Upgrade Text to Labels

AutoCAD text can be upgraded to an AVEVA P&ID label by associating it with the pipe or item that it is to label. The text then changes, if required, to reflect the properties of the selected pipe or item, and becomes a P&ID label.

This facility is available for pipes, nozzles, valves and instruments.

Note: If required, enter the AVVCLDATA command at the command prompt to remove any existing XDATA attached to the entities to be upgraded. This should be used before starting the upgrade process on a dumb drawing. Do not use this command midway or at the end of the upgrade process.

Upgrade Pipe Text

AutoCAD text can be upgraded either to a full pipe label, which will consist of all the properties included in the project pipe label format, or a partial pipe label which will consist of a single pipe property.

Multiple label formats can be configured using the Select a Tag Format For Pipe dialog. The user can then select from these when upgrading text to pipe labels, or set up a different format.

To upgrade AutoCAD text using the pipe label format currently selected in the Select a Tag Format For Pipe dialog, select the AutoCAD text on The Drawing Page, then select Drawing Upgrade Associate > Associate Text > To Pipe from the shortcut menu.

The Tag Attributes List dialog is then displayed:

The dialog lists the attributes and values of the selected text. As required, in the Association column, match values to either the Tag, Start Node or End Node of the pipe to be labelled with the text. The selected text will form the labels of these parts of the pipe.

Select OK.

The following will then be displayed if the tag format does not match the format of the selected text:

If Yes is selected, the Select a Tag Format For Pipe dialog is then displayed. Select or create a tag format. If No is selected, the commands then ends.

After a tag format has been selected, or if the tag format does match the format of the selected text, the Command prompt will then display:

Select pipe to associate label:

Select the pipe that the selected text is to become a label of.

The text will then be changed to an AVEVA P&ID label of the selected pipe, and if required will change to reflect the properties of the pipe.

Note: Alternately, existing pipe labels can be changed to a selected AutoCAD text value. In this case, the AutoCAD text will remain as it is, and the labels of the selected pipe will change to it, for example, the pipe properties will be updated with the AutoCAD text value. Whether or not this option is applied is dependent on the setting of the Upgrade Label checkbox on the Select a Tag Format For Pipe dialog.

If attribute values were mapped to the pipe start and/or end nodes in the Tag Attributes List dialog, the user will be prompted to position these values as pipe destination text. For example:

Select start node to associate label:

Set Up Pipe Label Format or Select a Different Pipe Label Format

To configure label formats for upgrading pipe text, or to select a different existing format to apply to AutoCAD text, select AutoCAD text on The Drawing Page, then select Drawing Upgrade Associate > Associate Text > Configure... from the shortcut menu.

The Select a Tag Format For Pipe dialog is then displayed.

Those formats previously set up are listed in this dialog.

To configure a new format:

1. Click New. The Tag Format Editor dialog is then displayed.

   

2. Enter a description, plus any remarks if required.

3. The drop-down lists in the lower part of the dialog are used to select the label format, for example, the properties of the pipe that are to displayed, the order that they are to be displayed in, and the delimiters that are to separate them. Select the properties and delimiters from the list as required.

   Note: If a format with more that one property is to be configured, for example, a full pipe label, it must be in exactly the same format as the Display Label Format, as set up in the Pipes - Labels Sub-Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.

   The selected format is displayed in the field at the top of the dialog.

4. Once the required format has been set up, click Save. The dialog is then closed and the new format added to the list in the Select a Tag Format For Pipe dialog.

To edit an existing format, select it from the list and click Edit. The Tag Format Editor dialog is then displayed. Edit the format as described above.

To delete a format, select it from the list and click Delete.

To select a format to apply to AutoCAD text, click on it in the list of formats, and click Select on the toolbar (top-right corner of the dialog). Until a different format is selected from this dialog, all text upgraded to a pipe label will adopt this format.

If, instead of AutoCAD text being upgraded to AVEVA P&ID labels, the existing labels of pipes are to be changed to the values of the AutoCAD text, make sure that the Upgrade Label checkbox is not checked.

Upgrade Nozzle and Valve Text

The procedures for upgrading AutoCAD text to a nozzle label and a valve label are the same.

AutoCAD text can be upgraded to either the tag value or the size value of a nozzle or valve.

Select AutoCAD text on The Drawing Page, then select Drawing Upgrade Associate > Associate Text > To Nozzle > or To Valve >, then either Tag or Size as required from the shortcut menu.

The Command prompt will then display, for example:

Select nozzle:

Select the nozzle or valve that the selected text is to become a label of.

The text will then be changed to an AVEVA P&ID label of the selected item, and if required will change to reflect the tag or size of that item.

Upgrade Instrument Text

AutoCAD text is upgraded to instrument labels by selecting, for each piece of text, which instrument property that text is to become.

To upgrade AutoCAD text to an instrument label, select the instrument label balloon on The Drawing Page, then select Associate Text from the shortcut menu.

The Associate Text to Instrument Label dialog is then displayed.

In the dialog, click the ... button for the instrument component, for example, Alarm 1, that the AutoCAD text is to be upgraded to.

The dialog then closes and the Command prompt will display, for example:

Select text to associate with InstrumentAlarm1:

Select the text that is to be upgraded to the selected instrument property.

The dialog is then displayed again. Repeat the above procedure for each piece of AutoCAD text to be upgraded by association with the selected instrument.

When each piece of AutoCAD text has been associated with an instrument property, click OK.

The AutoCAD text will then be changed to AVEVA P&ID labels displaying the selected properties, and if required will change to reflect the values of those properties.