a pipe. This may be required in case the flow direction is changed and the arrows do not immediately re-orientate themselves automatically.

• The Flow Arrows ON-OFF option is used to turn the display of automatically placed flow arrows on or off. Refer to Turn Automatic Flow Arrows On and Off.

• The Set As Main on - off option is used, in the case of pipes that have multiple labels, to set one of these labels as the "main pipe label". Refer to Set a Pipe Label as the Main Label.

• The Add Label... option is used to place additional labels on a labelled pipe (use the Properties option to enter properties for an unlabelled pipe or to edit an existing pipe label).

The instruments menu also includes the Segments... option and sub-menu. In the case of instruments, only the Add option is used, for use if a pipe segment is to be added to an inline instrument at the end of a pipe. Refer to Add Pipe and Signal Line Segments.

The equipment menu includes the following additional options:

• The Add Trim Label... option is used to label the trim of equipment.

• The Add Header option is used to add and edit equipment headers. Refer to Add Equipment Headers.

• The Add Description option is used to label equipment with their descriptions. Refer to Add Equipment Descriptions.

• The Insert Nozzle option is used to add a default nozzle to equipment. Refer to Insert Nozzles.

• The Add Label... option is used to place custom labels for equipment, for example, labels in the non-default label format or single tag properties. See Add a Custom Equipment Label.

The valves menu includes the following additional option:

• The Add Label... option is used to label a valve with valve properties inherited from the pipe the valve is on. See Label Valves with Properties Inherited from Pipe.

The offsheet connector menu includes the following additional options:

• The Open Target Drawing... option is used to open the drawing on which the linked offsheet connector is located, assuming the connection between the connectors has been hyperlinked.

• The Propagate... option is used to propagate the properties of a pipe to another pipe via connected offsheet connectors.

• The Disconnect... option is used to disconnect linked offsheet connectors.

The instrument label balloon menu includes the following additional options:

• The Associate Text option is used as part of the AutoCAD drawing upgrade routine to upgrade AutoCAD text to labels for instruments.

• The Associate as Label Balloon option is used as part of the AutoCAD drawing upgrade routine to associate an upgraded label balloon to an inline instrument.

The pipe label menu includes a Set as Default Label option, used to specify that a specific pipe label is the default label by which a pipe will be identified in the database.

If multiple items are selected, or if no item is selected on the drawing page, right clicking opens the drawing page menu, which includes the following additional options:

• The Copy Paste Rule option is used to specify the default properties to be assigned to copies of pipes, instruments and equipment. Refer to Specify Copy/Paste Rules.

• The various Zoom options and the Aerial View... option are used to change the viewing magnification and area.

• The Update Port Valves Connection Sizes option is used to set all the valve ports on a drawing to take their sizes from the items connected to them, for example, pipes, reducers, nozzles etc. Refer to Set Valve Ports Sizes to those of Connected Items.

• The Regen option refreshes the drawing display.

• The Delete Error Blocks option is used to delete error blocks from the drawing after the errors they highlight have been resolved.

• The Layer Transparency - on and Layer Transparency - off options are used to turn the visual transparency of layers on or off. Refer to Turn Layer Transparency on and off.

• The Ports Display - on and Ports Display - off options are used to turn the display of valve ports on and off. Refer to Turn the Display of Ports On and Off.

• The Insert Symbol... option opens the Symbol Explorer, from which the required symbol can be selected for insertion. See Inserting Symbols.

• This menu also includes the Copy, Paste, Delete, Rotate and Move options, so that these actions can be carried out on the multiple items selected.

• The Properties option on this menu is used to open the Properties Dialogs for the drawing, in which the title and other general drawing details can be added or edited.

• The Drawing History option is used to open a dialog in which details of the history of the drawing are displayed. Refer to View Drawing History.

• The Insert UDAs option is used to label items on a drawing with their User-Defined Attribute (UDA) values, including DataSet UDAs. Refer to Label Items with UDAs.