Intergraph Smart Electrical

Release Bulletin
Version 2018 (8.0)
June 2018
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Contents
Special Instructions .................................................................................................................................... 5

New Features in Intergraph Smart® Electrical ......................................................................................... 8

Smart Electrical 2018 .............................................................................................................................. 8
General ............................................................................................................................................. 8
Data Model ....................................................................................................................................... 8
Engineering Data Editor ................................................................................................................... 8
Revisions .......................................................................................................................................... 9
Save As Excel .................................................................................................................................. 9

Internationalization .................................................................................................................................... 10

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Special Instructions

Licensing Requirements
Intergraph Smart® Electrical requires Smart License Manager. To download the software, do
the following:
1. Log on to the Intergraph Smart Support web site at http://smartsupport.intergraph.com
(https://smartsupport.intergraph.com).
2. Type your Smart Support user name and password.
3. Select View Downloads.
4. From the list of Product Support Pages, click the Smart License Manager link.
5. On the Smart License Manager Customer Support Site, click the Service Packs and Fixes
link.
6. On the Service Packs and Fixes page, click SLM 2018.
For further details, refer to the Smart License Manager Installation and User's Guide, available
on the Smart License Manager Customer Support Site under Technical Notes and White
Papers.

Installation of Smart Electrical

Before starting the installation procedure of Smart Electrical, you must uninstall and completely
remove previous versions of Smart Electrical from your machine.

Installing Reference Data Files

Make sure that you make a backup of your reference prior to running the
installation.
The setup of Smart Electrical reference data is included in the Additional Software section of
Smart Electrical setup.
Installation of Smart Electrical requires a full uninstall of all the previous versions including the
reference data, we strongly recommend that you back up all your customized reports, templates,
symbols, rule mapping files, and your customized SPELMap.xml file before uninstalling the
previous version of Smart Electrical reference data. After installing Smart Electrical reference
data, you can copy all your customized data back to all the relevant locations. Note that the
SPELMap.xml file is located in the SmartPlant Resources folder in the Electrical Reference
Data folder in the reference data installation. This way you can retain your customized files after
installing the new reference data.
After installing Smart Electrical and copying back your customized data to all
the relevant locations, you have to run the Upgrade Schema utility to enable the use of old files
with the new version of Smart Electrical. In Smart Electrical, click SmartPlant > Upgrade
Schema.

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 Special Instructions

Enabling the Display of the Plant Group Hierarchy Structure of Electrical Items
You can instruct the software to display the plant group hierarchy structure of electrical items in
Smart Electrical. This means that the software can display the plant group hierarchy (without the
top level) of all the electrical items of your plant in the EDE and all the reports generated by the
software. For example, if your plant group structure is Plant /Area / System / Unit, the displayed
path will be as follows: Area/System/Unit.
Do the following to enable the display of the plant group hierarchy structure of electrical items:
1. In Smart Engineering Manager, in the tree view, highlight the appropriate plant.
2. Click Tools > Data Dictionary Manager.
3. In the Data Dictionary Manager, under Database Tables, select Plant Group.
4. In the right pane, right-click Dir_Path and then select Properties.
5. Set the Display to User property to Yes and click OK.

6. Click on the Data Dictionary Manager toolbar.

7. In the required report (in Microsoft Excel), click Define to open the Define Report Contents
dialog box.
8. Click New and then on the New Items dialog box, add an appropriate Plant Item table.
9. In the Plant Item table that you have added, select the Dir_Path property and map it in the
report.

Special Announcement Regarding Smart Electrical Reports

Starting with the release of SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1, the software no longer supports the
report templates for the All Feeder Load Summary (Enhanced) and Multi-Sheet Switchboard
Summary reports. Two new report templates have been added that replace the
above-mentioned templates: All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) with Cases and
Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary with Cases respectively.
The All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) with Cases and Multi-Sheet
Switchboard Summary with Cases report templates should be used or customized for both
managing single case and multi-case load summaries.
This change was introduced to reduce the number of report templates that basically perform the
same function. It also reduces the number of support calls and makes the administration of the
software efficient.

Remove code added to Improve Report Generation Performance

In previous versions of SmartPlant Electrical, it was advised that users whom experienced
performance problems with report generation should add to any report template a few lines of
code. Due to changes in the software this code is no longer required and should be removed.
Leaving this code in place will cause problems when running the software. The code to be
removed reads:
Public sub RunThisWorkBook()
On Error GoTo mErr
Dim objRunWorkBook As Object
Set objRunWorkBook =CreateObject("RunWorkBook.clsRunWorkBook")
objRunWorkBook.RunWorkbook Me

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set objRunWorkBook = Nothing

Exit Sub
mErr:
MsgBox Err.Description
Application.Quit
End Sub

Using Space Heater Relations in EDE and Custom Reports

In versions older than SmartPlant Electrical 2015, it was possible to create only one space
heater under a given motor. Due to the fact that this limitation no longer exists in version 2015
and above, the legacy motor attributions in the heater table no longer retrieve the motor data for
the child heaters. To remedy this situation, you need to do the following:
▪ For Heater type, in the EDE and your custom report, replace all the Motor attributions with
Equipment.ItemTag or any other attribution of a similar type.
▪ For Motor type, in all custom reports, replace the Motor -> Heater relation with the Motor ->
HeaterChild relation and add the required properties from the HeaterChild table.

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New Features in Intergraph Smart®

Electrical

Smart Electrical 2018

General
▪ Catalog Explorer has a new look and feel with the following features for easy navigation:
▪ Favorites section
▪ Quick Catalog
▪ Flags used to mark catalog items for searching

Data Model
▪ ItemTypeIdentifier property added for more item types — The ItemTypeIdentifier
property was added in the data model for the following item types:
▪ Cable Way
▪ Cable Drum
▪ Cable Way Segment
▪ Instrument
In the Options Manager Item Types window, the database value of this property is used to
specify the default prefix for the item tag when no naming convention is defined for the item
type.

Engineering Data Editor

The new Engineering Data Editor (EDE) is a direct replacement for the Tabular Editor in Smart
Electrical. With a new User Interface and a new engine, the EDE retains all the old Tabular
Editor functionality and also some new features.
▪ The EDE User Interface closely matches the EDE interface of Smart Instrumentation, Smart
Process Engineering, and Smart P&ID, so searching and editing your data is a familiar
experience when working in any of the Engineering and Schematics software products.
▪ Searching is now simple, start typing in the Search box, and as you type the EDE highlights
and narrows your choice until you find what you are looking for.
▪ Filters can be applied to each individual column to reduce the amount of data displayed, so
you can quickly focus on the data you want.
▪ Group your data by a specific attribute or attributes by dragging a column header or headers
to the grouping area.
▪ Sort data in an individual column in ascending or descending order.

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 New Features in Intergraph Smart® Electrical

▪ Pagination is applied to the EDE sheets for quicker, easier navigation.

Revisions
▪ Smart Electrical can now publish data and additional customer revisions properties (user
defined) between Smart Electrical and SmartPlant Foundation, using the standard Smart
Electrical Integration tools. For more information on publishing and retrieving data to and
from Smart Electrical, see the Working with Smart Electrical section in the Smart Electrical
Online Help.

Save As Excel
▪ Smart Electrical now supports only Microsoft Excel files with the .xlsm extension when
opening existing files and when using the Save as Excel functionality. To use previous files
with the .xls extension in Smart Electrical, they must be opened in Excel and saved with the
.xlsm extension. Previously registered reports with the .xls extension that are saved in the
.xlsm format can be opened in Smart Electrical providing they have the same name and
exist in the same Library as before.

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Internationalization
Supporting internationalization in a homogeneous environment is one of the enhancements
available in SmartPlant Enterprise. A homogeneous environment uses elements from only a
single locale. For example, a German customer running on a German operating system using
only German characters and German cultural conventions is a fully supported homogeneous
environment configuration.

Homogeneous Environments
When starting a new project, use extra care during installation and configuration to ensure the
proper creation and maintenance of homogeneous environments:
▪ All the computers (servers and clients) within an integrated SmartPlant Enterprise
implementation must have the same regional settings, and no one should change the
regional settings after the project has started.
▪ Do not cross the decimal locale boundary. This is the most common cause of numeric data
corruption and calculation errors. Having users with different regional settings (such as with
a period versus a comma for the decimal point) causes the software to interpret values
unpredictably. For example, a pipe run with a pressure of 35.3 psi can be read by the
software as 353 psi to the user with different regional settings. A cable length defined as 39
ft 11,21 inches has been interpreted as 121718910971323 meters when published to an
XML file. These incorrect interpretations may be used in internal software calculations and
can be impossible to backtrack or correct. Do not change the decimal point character to try
to solve an issue. Doing so will only corrupt values in the database or in text files.
▪ Do not cross the character-set locale boundary. For example, the character set boundary
between Western (Latin-based) and Eastern Europe (Cyrillic-based), or between Eastern
Europe and Japan.
▪ Create Oracle databases using AL32UTF8 for the database character set and AL16UTF16
for the NLS character set.
▪ Never modify the NLS_LANG registry entry on an Oracle client. Doing so causes the
character data not to convert to Unicode.
▪ Create Microsoft SQL Server databases with locale-specific collation settings and ensure
that all databases have the same setting.

Heterogeneous Environments
In contrast, a heterogeneous environment using elements from different, or even multiple
locales, is not supported. Many customers are currently operating in unsupported
heterogeneous environments and are often not aware of that fact. Examples of heterogeneous
environments:
▪ Entering or viewing Japanese data on a US/English operating system
▪ Using German Regional Settings (where the decimal point is a comma) on a US/English
operating system

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▪ Using databases with different character encodings such as CL8MSWIN1251 or JA16SJIS

▪ Using multiple languages in a project, especially when crossing language-group boundaries
▪ Using an English server with different local language clients

International / Bi-lingual Projects

International bi-lingual projects are possible; however, great care must be used when
configuring these environments. Limitations exist and must be properly understood:
▪ Oracle and MS SQL Server databases can reside on any language operating system, as
long as the databases have been created and configured with proper Unicode and collation
settings.
▪ All SQL Server databases must have the same collation setting and reflect the master
language. Text is stored, sorted, indexed, and presented based on the collation setting. You
must determine which language will be used primarily to generate output (P&IDs, SLDs,
reports, approval documents, and so forth.) If Russian and English text is entered, and
Russian is the target locale, choose the collation based on the Cyrillic character set.
▪ All Microsoft operating systems (Japanese, Russian, German, and so forth) can enter
English characters. The reverse, however, is not true in most cases.
▪ Keyboard-locale can be changed as long as a character-set and code-page boundary is not
crossed. For example, English, German, French, and Spanish characters can all be used in
the same project because the same Windows® code-page (1252) is used. However,
Russian characters (code-page 1251) cannot be used in a US/English environment.
▪ You must decide which language operating system is the master for bi-lingual projects.
The following is an example of a Russian-based project:
Companies in the United States and the United Kingdom are working a project with a Russian
company and the deliverables (drawings, reports, and so forth) must ultimately be provided in
Russian. The companies in the U.S. and the U.K. are working the project using the master
Russian operating systems (possibly using virtual Russian operating systems running on
VMware Workstation). The U.S. and U.K. companies can install and use English Microsoft
Office products on the Russian operating system because Office products are globally enabled.
If a Russian interface exists for the SmartPlant Enterprise application, then Russian users can
use the Russian interface while the English-speaking users continue to use the US/English
interface. English-speaking engineers can enter English characters. Russian-speaking
engineers can enter Russian characters.
However, because the Russian locale uses different decimal and character-set locales,
everyone (English and Russian engineers) must use the Russian decimal symbol which is a
comma. For customization purposes, databases can be modified to accommodate new
Russian-specific requirements (fields, properties, and so forth.) Using filters, display sets, and
other software features, bi-lingual projects can be further customized. Graphic data, reports, and
so forth can be created in either or both languages.
Do not change regional settings to reflect a U.S. environment in order to resolve
problems in a non-US/English homogeneous configuration. Doing this creates a heterogeneous
configuration that will cause other possibly hidden problems that cannot be corrected. Everyone
working on a project must use the same regional settings and character set throughout the life of
the project.

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 Internationalization

Citrix XenApp Solutions for International Projects

Using Citrix XenApp Solutions, you can define environments that isolate users from having to
interact with non-native language operating systems while improving data integrity and
minimizing opportunities for data corruption. However, users must enter data using master
locale conventions for the project (decimal separator and date conventions, for example). You
can create these environments using different combinations of languages, but some limitations
exist. For example, you cannot use Russian and Chinese text together in a project. In addition,
special language characters (the German ä and ß for example) cannot be used if the master
locale is outside the western Latin-based languages (the master locale is Russian, Chinese,
Japanese, or Korean, for example).

Questions and Assistance

Please contact your support representative for assistance and answers to your questions: see
customer support (http://hexagonppm.com/ppm-support).

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