Association Assistant - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

Association Assistant enables you to retrieve and display the existing associations of a plant item that you select in a drawing. This way you can easily identify and associate the plant items that you need to add in the open drawing.

To open the Association Assistant for a specific plant item, do one of the following:

• In an open drawing, select a plant item and then select Actions > Show Plant Item in Association Assistant.

• In an open drawing, right-click a plant item and then on the shortcut menu, select Show in Association Assistant.

The Association Assistant Display

Power Flow Items — This tab contains all the plant items that belong to the power flow of the item selected in the active drawing.

The scope of the items included in the display is as follows:

• For a selected PDB — all the associated buses

• For a selected bus — all the associated circuits

• For all other selected items — all the associated upstream and downstream items till the next bus or an item which has a multiple parent or child items.

Each row in the tabular view of the Association Assistant represents a plant item associated with the item you selected in the active drawing.

• Connection Sequence — Displays the sequence in which the plant item in the current row is connected to the selected plant item in the active drawing.

• Item Tag — Displays the item tag connected to the selected plant item in the active drawing. The following icons are used to indicate:

  • Cable assemblies —

  • Parallel cables —

  • Parallel equipment —

• Item Type — Displays the item type of the item tag connected to the selected plant item in the active drawing.

• Description — Displays the description of the item tag connected to the selected plant item in the active drawing.

• An icon indicator to the left of the sequence number of an item symbolizes that this item has already been placed on the active drawing.

• Cables show a tooltip with the From and To associations.

Other Related Items — This tab contains all the plant items that are associated with the selected item in addition to the power flow items, for example selected in the active drawing, for example circuit internals, control cables, cells, cable drums, and so forth.

• Item Tag — Displays the item tag connected to the selected plant item in the active drawing. The following icons are used to indicate:

  • Cable assemblies —

  • Parallel cables —

  • Parallel equipment —

• Item Type — Displays the item type of the item tag associated with the selected plant item in the active drawing.

• Description — Displays the description of the item tag associated with the selected plant item in the active drawing.

• Search — Allows you to find a plant item in the Association Assistant.

You can do the following:

• Place a plant item displayed in the Association Assistant on the active drawing:

  1. In the Association Assistant, select a plant item.

  2. Drag the item to the active drawing.

• Associate a plant item displayed in the Association Assistant with a graphical element (an auxiliary graphic or a symbol) in the drawing:

  1. In the Association Assistant, select a plant item.

  2. Press and hold CTRL.

  3. Drag the item to an auxiliary graphic or a symbol in the active drawing.

     For more details about making associations in composite drawings, see Associate an Auxiliary Graphic with a Plant Item.

• Double-click a plant item in the Association Assistant to display the existing associations of that item.

Note the following regarding the behavior of the Association Assistant.

• The data displayed in the Association Assistant is only relevant to the drawing from which you opened the Association Assistant. Therefore, if several drawings are open on your computer, and you switch to another drawing, the data in the Association Assistant will remain unchanged.

• If you close the drawing for which you opened the Association Assistant, the Association Assistant also closes.

• If you want to display association data for another item in the same drawing or another drawing, the data in the Association Assistant will change in the same window of the Association Assistant. There can be only one instance of the Association Assistant window.

• You can drag an item from the Association Assistant to any open drawing.

• The title bar of the Association Assistant displays the drawing and the plant item for which the Association Assistant was opened.