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ACQUIRING THE INSULATION SPEC PROPERTY FOR 3D LINE


GROUPS IN AUTOCAD PLANT 3D
Posted on JANUARY 13, 2015 10:20 AM by DAVE WOLFE

Some of our clients like to have the insulation display along the pipe run in the isometrics. In order to facilitate
insulation and heat tracing line work being shown, the Insulation Spec and Tracing Spec properties must be
lled out. Since these are separate properties from the Insulation Type and Tracing Type properties, most
clients want to only ll out the Insulation Type or Tracing Type properties. There are two main hurdles to
overcome, rst that while you can add the acquire property to the insulation spec, for some reason, it doesn’t
ll out. Second, by default you can’t remove the InsulationSpec or TracingSpec properties to add your own.

1. Make sure the Line Insulation Display is turned on by turning modifying the isocon g.xml

2. With the project closed (all users out), open the project Piping.dcf database in either SQL management
studio (if you are running SQL Server, or SQLite Expert).

3. Locate the PnPColumnAttributes table, and enter P3dLineGroup for the TableName lter and ISREMOVABLE
for the AttributeName.
4. Set the TracingSpec and InsulationSpec AttributeValve properties to TRUE.

5. Open the project in Plant 3d and go to project setup. Now you can remove the InsulationSpec and
TracingSpec properties.

6. Since we can’t use Acquisition Properties, we have to use calculated elds to get our Insulation Type and
Tracing Type in. Start the PLANTDEFINECALCPROPERTIES command at the command line. Switch to the Piping
tab, select the P3dLineGroup. Enter InsulationSpec for the property name and select String from the
dropdown. You can double-click or type in the Function and property names. Enter ToString(InsulationType) in
the expression box and click Apply. Repeat the process for the TracingSpec property using
ToString(TracingType) for the expression.
7. Verify that selecting the insulation or tracing type lls out the properties using the Data Manager.
8. Running the iso should yield a similar result to this.

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