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Retrieve line segments and pipelines from Smart P&ID

SmartPlant Foundation retrieves Smart P&ID data from the data warehouse and gets line segments, end objects for the line segments (such as equipment, nozzles, and off-page connectors), pipelines, and connected instrumentation. This data forms the read-only design basis for the line list application.

Roll up segment properties to records

After the line segments are retrieved from Smart P&ID, users can roll up the line segments to form line list records.

To roll up segments, right-click unrelated line segments, and click the Rollup command. The software groups these line segments together using a set of configured properties and relates them to the matching line list records. If no matching line list record is found, a new line list record is created and populated with the property values from the line segment for the set of configured properties. The line list record is named using a subset of these properties.

Roll up line list records into pipelines

After the line segments have been rolled up into line list records, pipelines are created from the line list records. If a pipeline was created manually or because of retrieving a Smart P&ID drawing, relationships are automatically created between the pipeline and the line list records. If the pipeline does not exist already, the rollup creates the pipeline and the relationships between the pipeline and the line list records.

Consolidating properties

The roll-up criteria define the set of properties that determine how to relate line segments to line list records. Following a rollup command, the values for these properties should be the same between the line list record and the related line segments. This leaves two other types of properties within the line list record: single-valued properties that are not used for rollup, and multi-valued properties that can be used for consolidation. The "from" and "to" connectivity properties and the document (P&ID) property are in the multi-valued property category and are typically defined in a consolidation process.

Updating or creating a line list record starts the consolidation process. In the delivered system, the three properties previously described are configured for consolidation.

After a record is created, the rollup of new segments to that record only reconsolidate all the segment data if the Delay consolidation? option is selected. By default, the Delay consolidation? option is not selected.

  • If the Delay consolidation? option is not selected, line list records are created with delay consolidation to prevent rollup of additional segments, potentially overwriting manually-entered data on the record.

  • If the user clears the Delay consolidation? option, the rollup of new segments reconsolidates all the properties on the line list record based on all the related line segments.

  • The Delay consolidation? option is ignored if the line segments are rolled up to create the line list record for the first time.

Creating a line list

Users can relate line list records to a line list by dragging and dropping records onto the line list.

Line list documents are created from the line list.

Publishing line lists and pipelines

After you have associated your line list records into a line list, you can publish this information to the data warehouse.

  1. Create a document to represent the line list and all the line list records it contains.

  2. Create a snapshot of the current data.

  3. Publish the snapshot of the document to the data warehouse.

Though line lists do not contain pipelines, pipelines and their data are included with the publish operation. Using the relationships between line list records and pipelines, pipelines associated with line list records will be included in the published document.