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2015 R1 (7.1)

Licensing Requirements

SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1 requires SmartPlant License Manager (SPLM) 2012 (12). To download the software, do the following:

  1. Log on to the Intergraph Smart Support web site at http://smartsupport.intergraph.com.

  2. Type your Smart Support user name and password.

  3. Select View Downloads.

  4. From the list of Product Support Pages, click the SmartPlant License Manager link.

  5. On the SmartPlant License Manager Customer Support Site, click the Service Packs and Fixes link.

  6. On the Service Packs and Fixes page, click SPLM 2012.

For further details, refer to the SPLM 2012 Installation and User's Guide, available on the SmartPlant License Manager Customer Support Site under Technical Notes and White Papers.

Installation of SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1

Before starting the installation procedure of SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1, you must uninstall and completely remove SmartPlant Electrical 2015 or any other earlier version of SmartPlant Electrical from your machine.

Installing Reference Data Files

Make sure that you make a backup of your reference prior to running the installation.

The setup of SmartPlant Electrical reference data is included in the Additional Software section of SmartPlant Electrical setup.

SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1 contains some new updates of reference files. Since the installation of SmartPlant Electrical 2015 requires a full uninstall of all the previous versions including the reference data, we strongly recommend that you back up all your customized reports, templates, symbols, rule mapping files, and your customized SPELMap.xml file before uninstalling the previous version of SmartPlant Electrical reference data. After installing SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1 reference data, you can copy all your customized data back to all the relevant locations. Note that the SPELMap.xml file is located in the SmartPlant Resources folder in the Electrical Reference Data folder in the reference data installation. This way you can retain your customized files after installing the new reference data.

After installing SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1 and copying back your customized data to all the relevant locations, you have to run the Upgrade Schema utility to enable the use of old files with the new version of SmartPlant Electrical. In SmartPlant Electrical, click SmartPlant > Upgrade Schema.

Enabling the Display of the Plant Group Hierarchy Structure of Electrical Items

You can instruct the software to display the plant group hierarchy structure of electrical items in SmartPlant Electrical. This means that the software can display the plant group hierarchy (without the top level) of all the electrical items of your plant in the Tabular Editor and all the reports generated by the software. For example, if your plant group structure is Plant /Area / System / Unit, the displayed path will be as follows: Area/System/Unit.

Do the following to enable the display of the plant group hierarchy structure of electrical items:

  1. In Engineering Manager, in the tree view, highlight the appropriate plant.

  2. Click Tools > Data Dictionary Manager.

  3. In the Data Dictionary Manager, under Database Tables, select Plant Group.

  4. In the right pane, right-click Dir_Path and then select Properties.

  5. Set the Display to User property to Yes and click OK.

  6. Click on the Data Dictionary Manager toolbar.

  7. In the required report (in Microsoft Excel), click Define to open the Define Report Contents dialog box.

  8. Click New and then on the New Items dialog box, add an appropriate Plant Item table.

  9. In the Plant Item table that you have added, select the Dir_Path property and map it in the report.

Improving Report Generation Performance

To improve the performance of report generation, paste in the following code in any report template (ThisWorkbook):

Public Sub RunWorkbook()

' The objRunWorkBook object creates a separate connection for Excel.

' This object holds the DataPile object for later use within the report.

' You can get the DataPile object by calling the property get objRunWorkBook.DataPile

' This code does not improve the performance of reports that took

'approximately 10 seconds or less to generate.

On Error GoTo mErr

Dim objRunWorkBook As Object

Set objRunWorkBook =CreateObject("RunWorkBook.clsRunWorkBook")

objRunWorkBook.RunWorkbook Me

set objRunWorkBook = Nothing

Exit Sub

mErr:

MsgBox Err.Description

Application.Quit

End Sub

Special Announcement Regarding SmartPlant Electrical Reports

Starting with the release of SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1, the software no longer supports the report templates for the All Feeder Load Summary (Enhanced) and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary reports. Two new report templates have been added that replace the above-mentioned templates: All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) with Cases and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary with Cases respectively.

Although, the old report templates are still available in this release, we strongly recommend that you do not use them and use the new All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) with Cases and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary with Cases report templates instead.

In the next major release, the old report templates will be discontinued altogether. In SmartPlant Electrical 2015 R1, the All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) with Cases and Multi-Sheet Switchboard Summary with Cases report templates should be used or customized for both managing single case and multi-case load summaries.

This change has been introduced to reduce the number of report templates that basically perform the same function. It also reduces the number of support calls and makes the administration of the software efficient.

Our current users, who upgraded SmartPlant Electrical from version 2009 SP5 to version 2015, can still use their customized load summary reports based on the All Feeder Load Summary (Enhanced) report template. These reports continue to be fully functional. However, we strongly recommend moving your customization to the All Feeder Load Summary Report (Enhanced) with Cases report template. This way you gain better performance and new functionality that supports cases in one template.

Using Space Heater Relations in Tabular Editor and Custom Reports

In versions older than SmartPlant Electrical 2015, it was possible to create only one space heater under a given motor. Due to the fact that this limitation no longer exists in version 2015, the legacy motor attributions in the heater table no longer retrieve the motor data for the child heaters. To remedy this situation, you need to do the following:

  • For Heater type, in Tabular Editor and your custom report, replace all the Motor attributions with Equipment.ItemTag or any other attribution of a similar type.

  • For Motor type, in all custom reports, replace the Motor -> Heater relation with the Motor -> HeaterChild relation and add the required properties from the HeaterChild table.

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Published 8/29/2019 at 01:27