Business Benefits

• Reduced man-hours
  Efficient dedicated functions maximise design productivity.
• Downstream design savings
  The diagrams may be used in the creation of the 3D model, reducing detail design man-hours and later design modifications.
• Reduced rework
  Design consistency between diagram data and the 3D model minimises errors and avoids rework in design or production.

Key Features

Productivity functions:

• A specialist design tool
  AVEVA Diagrams is purpose-designed for the Piping and HVAC disciplines.

Diagram overlay on a General Arrangement

• Stencils
  A library of intelligent Stencils represent the most common diagram symbols and an import wizard lets you create your own. On selection, Stencil shapes can prompt the user for values.
• Design groups
  'Fitting assemblies' let you define a group of fittings and add them with a single drag-and-drop operation.
• Flexible design processes
  AVEVA Diagrams supports both manual and automatic selection of catalogue items and dimensioning of parts. You can start drawing a diagram before the specification is available, and apply the specification later.
  Powerful functions let you resize or respecify the catalogue items associated with a line or its fittings.
  Automatic exchange of symbols allows a 'generic' symbol to be replaced by a specific one when the catalogue reference is set or changed. Existing symbols can be manually exchanged, retaining connections and attributes.
• Data transfer
  Database import/export of line lists and equipment lists using a spreadsheet file.
• Configurability
  An extensive set of options and settings gives a high degree of configuration freedom.

Powerful drawing functions:

• Integrated, feature-rich Microsoft Office Visio drafting canvas.
• Diagrams can be made against backdrop drawings, such as the general arrangement.
• Multi-sheet diagrams using off-page connectors.
• Flexible, rule-driven, automatic annotation and attribute presentation.
• Import/export of common drawing formats.

Task management functions:

• Full integration
  AVEVA Diagrams has access to all the database and functional capabilities of the AVEVA PDMS 3D modelling applications.
• A complete solution
  The database can store P&ID schematic data for an entire project, allowing a complete schematic model to be developed.
• Design consistency
  The schematic model can be used via AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator to build the 3D model and check its consistency with the P&ID data at any stage in design development.
• Automatic organisation
  As the diagram is being drafted, items are automatically created in the model database and organised according to a System hierarchy as well as a user-defined folder structure. Instruments created in the diagram also become part of the database.
• Global working
  Full support for AVEVA Global allows schematic data as well as documents to be globally distributed in multi-location projects.
• Information management
  Unique ”Schematic Model Viewer” provides automatically generated, multi-system, navigable presentation of database data.
  An editable, spreadsheet-style item list provides a tabular view of items on the diagram.
  A mechanism is provided for releasing data for 3D modelling.
  
  
• Quality control
  A configurable consistency check function provides both a drawing-to-database check and an engineering check.

The Schematic Model Viewer

Literature

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