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User Bulletin
Version 11.5
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Contents
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Introduction...................................................................................................1-1
Major Changes .......................................................................................................... 1-1 Summary of Changes ................................................................................................ 1-2 Operating System and Hardware Environment...................................................... 1-2
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PDMS Reports Utility Changes....................................................................4-1 Relocation of Database Definition files ......................................................5-1 Product User Reports...................................................................................6-1
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Introduction
This bulletin describes the new and enhanced functionality available in PDMS 11.5. It gives an overview of the major changes, which are described in full in new and revised User Documentation. Smaller changes and enhancements are also described in full in this Bulletin.
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Major Changes
PDMS has long led the way for 3D Plant Design. It has always been object-based, using the concept of building a computer model of the plant, in order to ensure that the design works in every detail. Deliverables are always consistent as they are derived from this model. Interaction with this model has used realistic colour-shaded images for over 10 years. PDMS 11.5 brings a major leap forward in the graphical user interface. The first step of a programme to build the Next Generation of PDMS, it introduces standard Windows User Interface technology whilst maintaining full upward compatibility of data and functionality. Major new features introduced by PDMS 11.5 include: the Model Editor, bringing dragndrop graphical editing using the colour-shaded design view for modification of the 3D plant model, including UNDO and REDO of movement and rotation operations the Design Explorer using a Microsoft Windows-style Tree-view display of the model hierarchy for navigation improvements to the control and manipulation of 3D Views of the Design model.
Future work will extend this new interface with a family of specialist discipline-oriented Editors to support the workflow for engineering design. These will further improve productivity and ease of use, and will exploit emerging Windows standards such as Microsoft .NET for familiarity and ease of integration.
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Summary of Changes
the Model Editor the Design Explorer improved 3D view manipulation the ability to print a Design colour-shaded view direct to a printer using the Windows Print dialog box. the ability to copy a Design colour-shaded view to the Windows Paste buffer new user-defined Nominal Bores in the piping catalogue new user interface in Paragon for managing Datasets improvements to Report output improved HVAC insulation weight calculation improvements to PDMS Global. Global Version 2.2 features are described in the Plant Design Global User Bulletin. PDMS 11.5 is a pre-requisite for the installation of Global 2.2.
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The Model Editor is a mode of operation in DESIGN which enables you to reposition selected Plant Items using the mouse pointer. The Model Editor is described in a new PDMS manual, the Graphical Model Manipulation User Guide. You enter and leave Model Editor mode by clicking the Model Editor button on the toolbar, or by using the Edit>Model Editor menu selection. The Model Editor enables quick and easy layout of Plant Items in the Design model. The intended use of the Model Editor is to move plant items such as Equipment, Structures, Piping/HVAC/Cable Tray items, and Hangers in the model. It is not intended for detailed editing of an
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individual Plant Item. For example, it is not used for moving PDMS primitives in an Equipment, or steel Joints and Fittings along a Beam. However, the tools provided can be used to modify Pipe routes, because Piping items can be selected and moved individually. Using the Model Editor, it becomes much more productive to carry out operations such as moving a pump set with its associated Pipework, or moving Equipment with its support structure and Pipework. This productivity gain is made because it is very easy to select groups of Plant Items using the advanced graphical selection tools, and move or rotate the entire group in one operation.
Movement and rotation operations can be carried out without filling in forms. A Locator Handle is displayed with every graphical selection. The selection can be moved by simply picking up the handle with the mouse and dragging it in the view. Accurate positioning and orientation can be achieved even when the selection is dragged with the mouse. The Locator Handle acts as a frame-of-reference for movement and rotation of the group of selected Plant Items. The selection can be moved or rotated in incremental steps which can be user defined, or the selection can be aligned with other items in the display by using the advanced Feature Alignment functions:
Rotating an elbow to align with a Nozzle using a rotation handle and feature alignment
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New Edit and Selection menus have been added to the main menu bar for the Model Editor. The Edit menu provides facilities to control the position and orientation of both the graphical selection and the Locator Handle. The Selection menu contains options that control the appearance of the Locator Handle and the appearance of plant items as they are dragged with the mouse. It also contains options that control the selection and movement of the graphical selection.
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The Members List should still be used alongside the Design Explorer if you need to navigate to elements in a Catalogue database. The Design Explorer will be displayed on entry to Design. If you dismiss it, it can be reinstated by selecting Display>Browser from the main menu bar.
The History List This history list keeps a list of recently visited elements. Clicking on an element in the list will navigate to the selected element. Alternatively, a name of an existing element can be typed into the input box. If the element exists, it becomes the current element.
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The Reference List If Reference List is selected in the bottom half of the Explorer, then the names of Design database elements that are referenced by the current element are listed. For example, if the current element is an Equipment, then the pipes connected to any Nozzle belonging to that Equipment will be listed. If an individual Nozzle is selected, then the Pipe connected to that Nozzle would be listed. An item in the Reference List can be made the Current Element in the Database Explorer, providing a simple way to find groups of connected elements, and add them to the display. The Draw List The Draw List within the Design Explorer shows the names of displayed items. Items are added to or removed from the display by using the features provided in earlier versions of PDMS, or by using the new features provided in the Design Explorer. Colour, translucency and edge display are properties of drawn items that can be modified. Clicking Show Visual Properties at the bottom of the Draw list shows the user interface to modify these properties. A colour palette is provided to change the display colour of items selected in the Draw List immediately. Setting the translucency of displayed items allows you to see through the translucent items to items behind them in the display. The degree of opaqueness can be controlled by specifying the percentage translucency, where 0% is a solid colour, and 100% is completely transparent. The Show Edges option can be used to add or remove edge display on the selected items.
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Element Tooltips
The name of the element under the mouse pointer is now shown in a tooltip. A tooltip is displayed if the mouse pointer is left stationary over the element for a fraction of a second.
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The new View menu on the main menu bar The new 3D View shortcut menu, obtained by clicking on the 3D View background with the right mouse button Buttons located next to the 3D view on a 3D View window Function keys on the keyboard Shortcut menus on Design items Direct manipulation of the 3D view using the mouse
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Animated Zoom and Pan This new feature provides smooth pan and zoom operations in 3D Views when Zoom To and Walk To are used. This means that the zoom operation is animated to show the transition from the original view definition to the final view definition. If Animation is disabled, zooming and panning operations happen immediately, without a smooth transition to the final view. This is the default mode of operation.
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If Animation is enabled, smooth transition will be seen if the system determines that the view does not contain too much information for a smooth transition to be possible. Otherwise, the system uses immediate pan and zoom. Set Centre of View element or screen position is centred in the 3D view. High Quality setting This is a new feature which can be used to toggle between a higher quality image of the Design model, which is slower to draw and manipulate, or a standard quality image, which is faster to draw and manipulate. Zoom To on Element shortcut menus New context menus have been provided on Design database graphical elements in Model Editor Mode. Using the right mouse button on an element shows a menu, which includes options to zoom in to the selected element, or remove it from the display.
Set Centre of View allows you to pan the 3D view such that the identified
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The Limits functions have moved from the 3D View context menu to the 3D View toolbar. Clicking on the top button in the toolbar with the left mouse button still performs the LIMITS CE function. Clicking on that button with the right mouse button now shows a menu of the more advanced Limits setting functions. The old Limits>Drawlist menu command is replaced by the Walk To>Entire Draw List option that appears on the new View menu, the 3D View shortcut menu, and on the View toolbar (third button from the top). The Set Centre Of View options on the View menus replace the old 3D View long menu Rotate>CE Centroid and Rotate>Pick Centroid commands. The Save View function has moved to the new main menu bar View menu and the View shortcut menu. In previous versions of PDMS, this function was found on a right mouse button pop-up on the Restore View (camera) buttons in the 3D View toolbar. Clicking on the Restore View buttons with the left mouse button continues to work as it did in previous versions of PDMS.
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Adding elements to the display takes a little longer with auto-colour enabled. However, the clarity of the picture produced is much improved over a scene containing all items coloured grey, making it easier to interact with the model.
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Once the insulation weight has been calculated, it can be retrieved by querying property IWEI.
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The CE button reinitialises the form for the Current Dataset. The name of the dataset to be modified is displayed adjacent the CE button. Note that the form has no Apply button. The upper parts of the form define the current property and the Include, Replace and Remove buttons act upon the Currently Defined Properties list. Define each property as follows: Description Key Enter a brief description of the property, for use in displayed lists. Enter a word (max four characters) to identify the property in reports or rules. (If the Property Definition is set to Attribute, the Key must be the same as the attribute to which the property is to apply.) Select the type of property being defined. The other controls change to suit the selected type:
Definition
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PML Enhancements
Design Parameter
Enter Design Parameter number in No box. Select the appropriate Type for the data (Distance, Bore, Numeric, Integer or Word). Enter a Default value. The specified default value is displayed in the input field corresponding to this parameter on the Properties forms in Design. Default values are also used where the value for this property cannot be derived from the design data at any stage.
Parameter
Enter Parameter number in No box. Select the appropriate Type for the data (Distance, Bore, Numeric, Integer or Word). The attribute is defined by the Key. Key must be set to a valid attribute before you can select this option, for example, DIAM for Diameter. Type is set automatically to match the specified attribute. Use this option to specify an expression which is not related to a specific attribute. Select the appropriate Type for the data (Distance, Bore, Numeric, Integer or Word). Enter a Default value, to be used if the property cannot be derived from the design data at any stage. Enter the expression in the Expr text-box.
Attribute
Expression
Plotfile
Use this option to specify a plot file to be displayed for the item on the properties form. Set Type to the plot format: Portrait or Landscape. Enter the pathname for the folder holding the plot file into the Sub-Dir field (the default directory is as specified by the PDMSPLOTS environment variable). The pathname must not contain spaces. Enter the plot file name into the File text-box. The file name must not contain spaces.
Null
This property type is used where the property category is currently unset. The type of a fully defined property should be selected from one of the property types listed above. Select this check box if you want the current property to be shown on the Catalogue Properties definition form.
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Click Include - to add a new property definition into the property list. Click Replace to overwrite the currently selected property in the list by a new definition. Click Remove to delete the currently selected property from the list. order, displaying the Type, Key, Description and Default values. In order to modify one of these definitions, click on any property definition. This populates the Property and Data fields with details from the selected property definition. These details can be modified, and the property definition changed by clicking on Replace.
Current Data Elements shows a list of the property definitions in Type
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PML Enhancements
Bore World element in the catalogue database, along with definitions of standard bore sizes up to 25mm/1in.
NEW NBRWLD /NOMINALBOREWORLD PURP BORE NEW NOMINB /NOMINALBORE6MM MMBORE 6 INCBORE .125 NEW NOMINB /NOMINALBORE8MM MMBORE 8 INCBORE .25 NEW NOMINB /NOMINALBORE10MM MMBORE 10 INCBORE .375 NEW NOMINB /NOMINALBORE15MM MMBORE 15 INCBORE .5 NEW NOMINB /NOMINALBORE20MM MMBORE 20 INCBORE .75 NEW NOMINB /NOMINALBORE25MM MMBORE 25 INCBORE 1
The command NEW NBRWLD /NOMINALBOREWORLD creates a new nominal bore table in a catalogue DB. This element must have its Purpose attribute set to the word BORE by using the command PURP BORE, otherwise this table will be ignored by PDMS. The command NEW NOMINB /name adds a new nominal bore entry to the table. The metric unit nominal bore is specified in millimetres by the command MMBORE, and the imperial unit nominal bore is specified in inches by the command INCBORE. The consistency of the user defined nominal bore table can be checked by using the command CHECK CE at the nominal bore table world element. This will report errors such as unset metric or imperial bore sizes, and duplicated entries in the table. If more than one user-defined nominal bore table exists in an MDB, this is treated as if entries from all of the tables were merged into a single table.
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!selsize
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Description Inserts the contents of the Type text box. Inserts Off, Completely within or Partially within, as specified on the Hierarchy form. Inserts the coordinates defining the volume, as specified on the Hierarchy form. Inserts the time.
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HPD11866
HPD11869
HPD11870
HPD14361 HPD14426
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Brief Description HVAC Designer application does not recognise MDS ATTs Isodraft: online help for Chinese systems outputs in Greek Design: Autocolour rules do not work for HVAC / WALLs / SCREED Using the General ADP Update View form on an SDA view causes confusion Design: When a SCTN has joint or fitting with negative geometry attached along its length the start or end positions of the 'cut' plines is likely to be incorrect Upgrade macro changed so that a subsequent MAKE GLOBAL command works properly Isodraft: Incorrect dimension on skewed pipe Draft: CSV report template crashes Equipment Application: When creating a nozzle, the Create nozzle form is displayed. If you select the nozzle type button, a child form is displayed. If the mouse is moved over the picture in the Create Nozzle form, the child form is hidden HVAC Designer: HVAC insulation should be included in the CofG and weigh calculations. (See section 2.6 HVAC Insulation Weight Calculation) Late evaluation problem with material item descriptions Isodraft: A single flange item that is a Spool (gasket one side, field weld the other) has its spool id shown on item after field weld Design List Utility should report errors on action Equipment application > Position > Equipment Point > At explicit... form not working correctly in imperial units Installation of PDMS 11.4 over PDMS 11.3 causes plotting problems Isodraft: Inconsistent results using the Attex command to append text to the component description. Isodraft: Incorrect representation of 180 degree flanged bends Draft: Rubber-band feedback not working on Wildcat 5110
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SCR10283 SCR10328
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Change ID SCR10628 26720 26726 30013 33073 33359 34670 35818 36451
Brief Description and 6110 graphics cards Draft: Problem instancing large SYTM elements Fatal error detected by graphics package Reporter: Require ability to substitute expanded filename in reports Reporter: Require ability to substitute project data (PROJNAME, PROJUSER, PROJDESC etc.) in reports Reporter requires the ability to output the name of the project in the report header Reporter: GUI not being updated with header information on previously stored template. ASL: Horizontal stringers positioned incorrectly on side-exit ladder Reporter: GUI not being updated with information on previously stored template. Reporter: Headers and footers output in CSV format reports Isodraft: Using imperial units, extracting pipe BORE attribute is not displaying units along with size, for example BORE 3in in design is shown as 3 Isodraft: Using imperial units, OUTCOME for attributes HEIGHT, RADIUS and ALLOCATE are displayed as metric values not imperial In Hangers and Supports ADP, File>Defaults>Save gives an error because // is put in front of the filename. Illegal SPREF on welds causes Isodraft to crash instead of issuing a warning The following nominal metric bores must be considered as a valid nominal bore: 16, 24, 30, 34, 45, 58, 60, 70, 90, 120, 160 (see section Error! Reference source not found. Error! Reference source not found.) Isodraft omits from the bolt calculation, the P1-P2 distance for the first Wafer fitting found in the direction of flow Q var !!ce.sessmod.hierarchy causes database error 534
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