Surface Treatment

Common Functionality User Guide

Data Check : Surface Treatment

The Surface Treatment utility enables specific paint types and coatings to be applied to individual Design items such as piping, HVAC and structural elements.

Surface Treatment Definition

Surface treatments consist of surface preparation, primer, paint description, manufacturer and a coating thickness. Surface treatments are defined in Paragon and stored in a Catalogue database.

The database MASTER/PIPECATA, in the AVEVA sample data project MAS, contains a number of predefined surface treatments, for example in the Paragon Module, from main menu bar select Utilities > Surface Treatment > Define to display the Surface Treatment definition window:

Surface treatments are referenced by Design elements through the attributes Inprtref and Ouprtref representing the inside surface treatment and the outside surface treatment respectively. Only elements with these attributes can have a surface treatment assigned to them.

The three sections are:


Surface Treatments	where all the available surface treatments for a project are specified.
Selected Coatings	when the allowable paint types and manufacturers are specified.
Paint definition	where the paint type, the coating thickness and the order in which the coatings are applied is specified.

Create Surface Treatment List

The Surface Treatments section is used to create a list of allowable surface treatments which is used when defining the specifications.

The options at the bottom of the Surface Treatments section provide the following functions:

Create

Creates a new entry in the surface treatments list, into which the following data is entered:

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The NAME of the surface treatment

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The material of the surface to which the surface treatment applies (SURMATERIAL)

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The shop primer attribute (SHOPRIMER), set to true or false, indicating if a primer coating is required.

Copy

Creates a copy of the selected (highlighted) entry.

Delete

Removes the selected entry from the list.

Refresh

If the Command Line is used to make changes to any of the surface treatment details, click this option to update the list to reflect the changes.

The Create, Copy and Delete options are also available from the right-click options menu.

Note:

Surface treatments can be imported in from CSV and XLS (Excel) files through the Import Data utility (Utilities menu).

Create Paint Definitions

The Paint Definition section is used to define a list of allowable paints. Each entry in the List of PAINT elements can be referenced by one or more entries in the surface treatment specification.

Paint Definitions are created in a similar way to Surface Treatment Definitions:

Create

Creates a new entry in the List of PAINT Elements, into which the following data (paint definition attributes) is entered:

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The NAME of the paint definition.

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A description (DESCRIPTION) giving details of the type and colour of the paint.

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The manufacturer (MAKER) of the paint.

The Create, Copy and Refresh options (also available from the right-click options menu) perform similar functions to the Surface Treatment options.

Note:

Paint Definitions can be imported in from CSV and XLS (Excel) files through the Import Data utility (Utilities menu).

Specify Coatings

The Selected Coatings section is used to specify the paint coatings that are required for the Surface Treatment, and the order in which they are to be applied.

Select a surface treatment and the required paint elements from the paint definition section. Click Add to add the details to the Selected Coatings list.

Specify the coating Thickness (this is the Dry Film Thickness in microns) and click Update. The value is copied to the THICKNESS (MICRONS) field in the Selected Coatings list.

The Thickness value can later be changed, select the required row and enter a new Thickness value and click Update.

If any details in the Paint Definition list are modified, click Update to update the Selected Coatings list with the new data.

The Move Coating arrow icons are used to change the order in which the coatings appear in the Selected Coatings list (such as the order in which the coatings are to be applied). The Move Coating operations are also available from the right-click options menu. There are also options for removing a selected coating or all coatings.