Using Projects to Explore Alternative Designs - Intergraph Smart P&ID - Administration & Configuration - Intergraph

Intergraph Engineering and Schematics Projects Configuration and Reference (2019)

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2019 (9.0)
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During a design cycle it may become necessary to explore the implications of two or more fundamentally different solutions for the same problem. Each solution may need to be elaborated with sufficient detail to be able to judge its technical and economic benefits. Once these analyses are complete, the best solution is selected for implementation and the remaining alternatives are discarded.

The project features in Smart P&ID can be used to explore such alternative designs. A separate project can be created for each alternative and the relative existing drawings can be fetched into each of these projects. The same drawing can be fetched into multiple projects, if necessary. Design work in each project can then proceed independently. Once all of the designs are finished and a winner is selected, it can be merged back into the Plant and the other projects can be canceled.