CHAPTER 18

18 Health Check Utility (HCU)

The Supports application creates supports across four disciplines: Structural, Piping, Electrical and HVAC,
and it is possible that one of the disciplines could inadvertently corrupt a support in some way. The Health
Check Utility checks for the existence of any problems.

Separate checks are performed for ancillaries, structural supports, hangers and trunnions. Ancillaries which
are part of structural supports (For example, pipe shoes) are checked as part of the structural supports,
using the ancillary checking method.

After the health check is carried out, the results can be displayed on the screen or exported to an excel file.

The checks that are carried out are listed below:

 Ancillaries

• The ancillary is still valid for the pipes

• Bore
• Material
• Insulation thickness
• Temperature
• Elevation

• The ancillary has valid

• Specification references (SPREF)
• Guide references
• Description values for standard supports
• Any other reference

• Check for unknown references

 Supports

• Check support type exists in available types

• Check DATUM exists
• Check specification references (SPREF)
• Ancillary check DATUM
• Check for support structure existence
• Structures have members
• Check frameworks have members
• Check for unnamed elements
• Check any other references
• Check for valid description values for standard supports
• Check for unknown references
• Check the joint offset distance between FIXING and ENDATU elements.

 Hangers

• Check ancillary exists

• Data consistency check on hanger
• Check component names are valid
• Check for valid SPREF of ancillary

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 Trunnions

• Data consistency check on trunnion

• Check for correct name of trunnion
• Check for correct trunnion configuration (correct straight pipe, elbow, reducer or tee
• is used)
• Check for correct main line specification

18.1 Running the Health Check Utility

The Support Health Check Utility will run automatically when clicking Apply on the Support Editor form to
finish the support creation procedure.

It also can be run by clicking on the Health Check button in the Tools group on the SUPPORTS tab.

After clicking on this button, the user is prompted to ‘Pick Support to be checked or <ESC> to finish’.

Supports can be selected from the 3D view or from the Model Explorer.

After finishing the selection and pressing the <ESC> key the Support Health Check Utility form is
displayed.

The Support Health Check Utility window allows the user to select the elements to check and run a health
check.

Add Supports Click to add supports below the currently selected element in the hierarchy to the
support list.

By Pick Click to add a support to the support list using a cursor pick in the 3D view.

You are prompted to Pick Support to be checked or <ESC> to finish :

Press ESC to finish adding supports to the support list.

Check The Check button will run the health check for all loaded supports into the list.

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The form comprises the following three tabs:

• Support List

• Errors Messages

• Warning Messages

18.2 Support List Tab

The Support List tab contains a grid with four

headings.

Support Name

Type: Support type

Result: Valid or invalid support

Description

The grid entries may be grouped, sorted and filtered to suit the user’s requirements.

The grids in this tab has a right click pop-up menu which has the
following options.

Check Selected Support The user can check the selected supports only

Remove Items from list Remove selected support in the support list

Add to 3D View Add selected support to 3D View

Remove from 3D View Remove selected support from 3D View

Navigate in Explorer Navigate to the selected support in the Model Explorer

Show in 3D View Navigate to the selected support in the 3D View

Export to Excel This option opens the Save Drawlist As browser, enabling the grid contents
to be saved to a .xls file

Print Preview Preview the support list to be printed

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18.3 Error Messages and Warning Messages Tabs

Error and Warning Messages tabs provided four

headings and one detail messages section.

Support Name

Type : Error(Warning) Type

Ref. Name: Reference Element Name

Message: Title of Error(Warning) Message

The user can check detail information on the Detail

Messages at the bottom of the form.

If any errors are detected the Support is considered to be incomplete and the Support Editor Form cannot
be closed. Therefore the user is forced to return to the Support Editor form to rectify the reported errors
before being allowed to exit the creation form.

Any warnings or messages that compromise the health check of the support should be rectified in order for
the support to be considered as complete. However the user has the option in this case to exit the support
creation form and return at a later date to modify the support.

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Exercise 16 - Health Check Report

1. Using the above as an example, check the supports in the current model.

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