Transfer Data to and from AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical

Data can be imported and exported to AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical’

Export to AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical

When drawing data is synchronised, refer to Export Data to a P&ID Reports Database, copies of the synchronised drawings may be created in the Save Path field in the Project Configuration Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.

Item data from these drawings can be imported into an AVEVA Instrumentation (AI) or AVEVA Electrical (AE) project, and the drawings themselves viewed in AI or AE. For details of these facilities, refer to AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical documentation.

Import from AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical

Note: The Compare/Update facility can also be used to update drawing data with data from AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical. Refer to Compare and Update Drawing Data with Data from External Sources.

Instruments from AVEVA Instrumentation and electrical equipment from AVEVA Electrical may be imported by placing them directly on to an AVEVA P&ID drawing.

This procedure is carried out using the P&ID Data Grid. From the P&ID Data Grid, an AVEVA Instrumentation or AVEVA Electrical project may be logged onto. The P&ID Data Grid then lists the instruments/electrical equipment in the project which have been added to a drawing in the AVEVA P&ID drawing in the P&ID project (Assigned Instruments and Assigned Electrical Equipment), and those that have not (Unassigned Instruments and Unassigned Electrical Equipment).

Instruments and electrical equipment are added to a drawing simply by dragging and dropping from the Unassigned Instruments and Unassigned Electrical Equipment nodes onto a drawing, and assigning a P&ID symbol type.

For details of this procedure, refer to Transfer Data from AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical.

Imported instruments are added to the UNNAMED node in the Instrument Loops section of the Engineering Explorer.

The Derive Instrument AREA From field in the AI Integration Configuration Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program is used to specify the AVEVA P&ID Instrument tag field which will be populated with the Area values of instruments imported from AVEVA Instrumentation.

The Derive Equipment AREA From field in the AE Integration Configuration Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program is used to specify the AVEVA P&ID Equipment tag field which will be populated with the Area values of equipment imported from AVEVA Electrical.