Multi-Discipline Supports Automatic Drawing Production User Guide
Multi-Discipline Supports Automatic Drawing Production User Guide
Multi-Discipline Supports Automatic Drawing Production User Guide
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MDS Automatic Drawing Production User Guide
Revision Sheet
Contents Page
Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
MDS Drawing Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
MDS Revision Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
MDS Scale Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
MDS Layer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7
MDS Rescale Pipe Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9
Update DM Plotfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9
1 Introduction
Drawings for Multi-Discipline Supports (MDS) are created using the AVEVA Area Based
Automatic Drawing Production (ADP) application (referred to as ABA).
The purpose of this document is to provide the user with guidance on how to produce MDS
drawings from the design model. A pre-requisite to using MDS-ADP is that the Area Based
ADP application has been installed and configured by the administrator.
It is expected that the MDS-ADP user will not need full AVEVA product training in order to be
able to use the application. However, a minimum level of knowledge is required to be able to
enter and exit DRAFT in the required models.
MDS-ADP allows the user to produce drawings by selecting a support or supports and a
template. In an example of a typical MDS-ADP work process, if a user changes the design
model for a maintenance project, the drawings used in that area may be updated. The user
will enter DRAFT, start ADP, select the area and reproduce all the drawings generated for
that area, running the process overnight.
This guide has been structured to take the MDS-ADP user through all the steps needed to
produce new and modified drawings in a logical order. However, the information has been
compiled in a format that should allow a user to reference a particular aspect of MDS-ADP
to gain specific information.
templates, which the administrator must modify to suit the specific requirements of the
project.
The only functionality a normal DRAFT user has within the Area Based ADP application is
the ability to create drawings using the administrative elements previously defined by a
DRAFT administrator such as Templates and Tasks. If any of the application components
covered in this user guide do not exist, consult your DRAFT ABA administrator.
This loads the ADP top menu bar containing the Area Based ADP menu selections.
(Area Based ADP Defaults in the Settings menu and MDS Drawings in the Create
menu).
For information on setting the MDS Area Based ADP defaults, refer to the MDS
Customisation Guide.
The Create MDS Drawing form now appears, allowing the user to begin creating drawings
(Figure 2:3.: Create MDS Drawing form).
Note: The three modify functions are only available to an ABA DRAFT administrator (Area
Based ADP Administrator Guide).
Use the browser to navigate to the required directory (the default is %PDMSABALOG%),
and then select the required file. You can then:
View the current LogFile.
Edit a LogFile by selecting Edit and clicking on Apply. This brings up a default editor.
Load the contents of a LogFile into the selection fields of the Create MDS Drawing
form. To do this select Load and click on Apply. This allows you to re-create a previous
process run.
Click on the Dismiss button to return to the Create MDS Drawing form. (If the Process
Drawings Control form is displayed, this can be ignored; click Cancel to close the form).
You can modify the view as required by modifying attributes and creating or deleting view
elements etc. Manipulation and/or positioning of the DRAFT elements in the view may also
be done.
Select Create > MDS User View from the ADP top menu bar. The prompt Identify VIEW to
be copied from or ESCAPE is displayed.
Identify any element in the view to be copied. The 'Point Construction Option Form' will be
displayed, with the option '2D Cursor hit' selected as default.
Locate the centre of the User View on the canvas via the 'Cross Hairs' displayed on the
screen. An exact copy of the copied view is created at the selected location. The view can
now be modified as required.
3 Utilities
This section describes the use of the last four items accessible from the Utilities drop-down
menu (Figure 3:1.: Utilities menu).
Select the option Utilities > MDS Drawing Lock and the form shown below is displayed.
Select the Lock Drawing option and click on Apply to lock the drawing.
To unlock a drawing, select Unlock Drawing and click Apply.
A locked drawing will NOT be deleted and/or overwritten via the MDS ABA drawing creation
process, even if the MDS support name is selected in the main 'Create MDS Drawing' form.
However the user will have to check the ABA log file, e.g. %PDMSABALOG%/Aba_7-June-
07_10-52-36.log, for the list of MDS support drawings successfully created or aborted. A
typical ABA log file output is shown below.
====================================
ABA Log File - Processing 1 Drawings
====================================
Processing Drawing (1 of 1)
-------------------------------------------------------------
7 Jun 2007 10:52:37
Cannot delete old drawing /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA as
it is locked - Drawing aborted
Drawing (1 of 1) Processed
-------------------------------------------------------------
2. Click on the New Revision button and the form changes as shown below:
3. Enter the information you want to add to the drawing. An example is shown below:
4. Click on the Apply button to update the information on the drawing as shown on the
extract below:
Subsequent updates of drawings retain revision information. Positioning, revision text, and
number of allowable revisions are controlled via the drawing template. See the MDS
Administrator Guide for more information.
2. Select the required scale from the Scale drop-down box and click on the OK button. In
the example shown below a scale of 1/10 has been selected.
The View gadget shows the current editable view. To turn the whole view on or off, use the
toggle in the top right of the form.
The Layer list shows all the current layers in the selected views. Highlighting a layer
displays its members in the lower box. Right-click on the Layer list to show the following
submenu:
The Layer Members list shows all the members of a particular layer. Click on a member to
toggle between show, and hide. In the example shown below two members have been set
to hidden.
Note: Currently only two types of pipe symbols may be rescaled on MDS drawings. Both
pipe symbols are represented by DRAFT SLAB (Symbol Label) elements with the
TMRF(Template reference) attribute set to either /DRA/MAS/SYMBOLS/GEN/
BREAKS/BB-1 or /MDS/ABA/TAGS/BREAK/PIPE
Note: This utility requires that the AVEVA Delivery Manager and AVEVA Model Object
Manager software products are installed and working on the current project.
Index
A S
Area Based ADP Scale Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
using . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1 Stored LogFiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:5
D U
DM Plotfile Utilities menu
updating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9 options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
Drawing Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
E
Existing Drawings
viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
L
Layer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7
M
MDS Application
overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
MDS Catalogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2
MDS Over View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:7
MDS Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2
MDS User View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:6
MDS-ABA Drawing Process
starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1
R
Rescale Pipe Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:9
Revision Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3