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The following diagram illustrates another way data can be loaded into Smart Construction with fabrication modifications. In this example, engineering uses Smart 3D to create design data to send to fabrication. Fabrication reviews the design data, and if required, suggests modifications to the drawings. In most cases, only a small portion of drawings are modified. The fabricator uses SmartPlant Spoolgen to modify the design data. Smart Interop Publisher can also be used to update design data. By using this workflow, both the 2D drawings and 3D model are superseded with fabrication modifications.

For a more detailed explanation of how to get modified spool drawings into Smart Construction, see the SmartPlant Enterprise Integration Capability Statements Translating and Sharing 3D Models with Smart Interop Publisher.

This work process requires configuration from the tools used. For more information, see Configuration details for correlation.

spiopworkflow

  1. Engineering creates data in Smart 3D. A model is generated with spools, along with isometric drawings. This data is published to the construction site's data warehouse in SmartPlant Foundation. Piping component files (PCFs) are saved from ISO drawings.

  2. Engineering sends the PCFs to fabrication.

  3. Fabrication imports the PCFs into SmartPlant Spoolgen.

  4. Fabrication reviews the PCFs, comparing the as-designed data with how it will be fabricated, and recommends modifications.

  5. If required, fabrication modifies the PCFs, using SmartPlant Spoolgen. In most cases, only a small portion of drawings is modified.

    Smart Construction Hotfix 14 requires SmartPlant Spoolgen for this work process.

  6. Fabrication generates new spool drawings from SmartPlant Spoolgen to the construction project's data warehouse in SmartPlant Foundation.

    Use the AutoCorrelate workflow during publish.

    The spool drawing should be named the same as the one originally published from Smart 3D.

    SHARED Tip To better identify your drawings in Smart Construction, select the Display drawing type beside drawing name? system option. For more information, see Configure and update system settings for Smart Construction.

  7. Fabrication sends the modified PCFs from SmartPlant Spoolgen to Smart Interop Publisher.

    Use the AutoCorrelate workflow during publish.

    The spool drawing should be named the same as the one originally published from Smart 3D.

  8. Construction generates a new model from the modified PCFs from Smart Interop Publisher to the construction project's data warehouse in SmartPlant Foundation.

  9. Data is loaded into the SmartPlant Foundation data warehouse.

  10. A composite model is generated containing both engineered and fabricated components. The new model can be overlaid with the original engineering model. For more information about composite models in SmartPlant Foundation, see Publishing Large 3D Models to SmartPlant Foundation.

  11. The data is retrieved into Smart Construction. For more information on retrieving data in Smart Construction, see Retrieve data. If data was previously retrieved in Smart Construction, the new fabrication data supersedes the existing data.

    Before data can be retrieved into Smart Construction, administrators can configure the SPCRetrieveMappings.xlsm workbook for fabrication data. For more information, see Specify whether a component based on a class definition is replaced by fabrication.

    Administrators can also copy properties from one component to another. For example, engineering properties can be copied to a component modified by fabrication. For more information, see Copy properties between a replaced component and a replacement component.