Associate a Nested Symbol with a Plant Item - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

Nested symbols reside within compound symbols. Do the following to associate a nested symbol with a plant item.

1. In a compound symbol, use the Smart Selection tool or QuickPick to select an individual nested symbol.

2. Select Actions > Associate with Electrical Item . Alternatively, you can also right-click the selected symbol and select Associate with Electrical Item.

3. Use the Find dialog to find the electrical item with which you want to associate the selected symbol.

   On the Find dialog, from the Equipment type list, you can select only the equipment type that is appropriate for the selected symbol. For example, if you selected a motor symbol, only Motor is available in the Equipment type list.

4. Select OK on the Find dialog to make the association.

• After selecting a symbol associated with a plant item, the properties of that plant item are displayed in the Properties window. For a compound symbol, expand Select Set to view the plant items associated with the nested symbols.

• You can open the Common Properties of an associated plant item by right-clicking the symbol and then on the shortcut menu, selecting Common Properties. For a compound symbol, this is possible only if the nested symbols are not associated with any plant items. You can select a nested symbol to display the Common Properties of the associated plant item.

• To find the associated plant item in the Electrical Index or Electrical Engineer, right-click the symbol in the composite drawing and then on the shortcut menu click Find in Electrical Index or Find in Electrical Engineer.

After associating a symbol with a plant item, the smart text labels show the property values of the associated plant item as defined in the symbol label. Updating these properties on the same machine where the drawing is currently open automatically updates the smart text labels on the open drawing.
If, for some reason, such a label contains no plant item property value, you can instruct the software to display a specific text indicator that you define in the General Settings of Options Manager. You can, however, leave out the text indicator, if needed. It is always advisable to press F5 to refresh the drawing data after every change that can affect all your plant drawings. See General Settings Window in the Options Manager help.

When associating cables, buses, conductors, segments, and cableways with symbols, it is advisable to associate them with symbols that belong to the connector type. This way you will be able to connect these items on both sides of the connector and design connector paths on the drawing as you require. Connector type symbols are especially useful when designing cable routing. You can select a connector symbol in the Catalog Explorer and immediately start designing the routing by clicking in the appropriate spots on the drawing. You create connector symbols in Catalog Manager. See the Catalog Manager help.