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Defines options that relate to piping specifications.

Default industry practice

Identifies the default to be used for hierarchical select list values when editing piping specifications, such as pressure rating, which is categorized based on industry practice.

Commodity Codes

Include schedule with contractor commodity code

Indicates whether the commodity code in the piping commodity filter is dependent upon schedule for the purposes of editing piping specs. This option is used to determine whether it is necessary to define values for the First Size Schedule and Second Size Schedule properties in the piping commodity filter.

Provide tools for building and selecting codes for

Select whether you want to manually enter commodity codes (set this option to None) or you want to use the Select Commodity Code Dialog to create and select commodity codes (set this option to Contractor Commodity Code Only, Industry Commodity Code Only, Both Contractor Commodity Code and Industry Commodity Code). If you select one of the enabled options, you must define the rules in Piping > Piping Specification > Model Rules > Commodity Code Rules. You can load delivered rules to use as a starting point using the Available rules and Load options on this tab.

Create material descriptions by rule

Select this option to automatically create part material descriptions based on the rules that you define in the Material Description Rule node. This option is not available if the Provide tool for building and selecting codes for is set to None. The material descriptions are created when you use the Select Commodity Code Dialog.

Default Rules

Available rules

Lists the default pipe specification rules that can be bulk-loaded from the delivered workbooks in the catalog database. These workbooks provide a set of default formats, property codes, and material description to begin working with so that you do not have to define these rules from nothing.

The commodity code workbooks are delivered in the [Product Folder]\CatalogData\PDSTranslator\Bin folder and are named Contractor Commodity Code Rule.xls and Industry Commodity Code Rule.xls. After loading these workbooks, you can edit the information by going to Piping > Piping Specification > Model Rules > Commodity Code Rules in the catalog hierarchy.

Load

Bulk loads the selected rule, in Available rule, data from the delivered workbooks into the catalog database.

Loading rule data from workbooks will overwrite the existing rule data in the catalog database. This overwriting cannot be undone.

General Options

Verify existence of weight data on save

Indicates that the specification writer wants the software to verify the existence of weight data in the piping specification. Weight data is seldom used in the 3D model because it is a cost versus benefit issue. Typically, anyone concerned with weight has external methods for accessing that data. Material control uses the 3D model as the source for quantifying the codes within the Material Control system. The weight data is maintained in the Material Control System for shipping purposes. It is considered to be a redundant effort to load the weight data into the Piping Catalog.

Verify symbol placement on save

Indicates that the specification writer wants the software to verify each part referenced by a piping specification before saving to the database. The verification process can be very time consuming. The option is also available on the Verify Consistency between Piping Specification and Catalog Dialog.

Verify long and localized material descriptions on save

Indicates that the specification writer wants the software to verify data automatically on items that can be validated real-time, such as First Size, Second Size, or From/To data. When you enable this option, the software prevents invalid data, such as a string value in a number value cell or data that exceeds known range values, from being entered into a cell. See Check Data Command.

Verify specification data on entry

Indicates that the specification writer wants the software to verify data automatically during entry. When this option is checked, the software prevents you from invalid or incomplete specification data. When this option is not checked, the specification writer must run the Tools Menu > Verify Consistency Report Command to validate the specification data.

Determine branch size and header size based on

Indicates which method that the specification writer wants the software to use when determining the branch size and header size.

Display standard notes using

Select how you want to display the piping specification standard notes (Piping > Piping Specification > Notes in the catalog hierarchy) when editing piping specification in the Catalog task. You can display either a numeric value or textural value for the notes. See Standard Notes.