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An assembly is a group of items that you can place in a drawing at one time. Assemblies can save time because you do not have to keep creating commonly-occurring groups of items. Instead of copying and pasting each individual item into a drawing at several locations, you can place the group of items: the assembly. An example of an assembly is a control valve with vents on both sides, an instrument loop that controls the valve, and a piping bypass around the valve.

You can create an assembly by selecting several items in a drawing and saving as an assembly. The file extension for an assembly is .pid, which is the same file extension as a drawing. If you want to retrieve the assembly from the Catalog Explorer tree view, you must save the assembly where the other symbols are located. The Save as Assembly command prompts you to save the assembly in the correct directory, which is specified in Options Manager.

Placing assemblies is like placing any other item from Catalog Explorer into a drawing. When you want to place an assembly into a drawing, you select the assembly from Catalog Explorer and select a location in the drawing. Or, you can drag the assembly into the drawing. The information in each label remains intact when you place the assembly. After you have placed an assembly, the items in the assembly are treated as separate items. You can delete just one item without concern that the software deletes the entire assembly.

Assemblies cannot be placed inline. You must place the assembly first and then route piping to it, if required.

Assemblies can be created in one plant and used in another. However, the file structure and symbols must be identical. If you try to place an assembly into a plant that uses a different file structure, you get an error message that the software cannot find your reference files. The assembly placement quits. Move the symbols that cannot be found to the location indicated in the error message.

When creating or placing assemblies, a log file is created for each action.  The log files are placed in the Temp directory and are named <AssemblyName>_CreAsm.log and <AssemblyName>_PlaAsm.log.

The following is an example of the log file created when creating assemblies.

Source Drawing Name: \\sppid- training\Site_4_3_25_1\Plant_4_2_36_1A\Drawings\38\38-PI- 0001.pid
Assembly Name: \\sppid- training\Site_4_3_25_1\Plant_4_2_36_1A\RefDatA\P&ID Reference Data\Symbols\Assemblies\Equipment\VesselAssembly.pid
Number of graphic items processed = 1
Number of database items processed = 1
Number of attributes processed = 15
Finished creating assembly.

The following is an example of the log file created when placing assemblies.

Assembly Name: \\sppid- training\Site_4_3_25_1\Plant_4_2_36_1A\RefDatA\P&ID Reference Data\Symbols\Assemblies\Equipment\VesselAssembly.pid
Target Drawing Name: \\sppid- training\Site_4_3_25_1\Plant_4_2_36_1A\Drawings\38\38-PI- 0001.pid
Number of graphic items processed = 1
Number of database items processed = 1
Number of properties processed = 15
Finished placing assembly.