Generate CAD Loop Drawings - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

Press F7 to open the Domain Explorer and then expand the hierarchy to the loop level in the Loops folder.

In the Explorer, select and right-click one or more loop numbers and select Reports > Generate Loop Drawings.

If among the loops that you selected there are loops assigned to the Manual method (symbol M in the Explorer), the software skips these loops when generating drawings in batch mode.

On the Generate Loop Drawings dialog, from the Generation method list, select CAD.

Under Automatic save options, select Save drawing automatically and do one of the following:

• In the Output drawing path data field, type the exact folder path to which you want to save the generated drawing.

• Select Browse to navigate to the required path for saving the file.

Select CAD Options, and then, from Save file in format list, specify the CAD file format in which to save the generated drawings (if your CAD application supports more than one file format).

Select the following check boxes:

• Send to plotter or printer — Sends the generated drawing to the current CAD plotter.

• Use macro functions — Applies macro functions associated with the macros.

• Save output data to database — Enables you to compare drawing data of the current generation to data of a subsequent generation made for the same loop.

Under Generation criteria, do one of the following:

• Select Per loop to generate drawings for all the loops you selected.

• Select Per page and then type the required page number to generate only a specific drawing page for the drawings you selected.

• Select Per block to select a block from the list and generate drawings only for the loops that to which you assigned this block.

The option Per block, is useful when you select several loops in the Domain Explorer. If your selection includes loops that do not contain the block that you selected, the software does not generate loop drawings for those loops. For the loops that do contain the selected block, the software includes all of the blocks when generating loop drawings. For example, if you selected five loops and each of them has the block that you selected and also has three other different blocks, the software includes all of these blocks in the generated loop drawings. The blocks displayed in the lists are blocks associated with instruments using the manual block assignment method. In the Loops folder of the Domain Explorer, these blocks are shown as are shown as .

Under Create report about, select which reports you want to generate:

• Null data — Displays macro strings in the drawing for which Smart Instrumentation data is unavailable.

• Invalid macros — Displays macro strings in the drawing which are not defined in Smart Instrumentation.

You can select to generate both reports if needed.

Under Mark drawing using, select the options for which you want to display a text string, specified in the adjacent text box:

• String for null data — Allows you to type a string that indicates in the drawing those macros for which Smart Instrumentation data is unavailable.

• String for invalid macros — Allows you to type a string that indicates in the drawing those macros which are not defined in Smart Instrumentation.

If you need to use macros from an external source during the current loop drawing generation, under External data, select the Use external macro source check box, and then select Define.

Select OK to start the loop drawing generation process in your CAD application.

• If your CAD application is SmartSketch, by default, all drawings that you generate have the A3 Wide print sheet size. This print sheet size is defined in the template file pid.igr, which comes shipped with Smart Instrumentation. This file appears in the CADFunc folder, for which you specified the path setting on the Preferences dialog, Loop Drawings > CAD File Locations page. If you want to generate loop drawings using a different print sheet size, you must open the pid.igr file in SmartSketch and modify the sheet settings as you require. Note, however, that changes that you make in the pid.igr file affect both loop drawings and hook-up drawings you generate in SmartSketch. If you want the print sheet size of loop drawings not to affect the print sheet size of hook-up drawings, duplicate the CADFunc folder with all its content and define a different path setting preference for hook-up drawings on the Hook-Ups > CAD File Locations page.

• Smart Instrumentation and the CAD drawing programs required to work with Smart Instrumentation, must be installed on the same machine.