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When you retrieve documents in an integrated environment, you are retrieving the document data that was previously published. For example, in SmartPlant Instrumentation, you can retrieve engineering information from a published P&ID into the SmartPlant Instrumentation database.

To retrieve a document, you can use the SmartPlant > Retrieve Command command to open a dialog box that assists you in retrieving the applicable documents.

The Retrieve command is available only if you have registered the model using the Project Management task. You must also install the SmartPlant Client and SmartPlant Schema Component to use the Retrieve command.

When you use the Retrieve command, the software searches the integrated environment for documents to retrieve, and the Retrieve dialog box lists these documents.

You can retrieve a document in the following ways:

  • As published - Retrieves only the data that the authoring tool originally published with the selected revision and version of the document. Retrieving as-published data retrieves the .XML file that the authoring tool published.

  • With the latest data - Retrieves the latest data associated with the selected document. If another, more recently published document contains updates to objects in the selected document, then the software retrieves the most current data for those shared objects. When you retrieve the latest data, an .XML file containing the published data is generated.

  • CDW data - Retrieves the data by updating the property values contained in a published XML with those contained on the corresponding CDW (consolidated warehouse) object.

In Smart 3D, the types of documents and data that you can retrieve include:

  • P&IDs

  • Electrical

  • Dimensional Datasheets (DDPs)

  • You must have write permissions to the model to use the Retrieve command.

  • Because Smart P&ID uses P&IDs to publish ducting data, D&IDs are not listed as a separate document type.

Retrieving P&IDs

You can retrieve ducting, piping, instrumentation, and equipment data from a P&ID in an integrated environment.

To use a P&ID in Smart 3D, the piping designer should have defined specific properties on the objects in the P&ID. These properties include fluid code, tag sequence number, piping material class, and nominal piping diameter. In addition, the nozzles should be labeled on the P&ID.

You should retrieve the SmartPlant Instrumentation data before placing instrumentation in the model.

Retrieving Electrical Cable Schedules

You can retrieve electrical cable schedule data from SmartPlant Electrical (SPEL) or from SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI). In the Electrical task, the SmartPlant > View Cable Schedule command allows you to view the retrieved data and update or import cables.

Retrieving Instrumentation Datasheets

You can retrieve SmartPlant Instrumentation dimensional data for piping. The software retrieves instruments defined in SmartPlant Instrumentation and maps those instruments to a parametric symbol.

Smart 3D retrieves the non-graphical property values, such as instrument tag, manufacturer, and part number, as well as dimensional group data used to model the instrument.

You should retrieve the SmartPlant Instrumentation data before placing instrumentation in the model.

Plant Breakdown Structure (PBS)

You can retrieve the plant breakdown structure (PBS). The PBS is created in and published by SmartPlant Foundation and retrieved to provide information about the models, areas, and units that need to be created in the software.

The PBS document published by SmartPlant Foundation contains information about the physical model whose structure consists of plants, areas, and units. The default structure is plant/area/unit, but you can define a custom hierarchy in the Schema Editor.

For more information, see Create a Custom PBS Hierarchy in the Integration Reference Guide.

Data Handling After Retrieval

You can view P&IDs using the SmartPlant > View P&ID Command command to access the data and correlate objects. You can view retrieved electrical cable schedule data with the SmartPlant > View Cable Schedule command in the Electrical task.

Understanding the Design Basis

The 3D design basis is the set of objects in the model database which represent the data from documents previously retrieved from TEF. You do not directly create, edit, or delete these objects. When you correlate a 3D object, a relation is created between that 3D object and its correlated design basis object. For more information, see Design Basis Explanation.

Objects that you retrieve can become the design basis for objects in downstream documents. Objects that become the design basis for other objects can be specific objects that get richer as they move through the lifecycle, or they can be schematic or logical objects in one application that evolve into more detailed objects downstream.

Design basis is implicitly based on retrieval; you do not have to define it. For example, a pump retrieved from a PFD becomes the design basis for a pump in the P&ID.

Retrieve and Restore

When another application has been restored to a previous state, the Smart 3D design basis objects are deleted and re-created upon retrieval. To avoid duplicating 3D objects, the retrieval process checks systems, pipelines, and projects/contracts to see if they exist with the same name and type as design basis objects. If the objects do exist, then the software correlates to the objects upon retrieval instead of creating new objects.

After the retrieve operation, you must re-correlate the other 3D objects (besides systems, pipelines, and projects/contracts) with the new design basis objects.

Updating Project Status

When you work in an integrated environment, SmartPlant Foundation (SPF) workflows manage the project status. At each stage in the workflow, you publish your project status information. There are two types of statuses. One is the status on the project: Active, Complete, Merged, or Canceled. The other is the Working/Approved status. Each object in the project has a Working/Approved status, and the project object itself can be set to Working/Approved. The as-built object must always have a Working status. When it becomes Approved, the as-built project becomes read-only.