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Smart Electrical requires all plant cables to be associated with reference cables. Smart Instrumentation, however, does not have such a requirement. In Smart Instrumentation, the functionality that can be comparable to Smart Electrical reference cable is the cable type property, which is a supporting table in Smart Instrumentation.

Note that in Smart Instrumentation it is possible to set the software to work in the cable dependency mode. This mode is set in the Administration module. This mode enables Smart Instrumentation to keep reference cables and plant cables consistent in terms of cable structure and a few other properties. It is advisable that you work in this mode although it's not mandatory. If you choose not to work in the cable dependency mode, there may be a number of discrepancies between the plant cables and reference data. Also, Smart Instrumentation users can create new plant cables which will be without any reference cable. If you decide not to use the cable dependency option, you can still set appropriate rules to make sure that a cable type is used and that there is an association with reference cable.

SPI_Ref_Cable

As shown here, the Smart Electrical equivalent of a reference cable is the Smart Instrumentation cable type property.

If you want to have Smart Instrumentation cables in Smart Electrical, create reference instrumentation cables in the Reference Data Explorer. In most cases these cables are instrumentation cables but this is not a limitation that will be imposed. Cables can also be control or ground cables and in rare cases, power cables.

SPEL_RefCable

The software will import Smart Instrumentation cables that do not have correlated reference cables in Smart Electrical (according to the cable-type). However, these cables will not have conductors or any other cable specification since the definition of these cables is incomplete.

Be aware that if you import cables that do not have a definite structure (that is, several of sets and conductors) and are not associated with a well-defined reference cable, at a later stage you will not be able to synchronize the plant cables with the updated reference cable automatically. You will have to do it manually, by using the Replace Cable command for each cable that you want to synchronize or by doing it in batch mode.

One way to synchronize Smart Instrumentation cable type list is to export Smart Electrical reference cables and to import the reference cable names into Smart Instrumentation cable type table.