To Place an Assembly
- Select Assembly Manager from the PID Tools ribbon.
- Find and select the desired assembly from the assemblies tree section of the dialog.
- Choose the insertion method to use (As Assembly or As Individual Components.)
- Click Insert. The Modify Tags dialog opens.
- If no changes are to be made to any components, click OK.
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Pick a point in the drawing to place the assembly.
The assembly is placed in the drawing.
Note:
- The Configuration
Variable
BMF_PBS_ITEM_RULE_FOR_COMPONENTS allows
maintaining the Plant Breakdown Structure Property values of the components and
pipelines copied to the clipboard to facilitate splitting a PID document. This
variable works for both assemblies and items pasted from the clipboard, but
does not control the
NUMBER property.
- 0: Components placed from the clipboard are placed with drawings active WBS items.
- 1: Components placed from the clipboard are placed with components original WBS items. It happens only if the components original WBS items are present in the drawing. If Component's original WBS items are not present in the drawing, then components are placed with WBS item as None.
- 2: On pasting
components from clipboard, the following dialog appears:
- On selecting the first option, Components placed from the clipboard are placed with drawings active WBS items.
- On selecting the second option, Components placed from the clipboard are placed with components original WBS items.
- When the Configuration Variable OPPID_NUMBER_INCREMENT_ON_ASSEMBLY_PLACEMENT_MODE is set, it automatically prompts with the following dialog to determine what should be done with the Number property of the tags:
- If the number has an alpha char, the number is left as it was defined from assemblies or paste from the clipboard.
- The Configuration
Variable
BMF_PBS_ITEM_RULE_FOR_COMPONENTS allows
maintaining the Plant Breakdown Structure Property values of the components and
pipelines copied to the clipboard to facilitate splitting a PID document. This
variable works for both assemblies and items pasted from the clipboard, but
does not control the
NUMBER property.