Assemblies

Collections of elements on drawing can be grouped together to create assemblies.

Three types of assembly may be created, refer to Create Assemblies:

• Graphical Assemblies - pipes and symbols collected together into an AutoCAD block to act as templates, retaining the item associations

• Design Data Templates - collections of P&ID Data Grid designators and values used to label items.

• Annotation Assemblies - there are two sub-types of Annotation Assemblies:

  • Pipe: collections of pipe labels and symbols used to annotate pipes

  • UDA: collections of user-defined attribute labels and symbols used to annotate pipes, instruments, equipment, valves and inline fittings.

Once an assembly is created, it is added to the Assemblies symbol folder of the project. There is a sub-folder for each assembly type. In addition, the Annotation Assembly sub-folder contains sub-folders for each Annotation Assembly sub-type, and the UDA sub-type folder contains further sub-folders for each type of UDA assembly.

It may then be inserted in the similar way to other symbols. Refer to Insert Assemblies.

Existing assemblies may only be removed by the AVEVA P&ID administrator.