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By default, the Home Ribbon will automatically show when opening any compatible DWG file. However, in certain situations you might not be interested in using the AseptSoft functionalities, as the DWG file you are working on might describe something else t

image-20240924-092229.png The AddIn Ribbon Tab belongs to AutoCAD. It contains information about any plugins you might have installed, including AseptSoft. Login and Subscription To visualise your Login Data and Subscriptions, press Account. Support Use t

Algorithm Represents a sequence of conditions that must be fulfilled to consider the active Phase successful and proceed to the consecutive phase. It also describes which is the next Phase to continue to. Each Phase contains one Algorithm sequence, and ea

Automatically tracks and displays one field of the active condition and does not need to be updated by the user. But you can also click on it and then an field editing window shows up for you to update that Condition Field. Example 'Description: Fill tank

AseptSoft is a plugin software. That means it does not have a standalone icon to launch the application directly. Instead, you launch your favourite P&ID Design tool, and AseptSoft will automatically overlay with the host software and add functionalities

Terminology: AseptSoft Module vs AseptSoft Project vs Host Project AseptSoft will use the active project of the host (AutoCAD:Host Project Definition or AutoCAD Plant 3D: Host Project Definition) and integrate with it. The most relevant information of a p

Open a Module To start working on a Project, you need to open a Module using the Home Ribbon. You have the following main options as described in the https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/86868074/Home+Ribbon#Modules https://aseptsoft.atla

This tutorial is a summary of the entire documentation. It can help to understand the steps of using AseptSoft, and the order of these steps. The first time you install AseptSoft, the First time setup needs to be performed. Please contact the AseptSoft te

Represent a set of user-created key-value pairs with shared keys between the entities, but individual values. Using Attributes you can add your own properties to each type of entity. Example of attributes att_1_for_65273857.png The properties from the exa

The module is being saved automatically together with the Host Project. AseptSoft detects the saving events of the host platform and triggers an internal AseptSoft save. In order to keep the atomicity of the module and to keep it consistent with the host

To easier the Action writing, instead of manually composing the actions formulas, you can use the Action Builder window. This window contains a click-based user interface which assists you. The action types that this window covers are the variables assign

To easier the Condition writing, instead of manually composing the formulas, you can use the Condition Builder window. This window contains a click-based user interface which assists you. image-20230106-122453.png The window is divided in the following ar

You can make use of parallel threads of work called branches. Each user will automatically be checked in to his own branch having his name. There he can have multiple modules and multiple commits, each independent of the others. Also, a main branch is aut

Assigning a State to an Engineering Item is sometimes not enough to describe its behaviour. Example: A four way valve cannot be only open or closed. It has a different open/closed state to each of its endings. Connectors aim to solve this problem. Connect

Conversations are threads of messages between collaborators with the purpose to advance through the Process Design or to finish a Validation. The Conversations window can be open from the Review Session Ribbon image-20231222-104159.png It shows the list o

Dialogs are visual forms for the operators to interact with the SCADA system or any other system responsible for coordinating the process together with the operators. Dialog example image-20231215-152859.png To Create Dialogs in AseptSoft you reach the Di

An Engineering Item is a PID Component that represents a shape in the PID and can have a different colour in each phase of the process design. Follow the First time setup to define the Engineering Items. Example: Valves, Tanks, Pumps, Heat Exchangers, Fou

Is a Live window which can be used to easier the process of finding Engineering items in the PID. It offers filters which can easier very much the work by reducing the pool of Engineering Items. image-20231221-163126.png To find any Valve or other Enginee

An Equipment Module represents a set of Engineering Items which under a specific visual and functional form will repeat over the same of other PIDs within a Host Project. The usage of EMs is recommended where it is possible, as it boosts up the process de

The Highlight functionality comes in with an adaptation for Equipment Modules. It enables you to better visualise each Equipment Module. It can be access through the https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/edit-v2/99811345#Highlighting https

image-20240924-114044.png This ribbon appears automatically when the entire selection in AutoCAD belongs to a single Equipment Module (EM). Then the ribbon binds to that specific EM and will be used to control it, and to reconfigure it. Configurations Gal

The Excel tabular export is an export type that is used in many exporting and importing functionalities of AseptSoft. Followed by: Export Processes to Excel - Tabular Export Processes to Excel - Algorithm Export Processes to Excel - Validations Export Par

Export Processes as PDF or Excel, or all the types of Module Data. Cumulative exporting It is important to mention that all the AseptSoft exports are cumulative. That means once exported a file, you can open it and edit it freely. Future updates will brin

Exporting the Process Design - Processes and Phases can be easily done using the main export functionalities: Export Processes to Excel, Export Processes to PDF. However, Module Data needs dedicated export functionalities. Here we can see how you can use

The tabular Dialogs export is one of the Excel tabular exports https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/113016899 containing all the Dialogs of the current Module. image-20231221-073054.png image-20231221-073150.png Columns Name Title Descrip

Press the Upload button on the bottom of the Dialogs window and AseptSoft will automatically create a Visio document with the dialogs. image-20231215-154525.png To visualise the dialog-export relation, we first have a look at the two dialogs we created: i

The tabular Equipment Modules export is one of the Excel tabular exports https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/113016899 containing all the Equipment Modules of the current Module. image-20231221-072250.png Columns Name Equipment Module Co

The tabular Parameters and Variables export is one of the Excel tabular exports https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/113016899 containing all the Parameters and Variables of the current Module. image-20231221-071702.png image-20231221-071

Export to Excel to generate structured information about the Project. An Excel Export contains all the Information a PDF export can contain, but instead of using a geometrical display to visualize the open and closed valves, we generate tables containing

The tabular processes export is one of the Excel tabular exports containing the sequence of Conditions of the Algorithm Design for each Phase https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/65110017 in a consecutive form for each Process. image-2023

The standard export format follows the structure: Each exported Process will produce a complete Excel file (a Workbook) Each Phase within any Process will produce a Worksheet in the Workbook of the Process Export Once you are in the Export Processes to Ex

The tabular processes export is one of the Excel tabular exports containing the States of each Engineering Item, as well as the Configurations of each Equipment Module for each Phase in a tabular form for each Process. Tabular export example with states n

The tabular processes export is one of the Excel tabular exports containing the Validations for each Engineering Item in each Phase in a consecutive form for each Process. image-20240924-140143.png Columns Tag Phases Export window Once you are in the Expo

Export processes as PDF to get the annexes for IQ/OQ documentation. Each PDF will correspond to one Process. Each Phase of that Process will represent one or more pages in that PDF. The Export can be configured using the following window: image-20231215-1

note Note: The Folders in the file system tree are written in Bold. The Files in the file system tree below are written Italic and Underlined. Note: The Folders in the file system tree are written in Bold. The Files in the file system tree below are writt

The Find and Replace window can be used to find any information in the Module. search for 'd' image-20230113-150822.png Search The Search Results can include all of the information which you can see in the Filterable categories, from Notes, Processes, Win

The AseptSoft team https://aseptsoft.ch/contact-aseptsoft/ fully supports you with this step. You don’t need to know it. This section is just for informative purposes. In order to function, AseptSoft needs to read and understand the P&ID in the way the us

Describes the appearance of a pipe or Engineering Item as it will appear when the Fluidstream Simulations bring the fluid through it. The fluid "water" causes a pipe to appear blue as it flows through it, while "nitrogen" gives any pipe a green hue as it

Overlays over your PID design tool to show where the fluid flow would go when starting from Source and Engineering Items like Tanks through the pipes and open valves. It reads the geometry and the neighbourhood of the items in your PID to determine where

Highlights are a very powerful tool, that enables you to display geometries only while AseptSoft is active. They are similar to the Module Notes, but they are not text-based, but they can use any kind of shape. Create Highlight To create a Highlight, firs

image-20230509-105941.png Profile Options The Profile and the Account buttons will open the Login and Subscriptions # window, as well as the other services described at the AddIn Ribbon image-20230509-105951.png Branches Gallery Use the Branches Gallery t

Workflow Overview The Equipment Module import functionality allows the user to bring detailed information from an Excel file into AseptSoft. Imported data refers to P&ID information about Engineering Items and configurations values for chosen Equipment Mo

Importing and Exporting helps fasten the module data initialization. The main advantage is that you can copy data from any module to another one, as well as saving data templates to initialize the new module directly. Import and export are accessible thro

Instruments can be used in the Algorithm Design to build Conditions and Actions. Follow the First time setup to define the Instruments. For better visualization, you will always see the instruments mentioned in the active Condition as highlighted in a spe

Intelligent Suggestions Type “pi” searches for “pi” and shows all the Pressure Indicators image-20231215-120341.png Press the Up/Down arrows to select a different suggestion. Press Tab/Enter/Double-click the item to accept and insert the selected suggesti

To use AseptSoft you must have an active Subscription. Check out AseptSoft http://aseptsoft.ch for more information, or contact us http://aseptsoft.ch/contact to get your license. Once you own an Aseptconn account, you can log in to AseptSoft using the fo

It appears in every phase with the same title, but has a manually assigned value in each phase. The user assigns or updates that value. Example: ‘Mentions: Please revise this phase, VP103 seems that it should be open' image-20240924-134051.pngimage-202409

In any module you can bring the changes from any other Module, Template, or Commit. To do so follow the steps simply chose “Update from…” image-20230510-095847.png Select the data source. Refer to the File System to locate the data source: Another module

Contains general information which you can use to build up your module. It includes the States, Fluids, Parameters and Variables, Dialogs, Equipment Modules, and Review Sessions. The Module Data includes all the Create, Edit, Remove, Import, Export featur

image-20240924-094659.png Module Data image-20240924-105208.png In Module Data you create States, Fluids, Parameters and Variables, Dialogs, Equipment Modules and Review Sessions. It is possible to import already created databases from previous modules. U

A note is a text object in the PID that has not title structure (no Title: Value), and it appears in only one Phase, or in a whole Process, or in the whole Module. The purpose of the Notes is to place them anywhere in the PID, as the location of a note is

This window displays all the notes a Module has. To open the window use the “Notes Window” button in the Module Ribbon. image-20231221-152136.png They are live maintained, so creating, editing and deleting notes will reflect in this window instantly. imag

Off-Page Connectors are connecting interruptions in the pipes, from one P&ID to another, or to another part of the same P&ID. When the Fluidstream Simulations reach an Off-Page Connector, they will automatically continue to its pair Off-Page Connector. Fo

One Host Project can contain more P&IDs. The associated AseptSoft Project will include all the P&IDs included in the Host Project. Each AseptSoft Module can spawn to include some of the Project P&IDs. To modify the Modules ↔︎ P&IDs connection, follow the

A Parameter represents a nickname for a value that is commonly used for Algorithm formulas in one or more processes. There is no necessity to have Parameters if you use the values you need directly into the Formulas. But that would be a bad practice as an

PID Components are all the items that can show up on a PID, that AseptSoft handles. PID Components are identified by AseptSoft automatically based on user’s settings (check First time setup) ensures that the PID will look different on each Phase based on

They represent all the PID Components that can be controlled by AseptSoft to control their look according to the Process design. image-20240924-130154.png They can be:

They are used to displaying relevant information as text in each Phase and Process. A PID Text Component is usually created with and by AseptSoft. The text for the editable ones can be always edited, and will update the information it was showing. To edit

Process A Process is a sequence of actions over a plant with a desired final result. In AseptSoft each Process can be created as a sequence of Phases https://aseptsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACD/pages/edit-v2/65110017#Phase. Each Process will span over

This ribbon is the control point for Review Sessions. image-20231222-104842.png It has the following Panels: Session image-20231222-104923.png Review Manager opens the Completing and Reopening Session Window for Review Sessions. Leave session will close t

A review session is a process of recapitulating the entire process with the purpose to finally validate it. In this process changing requests can come in the way, for which purpose Conversations are implemented. To access the Review Sessions functionality

In AutoCAD, you have the ability to manage AseptSoft through a series of Ribbons that seamlessly integrate with the host platform.

AseptSoft is versioned using the following form: Major.Minor.Revision.Build You can configure how you want AseptSoft to self-update when a new version is available. image-20230113-154523.png The “On major updates” setting will affect updates to any newer

Sources represent the origin of the Fluidstream Simulations . Unlike Engineering Items, Sources don’t color from a State, they color from a Fluid , and it stays the same fluid, regardless of the active phase. A source will always be powered on and will co

Describes the appearance and functionality of an Engineering Item during a Phase when it uses this particular state. The "open" state indicates that a valve is operational, shown in green, ensuring fluid flow from one side to the other. Similarly, the "fi

Advances State changes to easier the Process Design can be found using the Status Editor Window. Locate this window in the Module Ribbon image-20231221-152312.pngimage-20231221-153638.png The status editor has three features: Edit Mode image-20231221-1537

When attributes belonging to multiple items are available for visualization and editing, we can encounter the tabular form, where each item has its attributes on a row. Phases collection attributes as tabular form image-20230910-193913.png Use the bottom

(tracks Process name, Phase index, etc automatically, and does not need to be edited by the user) Lively displays some module information, and it updates itself automatically with that information. It can show the following information: User Branch Active

Trackers are Text Components in the PID which have a Title which is universal in each phase, and a Value which can be different from phase to phase. They are used to bring specific data into the P&ID: image-20240923-170136.png image-20240923-170206.png Th

Most of the units of work can be Undone and Redone in AseptSoft. This can be done using the Undo and Redo buttons in the Module Ribbon image-20231221-163329.png The Undo Redo offers an unlimited-size undo-redo stack which can contain any of the following

Validation is the Process of marking individual validatable entities as valid under the current form. Validatable entities are: Processes Phases Algorithm Design Conditions Engineering Items State and Percentage in each Phase The validation remains as lon

A Variable represents a nickname for a value that needs to be saved during a Process for later use. Example: the variable ‘T01 fluid Qty’ represents the number of liters T01 has just been filled with. IF you want later to fill T02 with exactly the same qt

When using AseptSoft, the visuals are very important, as you will read a lot of information through the colours of the components. The following commands will come useful when you want to easen the reading of the process in your existing P&ID: Dedicated L