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Contents Page

User Guide
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
Guide Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2

Isometric ADP Drawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1

IsoADP Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1
Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Isometric Drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
ISOADP Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Modify Isometric Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Print Multi-Print Isometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2

Isometric Drawings Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1

Track Current Element. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:2
Process Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Regenerate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Design Elements Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Advanced Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:5
Search Results Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
Save Search Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9
Multiple Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9

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Spooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:10
Preview Spooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:11
Look Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:12
Spool Playback Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:13
Spool Splitting Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:13
Modify Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:14
Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:15
Splitting ............................................................. 3:16
By Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:16
By Split Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:17
North Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:17
Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:17
Output ............................................................. 3:18
Save your Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:18
Hide Setting Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:19
Process Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:19
Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:19

Drawing Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:1

Isometric Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:1
Material Parts Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2
Location Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:3
Keyplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:3
Revision Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:4
Title Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:4
North Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:5
Total Weight and Centre of Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:6

Modify Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1

Find and Access Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
Search for all Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
General Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:3
Edit Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:4
Isometric Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:4
Layer Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:4
Move Connection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:5
Leader Line Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:6

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Nudge the View Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:6

Dimension Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:6
Dimension Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:9
Graphical Representation Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:9
Set Revision Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:10
Set Drawing Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:11
Graphical View Pop-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:11

Print Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1

Find Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2
Select Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:3
Save Drawings in PDF Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:4
Preview Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:5
Print Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:5

Link Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1

HVAC Standard Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:1

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Introduction

1 Introduction

The Isometric ADP application (IsoADP) produces automatically annotated and

dimensioned HVAC or cableway Isometric drawings with associated parts list, without the
need to exit the auto drawing production application of the DRAFT application.

1.1 Assumptions
The Isometric ADP Application User Guide has been written for users familiar with cabling
and HVAC design practices, who may or may not have prior knowledge of PDMS.
It is assumed that:
• Users have a valid PDMS licence and the software has been installed.
• The System Administrator has installed and configured IsoAP for the selected design
model. Refer to Isometric ADP Administrator Guide for more information.

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• Users will not need full PDMS or Marine training - a minimum level of knowledge is
required.

1.2 Guide Structure

The Isometric ADP Application User Guide is divided into the following sections:

Introduction introduces Isometric ADP Application User Guide and

summarises its scope.

Isometric ADP Drawing provides an Overview of the Application, Process Toolbars

and Menus.

Isometric Drawings describes the Isometric Drawings Production process.

Production

Drawing Content describes the content of the produced Isometric Drawings.

Modify Drawings describes the modification of the Isometric Drawings.

Print Drawings describes the printing process of the Isometric Drawings.

Link Documents describes the process of linking Isometric Drawings.

HVAC Standard Drawings introduces HVAC Standard Drawings.

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2 Isometric ADP Drawing

The Isometric ADP drawing application allows the user to create, modify and print the
Isometric drawings.
When the modifications are outside the scope Isometric ADP application, the PDMS
Module must be used. Refer to DRAFT User Guide for more information.
To produce a drawing and associated deliverables, an HVAC or CWAY design element must
be selected to be processed. If required, user settings can be modified as necessary before
processing.
Once the drawing has been created, it can be edited with IsoADP application which has
many of the necessary tools without the use need to the drafting module menus.

2.1 IsoADP Application

In the DRAFT module, Auto Drawing Production must be launched first, from the main
menu bar, select Draft > Auto Drawing Production. The IsoADP toolbar is displayed in the
menu bar of the Draft module.

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2.2 Toolbar
When the Isometric ADP drawing application is used for the first time, the user must select
the toolbar from a list of available toolbars.
The IsoADP Toolbar gives the user quick access to all the tasks associated with the
Isometric ADP drawing application.
Depending on the selections made from the IsoADP toolbar, the user is presented with
further windows prompting for user input and options allowing for the workflow to continue.

Create Isometric Refer to Isometric Drawings Production for more information.

View Isometric Refer to Find and Access Drawings for more information.

Display Log Refer to Log File for more information.

Print Isometric Refer to Print Drawings for more information.

2.3 Menu Options

Rather than selecting options from the ISOADP toolbar, the user can select options from the
main menu bar.

2.3.1 Isometric Drawings

From the Main Menu bar, select Create > Isometric Drawings the Isometric Production
window is displayed, refer to Isometric Drawings for more information.

2.3.2 ISOADP Standards

From the Main Menu bar, select Create > IsoADP Standards a Question window is
displayed. Select click Yes to load HVAC component Detail Drawings for use as an HVAC
Standard. Refer to HVAC Standard Drawings for more information.

2.3.3 Modify Isometric Drawing

From the Main Menu bar, select Modify > Isometric Drawings the Edit Isometric window is
displayed. Refer to Modify Isometric Drawing for more information.

2.3.4 Print Multi-Print Isometrics

From the Main Menu bar, select Print > Multi-Print Isometrics, the Print window is
displayed. Refer to Print Multi-Print Isometrics for more information.

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3 Isometric Drawings Production

At this time, only CWAY or HVAC design elements can be selected for Isometric Drawing
Production.
All of the tasks that a user would carry out that are associated with creation of Isometric
Drawings are initiated from an central window which acts as a task hub.
Depending on selections made in the Isometric Production window, the user is presented
with further windows prompting for user input. After inputting information in these windows
the user will always be returned to the Isometric Production window allowing the work flow
to continue.
Before any Isometric drawings are produced the design element in the Design Explorer
must be selected and identified as the CE. From the Isometric ADP toolbar, select Create
Isometrics, the Isometric Production window is displayed.

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3.1 Track Current Element

Depending on whether the CE has had drawings produced before, the user is presented
with differing options, in the Isometric Production window.
By default, the Track current element checkbox is unselected.
To automatically identify an element in the design explorer as the CE, select the Track
current element checkbox. The Isometric Production window is also automatically
updated.
If the CE has not had drawings produced before a statement is displayed in the Existing
Drawing part of the Isometric Production window.

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3.2 Process Types

If the CE has had drawings produced and have been searched for with the search filter
‘those drawn’, the user is required to update or regenerate these drawings.

Note: At this time it is not possible to process a single existing drawing sheet; all sheets
must be processed at the same time even if some of them have not been modified.

3.2.1 Update
For drawings which require small changes, click Update. A processing window is displayed
detailing the production process.
The existing annotation are analysed and reused as necessary by updating just the text
data within it. The annotations position on the page and style will remain unchanged. Any
annotation not required is deleted and any new annotation created.

3.2.2 Regenerate
Where the changes are so great, that the new drawing is completely different to the
previous version, all the drawing sheets are deleted and recreated, but the main drawing
hierarchy version remains the same.
From the Existing Drawing part of the Isometric Production window, click Regenerate. A
processing window is displayed detailing the regeneration process.

3.3 Design Elements Search

Use the Design Explorer, to select a element as the CE under which to search. The default
is the world (*). The user type or paste a name of a element into the Model element to
search under: text box.

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Any HVAC or CWAY design elements can be searched for even of a drawing has never
been has/or been produced before and the results displayed in the Search Results Table.

To search for Design elements:

If required, select the Track current element checkbox to track the selection made and fill
the text box Model element to search under with the name of the element. To move one
level up in the design explorer hierarchy, click Go to move up one level in the design
explorer hierarchy.
Select from the list of available types of element from the Search for: drop-down menu.
Only CWAY and HVAC design elements are available at this time.

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From the Filter the results for: drop-down menu, select the search filter from the list of
available filters. The default is to search for all elements that have yet to be drawn.

• Those elements that have associated drawings.

• Those elements that have been processed by the user and hence have drawings with
the user as the author.
• Those elements that have bad link references to drawings.
• All elements without being filtered.
Click Search and the results table displays any found elements. Refer to Search Results
Table for more information.

3.3.1 Advanced Search

If required, the user can carry out an advanced search from the Isometric Production
window, select Advanced search. The Advanced Search for Ducting window is
displayed.

From the Scope part of the Advanced Search Ducting window. The scope of the search
must be selected:
Select Search the whole Mdb to search across the whole Mdb or select Search below the
Current Element to search below the CE.

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The user can input advanced search criteria, from the Find elements that have part of the
Advanced Search for Ducting window:

Expression By default expression matches the application default.

Searches for element whose attributes satisfy a standard

expression.

Name Searches for elements with a name that includes any of the
words entered in the Name with all of these words: field.

Attribute and Word Search for any attribute whose value matches the entered
value. The user can choose which type of attributes by the
selection of either System or User-Defined attributes.

System Searches for elements with system attributes.

Udas Searches for elements with Udas attributes.

Once of the necessary criteria have been entered, select Search. The results are displayed
in the Search Result Table. Refer to Search Results Table for more information.
If no elements are found, a message window is displayed. To close the Advanced Search
for Ducting window, click the cross.

3.4 Search Results Table

Once any HVAC or CWAY elements that satisfy the search criteria have been found, the
results are displayed in the Search Results Table.
The results are displayed in the following format:

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Name Displays the name of the element.

Valid Reports whether the Design element has any members and whether it has
any spatial volume.

Drawn Reports whether the CE has a corresponding drawing that exists in the
current MDB.

Access Reports that if a drawing exists for this CE, and if the user has access rights
to be able to modify it.

Mode Reports the process type available. If a drawing does not exist for the CE,
then the type is Create. If a drawing does exist then by default Update is
displayed.

If you wish to prevent the application from tracking the current element, simply uncheck the
option Track current element.

Once the user has selected the Design element under which to search, click Refresh for CE
to fill the text box with the current element name.
To update or regenerate right click in the mode column of the grid. Refer to Update or
Regenerate for more information.
To select the Design elements to be process, select single or multiple entries in the
Search Results Table.

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Note: To select Multiple entries in the search results table, use press Ctrl or Shift keyboard
keys in conjunction with the Left mouse click.

Right click with the cursor over the selected table entry and select any of the available
pop-up options.

Select All Select all entries in the table

Deselect All Deselect all selected entries in the table

Remove Selected Remove the selected entry from the table

Remove All Remove all entries in the table

Goto Element Make the Design element in selected entry the current
element in the Design hierarchy

Goto Drawing If a drawing exists for the selected entry make the drawing
the current element in the Drafting hierarchy

Display Details Displays the details of the CE

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To switchback to the Single search mode, make sure the 'Track current element'
checkbox is not selected and the element in the Design Explorer must be of element type
HVAC or CWAY from the Isometric Production window, select Switch to Single Mode.

3.5 Save Search Results

If required, all of the design elements displayed in the search results table, can be saved to
Excel, click Save List to Excel File. The Save Drawing Report as Excel window is
displayed, enter a name and location.

Click Save to save the file, the file is opened in Excel, or click Cancel to discard any inputs
and close the Save Drawing Report as Excel window.

3.6 Multiple Systems

These options are only available when the CE has not been processed before.

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Even though the Isometric Production window is displaying a single design element
identified as the CE for processing, the user can switch to search for multiple design
elements. That is the design element which owns the CE in the design hierarchy and
therefore of the other design elements owned by the element higher in the hierarchy.
• Search for HVAC Mains
• Search for Cable Ways
From the Isometric Production window select search for HVAC Mains - searches for
HVAC elements or select cableways to search for cableways.
The user can the search, Preview Spooling and modify settings, as previously outlined.

3.7 Spooling
The Isometric ADP application produces Fabrication and Erection isometrics, which means
that the drawing is designed to provide fabrication information about spools.
A Design Branch is broken down into a smaller set of easily managed Design components
called spools. These spools are fabricated individually and later connected together to form
the Design Branch in situ.
This Isometric ADP application offers two methods of splitting HVAC and CWAY Design
Branches into Fabrication Spools:
• By volume
• By split points

By Volume
The IsoADP ADP a predefined uses box (volume) to decide how many elements can fit into
it and hence determine the content of each spool.

By changing the size of the box, the user is able to choose the level of complexity of each
spool. The disadvantage with this is that the content of each drawing cannot be preserved
and so any changes in the branch will possibly affect all existing drawings.

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The Drafting Administrator will have set the range and values of box sizes, which translates
into a set of Complexity values. Refer to Preview Spooling for more information.

By Split Point
An attribute is set in the Design Model as the flag to mark the end of the Spool.
By choosing how the branch is split into spools from within the Design Model, the user can
control the content of each drawing. As these split points are preserved, not all existing
drawings will necessarily change during an update if a branch is modified.
The way in which the Design points are set depends on the Design element type.

Cable Way
The Cable Way element CTMTRL can own any of the component types CTSTRA, CTRISE,
CTBEND, CTTEE, CTCROS and CTREDU. Each of these components has an attribute that
specifies if the Spool is split at this component that is this component is the last in the
current spool. To set the spool splitting, use the following syntax at CTMTRL members:

SSPLIT TRUE This component is the last in the current spool

SSPLIT FALSE This component is a member of the current spool

HVAC
The size, connections etc. of HVAC components are controlled by its Design Parameters.
The Spool Split Point is also a Design Parameter and to set it use the following syntax at
BRAN members.

DESP N37 TRUE This component is the last in the current spool

DESP N37 FALSE This component is a member of the current spool

The user query the Design Parameter value by using a Property created for that purpose:

Q PROP SPLI

3.8 Preview Spooling

The HVAC or CWAY main branch are the design elements to processed in order to produce
isometric drawings, but the drawing will contain a subset of the components in each side
branch, each subset being referred to as a Fabrication Spool. It is possible to control and
preview how the Design element is split into spools. Refer to Spooling for more information.
This option is only available when the CE has not been processed before.

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As the selection of a split type or different complexity effects how the branches are split into
spools, the user can preview how this is done before production of the drawings.
To preview the spooling, select a Design element in the Search Results table and select
Tasks - Preview Spooling.

The Isometric Splitting window is displayed, with a graphical representation of the CE

shown in the 3D graphical view. All of the manipulation functionality common to all design
modules is available. Refer to Graphical Model Manipulation Guide for more information.

The user can preview the:

• Look Direction
• Spool Playback Controls
• Spool Splitting Control

3.8.1 Look Direction

The default Look Direction (Isometric view) is applied to the CE in the 3D graphical view and
therefore the Isometric drawing.

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When the Isometric Splitting window is first displayed, it shows the 3D Model in the drawing
Looking Direction as by default change this direction select one of the available directions
from the top menu bar:
• Iso 1
• Iso 2
• Iso 3
• Iso 4
Once selected, the 3D Graphical View changes to suit the chosen Look Direction.

3.8.2 Spool Playback Controls

By default, the first spool is highlighted in red. The user can highlight the other spools
individually by using the Spool Playback controls;

First: Highlight the First spool in the branch.

Previous: Highlight the previous spool to the current one.

Play: Highlight each spool in turn continuously as in a slideshow. After

clicking on this button it will change to a Pause button.

Pause: Stop the continuous play back.

Next: Highlight the next spool to the one currently highlighted.

Last: Highlight the last spool in the branch.

3.8.3 Spool Splitting Control

When the Isometric Splitting window is displayed, the Splitting Control option available for
selection depends on the default Splitting setting. If By Volume the user is provided with an
option to change the Complexity of the splitting, which will change the number of sheets
produced during processing.

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If splitting is 'By Split Point' the user is not able to modify the splitting as it is controlled by
data held in the Design Model select another entry in the Search Results Table and the 3D
Graphical View is automatically updated for the new element.
To close the Preview window a select the Close Preview Spooling, from the task part of
the Isometric Production window.

3.9 Modify Settings

The Isometric ADP application has many Default Settings, many of which are only able to
be changed by the Drafting Administrator, refer to Isometric ADP Application Administrators
Guide for more information. However, some of the default settings can be modified by the
user.
From the Tasks pane of the Isometric Production window the user must first select
Modify Settings, the Isometric Production window is populated with the User Modified
Settings.

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3.9.1 Locations
Once the Design elements have been processed and drawings are created, they have to be
placed somewhere in the current MDB. The Isometric ADP application default (as defined
by the Drafting Administrator) defines the initial location, but the user can change it if
required.

From the Locations pane of the Isometric Production window, another location can be
identified by typing a location directly into the Create Isometrics in this Registry field or
click Browse.
The Browse window is displayed, populated with all the rewritable registries.

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To select a Registry, choose a database from the Look in drop-down options. All registries
that the user can write to are listed. Select the registry, where to drawings are to be located
and click Use.
Click Cancel to discard any inputs and close the Browse window.

3.9.2 Splitting
The Isometric ADP application defaults set the initial setting for splitting.
Spool Isometrics drawings are populated with design model split into spools. The design
model can be split using two methods:
• By volume
• By split points

3.9.3 By Volume
From the Splitting pane of the Isometric Production window, select By Volume the user
must also set the level of complexity, which will affect the number of spools created and
hence the number of drawings produced. From the with complexity drop-down menu,
select the percentage of complexity.
To assist the user check the effect of changing the complexity using the Preview Spooling
option, refer to Preview Spooling. If the Preview Spooling window is already displayed
when the splitting method is changed, the graphical view automatically updated.

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3.9.4 By Split Points

From the Splitting panel of the Isometric Production window, select By Split Points.
Refer to Spooling for more information.

3.9.5 North Direction

The Drafting Administrator will have set the default Look Direction for all Isometric drawings,
but in some cases this is not suitable for a particular branch. The user can change the
direction to be used when the drawings are produced, to do this select the relevant North
Direction checkbox. If the Preview Spooling window is displayed the view will change to
suit the new North Direction.

3.9.6 Revision
When a drawing is processed, the Revision of the drawing is set to an Issue Type. This type
can be set by the selection of one of the two available:

Internal The drawing is for issued internally

External The drawing is for issue to those externally

The values for each of these Issue Types will have been set by the Drafting Administrator,
the default being Alphabetical for Internal Issues and Numeric for External Issues.
Once the user has chosen the Issue Type select the Issue Value from the drop-down
menu:

Increment Automatically raise the issue value to the next available from a predefined list
set by the Drafting Administrator
Specific Manually set the issue value by choosing a specific value from the available
list

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3.9.7 Output
The Isometric ADP drawing contains a Material Parts Table. The user has the option to
output this to MS Excel and to output the complete drawing in PDF format. In the Output
are of the Settings part of the Isometric Production window the user can set whether to
create the particular output and where it is to be created in the Operating System.

• To create a Material Parts List in MS Excel, select the MS Excel file checkbox. Click
Browse for Excel files, to browse for any existing MS Excel sheets.
• To set the location of the resulting MS Excel Sheet, either set the Operating System
path name manually by typing or pasting in the text box Create parts list in this
location, or to browse for a folder click the Browse Folders. The Browse for Folder
window is displayed. Choose the location and click OK.
• To create a PDF, select the MS Excel file checkbox. Click Browse for Excel files, to
browse for any existing MS Excel sheets.
• To set the location of the resulting MS Excel Sheet, either set the Operating System
path name manually by typing or pasting in the text box Create parts list in this
location, or to browse for a folder click the Browse Folders. The Browse for Folder
window is displayed. Choose the location and click OK.

3.9.8 Save your Settings

When any of the settings described above are changed the title of the setting window
changes to settings* to indicate that one or more values have been changed.

Click Save to save all the changed settings. On re-entry to the module at a later time, the
settings is automatically reloaded.

To remove your saved settings, from Task pane, select Clear User Settings.

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3.9.9 Hide Setting Section

To hide the Settings section of the Isometric Production window, click Back to the Task
menu.

3.10 Process Drawings

Once the user has selected the Design elements and made any changes to the Settings,
from the Process pane of the Isometric Production window, click Start.

3.11 Log File

During the process of creating, updating or regenerating drawings the system passes
through several stages, any of which may encounter errors. As a result, a Log File is
produced.
To open a Log File after processing, click Toolbar Display Log, the Isometric Drawing
Log Viewer is displayed:

If no Design elements have been processed during the current Drafting session, a window is
displayed which allows users to browse for any existing Log File.

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Note: To manually access the Log Files from the Operating System, navigate to the folder
%PDMSUSER%\LogFiles.

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4 Drawing Content

The Isometric ADP drawings created have a look similar to the one shown below and
contains several components.

4.1 Isometric Detail

The drawing contains a single graphical view of the Fabrication Spool, which includes a
variety of annotation and can if required show the following internal details:
The Design components are tagged to match the entries in the Material Parts table.
The centreline is dimensioned with either a full or overall dimension type depending on the
default choice, but you can change it later. For full details see the section 'Modifying the
Drawings'.
Labels are provided to indicate the continuation to other sheets in this drawing or to other
parts of the Design Model system (as long as the connection data is available).
Certain elements such as Tees, Bends and Elbows have labels to indicate their coordinate
position, while BRCO elements have labels that provide data about the connection.

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The start position of the Spool is marked as the origin, which will then relate to the nearest
grid-line in the plant or ship and is shown in the Isometric ADP Keyplan.

4.2 Material Parts Table

The Material Parts Table contains information about each Design component in the Spool.
The Drafting Administrator has configured it to provide a particular format such as the one
shown below.

The table is comprised of many Symbolic Labels, one for each cell. This makes it slightly
difficult to move around the page; consequently it has been designed as a single View in its
own right. To move the table, move the owning View.

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4.3 Location Plan

The Location Plan shows the relationship between the currently drawn Spool and the
complete HVAC Main or Cable Way. It is a standard View so the user can manipulate it or
annotate it as with any other DRAFT View.

4.4 Keyplan
The keyplan provides the location of the origin of the currently drawn Spool within a current
grid system. The Drafting Administrator has configured it to use either the old pre-12 style of
grid using SCTN's or the new 12 grid system. The nearest grid lines are displayed, with the
distance to them indicated by dimensions in the relevant units.

Note: Because the keyplan is not to scale, the dimensions display the grid offset values
using the Linear Dimension attribute DMTX, have been calculated and are not
extracted from the Design model.

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4.5 Revision Table

The Revision Table contains information about the current Issue version of the Isometric
Sheet.
During the creation or the update of the sheet, the Revision value is set depending on how
the Revision Increment is set, refer to Revision for more information. Also, the date of
creation or update is included as well as the name of the author.
Each row in the table reflects the settings of each REVI element stored below the sheet,
with each cell being a TEXT element. This means a user can change each one individually if
required, but the complete table is easily modified using a tool designed specifically for that
purpose, refer to Modify Drawings for more information.

4.6 Title Block

The Title Block contains information extracted from the Drawing and Sheet element
attributes, is controlled by the Intelligent Hash Codes used on the Backing Sheet and would
have been configured by the Drafting Administration. The supplied backing sheet extracts
the following data:

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HVAC Isometric The DRWG attribute TITLE

HTESTHVAC The DRWG user-defined attribute :IdpLineNo

Duct Class: The SHEE user-definable attribute :IdpLineNo

Drawing No: The DRWG attribute DrwgNumber

Sheet The SHEE user-defined attributes :IdpSheetNo and

:IdpNumberOff

4.7 North Direction

The North Direction is a Symbolic Label located at a position defined by setting on the
Backing Sheet. It is controlled by the Isometric ADP application and the user must not
make modifications to the label, as it is linked to the Isometric Detail View look direction.

To change the North Direction use the option designed for that purpose using the Edit
Tool. Refer to Modify Drawings for more information.

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4.8 Total Weight and Centre of Gravity

The displayed Total Weight and Centre of Gravity values are calculated by the Isometric
ADP application. If during the calculation any errors occur or any components are found
with zero weight a warning message is included. The values are extracted from the SHEE
user-defined attributes :IdpTotWeight and :IdpCofG.

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5 Modify Drawings

After the drawings have been created or updated, the Edit Isometrics window is
automatically displayed and provides access to only those drawings being processed. If the
Edit Isometrics window is not automatically displayed from the main menu bar, select
Modify > Isometric drawings.
There are several areas containing tools to assist with modification of drawings:

5.1 Find and Access Drawings

The user can search for drawings that match a given set of criteria, the default is All
Isometric ADP drawings, which use the criteria SPPURP ISOADP. The user can refine
this search by choosing an attribute and some value or partial value to search for.

5.2 Search for all Drawings

To search for all drawings, from the Edit Isometric window select All Drwgs from the drop-
down menu, then click Go.

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All Isometric ADP drawings found and the first Sheet of the first Drawing are displayed
automatically.

Other search options are available:

All Dwgs Displays all drawings.

Drwg Name Display all the drawings which matches the name entered by the
user.

Drwg Number Displays all the drawings which matches the drawing number
entered by the user.

Drwg Date Displays all the drawings which matches the date entered by the
user.

Drwg Author Displays all the drawings which matches the author name entered
by the user.

Line Number Displays all the drawings which matches the line number entered by
the user.

Rev Number Displays all the drawings which matches the revision number
entered by the user.

Rev Desc Displays all the drawings which matches the revision description
entered by the user.

Rev Date Displays all the drawings which matches the revision date entered
by the user.

Status Displays all the drawings which matches the status entered by the
user.

To search for sheets in the drawing:

By default the first sheet of the first drawing is displayed. To display another drawing, select
from the list of drawings available.
To view another sheet, select a from the list of sheets available. From the edit Isometrics
window, drawing can be searched for by name.

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5.3 General Toolbar

These options are available for use in DRAFT, for the purpose of this guide only the options
available in Isometric ADP are described. Refer to DRAFT User Guide for more
information.

Get Work

Save Work

Delete CE - Deletes the Current Element.

Reset Limits - Resets the display limits to include the complete sheet.

Modify Mode

Snap to Grid

Display Grid - Working area with grid lines. Right-click on the icon and click
spacing to display the 2D Snap Grid window which allows the user to
change the size and position of the display and grid snap. The user can
display a grid differently to the snap grid, for example 2 would display a grid
twice the size of the snap grid. Click OK to make the changes.

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Print this Isometric - Prints the drawing in Isometric ADP application only.

PDF this Isometric - Saves the CE as a PDF in Isometric ADP Application

only.

Display Log - Opens a Log File in Isometric ADP application only.

5.4 Edit Tools

The layout of the Isometric drawing and associated sheets can be modified by the user.

5.4.1 Isometric Direction

Once the Isometric drawings have been produced with particular direction selected, all the
associated sheets are created using the same direction. However, for some drawing this will
not be satisfactory as the routing direction may be orthogonal to the paper direction (in or
out of the page). Consequently, for some individual sheets the user may have to change the
direction.
To change the Isometric direction, select a new North direction from the drop-down menu
of available directions.

The drawing is updated and all annotation recalculated accordingly.

5.4.2 Layer Visibility

When first created, all layers in the Isometric drawing are visible, the user can switch
individual layer visibility on draft by selecting the relevant layer from the drop-down menu, or
layers available for selection click to clear the checkbox.
• Keyplan
• Location
• MTO Tags
• Dimensions
• User Labels
• Specification Breaks
• Named Elements
• Penetrations
• Continuations
• ISO Origin
• Symbols

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• Elevations
• MTO Table

Click to select switch visibility check.

The selected layer is removed from the Isometric Drawing.

5.4.3 Move Connection Point

When the Isometric drawing is created, all the annotations are positioned by the default.
Design Ppoint but the user can change it.
To change the Design Ppoint, the Edit tools part of the Edit Isometrics window, select
Move Connection Ppoint.
If the current element is not an annotation element (GLAb, SLAB) the user is prompted to
‘Identify element’ in the Isometric drawing. The Connection Point window is displayed.
To change the connected Ppoint, select a chosen Ppoint from the change Ppoint drop-down
list (only those available for the Design element is listed). The annotation is updated as
necessary.

To select a Ppoint in the 3D graphical view, click cursor the user is prompted to ‘Identify
element’ in the Isometric drawing, select a element.

Note: This is not very useful for Cable Way elements as they only have arrive and leave
P-points.

To reset the connected Ppoint to the one originally used, click Reset or click Finished to
close the Connection Ppoint window.

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5.4.4 Leader Line Terminator

When Isometric drawing is produced all annotation labels are created without a leader-line
terminator.
To modify several labels, one at a time or all labels in more than one layer, select the Loop
checkbox.
To modify all labels in same layer click to select the Layer checkbox.
Select the type of terminator from the drop-down menu.

If the current element is a suitable label then the label(s) changes immediately, otherwise
the user is prompted to pick a suitable label. To modify more than one, continue to pick
labels and press ESC to finish.

5.4.5 Nudge the View Scale

When the Isometric drawing is created the main Isometric Detail view scale is set using the
AUTOLIMITS command. This calculates both the Scale and the Look Through Point of the
Design Model graphics. As the scale will almost certainly mean that the graphics almost
completely fills the available space, there may not be sufficient room to place labels etc.
To change the view scale by a small amount, click either Nudge Scale Up or the Nudge
Scale Down. The view graphics is rescaled accordingly and all annotation update to suit.
On occasions it might be that the change in scale is too small a step for efficiency, so to
change this, use the following option:

Right-click either Nudge Up or Nudge Down and choose the percentage factor required.

5.4.6 Dimension Style

The default diversion type is set by the drafting administrator. However the user can change
the style to one of the following four options:
• Overall
• All
• All Horizontal
• Overall Horizontal

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Overall Only those components with a change in direction such as BEND and
ELBO types or TEE type are dimensioned.

All All components are dimensioned.

All Horizontal All components are dimensioned. Any compound dimension is set to
provide the distance between the points but projected onto the
horizontal plane.

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Overall Only those components with a change in direction such as BEND and
Horizontal ELBO types or TEE type are dimensioned. Any compound dimension
is set to provide the distance between the points but projected onto
the horizontal plane.

To change the Dimension Type, click Cycle Dimension Style. The dimension is re-styled
to the next type in the list. To cycle through the list continue to click until the style displayed
is satisfactory.

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5.4.7 Dimension Offset

The value of the dimension offset is determined by the settings made by the drafting
administrator. It is likely however that this does not suit every Isometric drawing. To modify
each dimension in turn is a relatively slow process, but user can change the offset.
To change the offset for all dimensions in the Isometric Detail view, click Offset up or down
arrow to change the value.

5.4.8 Graphical Representation Style

The Isometric ADP application supplies two different Representation Styles for the
Isometric Detail graphical view. The default is to display only the Front Faces of each
component, which means that the Back Faces and any internals are hidden from view. The
representation style to display the back faces and internals can be changed.

Click Switch Hidden Line and the graphical view is regenerated to display the back faces
and internals.

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Subsequent click Switch Hidden Line to cycle between the two representation styles.

5.4.9 Set Revision Details

When the Isometric drawing is created or updated, the basic revision details that is issue
number, date and author are set. This leaves other details unset such as the description and
any approval signatures. From the Edit tools part of the Edit Isometrics window select
Revision to set the revision details, the Issue Drawing window is displayed.

To add details to the current revision, either the details as necessary and click Apply. The
drawing Revision Table is updated to reflect changes.

To add a new revision from the Rev drop-down menu, select the issue number add new
details as necessary and click Apply. The Revision Table on the drawing is updated to
display all previous and new revision.

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To switch an Internal revision to an External revision the user can:

Update a drawing, select the External revision type. Refer to Revision or create a new
Internal revision using the process, refer to Set Revision Details and change it manually into
an External revision:
Close the Issue Drawing window.
Access the REVI element to change for example /HVAC/Sheet3/Rev:G.
Change the attribute of the REVI as follows:
:IdpIntExt EXT
RVSN '01'
Open the Issue Drawing window, it will now contain the External revision values.

5.4.10 Set Drawing Status

Each drawing sheet contains a Status Flag, which can be used when searching for drawing:
• When modifying drawings using the Edit Isometrics window. Refer to Find and Access
Drawings for more information.
• When printing drawings using the Print window. Refer to Print Drawings for more
information.
The range of status values is defined by the Drafting Administrator and the value is stored in
the User-defined attribute :IdpIsoStatus of the SHEE element.
To set the status on a sheet of an Isometric drawing, select the required value from the
Status drop-down menu.

5.5 Graphical View Pop-up

The user can use the pop-up menu to define the refresh, reset limits, highlight CE, colour
settings and snap spacing Isometric drawing.
The Edit Isometrics window contains a graphical view, which has a right-mouse pop-up:

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Refresh Redraw the displayed sheet

Reset Limits Reset the zoom to include the complete sheet

Highlight CE Flash the current element

Colour Settings Set the Background, Highlight and Feedback colours

Snap Spacing Set the snap grid spacing value

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6 Print Drawings

The Isometric ADP application allows the user to select a group of drawings and submit
them to a printer in one step.
To print the drawings, from the Isometric ASP, select Toolbar option Print Isometrics.
The Print window is displayed, the user can choose from a number of options:
• Find drawings
• Select drawings
• Save drawings as PDF formatted files
• Preview and Print drawings
All of the tasks that a user would carry out that are associated with printing of Isometric
Drawings are initiated from a central Print window, which acts as a task hub.

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6.1 Find Drawings

The Search functionality allows the user to find drawings that match a given set of criteria,
the default is All Isometric ADP drawings, which use the criteria SPPURP ISOADP. The
user can refine this search by choosing from where in the database hierarchy to search, a
filter value or partial value to search for.

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6.2 Select Drawings

The Drawing List section of the Print window list all DRWG elements found during a
search. This list can be expanded to list the Sheets that belong to a drawing:
To view the sheets owned by a drawing, click Drwg entry, the Drawing List expands to
display the owned sheet.

To hide the list of owned sheets, click the Drwg entry and the Drawing List contracts.
Once the sheets have been displayed the user can select them, for printing or for PDF
output, to do this click the relevant Sht entry
To select multiple sheets press Ctrl keyboard key and then click the relevant Sht entries.

To select all sheets that belong to a drawing. from the Drawling List, right click an
unexpanded Drwg entry, select Select All Sheets for CE.

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The drawing list is expanded to show the owned sheets and all are selected.

To select all sheets for all of the drawings listed, right click anywhere in the Drawing List
and select Select All Sheets. The drawing list is expanded to display all sheets for all
drawings and all of them is selected.
To deselect all selected sheets, right click anywhere in the Drawing List and selecting the
option Deselect All Sheets.

6.3 Save Drawings in PDF Format

The user can convert the drawing to a PDF format and then save it to a location. From the
PDF pane of the Print window:
• Enter or paste the path name of the folder in the Create PDF files in this location: text
box or
• To browse for a folder click Browse Folders. The Browse for Folder window is
displayed. Choose the location and click OK.
Select Save to PDF File.

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6.4 Preview Drawings

The user can preview the Isometric Drawing. From the Drawing List pane of the Print
window, click to select the required sheet from click Preview. The selected drawing sheet is
displayed in the Print Preview window.

6.5 Print Drawings

Once the user has selected at least one drawing it can then be submitted to a printer.

To choose the number of copies enter either typing directly into the Number of copies: box
or raising or lowering the number by clicking on the up or down arrows.
To collate the prints into groups select the Collate checkbox
To scale the drawing to fit the paper size, select the Fit checkbox
The drawing by default is printed in colour and if the printer only produces black and white
the result is greyscale. Select the B/W checkbox if a black and white print is required.

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To print the drawings, click Print, the standard Windows Print window is displayed. Choose
the Name of the printer from the drop-down menu and click OK.

Note: Do not use the Collate or Number of Copies options from the Windows Print
window as this is handled independently by the Isometric ADP application.

Because there is a potential to print many drawings, the Isometric ADP application checks
whether the selected drawings have been printed already in this session. If the user
attempts to reprint a drawing the Warning window is displayed. To reprint any drawing,
select it from the list and click Continue.

Or click Cancel to discard any inputs and close window.

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7 Link Documents

The Isometric ADP application creates a drawing in the database and an associated file in
the operating system. This enables the user to select a particular HVAC or CWAY design
element and display the documents that relate to it. The Isometric ADP application also
uses these links to ascertain whether an element has been drawn or not.
From the main menu bar, select displays Linked Documents window, Link Documents >
Links the linked documents window is displayed:
In the Design Explorer window, select either an HVAC or CWAY Design element.

In the Link Documents window, select the Follow CE checkbox, the documents associated
with the CE are displayed in a table.
To display a document double click an entry in the table.

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HVAC Standard Drawings

8 HVAC Standard Drawings

The Material Parts table on an HVAC isometric drawing contains a column for reporting the
size parameters of a component. Because of the complexity of an HVAC component there is
the possibility of many sizes being reported, which makes it difficult for the reader of the
drawing to determine which value is which. To assist with removing the confusion this might
bring, the Isometric ADP application can be configured to output identifying characters for
each size parameter. For more information on these characters, see the Drafting
Administrator.

So that the identifying characters can be matched to the physical component, the Isometric
ADP application provides the option to create a series of drawings, one for each available
component, which includes these identifying characters. The drawing uses the same one
available from within the Design module used when creating HVAC components.
The Drafting Administrator may have already created these drawings, if this is not the case,
the user can create these drawings.
From the main menu, select Create > IsoADP Standards….

The user is prompted ‘You are about to load the HVAC standard drawings. Are you certain
you wish to continue’.
Click No to discard any inputs and close the Question window.
Click Yes to load the HVAC standard drawings.

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Click Cancel to discard any inputs and close the Question window.

The drawings are created in a new Registry in the same Department as the Isometric
Drawings.

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Index

A I
Access Drawings Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1 IsoADP Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1
Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1 Isometric ADP Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1
Isometric Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:1
C Isometric Drawings Production . . . . . . . 3:1

Centre of Gravity K
Total Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:6
Keyplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:3
D
L
Design Elements Search . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Drawing Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:1 Link Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
Location Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:3
E Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:19

Edit Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:4 M

F Material Parts Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2
Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Find Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2 Modify Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
Modify Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:14
G Multiple Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9

General Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:3

N
Graphical View Pop-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:11
Guide Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2 North Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:5

H P
HVAC Standard Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 8:1 PDF Format
Save Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:4
Preview Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:5

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Preview Spooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:11

Print Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1, 6:5
Process Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:19
Process Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3

R
Revision Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:4

S
Save Search Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9
Search for all Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
Search Results Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
Select Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:3
Spooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:10

T
Title Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:4
Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Track Current Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:2

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