About Long Description Styles

You can create long description styles for parts in a spec.

You can set up a long description style so that all parts in a spec have uniform description information. The default long descriptions are the basic ones from the Plant 3D catalogs. You can easily customize these descriptions for your projects.

You define a style by setting up a formula made up of text and variables. Each style is applicable to one class in the piping components hierarchy, and each class can have at most one long description formula. If a class does not have a defined style, it uses the style defined at the node above it in the hierarchy.

To give an example, the following long description:

ELL 45 LR, BV, ASTM A234 Gr WPB SMLS, 80

is comprised of these properties:

Short Description, End Type, Material Code, Schedule

Long description styles are saved in files with the extension .lds in the following default location:

After you have set up a long description formula, you can batch assign it to many specs.