When you retrieve documents into an authoring tool, you are retrieving the document data that was published by another authoring tool. For example, in Smart Instrumentation, you can retrieve engineering information from a published P&ID into the Smart Instrumentation database.
Using the SmartPlant > Retrieve command in the authoring tools allows you to select a document and retrieve it into that tool.
When you publish a 3D model, you must enable the Scheduler and Loader to make the
3D model data document retrievable. The load, consolidate, and merge tasks must complete
successfully before the 3D model document can be retrieved. For more information,
see Schedulers and Queue Management.