PDMS Equipment, Piping and Structure Modeling

Luigi Scaringi
What is PDMS?

Plant
Design
Management
System
What is PDMS?

• 3D multi-discipline design software

• Creates full size representations of real
world objects
• Catalogue and Spec driven
• Multi-user database system
• Space management
• Clash free designs
• Cost efficient
• Project deliverables generated from the
model
Output available from PDMS

Detail Drawings
Interfaces

PDMS
Databases

Reports Isometrics
GA Drawings
PDMS Modules - ADMINISTRATION

• Builds project structure

– Users
– Teams
– Databases
– Multiple Databases
• Check Database Integrity
• Reconfigure databases
PDMS Modules - DESIGN

• Main data input module

– View databases graphically
– Create new designs
– Modify existing designs
– Add to and delete from designs
• Interrogate data
• Interactive clash checking
• Specialist applications to assist designers
PDMS Modules - DRAFT

• 2D drawing production
– Not a 2D drafting system
• Drawings created from Design database
• Produce standard engineering drawings
• Complex perspective and sectional views
• Dimension, label and annotate drawings
• Change Design, update Draft
• Automatic Drawing production (ADP)
PDMS Modules - ISODRAFT

• Production of Piping and Cable Tray Isometrics

• Fabrication, erection or combined isometrics
• Bill of Materials
• Weights
• Drawings cannot be edited, new version
generated
PDMS Modules – PARAGON / SPECON

• Create and modify catalogues and

specifications for:
– Piping
• elbows, flanges, tees, valves, etc.
– Nozzles
– Structural
• profiles, fittings, joints & penetrations
– Cable Trays
• bends, tees, risers, fixed length tray, etc.
• Catalogues contain components
• Specifications filter information
PDMS Modules - PROPCON

• Properties database
– Data for calculation and analysis
• Material properties
– Density
– Young’s Modulus
– Expansion coefficient
• Component data
– Weight
– Wall thickness
– Corrosion allowance
PDMS Modules - LEXICON

• Allows creation of User Definable Attributes

• UDA’s enable users to store additional data
against database elements
• For example:
– :MANUF
– :FLOWRATE
– :kW
– :STATUS
PDMS DRAFT

PDMS DRAFT MODULE

PDMS DRAFT
Main Display Window
Draft Explorer
Drawing Window Toolbar
 PDMS DRAFT

• DRAFT HIERARCHY
 PDMS DRAFT

• DRAFT Attributes
 PDMS DRAFT - DRAWING

• Create Drawing EXPLICIT

 PDMS DRAFT - DRAWING

• Create Drawing from Template

 PDMS DRAFT - DRAWING

• Create Drawing from Default template

 PDMS DRAFT - SHEET

• CREATE Sheet Explicit

 PDMS DRAFT - VIEWS

• VIEW TYPES:

– Limit Defined
defined with project coordinates limited by frame size and
view scale

– User Defined View

mange a groups of elements, no limited from frame, scale
can be automatically defined to fit frame area
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View

 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Frame View
- On/Off - On/Off
- Size - Center
- position - Offset
- Align

Graphics
- Drawlist
- Drawlist Ref…
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

– DRAW LIST DEFINITION
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

– DRAW LIST DEFINITION

Select Add Button to define drawlist

 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Graphics  Drawlist Ref..

Apply Selection
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

View Type: Hidden Line Type
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Style: Representation Rule Set
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Hatching Rule
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Change Rules
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

View Direction
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Scale

Sequence to get
a good scale:

1) Autoselect
2) Nearest
 PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• User defined View parameters

Attributes
PDMS DRAFT – User Defined View

• Get Result
PDMS DRAFT – LIMIT Defined View

As User defined view

+
User Define Box Corners
PDMS DRAFT – LIMIT Defined View
PDMS DRAFT – Create Detail View
PDMS DRAFT – Create Detail View

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PDMS DRAFT – Create Detail View
PDMS DRAFT – VIEW Predefined Frames
PDMS DRAFT – 3D VIEW

Open 3D View
PDMS DRAFT – 3D VIEW

3D View Tools

Update 2D View from 3D

Update 3D View from 2D
Select scale
Update 2D View (based on model changes)
Remove element to Draw list
Add element to Draw list

Show Draw list

Show Section Planes

PDMS DRAFT – 3D VIEW

3D View : Other Options

(fly menu from RButton on border)
PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION

There are 3 Section Types:

- Perpendicular Section
- Flat Section
- Stepped Section
PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
PERPENDICULAR SECTION:
Perpendicular sections reference the
view to which they are attached to
PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
PERPENDICULAR SECTION:

Alternative
To update View
 PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
Move Perpendicular Section By Sight:
PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
Move Perpendicular Section By Sight:

Move Cursor over green plane

and click left mouse button

Drag the Model Editor to the desidered position

Then update the View: Graphics Update  Design
PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
FLAT SECTION:
These Sections Have an Orientation Parameter

See effect on Next Slide

PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
FLAT SECTION:
PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
STEPPED SECTION

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PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
STEPPED SECTION

Define steps and

press Esc at the end

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PDMS DRAFT – CREATE SECTION
STEPPED SECTION
PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
Label types:
- general label  text
- symbol label  text and primitives
PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
Label characteristics:

1. Label attachment point: 2D design element

origin to which the label is attached to

2. Label origin: placement position of the label

3. Label Position: 2D position of the label in the

view

4. Leader line: line from the connection point to

the label position

5. Leader line connection point: start of the

leader line
PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
Layer Label Creation

1. Layer for Label are created when a view is

created

2. On purpose with relative Create command

PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
Modify Layer Label Attributes
PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
• Place Generic Label
PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
• Place Generic Label

To modify a placed label (text, text color, leader line

color, etc.) just select it with Create window open
 PDMS DRAFT - LABELS

• Place Generic Label

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PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Place Generic Label
PDMS DRAFT – LABELS
• Modify a placed Generic Label

To modify a placed label (text, text color, leader line

color, etc.) just select it with Create window open
PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Modify a placed Generic Label
 PDMS DRAFT - LABELS

• TEXT LABEL formatting examples

PDMS DRAFT - LABELS

• CHANGE LABEL POSITION: use Modify Mode

Rotate label

Drag label

Split Segment
PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Place Symbol Label

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PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Place Symbol Label

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PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Place Symbol Label

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PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Place Symbol Label

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PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• Place Symbol Label
PDMS DRAFT - LABELS
• End Label
PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Linear Dimension

Select Linear dimension Style

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PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Linear Dimension

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PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Linear Dimension

Press Escape to End dimension chain

PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Change Linear Dimension Position

Give new Position with

Left Mouse Button
PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Add new Reference to an existing
Linear Dimension Position

Sequence:
1. Enter Create Linear dimension tool
2. select previous witness line
3. select reference mode (PPoint)
4. select Create
5. select New Reference to dimension
PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Add Intelligent Text to a Dimension

Sequence:
1. Enter Create Linear dimension tool
2. select LDIM type (all witness lines)
3. select Atts  Definition
PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Add Intelligent Text to a Dimension
 PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Angular Dimension

Select Angular dimension Style

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PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Angular Dimension
 PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Radial Dimension

Select Radial dimension Style

PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Draw Primitives tools
PDMS DRAFT - DIMENSION
Draw Primitives tools
 PDMS Overview

Nick Glynn
Senior VPD Consultant