Managing Hook-Up Items and Libraries Common Tasks - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

These tasks deal with creating and managing hook-up item libraries, sub-libraries, and hook-up items in the Reference Explorer.

Create an Item Library

This procedure describes how to create a new item library. An item library contains fittings and associations created on a domain level. Therefore, when you enter a domain, you can have any number of relevant libraries. The number of libraries, names, and completeness are all up to your requirements. An item library can also contain any number of user-defined sub-libraries that you can use when working with pipe specs. A new item library that you create automatically contains a default sub-library, which you can use for assigning hook-up items if you do not work with pipe specs.

Set an Item Library as the Active Item Library

Use this procedure to set a specific item library as the active item library for the current <plant>. You must set a specific library as the active item library to be able to create hook-ups in the current <plant> and assign the library items to hook-ups. The information is filled in to pick out parts of a specific hook-up. You can also enter description, material, rating, and so forth, to provide as much information as possible for the Bill of Material that the software creates based on this data.

Assign the Same Active Item Library to More Than One Plant

Use this procedure if you need to assign an existing active item library to more than one <plant> in your domain.

Create User-Defined Sub-Libraries

Use this procedure to create user-defined sub-libraries in the library set as the active item library. You can also assign pipe specs to user-defined sub-libraries.

Create a Hook-Up Item

Use this procedure to create a hook-up item under the default or user-defined sub-library.

Create Hook-Up Items in Batch Mode

Use this procedure to create several hook-up items in the default sub-library of a specific hook-up library.

Sort Hook-Up Items in a Sub-Library

Use this procedure to sort the hook-up items defined in a specific sub-library.

Associate Items with User-Defined Sub-Libraries

Use this procedure to assign items that exist in the default sub-library to a user-defined sub-library.

Remove Items from a User-Defined Sub-Library

Use this procedure to remove one or more items from a user- defined sub-library. When removing the items, the software only dissociates them from that sub-library but does not delete them from the parent hook-up item library.

Delete Hook-Up Items

Use this procedure to delete one or more hook-up items from a specific hook-up item library.

Delete Hook-Up Sub-Libraries

Use this procedure to delete an empty user-defined sub- library from the parent hook-up item library.