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Mouse Icon CADWorxP&ID tab: Instruments > Create Table

Mouse Icon Instruments toolbar: Create Table

Mouse Icon P&ID menu: Accessory > Loop Diagrams > Create Table

Keyboard Command line: CREATETABLE

Scans a prototype or template drawing for specially formatted keywords and creates columns for each keyword in a new loop table in the project database. The table also contains a unique identification, loop number, and drawing template name, and is linked back to the instrumentation table of the project database.

This command scans the existing loop column in the instrument table for loop numbers in the project database. It also searches the instrument table for all loop numbers that have FI, FT, or FV instruments. After it finds the loop numbers in the database, it creates the remaining columns from the prototype by drawing keywords and generates the loop table. Tag, function, and loop number are left in the instrument table. A row in the loop table is given a unique identifier that is linked back to the instrument table.

After selecting a database file and a template drawing file, the command displays the Loop Table Setup dialog box.

Table Name

Specifies the name of the loop table. LOOP_ is appended to the name in the database.

Column Setup

Displays the table columns matched from the template drawing.

Move Up

Moves the column selected in Column Setup up the list.

Move Down

Moves the column selected in Column Setup down the list.

Column Width

Specifies the character width of the column selected in Column Setup.

OK

Accepts the changes closes the dialog box. The loop table is created and saved in the project database.

  • A sample database and several template drawings are delivered in the [Product Folder]\P&ID\Tutorial\SampleLoops folder.

  • The template drawing does not have to be opened.

  • The LoopTemplateDirectory configuration variable can be used to specify a starting location for this command to search for template drawings.

  • When used with Generate Loops , the keywords populate the drawing with the data from the loop table. For more information, see Generate Loops.

  • Loop functionality is provided with CADWorx P&ID Professional.

Keywords

Column names are keywords used in loop diagram drawings. A keyword can be an attribute, an attribute definition, plain text, or Mtext. It must be in uppercase and can be a simple string or a complete sentence of strings.

Keywords requires greater than and less than brackets for automatic detection (”<>”).

Examples

  1. The sequence below places a tag in the drawing from the selected loop:

    <TAG>

  2. The tag can be part of a string:

    This is a keyword <TAG> located in a string.

  3. Identify a tag with a particular function:

    <TAG,LAL> and <TAG,LAH>

  4. Two identical functions can have different tags, such as FE-101A and FE-101B:

    <TAG,FE,*A> and <TAG,FE,*B>

  5. Search for the other keywords such as FUNC, WIRE, or TERMINAL:

    <FUNC>, <WIRE> or <TERMINAL>