Using a Project for New Design Work - Intergraph Smart P&ID - Administration & Configuration - Intergraph

Intergraph Engineering and Schematics Projects Configuration and Reference (2019)

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2019 (9.0)
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10 (2019)

When working on the design for a new plant, some organizations adopt the Task/Master approach. In this approach, all new design work is done in the task database. At certain important milestones, drawings and data from the Task database are merged into the Master database. Usually, drawings and data from the Task database are merged only after they have been approved. The drawings and data in the Master database are available to be viewed by a wider audience, including other groups within the organization.

The project features in Smart P&ID can be used to implement this Task/Master approach. In this scenario, the Plant is the Master database and a single project created in the Plant is used as the Task database. The project remains active as long as work continues in the Plant, with all new design work being performed within the project. When drawings are approved and they need to become visible to a wider audience, they are merged into the Plant. If approved drawings need to be revised, the drawings can be fetched from the Plant into the project for revisions. Once the revisions are complete, they can be merged back into the Plant.