General Tab (Generate Hook-Up Drawings Dialog - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

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Generation method

For the current generation, enables you to apply any of the following methods:

CAD

Generates hook-up drawings using your CAD application and allows you to use the CAD Options tab.

Enhanced Report

Generates hook-up drawings using the Enhanced Report Utility.

As previously applied

Generates hook-up drawings according to the generation methods assigned to the source hook-ups selected in the Domain Explorer. If your hook-up selection has hook-ups that are not assigned to any generation method, the software applies the method displayed in the Default generation method box. Selecting As previously applied disables the CAD Options tab. If you first defined generation settings for CAD drawings on the CAD Options tab and then selected As previously applied, the software uses the defined settings in the current CAD hook-up drawing generation.

Default generation method

Displays your default hook- up drawing generation method specified on the Hook-Ups > General page of the Preferences dialog. The software uses the default method only for those hook-ups that do not have any generation method applied in the Domain Explorer).

Automatic save options for enhanced hook- up drawings

These options enable you to save the enhanced hook-up drawings as files at the time of generation. These options are only available when you select Enhanced Report as a generation method.

  • When the generation method is As previously applied, the software automatically saves the enhanced hook-up drawings and CAD hook- up drawings to the default folders specified for each method on the Preferences dialog. The Automatic save options for enhanced hook-up drawings box and the CAD Options tab become disabled.

  • These options do not affect CAD hook-up drawings, which have their own automatic save option preferences. For CAD hook-up drawings, you can set or modify the output generation folder on CAD Options tab.

Save documents automatically

When the generation method is Enhanced Report, this option enables you to save enhanced hook-up drawings as files at the time of generation.

Global path

Displays the global path set for the folder where Smart Instrumentation saves the hook-up drawing generated by the Enhanced Report Utility.

Output drawing path

Displays the specified default path for saving the output enhanced hook-up drawings at the time of generation. The default folder is the folder you specified on the Preferences dialog, in the Enhanced Reports > Hook-Ups > File Locations page, under Automatic save options. When the generation method is Enhanced Report, for the current generation only, you can select Browse and specify a different folder to save the current enhanced hook-up drawings. After you complete the current generation and reopen the dialog, the software reapplies the default path setting.