Status Editor

The Status Editor provides advanced State editing tools to streamline Process Design. It offers automatic state propagation, direct copying across Steps, and a clipboard buffer for complex state transfers.

Access it from the Module Ribbon Live Edit panel → Matrix button.

⚡ Edit Mode

The Edit Mode enables automatic propagation of state changes to neighboring Steps. When you assign a State using the Live Edit panel, the change can automatically propagate forward and/or backward through the Step sequence.

🔀 Propagation Options

Both options can be enabled simultaneously for bidirectional propagation.

📖 How Propagation Works

Given 4 valves across 5 Steps, with Step 2 active:

Selecting VP-1, VP-2, and VP-3 in Step 2 and applying the State "pulsing":

➡️ Forward Propagation Only

• VP-1: Propagates to Step 3 (was "closed" like Step 2), stops at Step 4 (was "open" — different)

• VP-2: Propagates to Steps 3 and 4 (all were "closed"), stops at Step 5 (was "open")

• VP-3: No propagation — Step 3 was "closed", different from Step 2's "open"

⬅️ Backward Propagation Only

• VP-1: No backward propagation — Step 1 was "open", different from Step 2's "closed"

• VP-2: Propagates to Step 1 (was "closed" like Step 2)

• VP-3: Propagates to Step 1 (was "open" like Step 2)

↔️ Bidirectional Propagation

Combines both forward and backward results for maximum reach.

📑 Copy to Steps

Manually transfer the active States of selected Engineering Items from the active Step to any other Steps.

📖 How to Use

1. Select Engineering Items in AutoCAD

2. In the Status Editor, check the destination Steps

3. Click Copy to Steps

Example: Select VP-1 and VP-2 in Step 2, check Steps 1 and 5, press "Copy to Steps" — both valves get the same State in Steps 1 and 5 as they have in Step 2.

Before

After (copied to Steps 1 and 5)

📌 Copy and Paste Buffer

Save Engineering Item states to a temporary buffer for later application to different Steps or selections.

📥 Copy

1. Select Engineering Items in AutoCAD — their current states appear in "Current Selection Statuses"

2. Click Copy to save the states to the buffer

📤 Paste

1. Navigate to any Step

2. Select Engineering Items in AutoCAD

3. The Status Editor previews how pasting will affect each item

4. Click Paste to apply

🔀 Paste Logic

🏭 Pharma Example: Propagating Valve States Across a SIP Sequence

When designing a SIP (Sterilization-in-Place) sequence, many valves share the same state across consecutive sterilization steps:

1. Navigate to the first Steam Hold step

2. Select all SIP supply valves (e.g., VP-101, VP-102, VP-103) and set them to "open"

3. Enable forward propagation — the "open" state automatically carries forward through all consecutive Steam Hold steps that had the same previous state

4. Use Copy to Steps to apply the drain valve configuration to the final Cooldown step

This eliminates repetitive manual state entry and ensures consistency across the entire sterilization sequence.