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Revision History
Date Version Notes
October 2003 11.5 Updated to incorporate the Design Explorer and the new view
manipulation facilities introduced at this version of PDMS.
August 2004. 11.6 Miscellaneous fixes and updates to Design Explorer.
This guide introduces the facilities provided by AVEVA for the creation of Pipe
Hangers and Supports and their incorporation into Specifications which make them
accessible to other PDMS designers. A key feature of the guide is a hands-on
tutorial exercise which is incorporated throughout.
This guide does not give step-by-step instructions on how to carry out every specific
support design function, since you can access such information as you work by
using the on-line help facilities incorporated into the programs graphical user
interface.
If you are not yet familiar with the use of the PDMS Design module, it is
recommended that you first work through one or more of the discipline-specific
getting started guides (Pipework Design Using PDMS, Structural Design Using
PDMS, etc.) and practise using the various Design applications. You need to be
proficient in the use of Design before you try to create hangers and supports for use
by others. You also need to be familiar with the main principles of managing
Catalogues and Specifications in PDMS databases using the Paragon and Specon
modules.
This manual assumes that you are familiar with PDMS Design to the level of
AVEVA's Basic Training Course. In addition, it will help if you have some
knowledge of the PDMS Design Structures applications, and you are advised to
work through the tutorial in the manual Structural Design Using VANTAGE PDMS.
To use Automatic Drawing Production, you need to be familiar with PDMS Draft.
1.1.1 Assumptions
For you to use this guide, the sample PDMS project, Project SAM, must be correctly
installed on your system, and you must have read/write access to the project
databases.
It is assumed that you know:
Sans-serif bold for menu names and options, and for the names of forms.
Typewriter for text within a form, including text that you enter yourself using
the keyboard.
1.3 Terminology
You can switch rapidly between the different parts of the program, so that the
distinctions between them become almost imperceptible, but you need to recognise
what is happening when you select from the different functions available to you
from the various menus.
The following terms are used throughout this guide to describe what action to carry
out:
Enter Type text into the specified dialogue box, then press the Enter (or
Return) key to confirm the entry.
Click Place the mouse cursor over a specified point, then quickly press
and release the designated mouse button. If no button is specified,
use the left-hand mouse button.
Drag Place the mouse cursor over a specified point, then press and hold
down the required mouse button while moving the cursor to a
second specified point. Release the button over the second point.
Double-click Place the mouse cursor over a specified point, then click the left-
hand mouse button twice in quick succession.
Chapter 3 tells you how to log in to PDMS and introduces its user interface
Chapter 5 describes how to start up the application and also how to set some
administrative options. It also summarises the Hangers and
Supports database hierarchy, which is shown in more detail in
Appendix B.
Chapter 6 is a tutorial which covers the basics of creating the steelwork and
hangers for a typical goalpost support, checking the support, and
producing a support schedule.
The guide concludes with an Index, allowing you to refer back to any specific topics
about whose details you need to be reminded.
In VANTAGE PDMS, you have a powerful suite of facilities for the modification,
design validation and documentation of logically interconnected steelwork and/or
concrete structures.
The emphasis is on maximising both design consistency and design productivity:
The design modelling functions incorporate a degree of apparent intelligence
that enables them to make sensible decisions about the consequential effects of
many of your design choices. This allows you to implement a sequence of
related decisions with a minimum of effort.
You can incorporate modifications into your design at any stage without fear of
invalidating any of your prior work, because data consistency-checking is an
integral part of the product. PDMS automatically manages drawing production,
material take-off reports, and so on, by reading all design data directly from a
3.1 Logging in
This is the first step of the tutorial exercise. If you do not know where the PDMS
program is stored on your system, you will have to contact your system
administrator at this point.
Exercise begins:
Ignore any entries currently shown in this form. The next section describes
how to complete the boxes, and the exercise continues afterwards.
You use the mouse to steer the graphics cursor around the screen and to select or
pick items by using the mouse buttons. The buttons perform different tasks
depending on the type of window, and the position within the window, where the
cursor is positioned. The appearance of the cursor changes according to the type of
display item that is underneath it.
The left-hand mouse button has three functions:
On a graphical view, clicking the left-hand button with the cursor over a design
element results in that element becoming the current element (that is, the design
item on which you want to carry out the next operation).
In a sequence of menus, dragging with the left-hand button activates the
command represented by the highlighted menu option when the button is
released.
On a form, the effect varies according to what you select.
The middle mouse button is used primarily to manipulate a graphical view; the
right-hand button is used to access the menu options specific to the graphical view
window.
Note: the right-hand mouse button menu will henceforth be referred to as the
shortcut menu.
When you first open a form which contains text boxes, the first text-box on the form
is current and a text editing cursor (a vertical bar) is displayed in the box. A text-box
often contains a default entry (such as unset) when first displayed. Some text boxes
accept only text or only numeric data, and entries with the wrong type of data are
not accepted.
To enter data into a text box:
Click in the box to insert the text editing cursor.
Type in the required data, editing any existing entry as necessary. (You may
need to delete the existing entry first.)
When you have finished, confirm the entry by pressing the Enter (or Return)
key. Any text box with an unconfirmed setting is highlighted by a yellow
background.
To change the setting, click on the down arrow or button face to reveal the full list
of available options, then pick the required option.
Exercise continues:
You must specify which files to load at startup. You can choose either the
application default settings (Load from Macro Files) or a customised
setup saved during an earlier session (Load from Binary Files).
Design templates are stored in a Design database rather than in a Catalogue
database, so enter the Design module by loading its appware from Macro
Files.
When you have entered all the necessary details, the form looks like this:
Design Explorer
This shows your current position in the PDMS database hierarchy. To
move to a different point in the database, you click on the appropriate item
in the list. For full details of the facilities offered by the Design Explorer
see the PDMS Design online help.
3D Graphical View
This is the window in which you display the design model graphically as
you build it. A pop-up menu (which you access with the right-hand mouse
button) enables you to control how the model is represented. This window
also has its own tool bar.
Status Bar
This displays information about the current status of your operations.
You can reposition or minimise these windows at any time using standard window
management facilities.
Throughout this guide, related selections from menus are abbreviated form using the
> symbol as a separator. For example:
Select Position>At>Explicit means:
8. Select Position from the bar menu.
9. Select At from the resulting pull-down menu
10. Move the cursor to the right and select Explicit from the resultant submenu.
The tool bar is displayed immediately below the main menu bar in the application
window. It contains a number of icon buttons which let you carry out common tasks
without searching for the options in the menus.
The actions of the buttons are explained in the on-line help. If you pause the cursor
over a button, a tool-tip pop-up box will remind you of the function of the button.
To activate a button, you click on it.
Note: The tool bar can be switched off, or displayed with larger icons. To do so,
select Settings>System from the main menu bar and then set the required
options on the resulting System Settings form.
The Design Explorer presents a hierarchical view of the PDMS databases and
makes navigating around the Design Database quick and easy.
The figure below shows a typical example of the information the Design Explorer
displays:
You can drag-and-drop elements within the Design Explorer to copy them, or you
can drag-and-drop from the Explorer to add elements to the 3D view and My Data.
The Current Element is highlighted in the tree view and the Current Element will
change to follow selections made elsewhere, even if the Explorer is not the active
window. If you set the Expand to CE check box in the Explorer Settings, the tree will
automatically expand to show the Current Element if it is not currently in view.
The Current Element is also the displayed in the History List, which you will find by
default on the main menu bar. However, you can undock the History List and have it
as a free-floating window. The figure below shows the History List as a free-floating
window.
You can make another element the Current Element using the History List by:
The status bar displays messages telling you what actions the application is carrying
out. You should look at it frequently, especially if the system appears to be waiting
for you to do something, since it will always prompt you for any input or action
which is required to carry out the next step of your current activity.
If the prompt lets you repeat a task an unspecified number of times, such as picking
a selection of items using the cursor, you must press the Escape key when you have
finished to indicate that you are ready to move to the next operation.
Forms are used both to display information and to let you enter new data. Forms
typically comprise an arrangement of buttons of various types, text-boxes, and
scrollable lists. Input to a form is usually via a combination of mouse and keyboard.
While you have access to a form, you can change a setting, return to the initial
values, accept and act on the current data, or cancel the form without applying any
changes, according to the nature of the form.
You were introduced to text boxers and drop-down lists in Section 3.3; this section
describes the remaining boxes, buttons and lists:
option buttons
check boxes
scrollable lists
action buttons.
To change the selected option button in a group, click the required button.
Unset
Cancels any changes you have made to the form, and closes the form.
Tells PDMS to accept the current form settings, and leaves the form
displayed for further use.
Cancels any changes you have made to the form, and leaves the form
displayed for further use.
Some forms contain more specific types of control button which carry out particular
command options. The action is indicated by the name of the button (such Add or
Remove).
Alert forms are used to display information such as error messages, prompts and
requests for confirmation of changes. You should respond by carrying out the task
prompted for, or by clicking on the control buttons on the form (usually an OK or
Cancel button).
Most bar menus end with a Help option. Where available, on-line help gives
detailed instructions on how to use the forms and menus from which you control
each application.
Choosing one of the Help options will bring up the Help window. The picture below
shows a typical example of what you will see:
The pane on the right shows by default a clickable image of the main PDMS Design
window. If you click on an area of the image, the image will be replaced by text that
describes the part of the image you clicked on.
The left pane contains a set of tabs that allow you to use Help in different ways.
Choosing one of the options described below activates the relevant tab for you so it
is at the front when the Help window comes up.
The Help option gives you the following choices from its submenu:
Help>Contents
This displays the Help window so that you can find the required topic from the
hierarchical contents list.
Help>Index
This displays the Help window with the Index tab selected, so that you can browse
for the topic you want to read about from the alphabetically-arranged list. You can
locate topics quickly by typing in the first few letters of their title.
Help>Search
This displays the Help window with the Search tab at the front so that you can find
all topics containing the keywords you specify.
Help>About
This displays information about the current operating system on your computer and
about the versions of PDMS and its applications to which you have access.
Pressing the F1 key at any time will display the help topic for the currently active
window.
Exercise continues:
11. Experiment with each of the Help options until you understand the search and
navigation facilities for finding specific items of information. Use the
Help>On Context option to read the help texts for any forms which you can
currently see on your screen.
12. When you are ready to continue, close any forms which you have been
experimenting with as follows:
If a form has a Dismiss button, click this button.
If a form has its own menu bar, select Control>Close from that menu.
Close any Help windows which are displayed by double-clicking in the
control box in the top left-hand corner of each window. Alternatively,
select File>Exit from the Help window menu bar.
Do not close the Design Explorer or the 3D View windows, because you will use
these in the next parts of the exercise.
You are advised to make full use of the on-line help facilities whenever you want
clarification of any operations during the later steps of the exercise.
The Pipe Hangers & Supports applications form part of a family of engineering
design applications for use with AVEVA's PDMS 3D solid modelling plant design
system. They enable designers to model pipe supports in considerable detail, from a
range of user-configurable standard designs, using an extensive catalogue of support
components. Standard supports are issued against standard drawings, and a support
schedule may be produced, showing a variety of user-defined data, including
parameterised support dimensions.
Support creation can include both the structural steel and the hanger components
themselves. For example, a goalpost support may consist of three or more steel
sections and their joint details, together with spacers and U bolts. A hanger-only
support could consist of lug, rod, turnbuckle and pipe clamp.
The applications can check all aspects of the design as work progresses, including
on-line interdisciplinary clash detection.
User customisation can be applied to automatic support numbering and
classification.
A support is first located by positioning a plane in the 3D model. The quickest way
of doing this is by identifying the piping to be supported in a graphical view.
Support location and orientation can be determined by the position of a piping
component, by a distance from a previous support, or by explicit coordinates. Each
pipe to be supported is identified, and the hanger type (e.g. grip or non-grip U bolt,
clamp, etc.) is chosen for each. In this context, hanger is used to mean the
component attaching to the pipe, and can include support from above or below. Thus
a single support can include a number of hangers: one per pipeline.
Having located the support and identified the supported lines, a basic support
configuration is chosen from a set of specification-based standards. These can be
user defined, but a sample set is provided, including a one- or two-level goalpost, a
braced cantilever, an L bracket, etc.
The configuration determines the basic shape and jointing information. It may be
standard (with parameterised dimensions) or special. The dimensions of a standard
support template can be changed, but it cannot have extra members added. Special
templates can be modified by adding members for further support or bracing, and
changes to jointing information or support dimensions.
Supports which have no steelwork (such as a spring hanger with rods and clamps)
use standard hanger configurations defined by the Hangers & Supports administrator
(a sample set is provided). The designer selects the attachment points on the pipeline
and the structure, and chooses the hanger configuration from a specification. All
components within the hanger are then selected automatically from a hanger
specification, sized, orientated and connected together. Some user interaction may
be prompted for if design parameters are required; for example, spring presets.
4.5 Utilities
In addition, a selection of the PSL Variable Effort Supports are also supplied,
including Top Suspended (3 types) and Base Mounted (1 type). All spring types and
working ranges are covered. The application allows the designer to enter the
working load at design time to ensure that correct component sizing takes place for
material take-off. The catalogue has full component and material descriptions,
ordering codes, and where necessary, details additional components which need to
be ordered apart from the main item itself (e.g. locknuts, bolts). A specification will
be supplied which includes all the components available in this catalogue.
PDMS generates drawings by using live links to the design data to ensure that new
drawings always reflect the current state of the progressing design model. As the
design progresses, up-to-date industry standard engineering drawings, to
international standards, can be created on demand.
The Hangers & Supports application for use with Draft provides fully automatic
production of annotated and dimensioned fabrication drawings for hangers and
supports, incorporating location plans, full material take-off, and support schedules.
A range of user customisation options are available, with basic drawing layout being
controlled by a user-defined backing sheet. Only minimal user post-processing (such
as tidying label positions) is required to complete a drawing.
Drawings may be created in either batch or interactive mode.
13. Enter Design and select Design>Hangers & Supports from the main menu.
You will see:
14. The Default Specifications form. Select the Hanger Specification Pipe
Supports Ltd from the scrolling list.
15. The Default Steel Specifications form. Select the Support Steel
Specification British Support Steel from the scrolling list.
Note that the default specifications are shown below the tool bar.
19. Select File>Save to save the settings in the current file (shown at the top of
the form) or File>Save As to save as a new file.
20. Click Dismiss to close the form.
The main administrative element for a Support or Hanger is the Restraint (REST).
The Restraint name is the name of the support. All Support database elements are
linked by references and any part of the support can be traced back to the Restraint:
see the diagram below:
SITE
/DEMO/H&S
ZONE ZONE
/DEMO/H&S/STEELWORK /DEMO/H&S/RESTRAINTS
STRU REST
/STRUCTURES /P-ABC999-0001
In the Hangers & Supports application, Restraints are created under Zones. The
Hangers (HANG elements) are owned by a Restraint. Restraints have a similar
function to Pipes, and Hangers have a similar function to Branches.
Hangers connect pipework to steelwork or civils. Hangers connect to Fittings (FITT)
in the steelwork or civil and ATTAs in the pipework. Restraints contain all the
Hanger (pipe-to-steelwork connection) information.
Every Support assembly has an associated Framework. The Framework (FRMW)
owns at least one Subframework (SBFR): if the Hangers in the assembly are in
different planes, you will need to create a Subframework for each plane. The
Subframework contains all the steelwork data. Frameworks are owned by Structures
(STRUC) or Substructures (SUBS).
The examples in this manual are based on the MDB /HANGER, supplied with the
product, which contains the following Sites and Zones:
WORLD
DEMO/SITE
/STEEL
DEMO/SITE
/EQUIP
The Site DEMO/SITE contains the model which will be the starting point for the
tutorial. This includes Zones which contain Pipes, Primary Steelwork and Civils.
The Site DEMO/H&S contains empty Zones where the Hangers and Supports you
create will be stored.
The Site HS-ADMIN contains construction aids for you to use when adding the
Hanger and Support elements to the model supplied.
SCTN
HANG
Two toolboxes are provided to help you use the commonest options in the
Application. All the steps can be carried out by selecting options from the main
menu: the toolbox is a quick method of displaying the forms you need in the order
you need them.
The Support Creation toolbox helps you to
create support assemblies. To display it, select
Utilities>Toolboxes>Support Creation from
the main menu.
Selecting each icon in turn will display the sequence of forms you need.
The General toolbox provides general utilities
which help you to create support assemblies and
individual hangers. To display it, select
Utilities>Toolboxes>General from the main
menu.
The support assembly which you are going to create consists of a two-level goalpost
support for five pipes. It is shown in the following diagram.
PIPE-SAM-100-1
PIPE-SAM-100-2
PIPE-SAM-100-3
PIPE-SAM-300-1
PIPE-SAM-250-1
Stanchion direction
Pipe
Support plane
Select the first icon on the Support Creation toolbox. The Position Support Plane
form is displayed:
You need to position the plane with respect to the pipes which will be supported.
30. Give an initial position for the support plane by selecting Pipe>Select from
the menu on the form and picking one of the Pipes which will be supported.
The name of the Selected Pipe is shown at the top of the form.
31. Move the plane to gridline Q by selecting Gridline from the list under the
Cursor button, then click Cursor and use the pointer to pick gridline Q.
You may need to manipulate the view to see the appropriate gridline; use the
facilities available from the 3D View shortcut menu.
32. Set the Distance option list to Through, set the Element list to
Gridline, click the arrow and pick gridline Q. The Move Direction
will now be given as E.
33. Click Move to move the plane.
34. Check that the settings on the form are as given in section 6.1. (If any of them
are different then change them accordingly; in particular, the Support
Origin may differ, dont forget to Move the support plane if you have to
change its origin.)
35. Close the form.
36. If you have not already done so, switch off the display of the support plane by
selecting the first icon on the General toolbox. This icon toggles the support
plane on and off.
38. The Support Class form is displayed. Select Pipes only and OK the form.
Note: The Support Class form is not displayed if classification has been
switched off by the System Administrator using the Classification Field
form.
39. The Name Support form will be displayed, showing a name generated from
the default you set on the User Defaults form. For example, If the default is
ABC999, the name generated will be P-ABC999-0001. Click OK. The default
name for an automatically generated drawing is also shown.
Note : If you make a mistake, and you want to delete the Support and start again,
select Delete>Support from the main menu. This will delete the whole
support tidily. You should not delete template members using the normal
Delete option on the main menu.
ZONE ZONE
/DEMO/H&S/STEELWORK /DEMO/H&S/RESTRAINTS
STRU REST
/HSDEMO/SUPPORT-STEEL /P-ABC999-0001
FRMW
/P-ABC999-0001/FRMW
SBFR
/P-ABC999-0001/SFBR1
43. The name of the Support is shown at the top of the form.
Other parts of the form are:
Member Type which defines the type of Member you are going to create
(stanchion or cross-member).
Member Direction which tells you the direction the Member will have.
The direction is determined by the direction of the pipes being supported.
Hanger Direction which allows you to set the Hanger Direction. The
hanger direction depends on whether the pipes are above or below the cross-
member supporting them. See the figure below:
The Action list allows you to create and delete Members, and to create
Hangers. Once you start creating a Member, the options change to allow you to
create Hangers on that member, as described below.
Note : If you make a mistake, you can delete a Member by setting the Action
button to Delete Member. Remember that if you want to delete the
Support and start again, select Delete> Support from the main menu.
44. Set the Hanger Direction to D.
45. Select Create Member from the Action list.
46. The Action option list selection will change to Create Hanger, and a
message will appear at the bottom of the form confirming the type of Member
created and the Hanger direction. For example: Creating Cross
Member with Hanger Dir D.
47. Select Create Hanger, and you will be prompted to pick a Pipe. Pick the
Northern-most 100 bore Pipe. The Set Hanger Configuration form will
appear.
48. Set Spec to CADC Template
49. Set Hanger Category to Bolted
50. Set Hanger Configuration to U Bolt to Grip
The form should now appear as shown below:
Note that at this stage, an Attachment Point (ATTA) is also created as a member of
PIPE/SAM-100-3/B1. The steelwork for the support is positioned at the minimum
hanger length from the Pipe.
51. Now you want to create another Hanger with the same configuration, so select
Copy Last Hanger from the Action list on the Create Template
Members form, and pick the centre 100 bore Pipe of the three. The Set
Hanger Configuration form will not be displayed. Now select Copy Last
Hanger again, and pick the third 100 bore Pipe.
52. You have now created all the Hangers for all the Pipes supported by this
cross-member. Select End this Member. The Action option list will
return to showing Create Member.
53. Next, create the template member for the lower Pipes. Select Create
Member and then Create Hanger, and pick one of the Pipes. The Set
Hanger Configuration form will be displayed again: use the same
configuration (i.e. OK the form). Select Create Hanger again, and pick the
last Pipe. OK the Set Hanger Configuration form and select End this
Member from the Create Template Members form.
54. When you have created all five hangers, select Control>Close on the Create
Template Member form. The relevant part of the Design Explorer hierarchy,
and a diagram of the template we have just created, are shown below.
55. Select the Create Support Template icon on the Support Creation toolbox.
The Support Configuration form will be displayed, with the name of the
Support being configured shown at the top of the form:
56. Within the Specification you have selected, there are three Types of
configuration:
Goalposts have two stanchions and varying numbers of cross-members.
Cantilever supports have one or two cross-members, and optionally a
bracing member.
L-brackets have a stanchion and one or two cross-members.
You should choose the configuration closest to the one you require. You must define
all the members in the template: for example, if you choose a 2-level goalpost you
must specify at least two levels of pipes.
The Configurations list shows configurations for the selected configuration
type. The picture on the form shows a parameterised diagram of the configuration
type. The Joint Type under the list shows the joint type for the selected
configuration.
The Support Type can be set to Standard or Special. You can change the
sizes of the members of a standard support but you should not add extra members.
When you have configured the support, the parameters will be shown in the text
boxes below the picture. You can change them if you need to: this is illustrated in
the example in Chapter 8.
The Invert and Mirror buttons reconfigure the support, and any members which have
been added to the template will be removed. This means that you should orientate
the support correctly before adding any extra members to the template.
Invert changes the stanchion direction (and also the principal direction).
The next step is to connect the template by attaching the stanchions to the floor.
62. Select the sixth icon on the Support Creation toolbox. The Modify Support
Template form will be displayed. (If the current element is not part of a
support assembly, you will be prompted to pick a member of the support.)
64. Select the Anchor to Civil icon . You will be prompted to pick an anchor
point and the civil for connection. Repeat this process to connect both the
anchor points to the floor.
Before you add extra members to the support template, you should understand how
the members of the template are connected to each other.
Each member has a Start and an End. Each start and end has a Connection type,
which can be Attached, Anchored, Owner or None.
The connections between one template member and another are Joints. Each Joint
has an Owner and an Attached member. If you are going to add members to a
template, the current element must be the element which owns the Joint.
Select the member you want to check from the scrolling list of SCTNs, or select the
arrow button and pick the member in the graphical view.
The information is given on the Check Member Connection form.
65. Select Check>Support on the menu at the top of the Modify Support
Template form, and the Check Member Connections form will be
displayed.
66. Select a member in the scrolling list, and the information about the member
will be shown on the form. The Start and End of the member are shown by
letters in the graphical view.
67. Select the seventh icon on the Support Creation toolbox. The Steel Profiles
form will be displayed.
68. The support name is shown at the top of the form. The Support Steel
Spec list is set to British Support Steel.
69. Select Channel from the Profile Type list.
70. Select the 76x38RSC profile from the Permissible Profiles scrolling
list.
71. Select All from the Member option list, and then click Apply. Click YES
on the resulting Confirm message. The profile will be applied to all members.
72. Check Clear button checks the clearances. Click this button. If there is a
problem, the Check End Clearances form will be displayed, showing the
required and actual clearances. Clicking Apply will move the sections to the
required clearances.
Note: The clearance checking will only move the steelwork outwards. It may
still appear to intersect the pipes until the support is built; see Section
6.9.
73. When you have applied the profiles to the support, you can orientate each steel
section if necessary. Select Ori and the Set Steel Orientation form will be
displayed.
When you have created and configured a support assembly, you must build it.
Building supports creates the hanger components, selects, orientates and positions
them. and checks that their lengths and degrees of freedom are suitable.
74. Select the bottom icon on the Support Creation toolbox.
79. Click Create Hanger. When prompted, pick the Pipe PIPE/SAM-600-1.
The Position Hanger form will be displayed, showing the name of the
element being supported, in this case the Branch, and the direction of the
element (East).
80. Position the Hanger by selecting Through from the Distance option to
list, selecting Gridline from the Element option list, then clicking
and picking gridline G. OK the Position Hanger form.
81. You will be prompted to pick a civils element for the connection: pick the
floor.
82. Confirm the Classification (Pipes only) from the Support Class
form and the Support Name from the Name Support form.
83. The Set Hanger Configuration form will be displayed. Fill it in as shown
below:
84. Click OK on the Set Hanger Configuration form and the Hanger position will
be displayed as a dashed line. You will be prompted to confirm that you want
to build the Hanger.
85. The CHOOSE form will be displayed for each of the Hanger components for
which there is a choice in the specification:
OK the CHOOSE form.
(Use Settings>Choose Options to set Selection Criteria to include
working load.)
The Support Load form will be displayed: you must give a suitable value, for
example, 80000 N. OK the form.
The CHOOSE form reappears. For the circular hollow section pedestal, choose
an outside diameter of 323.9 (CHS PEDESTAL 323). OK the form. The
Hanger will then be completed as shown:
This exercise illustrates how to create a support for pipes or other items running in
two different directions.
The Branches which will be supported are SAM-250-1 and SAM-300-1, which run
North-South along the West side of the Site and then turn and run West-East along
the South side of the Site.
You will need to create two Subframeworks, one for each pipe direction.
You will need to use a combination of templates to obtain the right number of
stanchions. In this case, use a goalpost template for the first Subframework,
supporting the Pipes running North-South, and an L-bracket template for the
second Subframework, supporting the Pipes running East-West, then join the
unattached ends of the L-bracket to one of the stanchions of the Goalpost.
See the following diagram:
The sequence of operations will be slightly different, because the first subframework
must be positioned and configured correctly, and the steel profiles applied and
clearances checked before the second subframework is started. Following a similar
sequence of operations to that given in Chapter 6, carry out the following steps:
86. Position the support plane for the North-South pipe run.
87. Move the plane to a clearance of 250 mm in front of the Element ELBO 5 of
PIPE/SAM-250-1/B1.
88. Create the Framework.
89. Create the Subframework.
90. Create the template member in the usual way, with Hanger direction Up.
91. Configure the support as an N-level goalpost with the stanchions pointing
down.
92. Change the length of the cross-member (dimension C on the Support
Configuration form) to 2000, locking the start.
93. Attach the anchor points to the floor.
94. Apply the steel profiles, for example, 203x76RSC, and check clearances. It is
important that clearances are correct at this stage, because the second
Subframework must be aligned with the stanchion of the first Subframework.
95. Position the support plane for the East-West pipe run.
96. Move the plane through the East stanchion of the first Subframework.
97. Create the Subframework.
98. Click on the Support Creation toolbox. The Select Section Plane form
will be displayed, listing the two subframeworks. Choose the second one.
Note: The Select Section Plane form will be displayed every time you
change the support in any way, so that you can select the correct
subframework.
101. Click on the Modify Support Template form to make the anchor point
on the end of the cross-member into a free end.
102. Click and extend the cross member through the Stanchion of the first
support and, when prompted, confirm that the member should be connected.
103. Click to make the joint, picking the stanchion as the owner and the cross-
member as the attached member.
For this exercise, create a 2-level goalpost support for the three pipes running North-
South on the East side of the site. These are:
PIPE/SAM/50-1
PIPE/SAM/80-1
PIPE/SAM/80-2
Now you can create a brace member, 100 mm above the top cross member at a 45
degree angle to the new vertical members, as shown in the following diagram. The
start and end points of the section are shown.
Looking North
End Start
45
100
Start End
Start End
114. Click , on the Modify Support Template form. You will be prompted to
pick the Owner of the new member: pick one of the main stanchions. The
Create New Template Member form is displayed
115. For the start connection, change the From Start option on the Create New
Template Member form to Position. The Position Member Start form
will be displayed:
Set the position of a new support plane (SBFR). The Position Support Plane form
will be displayed.
Create new support (FRMW & REST). if autoclassification is switched on, displays
the Support Class form. When you click OK on the Support Class form, or if
autoclassifcation is switched off, the Name form will be displayed. When you click
OK on the Name form, a Framework element and a Restraint element will be
created.
Creates a Subframework at the currently set position, which stores the support plane.
Create template members from selected pipes. The Create Template Members
form will be displayed.
Apply profile to template members. The Steel Profiles form will be displayed.
Perform maximum span calculations for a support SBFR and highlight pipes
accordingly. The Max Span form will be displayed.
Show X, Y and Z axes for the current support SBFR. The Support Axes form will
be displayed.
ZONE ZONE
/DEMO/H&S/STEELWORK /DEMO/H&S/RESTRAINTS
PIPE
SAM-100-1
STRU REST
/STRUCTURES /P-ABC999-0001
BRANC
STLREF
S
HAM-100-1/B1
FRMW
/P-ABC999-0001/FRMW HAN HAN ATT
SUPREF HANG1
G HANG2
G SAM-100-1/B1/01
A
HREF CREF
SBFR
/P-ABC999-0001/SFBR1 TREF
FITT
FITT1
CREF
The current defaults file is shown in the Defaults area near the top of the form;
the settings defined in this file are loaded automatically when you enter Draft. You
can change the default settings by selecting the options on the Default_Settings
menu at the top of the form.
The Batch Dir/Macro text boxes show the default file in which the drawing
parameters will be stored if you save a macro without giving it a name.
The Message Dir/File text boxes show the file which will be used as the
message file during batch macro execution. When processing has been completed,
this file will contain a progress report of each drawing production cycle, together
with any error messages output.
The Log Dir/File text boxes show the file which will be used as the log file
during batch macro execution. This file is a standard PDMS alpha log file which
records the output response to each macro command line.
Enter the element to be checked in the Check text box. You can use the CE button
or type in the name. The element can be a single restraint or a higher level element
above a restraint.
To start checking, click Check.
Any messages will be displayed in the scrolling text pane. If there are no errors
which would affect drawing the restraint, the message NO DATA
INCONSISTENCIES will be given.
If you want to save the list of messages to a file, select File>Save As from the
menu. When the file has been saved, the filename will be shown at the top of the
form.
find this method efficient only for one-off drawings, since the drawing
execution times are longer than those for batch mode.
If you wish to produce many drawings, you can save all the current settings for
the content and format of the drawings to a macro file. You can then run the
macro file in batch mode to produce the drawings.
To generate a drawing of the hangers and supports defined by the current
Restraint list, click Process Now on the H&S Batch Macro Generation
form. The format of the drawing will be as defined by the current default settings
and the drawing will be stored under the Draft Registry defined by the H&S
Drawing Registry setting on the H&S Overall Defaults form.
See the PDMS Design online help for full details of this form.
See the PDMS Design online help for full details of this form.
See the PDMS Design online help for full details of this form.
See the PDMS Design online help for full details of this form.
3D view, 3-6
Application
definition, 2-1
Bracing members
creating, 9-2
Building supports, 6-14
Button
control, 3-10
radio, 3-9
toggle, 3-10
Check box, 3-10
Check Clearances form, 6-14
Check Member Connection form, 6-12
Checking connections, 6-11
Classification, 6-3
Clearances, 6-14
Connecting template members, 6-11
Connecting template stanchions, 6-10
Control button, 3-10
Create New Brace Member form, 9-2
Create Template Members form, 6-5
Cross-member direction, 6-1
Database, 5-2
Defaults
Hanger and Supports, 5-1
Design Explorer, 3-5
Direction, 6-9
Directions, 6-1
Escape key/button, 3-9
Expressions, 6-15
Frameworks, creating, 6-3
Schedules, 6-14
Scrollable list, 3-10
Set Hanger Configuration form, 6-7
Special supports, 6-9
Specifications
Hangers, 5-1
Supports, 5-1
Stanchion direction, 6-1, 6-9
Standard supports, 6-9
Status bar, 3-6, 3-9
Steel Profiles form, 6-12
Storage areas, 5-5
Subframeworks, creating, 6-4
Submenu, 3-6
Support Configuration form, 6-8
Support defaults, 5-1
Support origin, 6-1
Support plane, 6-1
Support schedules, 6-14
Support templates, 6-5
Templates, 6-5
Text box, 3-3
Title bar, 3-5
Tool bar, 3-5, 3-6
Toolboxes, 5-5
Two-plane supports, 8-1
View
3D/graphical, 3-6