Overview of Functions (ManBIM)

The functions for the Steel Engineering Drawing Management solution can be found on the Management + BIM tab of the Ribbon. If this tab does not appear on the Ribbon, select Settings

> Ribbon categories and activate the Management + BIM checkbox.

The tab is made up of the following function groups:

Project	Create, Activate, Edit projects
Drawing (New, Article, Save...)	Create, Load, Save drawings; referencing of parts
Drawing (MntDrw, Drawing, Checkup...)	Automatic itemisation of parts; Create, Update/Add parts to production drawings and mounting drawings; checking of drawings, release of drawings and changing of released drawings
Production	BOM generation and export of parts and drawings
HELiOS PDM functions for active drawing	Editing of article and document attributes; updating of title blocks
HELiOS PDM functions for active part	Editing of article and masters; Find/Open linked documents

Project

Create, Activate, Edit projects

Drawing (New, Article, Save...)

Create, Load, Save drawings; referencing of parts

Drawing (MntDrw, Drawing, Checkup...)

Automatic itemisation of parts; Create, Update/Add parts to production drawings and mounting drawings; checking of drawings, release of drawings and changing of released drawings

Production

BOM generation and export of parts and drawings

HELiOS PDM functions for active drawing

Editing of article and document attributes; updating of title blocks

HELiOS PDM functions for active part

Editing of article and masters; Find/Open linked documents

All functions on the Management + BIM tab are largely similar to the same-named standard functions in HiCAD and HELiOS. Extensive information on the HELiOS PDM functions can be found in the HELiOS in HiCAD Online Help. The HELiOS Desktop Online Help provides extensive information on the HiCAD functions in the corresponding sections of the Online Help, such as HiCAD Steel Engineering or HiCAD 3-D.

Please note:

The Management + BIM functionality needs to be active, which will automatically be the case after installation of the Steel Engineering module or a Steel Engineering suite and HELiOS Engineer+. If, however, the Management + BIM tab does not appear on the Ribbon for some reason, please check the appropriate parameters in the Configuration Editor. At Active configuration > PDM > Manageemnt + BIM, the With BIM checkbox must be activated.

Configuration of Steel Engineering Management + BIM
When installing the Steel Engineering suite with Drawing management, activate the Management + BIM checkbox in the Parameter configuration dialogue window. This will automatically configure HiCAD title blocks, drawing frames, BOM-templates and various HELiOS masks appropriately for Drawing Management utilisation. These settings can either be selected for the workstation or for individual users.

If you want to change the workstation or user configuration subsequently, select Start > All programs > ISD Software und Systeme > Administration > User Parameter Configurator or Computer Parameter Configurator, respectively.

HELiOS article master; document master and project for drawings
All Drawing Management functions in HiCAD require that the corresponding HiCAD drawings have been saved to HELiOS with article and document masters, and that they have been assigned to a project.

If the Drawing Management functionality in HiCAD is active, the HELiOS functions for the saving of drawings without article master are inactive. Newly created HELiOS items must always have a article master and document master and need to be assigned to a project.

Article numbers and item numbers of parts
Besides the identification of parts via article numbers, as is usual in mechanical engineering, the Drawing Management functionality additionally manages an item number (integer number) and an item number text in the article master. These can be used for the retrieval of parts and the documents linked to them. The identification of the parts via "project number + item number + index (optional)", as is frequently used in civil engineering, is thus also supported by the Steel Engineering Drawing Management.