Applies To Product(s): OpenPlant PID Version(s): 08.11.10.XXX Environment: Windows 7 64 bit Area: Installation-Configuration Subarea: Original Author: Harpreet Singh, Bentley Technical Support Group Description A drawing border is necessary for any technical drawing. It defines the margin of the drawing space which is defined in ANSI/ISO and Din standards. The drawing border also contains the drawing header which displays e.g. the drawing name and other information on the drawing. Note: The cell and tag set creation use native MicroStation commands. Basic knowledge of MicroStation is assumed. Import the border DGN file Open the cell library Miscellaneous.cel in the project’s Cell folder. In the main menu select File > Models. The Models dialog box is displayed. Click the Import Models icon. The Import Models from File dialog box is displayed. Select the DGN you want to import. This DGN file only contains one model. Select the model and click OK. Since the name "Default" exists in most DGN files OPPID asks you whether to overwrite the existing model or to rename it. Select the 2 nd option “Automatically rename the incoming model and click Yes. You can now choose to rename the imported model and change the description. Add new tag fields Your company has their own drawing borders and drawing headers. Here is an example of such a drawing header: Most of the fields, such as “Drawn by” and a corresponding date are common in technical drawings. This drawing header has some space for “Remarks”, which does not exist in the drawing headers delivered with the OpenPlant P&ID product. OpenPlant P&ID uses tags to display drawing data. For your own drawing header you need to place those tags in the header. In the Main menu go to Element > Tags > Define. It will open the dialog box as displayed: Select the tag set TITLEBLOCK. Click the Add button on the right side (below “Tags”). Define the tags in below dialog box. Specify as Tag Name “REMARKS1” and also as Default Tag Value “REMARKS1” Click OK. Repeat these steps and also add REMARKS2 and REMARKS3. There is no field for the contract number in the drawing header and you don’t use such a number in your company. Select the CONTRACT_NUMBER tag field and click the Remove button. Click OK to remove the tag field. Close the Tag Sets dialog box by clicking the closer button. Add the tags to the new drawing header If the Custom Border isn’t already displayed select File > Models from the main menu and double click the model. From the main menu select Tools > Text > Open as Toolbox. The Text Tool Box is opened. Click the last icon “Attach Tags” on the right. Select the tag set TITLEBLOCK. Click any graphical object of the drawing header, e.g. its upper line. The Attach tags [TITLEBLOCK] dialog box is displayed showing all tags that are about to be placed. Click Ok. All tag fields appear in one block on the cursor. Place the tags anywhere near the drawing header. Click the Move tool in the Main tool box and move each tag field to its designated location. All tag fields have the same size. The correct size has to be applied to each tag field. Click the Change Text Attributes icon in the Text tool box. Select the text style Document_large_i from the Text Style drop down menu and click the tag field for “Title”. Select the text style Document_small_i and click all other tag fields. All text styles with the suffix _i are optimized for imperial units. The text styles with the suffix _m are optimized for metric units. Add a new class for the custom border using Component Manager tool Close and reopen OPPID by loading or creating a normal DGN. From the main menu select Tools > Managers > Component Manager. The Component Manager dialog box is displayed. Click the Create component from cell tool. Enter a component Class Name and Display Label (optional a description). From the class list select the class Border. Click Next. On the next wizard page select the cell library Miscellaneous.cel and the cell Custom Border. Click Finish. The final step now is to add the new border class to the borders list. For this task you need to work with the Bentley Class Editor. From the main menu select Utilities > Class Editor. The Class Editor is launched. Click the Open Icon. Navigate to the schemas folder of your project and open the schema OpenPlant_PID.01.04 and supplement it with OpenPlant_PID_Supplemental_Imperial.01.04 schema. Go to 1st Border list class. In the right panel right click the “Items” title in the Class Name Display List custom attribute and select the “Add element” option. Scroll down to the bottom. A new item has been created. Enter the following values: Save the changes and close the schema. Now Load the schema OpenPlant_ProjectProperties.01.02 . Go to Document class and Add New Property. Name the property as REMARKS1 and input the display label as Remarks1. Also create the properties Remarks2 and Remarks3. On property REMARKS1 add the "Category" custom attribute. Now add the "Property Priority" custom attribute. Enter the following values. Add the same custom attributes on Remarks2 and Remarks3 properties and change the priority to 20 & 30 respectively. Save the changes in Schema and close class editor. Launch OPPID and verify the result. Comments or Corrections? Bentley's Technical Support Group requests that you please confine any comments you have on this Wiki entry to this "Comments or Corrections?" section. THANK YOU!
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