My company is just now making the move to Open Plant. My part in this is using PowerPID to create PIDs that will be used by other departments to build a model of a project (rather than a collection of drawings). My concerns are in two initial, but vital issues (and I'm sure I'm not the first to ask, so be gentle):
1. All objects in a file (or on a drawing) should be intelligent objects
As I understand how this works, the files I create wiill have intelligences and relationships that other departments will build upon. For example, if I place a valve in the file, that valve becomes part of the database within the model and is used directly by piping to begin creating their part of the design.
2. Office and client objects and symbols, including tagging and variance of connector symbols will have to be added.
My experience, whether PowerPID or board drafting that was so last millennium, is: "That's not how I want my drawing to look." Or: "Why can't these look like how we make our drawings?" Obviously there has to be some initial customization to include those items which just aren't in the package out-of-the-box. I guess I'm asking first: is it necessary to have all items (aside from text) that appear on the drawing have intelligence; and second: can this be done with Component Builder such that you can get fairly close to an object with complete intelligence? I have done an initial creation of an object with Component Builder that I reference a drawing into the file, copied the item, and then used Component Builder to add it to one of the libraries. It doesn't have any "intelligence", and i can't attach a nozzle to it. So is it possible to add the intelligence at this point? I don't think a read of the help file say, or not.
Thanks for any guidence in advance!
Mark
