PAA Editor (PE)

Plant Engineering > Part Data Tools > PAA-Editor

Use this tool to create a PAA archive from the files for the various representations of a Plant Engineering part, or to change the contents of a PAA archive. A prerequisite for this is that the part is not parameterised, i.e. that it represents no variant.

Configuration options

File selection	In this field you select the source for the part file via the list box. If HELiOS is active, a selection via the document master and/or the part master is possible.
Language	This field displays the current working language.
Industry	Use the list box to switch the field of industry. You can choose between Standard Plant Engineering and Air ducts. A switching to Mechanical Engineering or other industries is currently not possible.
Part type	Click the button to define the part type within the industry.
Attributes	The constant attributes that are predefined for the selected part type can be edited here. When you click the the Attributes button, the Attribute assignment window will be displayed, where the constant attributes will be listed. Attribute assignment
Designation	Use this field to define, independent of the settings in the Attribute assignment window, the constant attribute DESIGNATION.

Load and Save

You use the PAA Editor to load and save variant files (KRA, PAA). The selection can either take place via the Windows file system or - if you are using HELiOS - via the document and/or part master.

Via file system

In the File selection list box, select the via file system entry. Click Open archive .

The standard dialogue for part file selection will be displayed. The default directory for selection is defined via the directory path at position 6: in the FILEGRUP.DAT file. The default directory is normally the HiCAD sub-directory PlantParts.

Selection via file system

via HELiOS

You can also select an archive file (PAA) via HELiOS. In the File selection list box, select with DB, via document master or with DB, via part master. Click Open archive.

The HELiOS search mask will be displayed. Please note that the selected archive file may only be located in the Vault Server, provided that the server is active.

Selection via HELiOS

If the part file to be loaded contains no language information (this is, for instance, the case with KRA files), the language selection dialogue shown below will be displayed. Select a language and confirm with OK. If you select Cancel, the language used by HiCAD is used as the working language. The selected language name will be entered in the Language field.

Language selection

Use the buttons

Save archive and
Save archive as

to save the part files.

Although a KRA file can be loaded, the saving will always be performed in the form of a PAA file. Saving in a KRA file is not possible.

A PAA file that was loaded from the Vault Server will also be directly saved to the Vault Server.

An status that has not been saved yet is indicated by an asterisk * in the dialogue caption.

If you try to save an invalid state, an appropriate warning message will be displayed. This can happen, for example, if no representation type has been defined in the archive.

Select Close archive to close opened part files again. Then you want to close a status that is still unsaved, you will be asked whether you want to save the changes.

Processing of archives

When you load a PAA archive, representation types will be listed. A red cross means that the representation type is not available. A green checkmark indicates that this representation type exists in the archive. The processing functions refer to the marked list row. Which functions are active depends on whether the selected item marked list row marks a representation type that is available or not available in the archive.

	Re-declare representation type This function cannot be applied to the symbolic representation. You use this function to re-declare graphics files that exist in the archive and to which a particular representation type has been assigned, i.e. you assign a new representation type to them. After clicking this button, a dialogue will al kinds of representation types will be displayed. Select the desired type of representation and confirm with OK.
	Add representation type, via file system Use this function to transfer the graphics files for the selected representation type to the current PAA archive. You select, via the Windows file system, either a different PAA archive or a KRA file as source. A warning will be issued if the source file contains a configuration type that is different from that in the current archive. The function will then be cancelled.
	Add representation type, via document master This function is available if HELiOS is active. You use this function to transfer the graphics files for the selected representation type to the current PAA archive. You select, via the HELiOS document search mask, a different PAA archive as source. The selected archive file can also be located in the Vault Server, provided that the server is active.
	Add representation type, via part master This function is available if HELiOS is active. You use this function to transfer the graphics files for the selected representation type to the current PAA archive. You select, via the HELiOS part search mask, a different PAA archive as source. The selected archive file can also be located in the Vault Server, provided that the server is active.
	Export representation type Use this function to save the graphics files of the selected representation types, together with the corresponding files that are independent from the representation types, to a new PAA archive.
	Delete representation type Use this function to delete the graphics files of the selected representation type from the current PAA archive.