To Dimension piping components in OpenPlant Isometrics Manager.

Background

Individual dimension for the components on a pipeline is required sometimes for an ease of fabrication and desired by user requirement. OpenPlant Isometrics Manager provides the flexibility to customize the settings to append the desired settings. Below are the steps provided to achieve these settings. It can be experienced using both OpenPlant modeler and AutoPlant Modeler. This has been shown in context with OpenPlant Modeler and OpenPlant Isometrics Manager. However similar approach could be utilized for AutoPLANT modeler and OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, using the isometric Configuration dialog, either using in session from project administrator or from out session using start menu and launching OpenPlant Isometrics Manager.

Steps to Accomplish

1. Launch OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, Select Project unit, say Imperial here.
   
   
2. Open configuration table and click on ‘Advance’ node.
   
   
3. Select ‘Explore style’ to open the Config folder.
   
   
   
   
4. In Config folder open ‘Symbolsizes.def’ file to configure the settings.
   
   
5. Here you need to select the IE_SCALERTYPE. For Reducer the IE_SCALERTYPE shown as STRAIGHT_12.See image below: 
   
   
   
   
6. Save an exit the file and launch the isometric manager. You will see the component get dimension properly on both sides. See image below for reference:
   
   
   
   NOTE: To get the component Scaler type you need to check the component tag details in OPIM. Below are the steps to check this:
   
   1. In OpenPlant Isometrics Manager window, select ‘IsoExtractor’ option and click on ‘Show Tag Data’. See image below:
      
      
      
      
   2. Click on Component tag and under that table you will find the IE_SCALERTYPE for a commponenet. See image below for reference.
      
      
      
      

See Also

http://communities.bentley.com/products/plant/design___engineering/w/plant_design_and_engineering__wiki/12639.modifying-dimension-styles

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