To-Do List Common Way of Use

This article describes a recommended sequence of processes to utilize To-Do List efficiently.

Preliminary steps

Before starting creating pipelines themselves following steps should be performed:

1. Pipe specification adjustment (P&ID ID)
   First of all it is useful to have values of P&ID ID set in the pipe specifications that are supposed to be used. It is usable not only for automatic fitting placement from To-Do List (see Placing Fittings to CAD for details) but also for creating schemes in Smap3D P&ID (Place from specifications) controlled from the existing pipe specifications definitions.
   
2. Creating final P&ID
   For smooth creation of 3D pipelines it is profitable to have final P&ID created first.

Main workflow

If the pipe specifications and P&ID are ready, the 3D pipelines in CAD should be created as follows:

• Open or create a top-level assembly in .

• Start Smap3D Piping by selecting Run Piping in the Smap3D Piping toolbar.

• Launch To-Do List by selecting Run To-Do List from the P&ID To-Do List toolbar.

• Assign PID project to the top-level assembly (see Assigning P&ID Projects for details).

• Place all outer equipment occurrences to the top-level assembly and assign them to components (see Assigning Components to 3D Occurrences for details).

• Create piping subassemblies for all multi-pipelines and independent pipelines (those not included in any multi-pipeline). See Creating CAD Subassemblies for details.

• Edit a piping subassembly within the top-level assembly (this and the following steps should be performed subsequently for all piping subassemblies).

• Place fittings (see Placing fittings to CAD for details) and draw pipeline paths in CAD. Sequence of these actions can be optimized individually. Using signal points could be very helpful for performing these operations.

• Generate pipeline paths using Generate pipeline paths from Smap3D Piping.

• Assign pipeline paths to pipelines (see Assigning Pipelines for details).

• Generate pipelines (see the Generating a Pipeline topic for details).

• Tune the piping subassemblies and the top-level assembly to best fit your needs.