Configuring Smart Electrical for Integration - Integration - Update 44 - Help - Hexagon

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Smart 3D Version
12.1 (2019)
Smart Construction Version
2019(7.0)
SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
10
Smart Electrical Version
2019 (9.0)
Smart Materials/Smart Reference Data Version
2020 (10.0)
Smart P&ID Version
9 (2019)
Smart Review Version
2020 (15.0)
Smart Engineering Manager Version
10 (2019)
Smart Interop Publisher Version
13.1 (2019 R1)
Smart Isometrics Version
7.0(2019)
Spoolgen Version
9.0(2019)

Smart integration standardizes and improves the communication among the various authoring tools you use in the course of designing, constructing, and operating a plant. Smart integration manages data exchange among these authoring tools, which enables sharing and re-use of plant information throughout the plant life-cycle. SmartPlant Foundation acts as a repository for data and a medium through which information is shared among other tools, such as Smart Instrumentation, Smart P&ID, and Smart 3D.

Most of the commands that provide access to Smart integration functionality exist in the common user interface available on the SmartPlant menu in Smart Engineering Manager, Smart Instrumentation, Smart Electrical, Smart P&ID, and Drawing Manager.

The following graphic displays what Smart Electrical publishes and retrieves and shows the flow of data and the different types of data.

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Smart Electrical interacts with SmartPlant Foundation by correlating items between the plant database and the SmartPlant Foundation database, retrieving documents such as Electrical Power Elements, Electrical Signal List, Cable Schedule reports, and P&IDs, from SmartPlant Foundation. Also, Smart Electrical creates a set of tasks in the To Do List that you can run to update the plant database. In Smart Electrical, you can also use the commands on the SmartPlant menu to publish documents and retrieve data, access SmartPlant Foundation to browse data, and subscribe to change notifications and compare documents.

You can only use the SmartPlant menu commands after your plant is registered. For more information, see the Smart Engineering Manager Help.

Registering Tools

Before you can publish and retrieve documents from any of the other authoring tools, such as Smart P&ID or Smart Instrumentation, you must register each plant in Smart Electrical with a SmartPlant Foundation database. The connection allows Smart Electrical to use the commands on the SmartPlant menu. A Smart Engineering Manager administrator typically registers a plant.

The software maps a plant and all its projects to a single SmartPlant Foundation URL, which points to one, and only one, SmartPlant Foundation plant database and its projects. When you use the Register command in any of the authoring tools, you are registering an authoring tool plant with a SmartPlant Foundation URL and plant that you specify.

The system administrator must register each plant in the authoring tool once; this action takes place in Smart Engineering Manager. After the plant is registered, you can publish and retrieve documents.