Typical Items

The AVEVA P&ID Typical Items feature enables one item to be identified as having data that is typical of many items. The details of the items represented by the typical item are added to the label of the item on the P&ID, but do not appear on the P&ID. Refer to Label Typical Items.

The following items can be made typical of many:

• Pipes/Drain Pipes

• Offsheet Connectors (Pipe Flags)

• Instruments

• Equipment

• SPP Items

• Valve Items

• Nozzles.

When data is exported from the drawing, the data associated with each Typical Item is expanded into multiple sets.

User Interface

For each item that can be made into a Typical Item, The Drawing Page shortcut menu includes a Typicals option. This option is available if the Typical Item facility is enabled at project level, and if the item has been labelled with the minimum mandatory data for the item type. The option accesses a dialog for the entry, deletion and modification of the typical data.

For easy recognition of Typical items on the P&ID, each typical Item label should be displayed in a different colour to that of the equivalent non-typical label. These are selected using the project configuration options set using the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.

Order of Typical Data

The ordering of typical data is illustrated by the following example:

are connected to nozzle reference 'A' on:

This generates the following sets of destination information in the output file:

To facilitate the ordering of data, an order number is provided against each Typical data record. This number is automatically generated on input, but can be modified manually to enable re-ordering of the data sets. Deletion of a record in the Typical data set will automatically re-order the data.