Setting up Projects and Designs > Designs

Creating a New Design

Once a project exists, you can create a new design for it in Capital Systems Integrator and then create diagrams for the design.

Procedure

Do one of the following:Right-click the project in the Project Browser and choose New Integrator Design.

Press Space Bar and enter New Integrator Design.

The New Integrator Design Dialog Box displays.

Specify the Name and Revision for the design, along with any other appropriate attributes.
Click the OK button.

A folder for the design is added to the Project Browser Window tree. Under the folder for the design, the design revision displays. The diagram displays under the design revision in the Project Browser Window tree and the diagram is opened in the Diagram Window.
If you selected a template design with multiple diagrams, the system creates diagrams matching those and with the same names.
If you select to create a diagram using a platform diagram as a template, the system performs the following actions: It translates the following objects: Pathways become harnesses.

Components become slots.

Interfaces become slot connectors.

Breaks become inlines.

Pathway branches become bundles.

It transfers the following information: Physical scale settings.

Graphical objects, such as text, shapes, comment symbols, images, borders and skeletons.

Properties on all transferred objects and the design itself.

Attributes if they are common between the platform object and Capital Systems Integrator object (for example, Architectural Cost).

It does not transfer the following information: Logical and functional design associations.

Rules and constraints.

It applies the selected style set.

Parent Topic:

Designs