Management by PROJECT for the working environments

PlantWAVE has many options to customize the piping GA drawing in the UI stages They are the processing environments for the specific requirements of the output drawing such as drawing standard, company standard, project requirements. PlantWAVE saves these processing environments to a setting file (¡°PROJECT¡± file) at the starting stage, which will be reused to apply the same condition to drawings for the next job.

PlantWAVE has 3 project modes as the followings and user has to select one of them when setup a project in the {Project} stage.

¨ª       PW1

¨ª       PW2

¨ª       PW3 It is not available to support and develop of PW3 mode since 2004

PW1 Mode

The default project mode of PlantWAVE is PW1. It is general style of using PlantWAVE, which will use the drawings generated by PDMS.

 

PW2 Mode

PW2 mode is extended mode of PW1. It may be a little annoying for users to create the drawings using PDMS draft. PlantWAVE offers the easy way to create the drawing in PDMS draft environment without visiting to PDMS.

It is very convenient for the users who are not familiar with PDMS when creating the drawings.

 

PW3 Mode

PW3 is the advanced mode of PlantWAVE. The main feature of PW3 is that the drawings, which will be called HIDDEN drawing in the manual, are created by the HSR(Hidden Surface Removal) processor of PlantWAVE not using PDMS.

The HIDDEN drawings of PW3 represent the pipes as single line and double line with 2D symbols such as elbow, Tee and weld mark etc.

High productivity    

Very fast generation of 2D Piping GA Drawings

It takes in minutes per drawing and possible to apply various options to the same model. It is easy to make the drawings at a short time not only issuing drawings but also for the technical meeting between the departments in the company during the concurrent engineering.

Multiple generations in batch style at a time

It is very important to make multiple drawings at a time. Many drawings will be generated in batch processing by reloading saved setting file (¡°PROJECT¡± file).

Hidden Surface Removal

PlantWAVE has a self-developed HSR (Hidden Surface Removal) processor for 3D Models. You can define the Hidden options such as AutoCAD's layer, components symbol, single/double pipe option by size, etc. in the PlantWAVE UI. These options can be used and managed easily after making the drawing. You can control this function as ON/OFF.

Enhanced 2D Free Space Search & Optimization

PlantWAVE has an intelligent, sophisticated and highly enhanced algorithm to find/update the 2D blank(free) space for the placement location of the labels. It allows you to avoid the interference of the label such as the text string and leaders with other text or geometry in the drawing. You can control these options in the Generation option in the PlantWAVE UI.

The FSS (Free space search) processor of PlantWAVE can control Labeling priority and Labeling control very fast.

Labeling priority

The basic policy of the labels in a drawing is not to overwrite them with each other such as pipes, control valves, pipe supports, nozzles and reducers. It is important to label in good order especially for the intricate drawing. It is normal to control the label of the line number for the pipe as the highest priority because it has the longest text length among others. You can define the priority of the labeling order according to the feature of the drawing. If you reorder the labeling priority, you will get the different annotated drawing even though using the same input.

Labeling control

PlantWAVE has the rules for finding the searching area around the tag item. All labels should be made as shortest as possible from the origin point of tag item. PlantWAVE has 2 types of label control options in consideration of;

¨ª       Searching interval density

¨ª       Searching boundary area

Applying many options to customize the drawing

PlantWAVE has many options to customize the drawing according to the projects. There are 3 types of options groups in PlantWAVE such as managing options, drawing options, runtime options.

Managing multi-views and composite view

PlantWAVE supports multi views, composite views and view-in-view in the drawing.