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Intergraph Smart 3D Equipment and Furnishings

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All equipment objects are placed in the model using information defined in the equipment and furnishings reference data. Using the reference data workbook, you can create custom equipment objects. Your first step should be to review, edit, and otherwise customize the delivered equipment and furnishings reference data. See Equipment and Furnishings Reference Data.

After the reference data is customized to suit your needs, consider going to the Systems and Specifications task, or right-clicking in the Workspace Explorer and selecting Create System to define the systems in your model. You are not absolutely required to create your systems first; however, doing so keeps you from having to edit your equipment objects after placement to assign them to the correct system.

After the equipment reference data and the needed systems are defined, you can begin placing equipment objects in your model.

You can interactively customize equipment from the Catalog by adding primitive geometric shapes and nozzles.

You can also use the Equipment and Furnishings task to build customized equipment. Designed equipment objects can be built entirely out of primitive geometric shapes, or an equipment component part can be designed or placed from the catalog to enhance the designed equipment object.

Equipment components provide a more precise method of building up designed equipment than the technique of adding catalog equipment to designed equipment used by previous versions of the software.

When you define a workspace using an assembly consisting of equipment, the software keeps the equipment children with the parent assembly. Equipment children, such as equipment components, shapes, nozzles, and design solids, display under the parent equipment assembly in the Assembly tab in the Workspace Explorer. This behavior is similar to the way equipment children display in the System tab. In the example below, the equipment and its children display under the A2 parent assembly.

EQF_Assembly tab_parent and children