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You can generate a hook-up drawing using either the Enhanced Report Utility or an external CAD application such as SmartSketch, AutoCAD, or MicroStation. Generated drawings contain the hook-up block drawing, the list of assigned tag numbers, and hook-up items associated with the current hook-up. These scenarios are for generating a single Hook-Up or a number of Hook-Ups at the same time from the Domain Explorer.

CAD Hook-Up Drawing Generation Scenario

  1. On the Preferences dialog, on the Hook-Ups > File Locations page, define the CAD paths for hook-up drawings.

  2. If you require a global border and logo, in your CAD application, prepare a drawing border and logo, and then, enable the use of it in Smart Instrumentation. For details, see Assign Border and Logo Blocks to Hook-Up Drawings.

  3. In your CAD application, create a general drawing (optional). You only need to create such a drawing if you intend to use the General drawing option of Smart Instrumentation when generating a hook-up drawing that contains more than one page. Then, on the Smart Instrumentation Preferences dialog , on the Hook-Ups > General page, specify the general drawing that you want to appear on the second and all other subsequent pages of the hook-up drawing you will generate.

    SHARED Tip A generated hook-up drawing, using the General drawings options, contains more than one page. Your general drawing will appear on the second page and all other subsequent pages of the hook-up drawing generated from Smart Instrumentation. All the tags that appear on the first page are duplicated on the second page along with those tags that do not fit on the first page.

  4. On the Preferences dialog, on the Hook-Ups > General page, set the revision display order.

    SHARED TipYou can display a number of revisions in the title block of a hook-up drawing. Each revision is represented by a numbered macro and the revisions are displayed in the order of the macro numbering, beginning with the first revision (ascending order) or the last revision (descending order). If the total number of revisions is greater than the number of lines available for display in the drawing and you want to see the latest revisions, you should select to display the revisions in descending order so that the latest revision is displayed first.

  5. In your CAD application, create a hook-up drawing template using your CAD application so that this template includes the tag number and hook-up item macros as well as the title block.

    Make sure the macro names you enter in the drawing template match the macro names you defined on the Macro Definitions dialog in the Hook-Ups module.

  6. If you want to edit the hook-up drawing identifying fields, associate the document and revision numbers, in the Domain Explorer, open the Hook-Up Drawing List dialog and define data accordingly.

  7. In the Domain Explorer, open the Generate Hook-Up Drawings dialog and set the generation options as you require.

  8. Generate a hook-up drawing from the Generate Hook-Up Drawings dialog.

    To generate CAD Hook-Up drawings in batch mode, you must have selected in the preferences Hook-Ups > CAD file locations > Save drawings automatically, and type a path in the Output drawing folder, field. The software then saves all the selected CAD Hook-Up drawings to this folder and displays the last generated drawing.

Enhanced Hook-Up Drawing Generation Scenario

  1. On the Preferences dialog, on the Enhanced Reports > Hook-Up > View page, select the options you want to see in your drawing.

  2. On the Enhanced Reports > Hook-Up > File Locations page, set the file paths for the various options.

  3. If required, change the text appearance by changing the settings on the Fonts page.

  4. On the Enhanced Reports > Hook-Up > Title Block page, select the title block you require for your drawing.

  5. On the Enhanced Reports > Hook-Up > Page and Revisions page, set the revision display order.

    SHARED Tip You can display a number of revisions in the title block of a hook-up drawing. Each revision is represented by a numbered macro and the revisions are displayed in the order of the macro numbering, beginning with the first revision (ascending order) or the last revision (descending order). If the total number of revisions is greater than the number of lines available for display in the drawing and you want to see the latest revisions, you should select to display the revisions in descending order so that the latest revision is displayed first.

  6. If you want to edit the hook-up drawing identifying fields, associate the document and revision numbers, in the Domain Explorer, open the Hook-Up Drawing List dialog and define data accordingly.

  7. Assign the required hook-up symbol file to the hook-up. For more information, see Assign an Enhanced Symbol to a Hook-Up.

  8. In the Domain Explorer, open the Generate Hook-Up Drawings dialog and set the generation options as you require.

  9. Generate a hook-up drawing from the Generate Hook-Up Drawings dialog.