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2015 R1 (7.1)

General

  • Naming Conventions — It is now possible to edit the unprotected text segments of the item tag name in the Rename dialog box. This way, the editing affects the relevant properties of the item.

  • Negative Values in User-Defined Fields — The software now allows you to enter a negative value in any user-defined field (UDF) that has a unit of measure type.

Cable Block Diagrams

  • Accessing Cable Common Properties from a CBD — You can now open the Cable Common Properties dialog box when working in a cable block diagram. Right-click a cable in an open CBD and then click Common Properties. This will allow you to connect a circuit to the PDB connected to the cable you just right-clicked.

  • Retaining Connection Points — After connecting a cable to an equipment item in a CBD, the software retains the connection points on the equipment symbol for all other CBDs where this equipment is used. That is, when placing this equipment on another CBD, all the existing connection points are retained on the equipment symbol as they were during the original connection and it will not be possible to connect other cables using those connection points. The software stops retaining connection points of equipment symbols if you disconnect the equipment in a CBD. Also, the software does not retain the connection points after changing the symbol of connected equipment.

Cable Management

  • Cable Sizing for DC Power Cables — The cable sizing requirements for DC power cables that supply DC loads have changed. You can now calculate the voltage drop at starting for DC power cables by entering values for the following properties:

    • Starting current

    • Allowable voltage drop at starting

  • Propagating Values to Feeder Cables — After connecting a feeder power cable to converting equipment or any other electrical equipment that has a Full Load Current (FLA), starting current, rated voltage, supply (AC/DC), number of phases, power factor at full load, and power factor at starting property, the value of this property is now automatically inherited by the cable from the connected equipment.

  • Ability to Define Current-Carrying, Neutral, and Grounding Conductors Separately — It is now possible to define current-carrying conductors, neutral conductors, and grounding conductors separately when creating or editing power reference cables. The availability of these properties depends on the conductor arrangement that you select for your reference power cable. After creating a plant power cable based on this reference cable, the software automatically propagates these property values to the plant power cable.

  • Defining Cable Cuts for a Cable — You can now manually define cable cuts for a specific cable. This way you can assign predefined cable cuts to a cable drum in the Assign Drums to Cables Wizard or in the Cable Drum Common Properties. Also, on the Design Data tab of the Cable Common Properties, the software indicates the number of splices in accordance with the number of cable cuts that exist for the given cable.

Cable Routing and Cable Drums

  • Cable Routing Path Segment Separators — In the General Settings of Options Manager, you can now define a separator between the segments of the routing path of your plant cables. You can define two separators: one between cableways and their segments and another separator between cableway segments.

  • Ability to Define the Length of Tail 1, Tail 2, and Spare Length on the Design Data Tab — For single power cables (that is, cables that do not belong to parallel cables or cable assemblies), it is now possible to define the length of Tail 1, Tail 2, and Spare length on the Design Data tab of the Cable Common Properties dialog box as well as on the Cable Routing Definition dialog box. For other cables, these values can be defined on the Cable Routing Definition dialog box only.

Cable Termination

  • Disconnecting Multiple Plant Cables in Batch Mode — This feature allows you to disconnect multiple plant cables from their wiring equipment in batch mode. The software disconnects all the selected plant cables, their cable sets, and conductors. However, the software retains cable associations with equipment.

Composite Drawings

  • Automatic Association of Nested Symbols — When associating a compound symbol with a plant item that has child items, the software automatically associates the child plant items with the nested symbols that reside in the associated compound symbol. For example, a circuit in your plant can have several child items such as a circuit breaker, a fuse, and starter. If you associate a compound symbol with this circuit, the nested symbols residing in that compound symbol will automatically be associated with child items of that plant circuit. The software identifies the item type of each nested symbol and associates it with the appropriate plant child item. In case there are several child items that belong to the same item type, the software uses the sequence in group number to make the appropriate association.

  • Cloning and Attaching Labels — This feature allows you to clone an existing label that is attached to graphical element in an open drawing. You can attach a cloned label to more than one graphical element in an open drawing.

  • Association Assistant — The user interface of the Association Assistant has been improved to enhance the functionality of associating plant items in composite drawings.

  • Show Associated Drawings — You can now select a symbol in Catalog Explorer and find the associated drawings where the selected symbol appears. You can then open these drawings if needed.

  • Refreshing and Updating Changed Compound Symbols — The software now automatically updates associated compound symbols if one of the plant items associated with a parent or nested symbol is deleted from the plant. If the deleted plant item was associated with the parent compound symbol, the software dissociates the remaining plant items from the nested symbols and automatically refreshes the compound symbol in the drawing.

  • New Shipped Symbol for Compound Motors — There is a new shipped symbol that replaces the Motor_Heater_ControlStation Assembly.sym symbol. The file name of the new symbol is Motor_Heater_ControlStation.sym.

  • Copying Custom Styles — It is now possible to copy custom styles to a composite drawing.

Documents and Drawings

  • Discontinuing Support — Starting with the release of SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1, the software no longer supports the report templates for the All Feeder Load Summary (Enhanced) and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary reports. The templates for these reports have been replaced with All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) With Cases and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary With Cases report templates respectively. For details, see Special Instructions.

  • Report Templates in XLSM Format — The templates for the All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) With Cases and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary With Cases reports are provided in the .xlsm format only.

  • Cable Cuts Added to the Cable Schedule Report — The template for the Cable Schedule Report now contains information about the existing cable cuts: cable cut name, sequence, length, and drum assignment.

  • Opening the Last Saved Document — It is now possible to open the last saved drawing or registered report without regenerating the data from the database. The information will be displayed as at the time you last saved the document.

  • Defining a Symbol for a Drawing Type — This new feature provides a way to have different symbol representations for the same plant item depending on certain properties of a specific drawing.

Electrical Equipment

  • Calculating Bus Loading According to the Largest Non-Continuous Load — A new load calculation mode is now available which enables you to calculate the total normal running and peak loading according to the largest non-continuous load connected to the current bus. For the purpose of this calculation, the largest non-continuous load is one individual load among all the loads connected to the bus, including the loads that were rolled up from the downstream buses, and whose active power (kW) has the highest value.

  • Other Electrical Equipment Added to the Cable Common Properties — All types of other electrical equipment are now available for selection when selecting one of the cable sides on the Connections tab of the Cable Common Properties dialog box.

  • Connecting Instruments in Parallel — The software now enables you to connect the inlet of instruments in parallel. This way you can design power distribution boards in which instruments get their power supply in a daisy chain configuration. As a result of this PDB design, your various deliverables such as SLDs and CBDs will show these instruments accordingly.

  • Changing the Sequence of Circuits of a Bus — This new feature allows you to select a bus and re-order the sequence of circuits belonging to the selected bus. This way you can avoid a situation where the circuits intersect in a generated single line diagram.

ETAP - SmartPlant Electrical Bidirectional Interface

  • Improved Log File Information — When retrieving ETAP data, the software has improved the log file mechanism to enhance the level of information regarding the errors during the retrieve process.

Import Manager

  • Importing Color Patterns for Reference Cable Conductors — It is now possible to import color pattern names and colors for reference and plant cables.

  • Importing Reference Cables From SPRD — You can now use Import Manager to import reference cables from SmartPlant Reference Data directly to the Reference Data Explorer in SmartPlant Electrical. The software is shipped with three files that enable you to use Import Manager to carry out this procedure. For details, see the SmartPlant Electrical Guide > Creating and Using Reference Data > Shipped Reference Data.

  • Importing Parallel Cables — It is now possible to import parallel cables by creating appropriate data links.

Naming Conventions

  • Naming Conventions for Parallel Cables — In the previous version, the software included parallel suffixes in the names of parallel cables regardless of whether a parallel suffix was part of the naming convention. Now the parallel suffix is included in the name of parallel cables only if it is part of the naming convention. Furthermore, you can delete the parallel suffix when renaming a parallel cable if the parallel suffix segment is not a protected segment. If the parallel suffix is not part of the naming convention, it will not appear in the name of a new parallel cable. Also note that if no naming conventions for parallel cables have been defined, the software no longer applies a naming convention of non-parallel cables to parallel cables. In this case, the software treats parallel cables as an item type without any naming conventions and, when renaming or creating new cables, applies the default settings defined the General Settings window.

  • Naming Conventions for Cables in Single-Core Cable Assemblies — The software now allows you to define naming conventions for cables in single-core cable assemblies. These definitions make this functionality more flexible and not dependent on other item types. Also, cables in single-core cable assemblies are no longer required to have phase suffixes in the names unless you chose to include this segment in their naming convention. The software will no longer add a phase suffix automatically when renaming or creating a new cable in single-core cable assembly. Also note that if no naming conventions for cables in single-core cable assemblies have been defined, the software no longer applies a naming convention of other cables to cables in single-core cable assemblies. In this case, the software treats these cables as an item type without any naming conventions and, when renaming or creating new cables, applies the default settings defined the General Settings window.

Project Management

Changing the Completed Status of All Project Items to Claimed — This feature allows you to revert the Completed status of all the project items to Claimed. This is especially helpful when you want to use an existing plant as a source for similar plants by using the Load plant as project feature in Smart Engineering Manager. You can load this plant as a project into different plants, edit this project, and then merge it into your As-Built plant.

Reference Data Explorer

  • Dragging Plant Items to the Reference Data Explorer — You can now create reference items based on existing plant items by dragging a plant item from the Electrical Index to the Reference Data Explorer. This way, the software creates reference items by duplicating all the appropriate definitions of the selected plant item.

Single Line Diagrams

  • Inserting or Moving a Vertex in a Connector — It is possible to control the shape of connectors by inserting a vertex into a connector. Once you select a connector in an SLD, two commands become available on the Modify Connector ribbon: Insert/Move Vertex and Insert Segment . See the Working with Single Line Diagrams topic in the SmartPlant Electrical Guide for more details.

  • Retaining the Position of Electrical Items in Saved Drawings — The software now always retains the position of electrical items in saved drawings without the need to instruct the software to do so. Therefore, this setting has been removed from the Plant Default Preferences in Options Manager and the Preferences dialog box (SLD tab) in SmartPlant Electrical.

  • Hiding Feeder Circuits in SLDs — You can now instruct the software not to include in an SLD a specific feeder circuit and its entire downstream branch.

  • Including Local Panels and Junction Boxes in SLDs — When generating an SLD for a power distribution board, you can include junction boxes and local panels in the drawing if these plant items have their IS LOAD property set as TRUE.

  • Retaining Bus Positions in Regenerated SLDs — When re-generating an existing SLD, it is now possible to instruct the software to retain the position of the buses as they were last saved in the drawing. Consequently, there will be no need to re-position the buses in the drawing after performing layout activities.

  • Retaining Circuit Positions When Changing a Bus Length — When extending or shortening the length of a bus in a single line diagram, the circuits on that bus retain their previously saved positions. Newly added circuits on that bus are placed after the last circuit.

  • Circuit Sequence Options for Manual SLDs — For manual SLDs, the software now supports both sequencing options for incomers and feeders. That is, it is now possible to position the incomers and feeders by their sequence numbers in exactly the same manner as for automatic SLDs.

  • Showing or Hiding Reference Labels in SLDs — You can now instruct the software to show or hide a reference label in a generated SLD. This setting is per drawing and you can change it before you start generating an SLD.

  • Ability to Define Document Properties for Newly Generated SLDs — You can now define document properties for new unsaved drawings that have not been generated manually. You can do this on the new Document Properties tab of the Single Line Diagram Options dialog box.

  • New Progress Bar instead of the SLD Generation AVI — The SLD generation .avi has been replaced by a progress bar.

SmartPlant Integration

  • Publishing From Projects — This version of SmartPlant Electrical includes the infrastructure that supports the ability to publish claimed items to SmartPlant Foundation from projects. This functionality has been designed to support workflows related to integrated engineering design using Projects / As-Built. This functionality requires SmartPlant Foundation 5.3 or later.

  • Retrieving PID Drawing Number — When retrieving the PID drawing number property, the value is no longer truncated if it is longer than 40 characters.

  • Revising Documents — This version of SmartPlant Electrical enables the option to set major and minor document revisions within the tool using SmartPlant Foundation. This functionality requires SmartPlant Foundation 5.3 or later.

Wiring Diagrams

  • Showing the Terminal Strip Name on the Reference Symbol — You can now customize an additional reference symbol that can show the name of a terminal strip which is displayed on a different drawing.

  • Setting a Default Vertical Distance Between Terminal Strips — In Options Manager, you can now set a default vertical distance between terminal strips dragged to a wiring diagram. The set distance is a plant default which you can adjust manually in an open wiring diagram.

  • Placing a Subset of Terminals on a Wiring Diagram — It is now possible to place a subset of terminals or just individual terminals on a conventional wiring diagram instead of placing the entire terminal strip. This is done by dragging the required terminals to the wiring diagram from the List View pane in the Electrical Index.