These tasks deal with generating hook-up drawings using a CAD application or the Enhanced Report Utility, maintaining revisions, editing hook-up drawing identifying fields that appear in the title block, and so forth. For a complete list of hook-up reports, see Hook-Up Reports.
Apply a Drawing Generation Method to Hook-Ups
Use this procedure to apply a drawing generation method to one or more hook-ups manually. This feature is useful if you intend to generate hook-up drawings in a mixed mode, that is, generate several CAD hook-up drawings and several enhanced hook-up drawings in one generation session. You generate CAD hook-up drawings using your CAD application (SmartSketch, AutoCAD, or MicroStation), whose paths you specified on the Preferences dialog. You generate enhanced hook-up drawings using the Enhanced Report Utility, which comes with the Smart Instrumentation software package.
Set Default Generation Method for Hook-Up Drawings
Use this procedure to set the default generation method that the software can use automatically when your hook-up selection contains hook-ups that do not have a generation method applied manually.
Edit Hook-Up Drawing Identifying Fields
Hook-up drawing properties appear in the title block fields. These fields contain identifying information about the drawing name, page number, and file name, and also information about revisions, approvals, and references to other documents. You can modify the property information using the options in the Hook-Up Drawing List dialog.
For each hook-up drawing, Smart Instrumentation displays the hook-up name and hook- up description. You can use this procedure to edit the hook-up name, description, and the output file name.
Make Approvals for Hook-Up Drawings
This procedure enables you to make client and vendor approvals for hook-up drawings.
Maintain Hook-Up Drawing Revisions
The revision feature is used to keep track of the changes made to the hook-up drawing during its lifetime. It is important and useful to have a chronological description of the changes, dates of change, and a list of persons who approved them. Using this procedure, you can add, edit, and delete revisions.
The revision feature is used to keep track of the changes made to the hook-up drawing during its lifetime. It is important and useful to have a chronological description of the changes, dates of change, and a list of persons who approved them. Using this procedure, you can add, edit, and delete revisions.
Add Document References in Hook-Up Drawings
This procedure enables you to make a reference to a drawing and add this reference to the title block of the hook- up drawing.
Assign Border and Logo Blocks to Hook-Up Drawings
This procedure allows you to set Smart Instrumentation to use a specific border block and logo block every time you generate a CAD hook-up drawing. Blocks that you set as default general blocks must belong to the shipped general block types, that is, Border and Logo block types available in the Drawing Block Types folder of the Domain Explorer.
Assign an Enhanced Symbol to a Hook-Up
Use his procedure to assign a hook-up symbol to your hook- up when generating an enhanced hook-up drawing using the Enhanced Report Utility. The hook-up symbol is of the file type .sym.
Update Paths for Hook-Up Drawings and Block Files
Use this procedure to update in the database paths for existing hook-up drawings and block files. You can update paths globally for block files associated with hook-ups, for logo and border blocks, and for hook-up drawings that you generated.
Use this procedure to generate one or more hook-up drawings using you CAD application.
Generate Enhanced Hook-Up Drawings
Use this procedure to generate one or more hook-up drawings using the Enhanced Report Utility.
Generate Hook-Up Drawings in Mixed Mode
Use this procedure to generate several hook-up drawings according to the generation method applied to the source hook-ups.