Specification reports

In the Project Environment dialog, in the Specifications folders, you can generate a report for a piping, beam, cable tray, ducting, or insulation specification.

Generating specification reports

Perform the following to generate a specification report. The report file is saved in your workspace, under <username>.wsp/printspool, and named using the pattern <specification>.spc.txt.

Do the following:

  1. In the Project Environment dialog, right-click the specification from which to make a report, and select Report from the context menu.

    If generating a beam specification report, the report is generated immediately and it opens in the default text editor of your system; there are no further actions.

    If generating some other type of specification report, the report window opens. The "reports" field lists the reports that currently exist in the output folder. You can select a report to show it in the preview pane.

  2. In the Format field, select the format control to use.

  3. Select the option Keep each part's sizes together to list the different sizes of a single catalog part in one sequence. If the option is cleared, the report is arranged by nominal size, across different catalog parts.

  4. Click Generate. The report is displayed in the preview pane and saved in your workspace. You can open the output folder by clicking Show Report Directory.

  5. You can select to Print or Delete the report.

  6. Click Close to exit the report tool.

Format control for specifications

Specification reports are generated using a suitable format control defined in Document Production > Format Control.

Specification's header information is output to the following page-related fields if they are defined:

  • Name.
  • Description of the specification.
  • Rating for piping specifications.

The current date is output to the page-related field DATE.

The following general information about components in piping specification is output if they exist:

  • Short code (SC).
  • Component class (CL).
  • Functional description (FC).
  • Partcode (PC).
  • Material (MC).
  • Rating (RT).
  • Standard (ST).
  • Keyword (KW).
  • Name of dimension table (DT).
  • Format for dimensional description (DF).
  • Connection code (CO).
  • Description (DE).
  • Modification time in format dd.mm.yy hh:mm (MT).
  • Lookup Dimensions (LUD).

The output records show how (key) nominal sizes are associated with dimensional descriptions. The following output elements can be defined:

  • KS1 nominal sizes in column 1.
  • DIMD1 dimensional description in column 1.
  • KS2 nominal sizes in column 2.
  • DIMD2 dimensional description in column 2, and so on.

Additional lookup dimensions, if defined, are printed next to the nominal sizes.

The number of KSx and DIMDx elements defines the number of columns to be output on a single line. When there are two nominal sizes they are output in the form "ns1 x ns2".

Example format control object for a piping specification: