Using Smart 3D in an integrated environment standardizes and improves the communication among the various authoring tools you use while designing, constructing, and operating a facility. Smart 3D integration manages data exchange among the authoring tools, which enables sharing and re-use of information throughout the facility lifecycle. SmartPlant Foundation acts as a repository for data and a medium through which information is shared among other tools, such as Intergraph Smart Instrumentation, Intergraph Smart P&ID, Intergraph Smart Electrical and Smart 3D.
Most of the commands that provide access to Smart 3D functionality exist in the common user interface available on the SmartPlant menu in the Smart 3D tasks. The SmartPlant commands in Project Management enable you to register the model and update the status of projects. Additionally, you use the Generate Design Basis Command in Project Management to update the project catalog schema with any changes that are made to the SmartPlant Schema.
In the other Smart 3D tasks, you can use the SmartPlant commands to publish and retrieve documents from within other tasks. For example, you can publish orthographic drawings that you create in Drawings and Reports, or you can retrieve P&IDs and view them using the P&ID Viewer. You can also publish the entire model for 3D viewing in SmartPlant Foundation or Intergraph Smart Review.
For more information about working in an integrated environment, see the Intergraph Smart 3D Integration Reference Help and the SmartPlant Foundation Administrator's Help.
