Connecting Cableways to Equipment

This task shows you how to connect cableways to equipment.

 

This task assumes you are working in a document that contains the cableway you want to connect to equipment, that both objects are visible, and that you have write access to the objects you want to connect.

Depending upon how the administrator set the Publication Based Connections flag in the project resource management file, the connections are created as follows:

  • If the the flag is set (which is required for ENOVIA-based data), you must have write access to both the equipment document and the cable document to create the connection. If you have only read access to one of the documents, a warning panel displays and the connection is not created.
  • If the flag is unset, you must have write access to the common parent document to create and save the connection. If you have only read access to the common parent document, you cannot save the connection.

For more information on PRM files, refer to the Equipment Arrangement User's Guide.

1. Click the Connect button. .
  2. Move your mouse pointer over the equipment you want to select.

The equipment connector is highlighted as shown in the following diagram:

  3. Select the equipment connector.

The equipment is highlighted, and you are prompted to select the object to which you want to connect the equipment.

  4. Move your mouse pointer over the cableway (in this case, a hanger) you want to connect, and when the hanger is highlighted as shown in the following diagram, click to select it.

  5. To verify that the parts are connected, do the following:
  1. Select Analyze - Network.
  2. Ensure that the Network tab is selected on the Analyze Networks dialog box.
  3. Select the equipment.
  4. Select the cableway.
    The Analyze Networks dialog box should show the following: