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Smart P&ID Version
9 (2019)
Smart Engineering Manager Version
10 (2019)
SmartSketch Version
10.0(2018)

The software includes several standard drawing templates. You usually create a new drawing based on one of these existing templates; however, it is possible to customize a drawing template to meet your particular needs. This task is accomplished inside the design software by using commands on the File menu. The pre-defined size choices for a new template are extensive.

The default storage location for templates is specified in Options Manager (in the PID Template Path field of the Settings options). Templates saved in this default location will be available for all new drawings that you create.

The software also includes a set of title block labels that fit the delivered drawing templates. If you create a new template, you can also create a new title block label that fits the title block of your template correctly and that contains the appropriate information. You create labels in Catalog Manager.

If you want to create custom border files for your drawing templates, use Intergraph SmartSketch. You can then embed your border file in the new templates you create in Smart P&ID. After you embed a border file into a drawing template and a drawing is created in Drawing Manager using that template, any changes to the border file are not reflected in drawings created prior to the change. Drawing objects on the background sheet of the .igr file that you want to include in the border must be copied and placed on the working sheet using SmartSketch prior to inserting the .igr file into Smart P&ID. The border file must be inserted into the 'DrawingBorder' layer.

If you link a border file, instead of embedding it, and then subsequently change that border in SmartSketch, changes are reflected automatically in your drawing. When linking a border file, ensure that you set the Windows File Explorer property of the border file to Read-only.

SmartFrames and Title Block Label symbols are the only object types allowed in a template.

Standard Template Size Information

Template file

Border file

Page size

A0-Size.pid

A0border.igr

A0 Wide (1189mm x 841mm)

A1-Size.pid

A1border.igr

A1 Wide (841mm x 594mm)

A2-Size.pid

A2border.igr

A2 Wide (594mm x 420mm)

A3-Size.pid

A3border.igr

A3 Wide (420mm x 297mm)

A4-Size.pid

A4border.igr

A4 Wide (297mm x 210mm)

A5-Size.pid

A5border.igr

A5 Wide (210mm x 148mm)

A-Size.pid

A-Wide.igr

A Wide (11in x 8.5in)

B-Size.pid

B-Wide.igr

B Wide (17in x 11in)

C-Size.pid

C-Wide.igr

C Wide (22in x 17in)

D-Size.pid

D-Wide.igr

D Wide (34in x 225in)

E-Size.pid

E-Wide.igr

E Wide (44in x 34in)