Creating Design Objects—Exercises

Basic Data Setup

Defining a Plant

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to define a plant to which design objects will belong.

Windows:
Plant
Plants
Standard/Plants

  1. Create a plant, CompanyName_plant (where CompanyName is the name of your company or similar), if you have not created it already. 

General exercise for Defining a Plant 

Creating Classes

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create a design object class to which the design objects will belong.

Windows:
Class
 Classes

  1. Create a PUMP CENTRIFUGAL class, if you have not created it already. 

General exercise for Creating Classes 

Creating ID Models and Connecting to Classes

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create an ID Model and connect it to a design object class, so that objects created from the design object class can have object IDs registered using the connected ID model.

Windows:
ID Model
ID Models

  1. Set up the ID fields for an object ID as follows and connect the ID model to the pump centrifugal design object class.

Field Value
Primary ID 01 Facility Code
Primary ID 02 System
Primary ID 03 Type Code
Primary ID 04 Sequence No
Primary ID 05 Parallel Item

General exercise for Creating ID Models and Connecting to Classes

Creating ID Separators for Classes

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create ID separators and connect it to a design object class, so that the object IDs of objects created from the design object class will display the connected ID separator.

Windows:
ID Separators

  1. Define the ID separators as follows for the pump centrifugal class.

Field Value
Separator A1 -
Separator A2 -
Separator A3 -

General exercise for Creating ID Separators for Classes 

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to learn how to create a design object.

Windows:
Design Object
 Design Objects

Creating a Design Object

  1. Open the Design Object or Design Objects window.
  2. Click New.
  3. In the Plant field, select the Plant for the design object from the List of Values. If a user default plant has been specified, the name of this plant will be suggested at new entry. 
  4. In the Class field, select the Pump Centrifugal class from the List of Values.
  5. In the Object ID field, double-click in the field and enter the following values for the ID model categories of the selected class.
    Object ID Field Value
    Facility Code PM
    System 312
    Type Code PA
    Sequence No. 007
  6. In the Description field, enter Fresh Water Feed Pump.
  7. Click Save. 
  8. The system automatically filled in values for these fields:
  9. From the Business Object Explorer, expand the tree view displaying All Design Object Classes.
  10. Expand the Pump Centrifugal node.
  11. Highlight pump object PM-312-PA-007 to view the newly created object on the Design Object window.