P&I Diagrams

On the Tools tab, in the External Data group, the P&I Diagrams button opens an object browser dialog that lists the diagrams that have been created with the P&ID application. From this list, you can open a diagram that has been published from P&ID (2024T2 or newer) to Plant Modeller and saved to COS with the option that updates integration. Alternatively, you can open a specific diagram with the Show diagram command described in Managing tree items.

The specified diagram opens in a separate view where you can use the following context-menu commands.

• Select object – Select an object from the diagram view to access object-specific commands.

• Locate in model – Closes the diagram view and zooms to and highlights the selected object in the active work view.

• Browse line – Opens a separate view for browsing the 3D model objects of the selected line.

• Insert to model – Opens the Select Component Model dialog for inserting a component into the 3D model.

• Insert line – Allows inserting the selected line into the 3D model.

• Link to Model object – Allows linking the diagram object to a model object.

• Unlink from model object – Removes the link between the diagram object and model object.

• Switch diagram – Opens the other diagram the selected connector is linked to.

• Background color

  • Select custom – Opens the Drawing Background and Highlight Colors dialog of P&ID for adjusting the diagram background and highlight colors.

  • Reset to default – Restores the default diagram background and highlight colors.