General Editing, Notes, Component Lists and Revision Clouds
- Last UpdatedMar 14, 2024
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General editing to drawings can be carried out by using the Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Rotate options on the shortcut menus. Items can also be stretched, mirrored, filleted and resized using facilities in the Modify group of the Home tab.
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Copy/Paste rules may be set up to specify properties to be automatically assigned to copies of pipes, instruments and equipment. Refer to Specify Copy/Paste Rules.
Inline items such as valves and reducers may be copied or moved from one pipe or process link to another by dropping the item onto the second pipe/process link, using the Cut/Copy, Paste options on the shortcut menu. This will correctly break the pipe/process link in the same way as a newly inserted item.
Whole branches and pipe networks can be copied together by selecting in the explorer and using the shortcut menu.
Note: You cannot cut or copy pipes that are flagged as 'invalid'. They must be validated successfully first.
Refer to Delete Items for more details of using the AVEVA P&ID delete facilities.
Refer to Undo Changes for more details of using the AutoCAD undo facilities.
The owners of owned items such as sub-equipment and nozzles can be changed. Refer to Change the Owner of Items.
Facilities are provided to move of one or more items to the Non-Plotting Layer set in the project configuration file. Refer to Move Items to the Non-Plot Layer.
Symbols may be exchanged individually or globally. For the individual symbol exchange option, you are prompted to select the new symbol from the Symbol List dialog. The selected symbol must be of the same AVEVA P&ID type as the one being exchanged. The item type dictates the way AVEVA P&ID behaves when a symbol is inserted and these rules must be maintained at the symbol exchange. All labelling, including balloons, is retained. Undo twice to retrieve the original symbol if an error has been made, once to remove the new symbol, once to put back the old. If multiple symbols of the same type are selected in the drawing before the command is initialized they are all exchanged for the chosen symbol.
Refer to Exchange Individual Symbols.
If it is required change all symbols of one type to another, for example, to change all Ball Valves (BAVA) to Gate Valves (GAVA), global symbol exchange capabilities can be used. This can be achieved by entering BAVA under the Old Symbol heading and GAVA under the adjacent New Symbol heading in the Symbol Exchange List, which is accessed from the List of Values Configuration Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program, and by the use of the global symbol exchange facility used. This command can be used to swap symbols on demand provided that the two symbol item types are the same. It is not possible to swap one P&ID type for another, e.g.: Valves for Equipment. If the items do not match, an error will be received, listing the item types that do not match, and the old symbol is left in place. If problems are encountered, an AVEVA P&ID error balloon appears.
Refer to Exchange Symbols Globally.
Notes may be added to items on a drawing, as may lists of components on the drawing. Refer to Add Notes to Items and Add Lists of Components with Multi-Line Designators.
Changes from a previous revision may be highlighted with revision clouds. Refer to Draw Revision Clouds.
The AVEVA P&ID Colouring Utility may be used to automatically change the colours of selected items on selected project drawings. The utility creates copies of the selected drawings and applies the re-colouring procedure to them. The original drawings are not changed. Refer to Change the Colours of Multiple Items.
A symbol legend may be added to drawings. Refer to Add a Symbol Legend to a Drawing.