You can provide the same amount of information about an equipment instance as can be found in the Equipment Class Sheet dialog or imported via the model’s rpe file: location, class attribute values, and mass property values.

Because of the variety of attributes across equipment classes, there is a separate table for each class of equipment in the model. Each equipment table starts with PW Equipment Class: followed by the name of the equipment class – such as horizontal pump.

For any equipment class table, only the equipment’s Tag is required to generate an entry in the Equipment List.

Using Bentley Systems’ default horizontal pump as an example, the import table would have a maximum of 38 columns – tag, description, unit, location, direction, CAD level, five attributes unique to the class, and twenty-five mass property attributes. There only needs to be columns for the attributes with known values included in the table.

Given the spacing constraints of this document, the following example is presented with several breaks: