Valve annotation not matching data manager

[mdelaney]

When I insert a valve into my DWG using Plant P&ID 2015 through Plant Suite, there appears to be a problem with what is showing in the Edit Annotations verse my Data Manager. Also I'm not sure what I have done, because I was under the impression if you put two item of the same info the drawing, it would alert of the duplication somehow. If someone could help with these two items that would be great, Thanks.

[brian.lund · Accepted solution]

I suspect that the annotation definition does not match the tag definition. If you go into Project Setup and drill down P&ID DWG Settings/P&ID Class Definitions/InLine Assets/Hand Valves and select the valve you are putting in on the right hand side of the screen you will see at the bottom on the left side the tag definition. This is what will show up in the Datamanager. In other words if the tag format selected in the TagFormatName property above this is defined as a tag that is made up of the Area-Type-Loop Number properties then the tag in the Data manager will be this format.

What you see in the the drawing is actually an Annotation. If you look at the bottom right side of this screen you will see whaere the annotations are defined and the one used by default is in the AnnotationStyleName property. The annotation can match the tag if this is the way it is defined but it doesn't have to. You can check the definition of the annotation by seleting the one you are using from the pulldown and clicking Edit Block. Annotations are all blocks that have attributes usually referring to propeties.

I hope this makes sense. If not feel free to shoot me an e-mail.

Brian Lund

PE CAD-Plant Specialist

GEA Process Engineering

Brian.lund@gea.com

[mdelaney · Accepted solution]

Thanks