Drawing Sheets
A drawing sheet defines the physical dimensions and the general layout of a drawing. It may contain instructions to plot text boxes, symbols, and data tables.
Each text box can be associated with a variable number of data items. When a drawing is generated these data items are retrieved from the header file of the document and plotted according to the box definition. Symbols from a 2D-symbol library can be requested to be plotted with given parameters.
A table is a two-dimensional arrangement of rows and columns. The data appearing in the rows is retrieved from a data file, which may be generated by an ICGD, or it may originate from some other system, or the user may have edited the file. Each table is associated with a document-specific ASCII data file that is output to the table when the drawing is plotted. The names of these files are formed by adding a table-specific extension to the end of the document name. These files provide a way to get information from other systems into the drawings. For example, results of a stress analysis program could be presented in tabular form on the isometric drawing of a pipeline.
ASCII data files that are associated with tables can be characterized as follows:
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They consist of records.
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Each record may contain a variable number of data fields. The end of a record is indicated by an empty data field.
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Data fields consist of two parts: a name and actual data string.
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The name is used to associate a field with a given column in the table.
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Each data field is delimited with a semicolon.
Drawing sheet selection
When you create a drawing and select the ICGD, the sheet to be used is the primary sheet defined in the ICGD. Thus sheets used for one page drawings don't have to be approved for the project, it is enough that the ICGD has been approved for the project.
When you add new pages to the drawing, you have to select the sheet from the sheets approved for the project.
Editing drawing sheets
Choosing sheet for edit from Plant Modeller > File > Environment > All Library and Project opens Sheet Editor tool for editing sheets. With the tool, the drawing sheet can be modified using a graphical tool.
In the Project Environment dialog, selecting to edit a sheet opens the sheet in the default text editor.
