Release Highlights 2022T3

Top Picks – what we’re most excited about in 2022T3!

Outfitting/3D Plant Design

We've made it much easier for you to insert pipe fittings such as valves, supports and outlets.
In addition to the automatic insert of standard components, we’ve combined the into, onto and
outlet commands into one power command.
You can now seamlessly edit the slope of a continuous set of pipes with a single command
while slope check ensures that your pipes are in the required design slope.
The new Isometric Production Check function certifies the manufacturability and
installability of your pipes. It instantly checks collisions, delivered pipe lengths, specifications,
weld clearance, bending, and slopes. We are sure you’ll love how this will boost the quality of
your design and speed up installation. Even better, it will help us do our bit for the environment
by reducing material waste!

P&ID

P&ID design is now even more user friendly! You can look forward to easier drafting and
object insertion with a new document format.
Benefit from more sophisticated and automated integrations to other design or PLM
systems. We've added location and transform features to EDM integration objects, and it’s also
much easier to search for, manage, and review external objects in Plant Modeller.
You can now create high-quality documents faster. Section views can be created with one
command that inserts markers and creates the related section views.

Hull

We've added new types of hull lines where shapes of dierent hull groups intersect. This means
you can now create shell plates with pipe-to-pipe connections or more sophisticated shell
plates with relations to shell plates from other hull groups.
Enhancements to work breakdown 3D sketches have made assembly at each step even
easier! You can now present weld lines of all parts and the pen can be customized for previous
step items in the panel. The system calculates the center of gravity of solid items at each label
step. The COG is displayed on the item in the sketch for the assembly step in question.

Information Management

The map in the new eShare interface now packs a lot more punch! Some of the improved
features include the easy addition and use of the camera, ecient filtering and viewing of
smart points and markups, and easier control of the clip box in map view. Give it a go and let us
know what you think!

Electrical
 Sheet mode is now also available for cabinet layout, so you no longer need to place dierent
object types on separate layers. All the objects in single sheets/distribution boards are
conveniently on a single SLEHTI layer. It’s easier to draw mounting plates and doors side by side
and the most common way to present distribution board parts in layout drawings.
We've optimized our database even further. With our new version, you can open, save, and
close all dialogs via drawings faster than ever before.

Outfitting/3D Plant Design

Common insertion method for standard

components
Inserting of Standard Components to pipelines is easier as the user no longer needs to select a
dierent command depending on whether they want to insert a component into line, onto line, or as
outlet, but now all can be done with the same insertion command. The tool guides the user in
completing the insertion process and, for example, an instrument outlet is automatically placed on the
outer surface of the pipe. After defining orientation and rotation, the designer simply needs to slide
the component along the pipe to its intended position.

Also the old, separate commands are still in the context menu for those users who are accustomed to
using those.

Production checks for piping isometrics

The project administrator can enable various tests and checks to be run on all isometric groups:
collision testing, continuity check (always on), delivered length check, compatibility with specification,
weld clearance check, suitability for bending, and slope ratio check. These checks help to ensure the
manufacturability and installability of the pipes.
In Plant Modeller, designers can filter the list of isometric groups based on whether any checks have
failed. From the group list, they can open a summary of check results, for one or several isometric
groups at a time, and look at each problem in detail.

Slope ratio adjustment for pipes

Upward or downward sloping is now easy to add to piping by adjusting the slope angle or the slope
ratio of continuous piping parts. The program tries to implement the change by only modifying the
straight piping parts and warns the user if any connections would break as a result.

Moreover, isometric checks (new) and pipe spool checks can now check whether the piping meets the
minimum design slope or whether the sloping might form traps inside the piping.
Improved moving of objects
Moving model objects is more intuitive now. There is an animated preview of the objects that are being
moved, constantly displayed measurements, and optional 3D ortho that limits the movements to the
axis directions.
Improved management of integration
objects
The Manage Integration Objects dialog has an improved user interface that makes it easier to find
specific integration objects that have been imported from dierent data sources. Moreover, EDM
objects now support transformation, which allows the associated 3D model objects to be
automatically placed in the correct locations.

IFC import and export

Cadmatic beams can now be imported from IFC files that have been exported from, for example, Tekla
Structure. Cuts and holes are imported as Boolean cuts, and the beams are fully editable in Plant
Modeller.

IFC export from Cadmatic now uses an improved IFC hierarchy structure, supports an additional IFC
schema (IFC4), contains more IFC metadata, and allows primitives to be exported as solids.

Together, these improvements enable cross-platform modification processes where beams are
transferred to third-party software in IFC format and brought back as native Cadmatic beams.
New features and improvements in
drawing tools
2022T3 has various new features and improvements related to creating and editing drawings:

Background color of document editor can be changed without having to customize the project’s
color palette.
Plant Modeller drawings can be created and opened from within another drawing.
Order of pages can be changed by moving a page to another location. Document’s preview
image is now always generated from the first page.
Drawing views can be renamed.
Plant Modeller drawings allow inserting section markers and creating a section view at the same
time.
 Plant Modeller drawings allow the hatching of model objects, using predefined or custom hatch
patterns. A dierent hatch pattern can be applied to each separate face of a plate object.
Existing hatches are easy to change by applying new hatch properties, also to multiple faces in
one go.

P&ID

Undo/Redo
P&ID now supports undo and redo in P&ID object modification and data editing. There is also
undo/redo for the sub-operations involved in inserting dimensions and revision clouds.

New drafting toolbar

The drafting tools of the P&ID application have been replaced with the new drafting toolbar that was
first introduced in Plant Modeller in version 2021T2. This provides P&ID users with better drafting tools
and various other improvements to both users and administrators, such as easier linetype
management.
Node labels
Equipment connection nodes can now define the nominal size of the connection. There is also a new
label type for creating node labels for P&ID.

DEXPI import
P&ID is now able to import and export the DEXPI format version 1.3.

Hull

New hull line type at the intersections of

dierent hull groups
There is a new hull line type: groups intersections line. The system automatically creates identical hull
lines in intersecting hull groups along their intersection when the hull shape database is updated.
Groups intersection lines can be used as relations when creating shell plates that are related to shell
plates located in other hull groups. This allows you to create more sophisticated shell plates, and shell
plates with pipe-to-pipe connections for example.
Simplified Grid Manager user interface
Several changes have been made to improve the usability of the Grid Manager and make the user
interface more clear. The grid tree is now automatically expanded, and the grid details include a new
Position column that shows the actual position of each grid value (as opposed to the distance from
the origin).

The new New grid dialog makes it easier to create new grids. Also, the origin and the direction of the
grid are easier to define. Except for arbitrary grids, the origin no longer needs to be defined as
coordinates but is defined as a single value, and the direction is defined as normal or reversed
direction instead of coordinates.
Also, grid values from the block's default grid can now be included in standard texts in drawings.

Features in WBD sketches for easier

assembly
Improvements have been made to work breakdown sketches to make assembly easier at each
production step.

Weld lines of all parts can now be shown in WBD sketches. This includes parts from previous
production steps, provided the parts are not welded in a previous step. It is possible to define the pen
used for showing the previous step items.

It is also possible to show the center of gravity (COG) point of the part that is added at each
production step, on that part, instead of showing the total COG point of the assembly. This applies to
solid parts only.

Hull Viewer enhancements

Selecting and presenting items in Hull Viewer has been enhanced. Accepted hole requests from
Outfitting can be selected just like regular holes, and holes placed on several plates can also be
selected now. Selection filtering now works for cutouts, holes, corner holes and endcuts as well, and
the X-Ray functionality can be used for holes and bevels on plates, profile endcuts, and hull lines.
Improvements in working with the COS
environment
To simplify the installation procedure, a COS user for the HCA is automatically added in the
installation, similar to Plant Modeller Service.

When adding or importing an existing Hull Classic (HDX) project into Hull COS, the system now
automatically handles hole request states in the project conversion process. The system generates a
log file listing the hole requests that could not be handled automatically, and those hole requests can
be handled manually after the project conversion with a new tool developed for this.

Saving construction to COS is now possible when Hull Viewer is open, making it quicker and simpler to
save the design currently being worked on.

Information Management

Improved map in new eShare user

interface
Map has now been fully introduced into the new eShare user interface with several improvements,
making it even more functional with more features available at a single glance.

Camera can be added to the map by activating the camera button and clicking the desired location in
the map. The camera can be moved and rotated in the map, but now moving the camera updates the
3D model automatically without leaving the map view. The changes can be seen in a preview of the
model to allow an up-to-date view of both the map and 3D model side-by-side. The view in the
preview window is based on the view of the current camera position. The preview window can also be
hidden, if needed, or resized within certain limits. The preview window moves when the camera icon
goes under it. The preview window retains the same aspect ratio as the 3D content area in model view.

Smart Points and Markups can be filtered and viewed more eciently with the selections conveniently
available in the main toolbar. The visibility of Markups can be selected based on status or type, as well
as the assignee available in a separate menu. If Markups are close to each other, they are grouped on
the basis of type rather than status. Smart Points can also be added, viewed, and edited immediately
in map view without moving into model view, with the point properties visible in map view. The
selected point is highlighted in the map while viewing or editing its details. When a new point is added
to either the map or model, both will reflect the changes immediately.

The clip box can be controlled in map view and the boundaries are easier to set and see. The clip box
can be moved with a handle, and it can also be resized freely from all borders or corners. The clip box
state and dimensions are synchronized with the model view.

Enhanced PI adapter functionalities

PI adapter functionalities have now been further improved to oer the best possible performance in
retrieving data from the PI database and utilizing it now with any type of Smart Point and also model
objects in eShare. The settings in eShare now allow enabling or disabling impersonation to allow more
possibilities for creating dierent types of client processes. The data retrieval from the PI data source
can now also be automatically refreshed, the retrieval interval in minutes can be set as desired, and
there is also a selection for using local or UTC time zone.
Electrical
In 2022T3, we have focused on further developing the functionality and improving the usability of the
features released earlier in version 22. The usability improvements are based on feedback from both
customers and application specialists. In this release, development work has been carried out in every
Electrical application as well as in the installation example project.

Some of the improvements only apply to certain application levels (Premium/Basic/Lite).

Wiring renewal
The wiring functions of the Schematics application were redesigned in the previous release, and have
now been further improved. In particular, the functions related to wiring sets have been enhanced,
which makes it possible to create and use wiring sets in the desired applications.

Other wiring functions have also been refined. When drawing a cable, for example, you can now select
the From/To information. Furthermore, the wiring color can be changed during drawing, in addition to
which the wiring function provides easy access to the Electrical settings to change the default color.

Database functions
The database speed has been optimized, which makes opening, saving, and closing dialogs via the
drawing faster. In addition to optimizations, the users' needs to see various pieces of information in
the database have been taken into account. For example, in addition to the From/To information
generated for cables, the From/To space name can be displayed.
Sometimes you need to adjust project settings – we wanted to make this easier by creating a
"shortcut" to them. The new button can be found at the top of the Electrical tab:

Distribution board and group renewal

The distribution board and group renewal of the previous release has been continued systematically.
Group dialogs have been modified and their operating logic improved. The user's previous selections
are now remembered, and for example, the 2D symbol selected for the group/feeder is automatically
selected when creating the next group/feeder.

In the Distribution Board properties dialog, it has been possible to create several busbars and feeders,
and mass edit some feeder information. Now the wiring of the feeders can also be edited: the user is
allowed to select the cable type and the system.
Cabinet Layout
In Cabinet Layout, the sheet mode familiar from the Schematics and Distribution Board applications
has been implemented.

In the past, dierent object types (such as devices and installation rails) have been on their own layers
in Cabinet Layout. When using the sheet mode, all objects of a single sheet/distribution board are on
the layer called SLEHTI instead of on top of each other on dierent layers. Drawing the mounting plate
and door side by side is easier for the user, and it is also the most common way to present the
dierent parts of a distribution board in Cabinet Layout drawings.

The user can enable sheet mode when creating a new drawing. The old mode is also still available.
Draw
In CADMATIC Draw 2022T3, the usability of the 3D camera as well as the shade performance have
been improved. In addition, the visualization window has been enhanced with new options for
switching between the visualization window and design view.