These tasks deal with creating and managing hook-ups and hook-up types in the Domain Explorer. Also, these tasks describe various association procedures you need to perform, for example, association of instrument tags to hook-ups, association of items to hook-ups, and so forth.
Use this procedure to create a hook-up type at the domain level. A hook-up type is a common name of group of hook-ups that share distinguishing characteristics common to one kind of instrument. These characteristics set one hook-up type apart from another type, for example Flow, Temperature, Level, and so forth. You can only create one hook-up type at a time.
Use this procedure to add one or more hook-ups to existing hook-up types. Hook-ups that you create under hook-up types only appear in the current <plant>. A hook-up is a graphical representation of an assembly drawing — a drawing prototype. Adding a hook-up to a hook-up type is a prerequisite for assigning instruments tags to hook-ups.
Associate Hook-Up Types with Instrument Types
Use this procedure to assign one or more hook-up types an instrument type. Your database can contain a seemingly endless number of tag numbers. To make the task of attaching multiple instruments to a specific hook-up type manageable, use a filter that allows you to assign any instrument type in the current domain to your hook-up type.
Associate Instrument Tag Numbers with Hook-Ups
Use this procedure to assign one or more tag numbers to one or more hook-ups. The hook-ups can belong to the same or different hook-up types.
Move Hook-Ups to Another Hook-Up Type
This procedure enables you to move all hook-ups from one or more hook-up types to another existing hook-up type.
Change a Hook-Ups Sub-Library Association
Use this procedure to associate a hook-up with a user- defined sub-library or to change the existing hook-up sub- library assignment.
You can associate a hook-up with a sub-library when performing the following activities:
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Adding a new hook-up to a hook-up type — you can assign any new hook-up to any sub- library.
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Editing properties of an existing hook- up
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Duplicating a hook-up
When editing or duplicating hook-up properties, you can change the existing association of a hook- up sub-library under the following conditions:
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If the hook-up has associated instrument tags with pipe spec data, the target user- defined sub-library must also have pipe specs suitable for association of these tags.
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The target user-defined sub- library must contain all hook-up items that are associated with the hook-ups.
This procedure enables you to associate one or more items with hook-ups. You can only associate those items that exist in the sub-library assigned to the hook-ups that you select in the Domain Explorer. In hook-up drawings that you generate, the associated items are displayed as the identifying.
Dissociate Items from Hook-Ups
Use this procedure to dissociate one or more items from a hook-up. You must dissociate an item from a hook-up prior to deleting this item from the active item library.
Dissociate Tag Numbers from Hook-Ups
Use this procedure to dissociate one or more instrument tags from a hook-up. You must dissociate all instruments from a hook-up prior to deleting this hook-up.
This option enables you to delete a hook-up which is not associated with any tag numbers. If an association exists, first dissociate the tag numbers from this hook-up and then delete the hook-up.
This option enables you to delete one or more hook-up types which are not associated with any hook-ups. To delete a hook-up type that contains hook-ups, first delete the hook-ups or move them to another hook-up type.