SP3D Equipment Practice Lab: Placing Equipment Using Imported Geometry

SP3D Equipment Practice Lab: Placing Equipment

Using Imported Geometry
Placing Equipment Using Imported Shapes from a File:
Exercise Objective: In this exercise you will Place designed equipment Horizontal Drum with
Saddle from the Catalog and then place a tank DR-100 in U02 by importing it from the
Tank_shape.sat file. The end result of this procedure should be similar to the highlighted
object displayed in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Final Output - After Placing the Equipment Using Imported Shapes From a File

Steps:
1. Define the workspace to display Unit U02 and coordinate system U02 CS.

2. Activate the PinPoint ribbon from Tools > PinPoint.

3. Change the active coordinate system to U02 CS from PinPoint ribbon.

4. Move the target position to place the equipment at the origin of the current coordinate
system. For this, click the Set Target to Origin option on the PinPoint ribbon.

5. Click the Place Designed Equipment button on the vertical toolbar.

6. A Select Equipment type dialog box appears. Expand

Equipment\Process\Horizontal Vessels and select Horizontal Drum with Saddle
from the Catalog and click OK.

7. Key in the following specifications on the Standard Category in the Design

Equipment Properties dialog box.

System: A2 > U02 > Equipment

Name: DR-100

8. Key in the following specifications on the Position and Orientation Category in the

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Design Equipment Properties dialog box.

East: 15 ft
North: 30 ft
Elevation: 0 ft

9. Click OK in the Design Equipment Properties dialog box to place the designed
equipment with the indicated local coordinate system origin.

10. Click the Place Imported Shape from File button on the vertical toolbar.

11. In the Select Shape File dialog box, browse to locate the Tank_Shape.sat file using the
UNC path connection \\machine\TrainingSymbols\TrainingFiles and click Open.

Ask the instructor the appropriate UNC path of the Training Symbol share.

12. After selecting the shape file, the Display Aspects dialog box appears. Select the
Simple physical option and click OK.

13. Key in the following coordinates on the PinPoint ribbon to specify the position of the
tank.

East: 15 ft
North: 30 ft
Elevation: 0 ft

14. Click in the graphic view to accept the placement of the tank.

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