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Piping design systems are typically driven by design specifications that identify such items as piping material, flange pressure rating, pipe schedule, branch connection types, and so forth. Although certain aspects of specifications are somewhat standard in a given industry, specifications vary greatly from industry to industry and from company to company within an industry. As such, the piping specification writer must have an environment that not only verifies that the piping commodities, piping specialties, and instruments in the Piping specification for a model are consistent with the data in the Catalog, but also that the required components can be created in the 3D model.

Using the commands and options that are available in the Catalog task, there are several types of data verification that the software can perform:

  • Uniqueness - The software automatically checks for uniqueness when you enter a new row of data into the editable grid.

  • Data Entry Validation - When you enter data into the editable grid, the software ensures that the entries are valid and that you have entered all the required data before saving the data to the Catalog database.

  • Rule and Integrity Validation - Commands like the Verify Consistency Report Command and the Check Data Command are available to provide more cross-table verification.

The Verify Consistency Report Command, available from the Tools menu in the Catalog task, provides a specification writer with the means to determine whether or not the Catalog data required by the Piping specification does exist. For example, if a specification writer adds a valve to the Piping specification, the Verify Consistency Report Command can be used to verify that the appropriate flanges, bolts, and gaskets are also available in that piping materials class. The command is also able to determine duplicate entries in the Piping Commodity Filter based on short code, first size (range), second size (range), commodity option, multi-size option, and maximum and minimum temperatures.

After the consistency check is complete, a report detailing the discrepancies discovered is generated and delivered to a user-specified location.

You can use the Check Data Command to check data real-time as it is entered into the editable grid. For example, when you enter data in the piping commodity filter, you can use the Check Data Command to interactively verify the relationships of that data against other data in the Catalog database, such as in the material control data table.

The Piping Specifications Tab (Options Dialog) provides additional means for ensuring data verification.

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Verifying Consistency between Piping Specifications and Catalog Data