Copy Power Network Structures from Another Plant - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

You use this feature to copy power network structures from the Reference Electrical Engineer. Before connecting to a reference plant and opening its Electrical Engineer, make sure that you have been granted full access rights to that plant.

1. Select Window > New > Reference Electrical Engineer.

2. On the Open Plant Structure dialog, select a plant from which you are going to copy the data structure. If the plant that you want does not appear, select Site Server to navigate to another location. (For details, see Open Plant Structure Dialog.)

3. Select Open to display the plant in the Reference Electrical Engineer.

4. Expand the folder hierarchy by selecting the + icon beside the folder that you require, or by double-clicking the folder.

5. In the Electrical Engineer for the current plant, expand the item hierarchy to display the item to which you want to copy the network structure.

6. Drag the parent (node) item of the network structure from the Reference Electrical Engineer to an item in the Electrical Engineer.

• You can open more than one Reference Electrical Engineer and copy data from different plants to your current plant.

• You can drag a parent item from the Reference Electrical Engineer to the root of your current plant.

• You can open an instance of the Reference Electrical Engineer for your current plant to duplicate your current plant data. In this case, the results you obtain are not the same as if you move items within the Electrical Engineer. For details of how the software copies data from the Reference Electrical Engineer to the Electrical Engineer, see Rules Governing the Copying of Power Network Structures to the Electrical Engineer.

• When you copy items from the Reference Electrical Engineer to the Electrical Engineer, the item does not appear in the Electrical Index. To update the item in the Electrical Index, select Refresh .