Tutorial: Export from Hydrosym to HydroMan

Goal:

Exportinga part of your hydraulic diagram to HydroMan to design a manifold.

Solution:

Steps

1. Select the link: (/missing-article)[I-Border]

2. Right-click the I-border and navigate to: [I-Border > Create Hydroman File…​]{.menuchoice}

   Note

   If the HydroMan options aren’t available in your HydroSym, see link:/missing-article[Enable HydroMan]

3. Change configuration (see section_title) and press OK when you’re ready to export.

4. If there are any issues with your HydroMan file it will give you errors. For example; if a sub-group is used on multiple connections; all connections need unique sub-groups for exporting to HydroMan.

5. If everything went OK, HydroMan should open and you can start designing. Please see the attached HydroMan – Quickstart.pdf for the most used functions.

Configuration options

The ‘Create HydroMan File’ dialog offers several options to customize the generated HydroMan file.

Select mode for create the file

• Start from scratch – use HydroMan’s default template

• Use a template – use a template from your library

• Update an existing manifold file – Update a file previously exported from HydroSym to apply changes.

Options

• Create ToDo list only – when exported you’ll start with an empty manifold and all parts in a ToDo list.

  Tip

  This is often used for very large manifolds to start with only the large valves

• Open created Hydroman file automatically – Opens HydroMan directly after exporting.

• Ask to open the created Hydroman file – asks whether to open HydroMan after exporting or not.

• Use single quotes for hole texts – port engravings will be shown on the drawing as MB instead of “MB”, and in the drilling list as ‘MB’ instead of “MB”

• Use faces that are set in the components – if you have already defined component locations in HydroSym (using F after selecting a component), it will export to HydroMan to that face.

• Place not defined components on the manifold – if faces are used; it will place all undefined components directly on the manifold after exporting; otherwise they go into the ToDo list.

• Use only hole texts (don’t add text to remark) – doesn’t indicate the port engraving in the drilling list; only on the drawing.

Use

• Non-US Hydroman files (metric) – Exports patterns with metric threads

• US Hydroman files (inch) – Exports patterns with UNC threads