The Management Console allows you to manage your drawing and report documents with folders, components, and packages. The panel is located on the left side of the application window, as shown in the following plant mode example.
To add folders, components, and packages to the Management Console, right-click the top level or an existing folder, and select New on the shortcut menu to display the Add Component dialog box. For more information on the New command, see any of the Drawings and Reports user's guides:
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Orthographic Drawings User's Guide
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Isogen Isometric Drawings User's Guide
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Reports User's Guide
You can also manage documents, components, and packages in the 3D modeling tasks using the Tools > Drawings Console command. For more information, see the Common User's Guide.
When you first enter the Drawings and Reports task, the Management Console is empty except for the top-most level, the Model. You add Folders to the model, then begin adding components and packages to the folders you create. For example, you can add a folder and call it Equipment, then add the Imperial_Equipment Drawing package to the folder to create equipment drawings.
Delivered Components and Folders
Components provide the basic setup for a method of drawing.
The following components are shown on the General tab of the Add Component dialog box:
Delivered Component |
Description |
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3D Model By Query |
Creates a 3D Model By Query component in the Console. You can use the 3D Model By Query component to export 3D model data in bulk as CAD (SAT) files. The software uses a filter-based query to collect the objects and document them automatically. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
3D Model Data |
Creates a 3D Model Data component in the Console. Right-click the component and select Setup on the shortcut menu to specify a filter that identifies the objects you want collected by the 3D Model Data component. You can use the 3D Model Data component to output SmartPlant Review files or CAD (SAT) files. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
MicroStation 3D DGN |
Creates a MicroStation 3D DGN component in the Console. Right-click the component and select Setup from the shortcut menu to define the MicroStation seed file and style to use in generating the component documents. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
Folder |
Creates an empty folder in the Console. |
Drawings By Query Manager |
Creates a Drawings by Query Manager in the Console. The Drawings by Query Manager is used in conjunction with other components, such as the Orthographic Drawing by Query and Isogen Isometric Drawing by Query components, to complete the query for objects in the model. The Drawings by Query Manager provides the filter that specifies the "where" side of the query. It tells the query "where" to look for the objects specified by the component "what" filter. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help and the Isogen Isometric Drawings Help. |
Generic Module Folder |
Creates a Generic Module Folder in the Console. The Generic Module Folder component provides a way for you to run your custom VB modules to create custom drawings. You set up the Generic Module Folder component to use your custom VB module. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
Imported Folder |
Imports an external Windows folder from a shared network folder into the Management or Drawing console. The imported folder can contain any type of file available in Windows. You can manage the imported documents, and publish them using Imported Folder menu options. See Drawings Folders in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
Composed Drawings |
Creates a Composed Drawing component in the Console. Composed drawings are orthographic drawings created in a 3D task such as Common. The composed drawing component manages the composed drawings you create. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
Orthographic Drawings by Query |
Creates an Orthographic Drawings by Query component in the Console. The Orthographic Drawing by Query component allows you to create drawings for many objects in the model all in the same manner. This component does not require physical volumes in the model. The software uses a filter-based query to collect the objects and document them automatically. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
Isogen Isometric Drawings by Query |
Creates an Isogen Isometric Drawings by Query component in the Console. You create an isometric drawing by associating an Isogen Isometric Drawing by Query component to a Query Manager. The Isogen Isometric Drawing by Query component specifies the "what" portion of the query, while the Query Manager specifies the "where." More information is available in the Isogen Isometric Drawings Help. |
Spreadsheet Reports |
Creates a Spreadsheet Report component in the Console. More information is available in the Reports Help. |
Search Folder |
Creates a Search Folder in the Console. Search Folders allow you to search for documents based on common properties such as out-of-date status, approval, or documents that have been published to a certain contract in integrated environment. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
Volume Drawings |
Creates a Volume Drawings component in the Console. The Volume Drawing component uses a template to create drawings. You can place a view on the template and associate the view with a view style to control the output. To define the contents of the view, you create a drawing volume in the model. More information is available in the Orthographic Drawings Help. |
In marine mode, the following component is found on the Ship tab of the Add Component dialog box:
Delivered Component |
Description |
Drawings by Rule |
Creates a Drawing by Rule component in the Console. The component allows you to create empty drawings by rule. For more information, see the Orthographic Drawings User's Guide. |
Delivered Packages
Packages contain components that have been further defined with view template, styles, queries, and filters to create specific types of drawings. These packages are shown on other tabs of the Add Component dialog box. They are organized by discipline such as Electrical or Structural. For more information on the delivered packages, see: