Blant Design ; Management System Pee Version 14.2 og Training Programme Basic Piping Design : fo CADCERTRE “APDMSgaicnieasssy BA | SEER PLEASE NOTE: + Cadcentre has a policy of continuing product development: therefore, the information contained in this { document may be subject to change without notice. § CADCENTRE MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO THIS DOCUMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND 5 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * While every effort has been made to verity the accuracy of this document, Cadcentre shall not be liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special. incidental or consequentiadamages in connection with the furnishing, performance or use of this material ee SEL cen see a RS RS TOU AAU This manual provides documentation relating to products which you may not have access to or which may not be licensed to you. 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I «Describe the database structure of PDMS. + How the design data is stored. + Navigating around the dalabase. + Explain attributes in PDMS. . + Explain UDA’s (User Defined Attributes) f° + Change/Query attributes. Must Know Points The following points need to be understood by the trainees. © The basic Hierarchy, and the elements that can be created under different ‘owner types. * How to Navigate around the database. * Basic understanding of the concepts of attributes. Origin 0) points and axes. +> Querying the current atwibute settings. + How to change the settings of an attribute. CADCENTRE 7 Protected by copyright: see Frontispiece peepeeSlide2: Describe how PDMS can help you and why you should use it. How PDMS Can Help You The Plant Design Management System - PDMS - is a suite of computer programs that allow you to simulate a fully detailed, full-size model of all the significant parts of a process plant. PDMS allows you to see a fullcolour-shaded representation of the plant model as vvour design progresses, adding an unprecedented level of realism to drawing office techniques. in the computerised model you can store huge amouints of data referring to. sosition, size, part numbers and geometric relationships for the various parts of the plant. This model becomes a single source of engineering data for all of the sections and disciplines involved in a design project. All this information is stored in a database. There are many different output ‘channels from the database through which you can receive information. These range from simple text reports about any plant item, via annotated and dimensioned engineering drawings, to full colour~shaded 3D walk-through ‘capabilities which allow you to visualise your design model engineering drawings Different types of output available from PDMS CADCENTRE V2 ESSN Protected by copyright: see frontispieceEven with the advanced features of PDMS, the main form of communication between the designer and those who build the plant remains the drawings. ‘Without engincering drawings the task of building a plant almost would be impossible. To meet this need requirement, PDMS can produce numerous types of drawing, ranging from complex 3D illustrations to full ly dimensioned arrangement drawings and piping isometries, 7 All the data in PDMS design would be of little value without the ability to ensure the quality of the design information. Indeed, it would be pointless to develop such a large computer system if it could not improve on existing techniques. PDMS contributes to the quality of the design in the following ways: Ensures consistent and reliable component data Pe Ina conventional design environment, using drawing board techniques, the size of each fitting must be decided before it can be drawn. This is a time-consuming process that often leads to expensive errors, which are only found during the erection stage of the project. With PDMS, all piping component sizes and geometry are pre-determined and stored in a catalogue. This catalogue, known as the component catalogue, cannot be changed by the user. This ensures that all * items are true to size and are consistent throughout the design, no matter how many users there are on the project. Adberes to definable engineering specifications Piping specifications and steelwork catalogues stating precisely the components to be used are compiled for the purpose of ensuring consistent, safe and economic design. PDMS has been designed with piping specifications and some steelwork catalogues integral to the system, so that each component you use is selected from. a controlled selection: Ensures correct geometry and connectivity There are many different ways of making design errors, such as incorrect fitting lengths, incompatible flange ratings, or simple alignment errors. PDMS can check all of these as part of a procedure built into the system, which checks that individual parts of a design will fit together. CADCENTRE pee Protected by copyright: see frontispiece ee+ Avoids component interference's Despite a wealth of skill and experience in plant design, traditional drawing office techniques are still subject to human error. Laying out complex pipe runs, and general arrangemenis in confined areas on a 2D drawing board, inevitably leads to clashes between elements which are trying to share the same physical space. PDMS enables you to avoid such problems in two ways: 1, You can rotate your design interactively during the design process, allowing you to visually check the model from different viewpoints and resolve any potential problems as they arise. You can use a powerful clash checking facility within PDMS, which will detect clashes anywhere in the plant. t Extrapolates dimensions only from the design database Extracted information from the PDMS database, such as arrangement drawings, piping isometrics and reports, will always be the latest available as it it is stored only in one source. Through the course of a project, information is constantly changing and drawings need to be reissued. When “this happens, you are able to rebuild your drawings with the minimum of effort, knowing that the information on them is up to date, CADCENTRE Pea Protected by copyright: see frantismieceHow PDMS is Structured Because of jts overall large size, PDMS is subdivided into a number of functional program modules, each of which accesses the database for a different purpose, ‘The modules and their purpose are listed below. DESIGN 3D Model Design DRAFT 2D Drawing Production ISODRAFT Isometric Drawing ADMINISTRATION Project/User Control PARAGON , Catalogue Construction PROPCON * Properties. Construction DESIGN DESIGN is the main, graphical input module within PDMS. You will use DESIGN to build up your model of the plant. The PDMS database contains a three-dimensional description of all items in the plant, Control of component selection is provided by specifications that dictate which components can be used from the catalogue within design. DESIGN enables you to: Create a new design model or additional elements, Modify existing design elements. Interrogate and View the design model i eractively by graphical manipulation Create Reports to detail MTO, project pricing, project timing, custom user defined requirements ete. 5 Run a Clash detection application to check for design elements that interfere with one another. DRAFT ‘ DRAFT is used to create and manipulate drawings, annotation and dimensioning, The annotation can be in the form of labelled design elements, drawi ‘ing notes, or drawing frames, tables and lines as required. The annotation may be attached to a design data element on the drawing such that any change in the 3D position of the element results in the annotation changing with it. Dimensions are projected distances between connecting points (P-Point) in the 3D design. The dimension itself is calculated automatically and is revised every time the drawing is reproduced. You may interrogate the design database through the drawing, but you may not change it in the DRAFT module. CADCENTRE Ped Protected by copyright: see frontispiece ESSN 1-5Example DRAFT output ADMINISTRATION i Large plants designed using PDMS will usually be broken down into individual areas (cither physical areas or design areas), depending on the physical size, complexity and configuration of the plant. On a large Project, the System Administrator will first agree with the Project and Design Management on the breakdown of the Project into sections which: + Ase relevant to the needs of project reporting and control «Form reasonable design subdivisions with sensible matchlines an- design content. © Enable enough designers to work in parallel with simultaneous access to carry out the design. 1-0 ESSN CADCENTRE Protected by copyright: see frontispieceSoy In much the same way as in a design office (with its section leader, Graughtspeople, etc.), PDMS has Teams, the members of which are called Users. These Teams can consist of any number of Users and can be created by discipline ‘or physical areas. 3 ‘The ADMINISTRATION module is used to define the following design areas: + Multiple Databases (MDB"s) + Databases (DB's) + Discipline Areas (Teams, Users) IT It also controls the integrity of the design by lintiting Users to designated design areas. When accessing a module, PDMS reads from various data files The ADMINISTRATION module holds the description for each mowule to be accessed and shows the.way to these data files, as well as determining the type of access a User can expect. ISODRAFT ISODRAFT produces dimensioned symbolic piping isometrics for construction and erection purposes. This module produces isometric drawings in various formats, as required. Its facilities include: + Full material lists. + Automatic spool identification. + Automatic splitting of complex drawings. + User-defined drawing sheets. Many other options that can be selected at the production stage Example ISODRAFT output CADCENTRE is : Protected by copyright: see frontispicee FeetPARAGON PARAGON is used to input and modify the component catalogue stored in the project database. The catalogues in PDMS serve a similar purpose to the manufacturers’ catalogues which you would refer to when using conventional design methods. The PDMS component catalogue is used to specify the geometry, ‘connection information, obstruction and detailing data of steelwork or piping components. : “This module is used to constrict the Component catalogue just as DESIGN is used to construct the design data. The catalogue data is held in a hierarchical manner and special database. It should be noted that, whereas the design data is specific to a particular design, catalogues and specifications may be specific to a company ut general to a number of projects in that company. For example, the same, catalogue component may also appear in other designs proceeding at the same time. PROPCON This module is used to construct a Properties database. The database contains data for use with stress analysis packages and includes: Material properties. .* Component data. = Constraint data = Case data. + Run data. 7 f + ‘The database has been developed to drive all Cadcentre stress packages, but the data structure is designed to provide information suitable for other stress packages if required. CADCENTRE ees Protected by copyright: see frontispieceInterfacing Modules 7 SAINT SAINT creates a control file, which defines the data wansfers needed benveen the PDMS databases and any of a range of standard stress analysis programs. It is used in conjunction with a translation program which is specific to one particular stress analysis package. For example, SAINT_GT interprets the SAINT control file in a format suitable for use with GTSTRUDL. Ser = rene lama lt rr A i CADCENTRE : Protected by copyright: sce frontispiece ESSN 1-9 od =.How PDMS Data is Stored Despite the huge power and potential of PDMS, the database is structured in a very simple and logical form. In fact the PDMS database is 2 purpose built database which is designed specifically for plant design storage. Its structure is based ona rigid hierarchy or tree structure, as illustrated below. A GROUP WORLD, Pyramid Elbo (as for Dish Section Eauioment) ‘Circular Torus Slope-bottomed Cylinder ‘The PDMS Design Database Hierarchy a WORLD When the database is first built, it is empty except for a single item (known as an element in PDMS terms) called the World. The World is a special item of which there can only be one, everything in the design is uhimately owned by the world. os: CADCENTRE eee Protected by copyright: sce frontispiecece ei Rn ee Oey I OL SITES Below the World, in the second level of the hierarchy, is the Site. A Site may be considered as a significant collection of plant, whose size is not necessarily determined by physical area, but by practical considerations. It may, for example be the whole project, or one cell of a large project. You can have many sites within a PDMS project. ZONES ‘The next level below Sites, we have Zones. Again, a Zone is not necessarily used to define a physical area, it is more likely to store similar types of item for easy reference, such as Pipes in one Zone, Equipment in another, and so on. EQUIPMENT, STRUCTURES or PIPES Below the Zone level we have a choice of Equipment, Structures or Pipes. This is the level that, for the user, becomes more significant. This level contains the items that are actually shown on the screen. CADCENTRE Protected by copyright: see frontispiece ESSN 1-11EQUIPMENT Equipment items are built up from a collection of what are known as primitives Primitives are the basic building blocks of all PDMS objects ( i.e. piping components, equipment items, structural sections etc). Each piece of Equipment ‘can comprise of any number of primitive shapes to form the item, For example, 2 vessel may be formed graphically’, of a cylinder. two dishes, two boxes and a nozzle, 2s illustrated below. x2 xb. x2 xd Primitives: Disbes Cylinder Boxes Nozzle Ql Tv Equipment Origin Completed Vessel showing Hes Equipment Origin Construction of a vessel using primitives 2 CADCENTRE H12 ESSN Proteoted he ene: “ight: see frosasniessAt the same level as Equipment, we have: STRUCTURES Structures own fiameworks and sub- frameworks, which allows individual strvctural frameworks within a site to be separated for ease of constructing and reporting FRAMEWORKS 7 Frameworks (and sub-frameworks) are used to store structural items in the model. ‘A.complex structure can be divided into many logical frameworks, or sub- frameworks. Dividing the structure in a logical way into several database elements allows structural reporting and modelling to be carried out with greater discretion. SUBFRAMEWORKS, * Subframeworks are purely optional and are usually used on large or very complex projects to sort the elements contained in a framework. PIPES Pipes may be considered like pipes on a Nlowsheet. They may run between several end connection points and are usually grouped by a common specification. BRANCHES, Pipes own Branches, Branches are sections of a pipeline which have known start and finish points. In PDMS the start and finish points are known as the Head and Tail. Heads and Tails may be connected to Nozzles, Tees,or other Heads and Tails, depending on the configuration of the Pipe, oF left open ended. PIPING COMPONENTS ‘A Branch can own a wide variety of components such as Gaskets, Flanges, Tees, > Valves, Elbows, etc, These form the shdpe and geometry of the Branch and ultimately the pipeline itself. Piping components have a special relationship with piping specifications. For example, each time you want to use 2 100 bore Elbow, PDMS always accesses the data for it from the component catalogue. The data for this remains constant no matter how many 100 bore elbows you use CADCENTRE Provected by copyright: see frontispiece anes