Overview

 Used to generate a support drawing which involves exporting a group of support parts to an output drawing along with descriptive data.

Accessed from:

Drawing Production ribbon group.

Supports can be placed in a group between pipe and steel object using the assembly option in which combinations of support parts are predefined. While placing assembly components are placed as single component but their detail information will get added to BOM Area.

To generate a support drawing from a placed assembly, select the General Support Drawing from the taskbar.

Select an assembly as shown below.

Left-click to accept the pick and the support drawing will be generated and opened in the application as shown:

The support drawing is layed out as defined in the default OPSE_DrawingProduction.dgn which is included with the OpenPlant Support Engineering install. This drawing is stored in the following location:

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OPSE\WorkSpace\Projects\%Project%\Dataset\seed\

Each area in the support drawing displays a different information and the layout can be modified through the template file to appear any way you want.