PDMS Commands: Piping, Equip, Structure

& Draft
PDMS Commands are very helpful to increase the productivity at the workplace. PDMS is a 3D modeling
software developed by AVEVA, used for modeling the piping system, equipment, and civil structures of
the plant. It is also used to model electrical, HVAC, Instrument, and some other systems.

Here, I have listed some most commonly used PDMS commands, that may help you to deliver the work
in less time.

Table of Contents
 General PDMS Commands
 Piping PDMS Commands
 Structural PDMS Commands
 Equipment PDMS Commands
 Pipe Support Commands
 Draft Commands

General PDMS Commands

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1 SAVEWORK TO SAVE THE LATEST WORK

2 GATE WORK TO GET THE LATEST MODEL

3 AXES AT CE TO SHOW THE AXES OF CE (CURRENT ELEMENT)

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4 AXES OFF TO OFF THE AXES

5 DELETE CE TO DELETE THE CE

6 FLIP CE TO FLIP THE CE

7 CHE CE TO CHECK THE CONSISTENCY OF CE

8 COL ACT BLUE TO CHANGE THE ACTIVE COLOR TO BLUE

9 COL CE GREEN TO CHANGE THE CE COLOR TO GREEN

10 COL 39 VIOLET TO CHANGE THE LINE COLOR TO VIOLET

11 ADD CE TO ADD CURRENT ELEMENT TO DISPLAY

12 ADD SITE TO ADD THE CE SITE TO DISPLAY

13 REM ALL TO REMOVE ALL THE ELEMENTS FROM DISPLAY

14 REM CE TO REMOVE THE CE FROM DISPLAY

TO REMOVE ALL THE ELEMENTS FROM DISPLAY

15 REM ALL ADD CE
EXCEPT CURRENT ELEMENT (CE)

16 Q SPRE TO GET THE CE SPECIFICATION REFERENCE

17 Q REF TO GET THE CE REFERENCE NUMBER

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18 Q ATT TO GET THE CE ATTRIBUTES

19 Q COL ACT TO KNOW THE ACTIVE ELEMENT COLOR

20 Q COL CE TO KNOW THE CE COLOR

21 Q MTO TO GET THE CE MTO STATUS

22 Q NAM/Q CE TO GET THE CE NAME

23 Q NVOL TO GET THE CE NET VOLUME

24 Q NWEI TO GET THE CE NET WEIGHT

25 Q OWN TO GET THE CE OWNER ELEMENT NAME

26 Q POS TO GET THE CE CO-ORDINATES/ORIGIN POINT

27 LOCK ALL TO LOCK THE CE & IT’S MEMBER

28 RENAME /XXX/YYY TO RENAME THE CE TO YYY

29 MAR CE TO MARKS THE CE NAME

30 UNLOCK ALL TO UNLOCK THE CE & IT’S MEMBER

31 UNM CE TO UNMARK THE CE NAME

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32 ALP REQ CLEAR TO CLEAR THE COMMAND SPACE

REPR HOLES OFF TO OFF THE HOLES REPRESENTATION & UPDATE THE
33
UPDATE GRAPHICAL VIEW

34 STAT TO GET THE STATUS

35 UNCLAIM ALL TO UNLOCK THE CLAIMED MEMBERS

36 Q POS $Q TO GET HELP

37 QUIT TO EXIT THE PDMS WITHOUT SAVING THE WORK

38 FINISH TO EXIT THE PDMS AFTER THE SAVING THE WORK

TO DISPLAY THE CURRENT MULTIPLE/MASTER DATA

39 Q MDB
BASE

40 Q USER TO DISPLAY THE ACTIVE USER NAME

41 Q MEM TO SHOW THE CE MEMBERS

42 FN+F1 HELP BUTTON

43 FN+F2 TO ZOOM IN/OUT

44 FN+F3 TO MOVE TO PAN ICON

45 FN+F4 TO GET THE PARALLEL/PERSPECTIVE VIEW

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46 FN+F5 TO ROTATE

47 FN+F6 TO ON/OFF THE WALK

48 FN+F7 TO ROTATE WRT MODEL

TO CONVERT THE DRAWING SOLID TO WIRE AND

49 FN+F8
VICE VERSA

50 FN+F9 TO ON/OFF SCROLL BAR

51 UPDATE ALL TO UPDATE THE CHANGES MADE IN THE DRAWING

52 AXES ON TO SHOW THE AXES ON DISPLAY

TO GET THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION- MDB, DATE,

53 Q SESSION
AND USER NAME

54 1 OR 3 TO ZOOM OUT

55 7 OR 9 TO ZOOM IN

56 $M TO LOAD A MACRO FILE

57 F4+LEFT ARROW TO ROTATE LEFT

58 F6+RIGHT ARROW TO ROTATE RIGHT

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59 F2+DOWN ARROW TO ROTATE DOWNWARD

60 F8+UP ARROW TO ROTATE UPWARD

Piping PDMS Commands

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1 Q BORE TO GET THE PIPE INSIDE DIAMETER

2 Q HPOS TO GET THE CE PIPE HEAD CO-ORDINATES

3 Q ISPEC TO GET THE CE INSULATION SPECIFICATION

4 Q PA TO GET THE CE ARRIVE CO-ORDINATES

5 Q PL TO GET THE CE LEAVE CO-ORDINATES

6 Q PARA TO GET THE CE PARAMETERS

7 Q PH TO GET THE CE PIPE HEAD ATTRIBUTES

8 Q PH BORE TO GET THE CE PIPE HEAD BORE

9 Q PH OD TO GET THE CE PIPE HEAD DIAMETER

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10 Q PT OD TO GET THE CE PIPE TAIL DIAMETER

11 Q PT TO GET THE CE PIPE TAIL ATTRIBUTES

12 Q TPOS TO GET THE CE PIPE TAIL CO-ORDINATES

13 DELETE BRAN TO DELETE THE CURRENT BRANCH

14 Q ABORE TO GET THE CE ARRIVE BORE OF A COMPONENT

15 Q LBORE TO GET THE CE LEAVE BORE OF A COMPONENT

16 Q PT BORE TO GET THE CE PIPE TAIL BORE

17 AXES AT PH TO POSITION THE AXES AT PIPE HEAD

18 AXES AT PT TO POSITION THE AXES AT PIPE TAIL

19 NEW ELBOW CHOO TO CREATE A NEW ELBOW

20 Q HREF TO GET THE HEAD REFERENCE OF THE CE BRANCH

21 Q TREF TO GET THE TAIL REFERENCE OF THE CE BRANCH

22 Q DIR TO CHECK THE DIRECTION OF A CURRENT COMPONENT

CONN PH TO FIR TO CONNECT THE BRANCH HEAD TO THE FIRST MEMBER

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MEM OF CURRENT BRANCH
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CONN PT TO FIR TO CONNECT THE BRANCH TAIL TO THE LAST MEMBER

24
MEM OF CURRENT BRANCH

25 CONN TO CONNECT

26 NEXT CONN TO CONNECT WITH THE NEXT COMPONENT

27 F CONN TO FORCE CONNECT

28 Q DTXR TO GET THE DESCRIPTION OF A COMPONENT

29 Q MODE TO CHECK THE DIRECTION (FORWARD/BACKWARD)

30 FOR TO CHANGE DIRECTION TO FORWARD MODE

31 BACK TO CHANGE DIRECTION TO BACKWARD MODE

32 MTOC UNSET TO REMOVE THE COMPONENT FROM MTO REPORT

TO ADD BACK THE REMOVED COMPONENT FROM MTO

33 MTOC OFF
LIST

34 CLEAR 100 TO GIVE THE SPOOL LENGHT 100 MM

35 BY D 100 TO MOVE THE CE 100 MM DOWN

36 BY U 100 TO MOVE THE CE 100 MM UP

37 BY L 100 TO MOVE THE CE 100 MM LEFT

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38 BY R 100 TO MOVE THE CE 100 MM RIGHT

39 Q TPOS TO KNOW THE HEAD POSITION

40 Q HPOS TO KNOW THE TAIL POSITION

Structural PDMS Commands

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Q POSS
1 TO GET THE START POINT OF STRUCTURE
WRT /*

Q POSE
2 TO GET THE END POINT OF STRUCTURE
WRT /*

3 Q ORI TO GET THE ORIENTATION OF A STRUCTURE

4 Q POS WRT /* TO GET THE CE CO-ORDINATES W.R.T. WORLD

5 EXTEND 1000 TO EXTEND THE STRUCTURE 1000 MM

6 Q JUS TO GET THE STRUCTURE JUSTIFICATION POINT

AXES AT
7 TO ALLOCATE THE AXES AT STRUCTURE’S START POINT
POSS
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AXES AT
8 TO ALLOCATE THE AXES AT STRUCTURE’S ENDPOINT
POSE

TO CHANGE THE JUSTIFICATION POINT TO TOP OF THE

9 JUSLINE TOS
STRUCTURE

TO CHANGE THE JUSTIFICATION POINT TO BOTTOM OF THE

10 JUSTLINE BOS
STRUCTURE

11 Q NPOS TO GET THE NODE POSITION

12 Q JUSL TO GET THE CE JUSTIFICATION LINE

13 Q CTYE TO GET THE CE END CONNECTION POINT

14 Q CTYS TO GET THE CE START CONNECTION POINT

15 Q DESP TO GET THE DESIGN PARAMETER

Equipment PDMS Commands

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TO CREATE A CYLINDER OF DIAMETER 500

1 NEW CYLI DIA 500 HEI 1000
AND HEIGHT 1000

NEW BOX XLEN 1000 Y LEN 800 TO CREATE A NEW BOX WITH LENGHT 1000,
2
ZLEN 500 WIDTH 800, AND HEIGHT 500

3 AXES AT P1 TO GET THE AXES AT P POINT NUMBER 1

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4 AXES AT P2 TO GET THE AXES AT P POINT NUMBER 2

Pipe Support Commands

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1 Q HH TO GET THE CE HANGER HEAD CO-ORDINATES

2 Q HT TO GET THE CE HANGER TAIL CO-ORDINATES

Draft Commands
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1 Q BSRF TO GET THE ATTACHED DRAWING/SHEET

2 Q BTEX TO GET THE DEAD TEXT ATTRIBUTES

3 Q CHEI TO GET THE TEXT CHARACTER HEIGHT

4 Q DDNAME TO GET THE DIMENSION OWNERS NAME

5 Q DIR TO GET THE VIEW DIRECTION

6 Q DMTXT TO GET THE DIMENSION TEXT ATTRIBUTE

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7 Q ADEG TO GET THE VIEW ANGLE

8 Q APOF TO GET THE CE TERMINATOR POSITION

9 Q LVIS TO GET THE CE VISIBILITY

10 Q PKEY TO GET THE P-LINE STATUS