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Drawing Manager is used to create a new drawing on a pre-formatted template. When you create and open a drawing, the drawing is displayed in a Drawing view in the Design window.

Drawings are graphical representations of plant models using standard symbols and conventions. A plant model consists of components. A component is any piece of equipment, instrumentation, piping, or other item used to create a plant model. Symbols represent components in Catalog Explorer and Engineering Data Editor. You select symbols from Catalog Explorer and then select the appropriate placement location in the drawing. In the Properties window, you enter appropriate values into the database for each property of the component. You can use the commands on toolbars and in menus to add information to your drawing, and you can use edit commands to modify the information in your drawing.

Any changes that you make to the drawing data are automatically saved in the database. You can also save drawings in different formats, including .pid for Smart P&ID, .dwg and .dxf for AutoCAD®, .dgn for MicroStation®, and .pdf format. You cannot save a drawing as a template. The only way to use a template is to have a plant administrator select a template at drawing creation in Drawing Manager.

The following table lists the characters that cannot be used in certain names, paths, passwords, or file names throughout Smart Engineering Manager and the Engineering and Schematics products.

Object

Restricted Characters

File and Directory Names (Windows restriction)

\ / : * ? ” < > |

Smart Engineering Manager Site and Plant Names

< , > ? \ / ' ; { } [ ] ~ ` ! % * ( ) | : "

Smart Engineering Manager Project Names

~ ` ^ & - + , . ? |

Smart Engineering Manager Satellite Names (for Smart P&ID Workshare)

' % "

Plant Group Item Names

< > ? \ / ' ! % * | : "

Database User Names

" ’ [ ] for Oracle

~ ` ! % ^ & * ( ) - + = { } [ ] \ / ; : ‘ " < > , . ? | for SQL Server

Database Passwords

" ' @ for Oracle

' for SQL Server

Other special characters are allowed for passwords.

Oracle System Passwords

All special characters are restricted except for @ ('at' symbol), . (period), and _ (underscore)

Paths (directories, and so forth)

~ ` ! % * ( ) { } [ ] / ; : ' " < > , ? |

Using Templates as a Starting Point

You use a template as a starting point for creating the drawing. A template is a file that provides tools such as text, geometry, dimensions, and drawing units, used to produce a new drawing. Your plant administrator can edit the property set of the template to include default values for some of the properties that you need to manage your drawings. The template that your plant administrator selects depends on the type of information that is wanted in the drawing.

Several standard templates are delivered with Smart P&ID, and you can create new templates in Smart P&ID. If you want to create custom border files for your drawing templates, use Intergraph SmartSketch. You can then embed your border file in the new templates you create in Smart P&ID. After you embed a border file into a drawing template and a drawing is created in Drawing Manager using that template, any changes to the border file are not reflected in drawings created prior to the change. If you link a border file, instead of embedding it, and then subsequently change that border in SmartSketch, changes are reflected automatically in your drawing.

Opening Existing Drawings

The Open command on the File menu opens existing drawings. You can also change databases by using this command so that you can open drawings in other plants.

The software keeps track of the drawings that you worked on last. These drawings appear at the bottom of the File menu. To open one of these drawings, you can select it from that list. The Options command on the Tools menu allows you to set the number of entries displayed in that list.

Setting Up Properties for a Drawing

An administrator sets up drawing properties such as units of measure in Options Manager and Format Manager. The drawing information is stored in a database associated with the drawings in a plant.

With the Properties command on the File menu, you can view, edit, and save properties for a drawing. Drawing properties can include the title, the author, and keywords that identify important information. These properties include drawing statistics, such as drawing size and the date that a drawing was created and last modified; the software updates statistics automatically. You can change the size of a drawing by using the Page Setup command on the File menu, and you can change the name of a drawing in Drawing Manager.

Renaming a drawing file in Windows allows the drawing to be opened with all graphics pointing to the database. However, renaming a drawing file in Windows does not update the drawing table in the plant schema where the drawing name is stored.

Working with Several Open Drawings

Several drawings can remain open in the same session but only if they all belong to the same plant. Each drawing can have more than one view, too. You can use the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands to move or copy information between the drawings or within one open drawing. You can use commands on the Window menu to arrange all the open drawings and views so that you can see them easily.