Place a Plant Item on a Composite Drawing - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

As a rule, the software uses the associated custom symbols to show the plant items in the drawing.

If a particular plant item hasn't been associated with a custom symbol, the software looks for symbol defined in Options Manager's symbology.

If no symbology symbol has been set for that plant item, Smart Electrical uses the default symbol for that particular item type. Smart Electrical provides default symbols for each item type that are commonly used in a drawing of a particular category, for example, motor symbols in SLDs). The default symbol file names are designated as <item type>.sym (for example, motor.sym). Make sure that all the default symbols for these item types have been placed in the appropriate symbol folders and these locations have been defined in Options Manager. For example, if you want to show a terminal strip of a motor by dragging motor terminal strip to an open composite drawing, make sure that the terminal strip symbol is located in the SLD symbol folder.

When associating cables, buses, conductors, segments, and cableways with symbols, it is advisable to associate them with symbols that belong to the connector type. This way you will be able to connect these items on both sides of the connector and design connector paths on the drawing as you require. Connector type symbols are especially useful when designing cable routing. You can select a connector symbol in the Catalog Explorer and immediately start designing the routing by clicking in the appropriate spots on the drawing. You create connector symbols in Catalog Manager. See the Catalog Manager help.

Selecting a plant item in the drawing shows the properties of the plant item in the Properties window.

Removing a plant item from the drawing does not delete the plant item from your plant.

Deleting a plant item in the Electrical Index automatically refreshes the display of the open drawings where this plant item was used.