Create Snapshot View, Place Snapshot View with Preview, Update View

Lab 8 Create Snapshot View, Place

Snapshot View with Preview, Update
View
Objective

Snapshot a view in 3D model and use the preview option

Create New Drawing

1. Open Drawing Console
2. Right mouse click on Composed Drawings and select New Drawing
3. Enter values as shown and click OK to create a new drawing. This opens the drawing
editor.

Create Snapshot View

4. Define workspace using the filter Plant Filters Training Filters U01
5. Set a NorthEast Isometric view direction using the Common Views dialog

6. Tools Snapshot View

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7. Enter name U01 NE Isometric in the ribbon bar and in the drawing type field, pick
Composed Drawings

8. In the view style field pick Equipment Isometric

9. In the space folder field, pick U01 and U02
10. Check the Generate Preview box

11. Click Finish to create the snapshot.

Place Snapshot View

12. Switch to the Drawing Editor window
13. Click the Place Snapshot View button

14. Select Architectural Scales in the view scale picklist and select 3/16 in:1 ft as the
scale. As you move mouse over the sheet, a graphic view with preview appears. Click
to place.

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15. Right mouse click on the placed view and update view.

16. Close the drawing and save if prompted.

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Lab 9 Place cutting plane and place

section view
Objective

Place a cutting plane on a 2D graphical view to create a section view

1. Open Drawing Console

2. Select Equipment Plan 1 and Edit
3. Start the Cutting Plane command

4. Enter value A for Reference 1 and 2

5. Select the graphic view which will contain the cutting plane
6. Place the first point of the cutting plane as shown along grid line 2

7. Place the second point of the cutting plane as shown and right-click once

8. In the ribbon, enter a depth of 25

9. Move the mouse towards the bottom of the screen to set the cutting plane look
direction, then click to finish cutting plane placement.
10. A view appears on your cursor. In the ribbon bar, check the Update box, select the
Equipment Elevation view style and select a scale of 3/16 in:1 ft, then click to place
the view in an empty area on the sheet.
11. The status bar shows that the section view is being updated.
12. After view updates, close the drawing and save when prompted.

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13. Notice that in 3D, a new volume named Section A-A has been created under the
same parent folder as the parent volume.

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Lab 10 Place detail envelope and place

detail view
Objective

Place a detail envelope on a 2D graphical view to create a detail view

1. Open Drawing Console

2. Select Piping Plan 1 and Edit
3. Start the Detail Envelope command.

4. Select the graphic view which will contain the detail

5. Select the circular detail in the ribbon bar and enter a Reference Mark A

6. Draw a circle detail around Pump-001 by clicking somewhere near the center of the
pump and moving mouse out till the circle is sized as shown

7. A view appears on your cursor. In the ribbon bar, change the view style to
Equipment Plan and the scale to in: 1 ft and place the view as shown by clicking
in the sheet.

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8. Right mouse click the detail view and Update View

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Lab 11 Creating Volume Drawings

Objective

Add a volume drawing component and adjust the scale in the template
Create drawing volumes using the drawing volume by two points command and 3D
pinpoint.

Adding a Volume Drawing Component:

1. Define your workspace to display U01 & U02, the units where the drawing volume
component needs to be added, by using a system filter.
2. Click the Tools > Drawings Console command to open the Drawings Console.
3. In the Drawing Console, right-click the Drawings folder and select New to add the
Piping Plan drawing component.
4. In the Add Component dialog box, click the Piping tab to view the components
under it. Select Imperial_Piping Plan, and click OK.

This adds the Imperial_Piping Plan component to the Drawings folder. The folder
is displayed in the Drawing Console hierarchy.

Editing the Template

5. In the Drawings and Reports task, under the Management Console, right-click the
Piping Plan component and select the Edit Template option.
6. The 2D Drawing Editor window appears. The 2D Drawing Editor window displays
the template with the view drawn in it. The view in the template has a property set
that causes the view to be hidden on the template. To locate the view on this template,
move the mouse pointer around the perimeter of the rulers on the template until the
view is visible. Right-click the view and click the Properties command.
7. In the Drawing View Properties dialog box, set the scale to 1/2 = 10 and then
click OK.
8. Save the changes and exit the 2D Drawing Editor window.
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Placing Drawing Volumes

9. Click the Tasks > Space Management command to switch to the Space
Management task.
10. Open two graphic views and orient them Looking Down and Looking North.
11. Click the Place Drawing Volume by View button on the vertical toolbar.
12. On the Place Drawing Volume by View ribbon, the software automatically detects
the Piping Plan component that you added in the previous section in the Drawing
Type option. You need not change the setting as you want to associate the volume to
Piping Plan drawing component. Click the More option in the Space Folder dropdown list to select the folder where you need to save the drawing volumes.
13. In the Select Space Folder dialog box, click the Database option, browse to the
folder SP3D Train > Drawings > U01 and U02 and then click OK.
14. On the Common toolbar, click the PinPoint button to activate the PinPoint ribbon.
Then, key in the coordinates: E: 72, N: -2, El: 3on the PinPoint ribbon to select
the first point for the drawing volume.
15. Click the graphic view and then type the elevation El 33 on the PinPoint ribbon to
accept the placement of the volume.
16. Click the graphic view to place the volume.
17. Place the second volume by entering the coordinates E: 72, N 32 6, El 3 on the
PinPoint ribbon.
18. Click the graphic view and then key in the elevation EL 33 on the PinPoint ribbon
to accept the placement of the volume.
19. Click the graphic view to place the second volume adjacent to the first volume.
20. The two drawing volumes are created as in the below picture and you can verify them
under the hierarchy of the drawing folders by switching to the Space tab of the

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Workspace Explorer.

Updating the Drawings

Update the drawings that you created in the previous procedures.
21. Click the Tasks > Drawings and Reports command to switch to the Drawings and
Reports task.
22. In the Management Console, expand the tree to Drawings, right-click the Piping
Plan component, and click Create Drawing(s) to list the drawings in the Detail
View.
23. Right-click the first drawing, and click Update Now to update the drawing. Without a
Batch Server configured to update drawings, this process could take 10 seconds to 3
minutes on the client machine and displays the drawing in the Detail View.
24. Follow the same step as above to update the remaining drawings.

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Drawings by Query

Lab 12 Drawings by Query

Objective

Specify the where filter to create drawing volumes by query for hanger supports
Edit the Coordinate System property of a drawing to create location plans

Create Drawings by Query

1. Right-click on Drawings and select New
2. In the Add Component dialog, on the General tab, select Drawings by
Query Manager and click OK

3. Right click on the Drawings By Query Manager component that was just
added to the Management Console and select Rename. Rename this
component to Hanger Support Drawings
4. Right click on Hanger Support Drawings and select Setup
5. For the Filter property, drop down the select list and choose More... In the
Select Filter dialog select the U01 filter from Plant Filters > Training Filters
> U01.

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6. For the Package property, drop down the select list and choose More... In
the Select Package dialog, select HngSup3View Style 2 and click OK.

7. On the Setup dialog, click OK to save and exit the setup.

8. Right-click on the Hanger Support Drawings component and select Run
Query Wait till the tree is automatically created.
9. Right-click on the HngSup3View Style2 node and select Create Drawings

10. Right click on the drawing created in the Detailed View and select Update
Now.

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11. After the update completes, right click the drawing created and click Edit.
The drawing will resemble the below picture.

12. Zoom into the location plan on the top left corner of the drawing. Notice that
the grid bubbles are empty and the distances shown are global distances.

13. Close the drawing editor.

Edit Drawing Property

14. Select Tools Drawing Console to reopen the drawing console.

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15. Right mouse click on U01 and select Properties.

16. Click the Style tab of the properties page and in the Coordinate System pull
down, select U01 CS

17. Click OK to save the properties.

18. Right mouse click on the drawing and click Update Now. This update will
update the border properties only.
19. Right mouse click on the drawing one more time and click Update Now. This
update will take longer and update the entire drawing.

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20. Edit the drawing and zoom into the location plan. Now the key plan shows the
closest gridlines from U01 and the distances from them.

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Lab 13 3D Model Data (SmartPlant

Review) Workflow
Objective

Create a vue file for viewing in SmartPlant Review

1. Right-click on Drawings, select New and add a New 3D Model Data
component from the General tab
2. Right-click on 3D Model Data and Setup
3. Pick the Plant Filters Training Filters - U01 filter and check the Disk only
box. Designate a location on your disk (say C:\) to save the xml and vue files
that. Name the files U01.xml and U01.vue.

4. Create Drawing, a drawing named 3D Model Data-1-0001 is created.

5. Right mouse click on this drawing and select Update Now

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6. Double-click the U01.vue file to open and review it in SmartPlant Review.

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Lab 14 Placing Labels

Objective

Place view labels

Place object labels using ribbon options and As Drawn
Place dimension style label
Learn how modification of labels works
Use custom command to highlight label status
Use custom command to clear all manual edits to labels

Placing View Labels

1. Open Drawing Console
2. Select the drawing Equipment Plan 1 and Edit
3. Start the Place a label command.

4. Select More in the label names pick list.

5. Select the Views folder and the ViewTypeDirectionandScale label and click OK.

6. Select the graphic view (plan view) and click to place the label below the view.

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7. Select the section view and click to place the label below the view.

8. You may use the align command from the change toolbar to align the label and the
view to each other.

Placing Object Labels

9. Select More in the label names pick list
10. Select the Label Templates folder and the SectionSize_None_APO_NL label

11. Select a steel member in the view and the label with section size appears on your
cursor.

12. Click to place the label.

13. Select another member. The label placement ribbon allows you to change the graphic
attributes or the label (color, font, size, border, orientation) or add a leader. Change
the color to blue, add a rectangular border and add a single leader. Click to place.

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Use As-Drawn
14. Select the Name_Capsule_CA_L label from the pick list and click on a pump. Note
that the previously made changes to properties of the previous label are retained for
the new label.

15. Click the As Drawn button on the ribbon.

16. Notice that the label changes to the properties as defined in the label definition.

17. Click to place the label.

Use Leader Boundary Option
18. Select the pump again
19. Now click the Boundary pulldown in the label ribbon and select the Inside button.

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20. Notice that the leader attachment point has jumped to the inside of the pump from the
boundary. Click to place the label.

21. Select the attachment point (arrow) of a previously placed label and drag the point to
elsewhere inside the pump. The attachment point changes to a line similar to above
example. Release the mouse the change the leader arrow style.

Dimension Style Label

22. Start the Place a Label command
23. Select a steel member, the name appears in a capsule with a leader (like the previous
label)

24. Activate the dimension pulldown in the label ribbon bar and select
SmartDimension

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25. Pick the steel member once again, a dimension appears on your mouse.

26. Click to place. The dimension is placed and immediately replaced by the label
contents.

27. Close the drawing and save when prompted

Modify 3D Model
28. Switch to the Equipment task
29. Select the Pump-002 and select Edit Copy
30. Locate the Discharge nozzle of the pump and click to select that as the point to copy
by.
31. Select Edit Paste
32. Uncheck all boxes on the paste form and click OK.
33. Enter coordinates in pinpoint E 98 N 38 El 0 and click in the graphic view.
34. Edit the Equipment Plan 1 drawing and update the view.
35. Notice that the new pump has a label placed to the right of it. Select the label and
move it slightly to up and left of its original position.

36. Close the drawing and save it.

37. Select the newly pasted pump and move it 5 south of its current location.

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38. Update the Equipment Plan 1 drawing and then edit it. Notice that the equipment
moves but modified label stays where you manually moved it and the leader extends
to connect to the new position of the equipment.

Add custom commands to the drawing toolbar.

39. Right mouse click on the toolbar area and click Customize

40. In the Customize dialog, select Custom Commands in the Categories list and the
click Browse

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41. In the Select Macro Directory dialog, browse to [SP3D Installation

Directory]\Drawings\Client\Bin and click OK.

42. Select ClearManualEdits.dll and drag it to the toolbar area. This creates a new toolbar
and adds an icon to it.

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43. Similarly drag and drop the SP3DDwgHighlightCmd.dll into the toolbar.

Highlight command
44. Start the Highlight items based on tests command

45. Check the Modified System Placed checkbox and click the Highlight button. The
label you moved is highlighted.

46. Click the Close button to dismiss the command.

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Clear Manual Edits

47. Select the view and click the Clear Manual Edits command.

48. A message is shown indicating that all your changed will be lost. Click Yes to lose
your changes and go back to the view style behavior.

49. An informational message is shown. Click OK.

50. Update the view. After the update completes, notice that all your manually placed
labels and deleted and the label for the new pump has moved closer to the pump as
per the label rule settings.

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Placing Dimensions

Lab 15 Placing Dimensions

Objective

Place smart dimensions

Place distance between dimensions

Placing Smart Dimensions

1. Open Drawing Console
2. Select the drawing Equipment Plan 1 and Edit
3. Zoom into the top of the section view.

4. Start the SmartDimension command from the Dimension toolbar.

5. Select the left edge of the column at the left and click to place dimension.

6. Select the top edge of the beam at the right and click to place dimension.

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Placing Distance Between Dimensions

7. Select the Distance Between command on the dimension toolbar.

8. Place and out-to-out dimension between the two columns.

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Scaled Sketching

Lab 16 Scaled Sketching

Objective

Sketch and dimension at scale

Move view with all associated annotations

Drawing at scale
1.
2.
3.
4.

Open Drawing Console

Select the drawing Equipment Plan 1 and Edit
Zoom into the portion with the two pumps
Select Tools SmartSketch Settings and check the Intersection check box, then click
OK.

5. Click the Change button

to turn on the Change toolbar.

6. Click the Scaled Sketching button on the drawing toolbar.

7. This opens the scaled sketching toolbar as shown.

8. Select the edge of the smartframe as shown, this activates the smartframe and puts
you in scaled sketching mode. The scaled sketch ribbon now shows the scale at which

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you will be sketching.

9. Click the Start Scaled Sketching button.

. The icon changes to

to indicate the scaled sketching mode is active.

10. Start the Line command

from the vertical toolbar.
11. Change the line color to Magenta.

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12. Change the line style to Dash

13. Hover your mouse over the discharge nozzle of the lower pump, till you see a center
glyph.

14. Click slightly above the nozzle and then click below the pump (note vertical glyph) to
draw the centerline. Right click once to terminate the line command.

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15. Now hover mouse close to the midpoint of the suction nozzle as shown till you see
the key point glyph.

16. Click slightly to the left of the nozzle and then click to the right side of the pump
(note horizontal glyph) to draw the centerline.

17. Right click once to terminate the line command.

Copying scaled sketch objects

18. Select the two lines you just drew.
19. Click the Move/Copy button on the Change toolbar.

20. Enter distances X = 0, Y = 8 and click the Copy button on the ribbon bar.

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21. Hover over the intersection point of the two lines you drew till you see the
Intersection glyph and then click.

22. Move your mouse off, notice that the copy of the gridlines appears over the second
pump.

23. Click to complete the copy.

24. Right click to terminate the move/copy command.
25. Click the Finish button in the scaled sketch ribbon to complete scaled sketching.

Dimensioning in scaled sketch mode

26. Select the smartframe and select the start scaled sketching button.
27. Start the Distance between command from the dimension toolbar.

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28. Click the vertical centerline you drew and the gridline drawn by VHL process. A
dimension appears on your cursor. Click to place the dimension.

29. Notice that the dimension is in model scale.

30. Click Finish on the scaled sketch ribbon to complete scaled sketching.
31. Click the Scaled sketch button on the drawings toolbar to dismiss the scaled sketch
toolbar.

Moving a view with scaled sketch graphics.

32. Click the smartframe of the view with the Alt key pressed. Notice that the view, all
scaled sketch graphics and all labels and dimension are selected and shown in the
selection color.

Use the move command or drag and drop the view to the desired location.

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