Equipment Module Highlighting

The Highlight functionality includes a specialized adaptation for Equipment Modules. It enables you to visually identify and distinguish each Equipment Module in the drawing using custom geometries. Access it through the 🔧 Equipment Module Ribbon Highlight panel.

💡 Why use highlighting? On a busy P&ID with dozens of valves and instruments, it can be hard to tell which items belong to which Equipment Module. Highlights draw clear visual boundaries so anyone reviewing the drawing — from process engineers to QA auditors — can instantly see Equipment Module groupings.

📋 How To: Create Highlights for Equipment Modules

Step 1: 🖊️ Draw Custom Geometry

Use AutoCAD drawing tools to create any geometry near one of your Equipment Modules. Supported shapes include:

• Circles

• Polylines

• Lines

• Hatches

• Block References

• Any other AutoCAD entity

Step 2: 🎯 Select an Equipment Module Item

Select one of the Engineering Items that belongs to the Equipment Module. This causes the 🔧 Equipment Module Ribbon to appear.

Step 3: ✨ Spawn Highlights

On the Highlight panel, use one of the spawn options:

Step 4: 🖱️ Select Geometries

1. Select the geometries you drew

2. Press Enter to confirm

3. Click the point where you want the highlights to be centered

The geometries are now bound to the Equipment Module as highlights.

🏭 Pharma Example: You are documenting a CIP pump module that includes a centrifugal pump, two butterfly valves, a check valve, and a pressure transmitter. Draw a dashed polyline rectangle around these items, select the pump block, then click Spawn missing highlights for this EM. The rectangle turns into a persistent highlight in the pump module's assigned color — making the CIP pump boundary instantly visible to anyone opening the drawing.

🎨 Highlight Colors

The color of each highlight is determined by the color of the Equipment Module it belongs to. This provides automatic visual differentiation between different Equipment Modules.

🏭 Pharma Example: Your CIP skid has three Equipment Modules — the Supply Pump (blue), Heat Exchanger (orange), and Return Manifold (green). Each highlight automatically uses its module's color, so you can immediately identify which boundary belongs to which module at a glance.

🛠️ Managing Highlights

👁️ Visibility Controls

🗑️ Removing Highlights

✏️ Individual Adjustment

Each highlight can be individually adjusted or deleted:

• Move or resize the geometry to reposition the highlight

• Delete the geometry to remove that specific highlight

💡 Use Cases

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