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You can use macros from an external source with the macros in your domain. This means that macro sources that are both external and internal in relation to Smart Instrumentation are used when you generate a loop drawing.

Working with external macro sources includes the following steps:

  1. Establishing a connection to an external data source from which Smart Instrumentation can retrieve macro data.

  2. In the Domain Explorer, assigning the connected external data source to the loop numbers for which you want to generate loop drawings.

  • Before you start working with external macro data sources, make sure that the external source data naming and structure conventions comply with the Smart Instrumentation macro conventions. See External Macro Structure Conventions and External Macro Naming Conventions.

  • Your user defined macro names must be unique, do not copy or use existing macro names as this results in the macros failing to display correctly.

Macros in a CAD application, that you want to solve with a general signal in Smart Instrumentation, must have the general signal name (as defined in the Smart Instrumentation Local Signal dialog box) added as a prefix to the CAD application macro. For example, for the CAD macro PNL_NAME.1.4, to be recognized by Smart Instrumentation and solved with the general signal called GENERALIST1, you add the general signal name to the CAD macro as a prefix in the CAD application: GENERALIST1.PNL_NAME.1.4.