Project: HiCAD Plant Engineering

Creating Individual Parts: Procedure

Besides Plant Engineering parts which are based on a variant and are generated via this variant, you can also create new, individual parts with fixed dimensions. If you want to construct a new, non- parameterised (fixed) Plant Engineering part for the available representation types, proceed as follows:

Please observe the Rules for the creation of the respective part type, as well as the Rules for the creation of symbolic representations.

With the HELiOS Database as part data source:(3 representation types are possible)

1. Construct a hollow body in HiCAD 3-D.
2. Save part as KRA file (without referencing, without part master and document master) to PlantParts\Parts2.
3. Check part with the Check part, Geometry function.
4. Construct a solid body in HiCAD 3-D.
5. Save part as KRA file (without referencing, without part master and document master) to PlantParts\Parts3, with the same name as the hollow body representation.
6. Check part with the Check part, Geometry function.
7. Load the new KRA file from PlantParts\Parts3with the PAA-Editor and modify it as desired (enter attribute values). Save the part, i.e. create a PAA file.
8. Activate the Part data synchronisation function to perform the part data synchronisation with the database.
9. Check the attribute data with the Check parts, Attributes function.
10. Create the symbolic representation with the Symbol Editor and add it to the new PAA file.

With the HiCAD Catalogue as part data source: (2 representation types are possible)

1. Construct a hollow body in HiCAD 3-D.
2. Save part as KRA file („Save as part“, without referencing) to PlantParts\Parts2.
3. Check part with the Check part, Geometry function.
4. Construct a solid body in HiCAD 3-D.
5. Save part as KRA file („Save as part", without referencing) to PlantParts\Parts3, with the same name as the hollow body representation.
6. Check part with the Check part, Geometry function.
7. Load the new KRA file from PlantParts\Parts3with the PAA-Editor and modify it as desired (enter attribute values). Save the part, i.e. create a PAA file.
8. Activate the Part data synchronisation function to perform the part data synchronisation (this function calls the VarToCat tool).

If you want to initially create only one representation type for a Plant Engineering part in order to check whether the part functions in the way you expect it, you can omit three steps in the procedures described above:

• If you initially only require the solid body representation, omit the steps 1 - 3.
• If you initially only require the hollow body representation, omit the steps 4 - 6. Continue with step 7 to load the KRA file from PlantParts\Parts2.

If you want to add another representation type later (here: hollow body), the following steps are required:

1. Construct a hollow body in HiCAD 3-D.
2. Save part as KRA file („Save as part“, without referencing) to PlantParts\Parts2 with a different name than the other representation type.
3. Check part with the Check part, Geometry function
4. Load the new KRA file from PlantParts\Parts2with the PAA-Editor . Do not modify it, but save it immediately, i.e. create a PAA file. (If you have created the solid body representation instead of the hollow body representation, load the new KRA file from PlantParts\Parts3).
5. Now load the PAA file of the representation type that you have first created and tested (here: Solid body) from PlantParts with the PAA Editor . Use the Edit archive option to add the second representation type (here: Hollow body) from the corresponding PAA file. In the PAA Editor, save the - still open - PAA file of the first representation type, whereupon it will contain both representation types. The PAA file of the second representation type is now no longer needed.

Another part data synchronisation will not be required if you have only added the second representation type.

Rules for the Creation of User-Defined Plant Engineering Parts (PE) • Check Part (PE)