Introduction

You are able to represent zones inside the Schematic view

You are able to associte any Schematic object (pipeline, equipment, component) to one or multiple 3DSpaces

• manually
• automatically

Zone contours

You can define Zone line or contour inside the P&ID

When drawing such element you must asociate to it a Zone category and zone Name.

Admin:

The list of Zones category & Names comes from the Datasetup Diagram Resources. 

• you can have one zone list per Zone Category
• you specify how this geometry will be interpreted by the system to deduct the symbol position according the zone
  • for contour :
    • inside
  • for Lines 
    • above/bellow
    • left /right

Manual association of components to 3D Space

For manual association you don't need any setup except having created 3D Space object into the datadase

• 3D Space object are usually created inside a GBS : Geographic Breakdown Structure
• the GBS is created using the Space Allocation Application which is part of SAO "Space allocation" Role
• to use the 3DSpace once created, you don't need any specific licences 

then you can launch the manual association. the link between the 2 object can be seen in the property panel of the piping component

Automatic association of component to 3D Space

System can automatically create a link with the 3D space of the GBS (Geographic Breakdown Structure)

Based on the value set on the Zone contour, system will compute the corresponding 3D Space object through a businees rule

• for close contour it is simple; the Zone name is often equal to 3DSpace name

Application will then create a link between 3D Space and any of the object that are placed/moved inside the corresponding zone contour

PipeLine association cross multiple Zones:

Setup for Business rule for automatic association:

Zone Inclusions

Admin

you can adjust the Zone list table to add a third column for sub-Zone (aka inclusion zones or zone hiearchy )

Design

If you draw a zone contour inside another one, the list of corresponding subzone will be automatically filtered

Checks

Zone inclusion consistency can be verified using knowledge checks:

Automatic Attribute valuation

Zone Contour Description

You can modify the Zone list table by adding a second column wit hzone description

in the P&ID, you can set automatically the Zone contour description attribute value from the Zone list table during ZoneCategory/Zone association to contour:

Set component attribute during 3D Space association

when creating the link with the 3D Space, you can modify the value of any attribute of the piping component:

Data setup link :

Automatic annotation of zone

Context

Annotation and Label can be automatically inserted when creating the Zone contour

Setup : 

• Define you text template or label inside a logical reference
• Attach this Logical Reference to the corresponding resource into datasetup
• define Business rule to trigger which textemplate or label must be inserted depending to criteria

video about automatic text annotation insertion for all Zones:

video about automatic text & label annotation insertion User + Admin part

the label will depends on the Zone category name

Datasetup link :

Automatic zone graphical display

Define zone linetype, thickness, color based on zone category

datasetup: