Releasing Information for 3D

Releasing Information for 3D includes information about managing the relation with 3D data and is of interest to most users when the link to 3D through the Schematic 3D Integrator is used.

To support the workflow between diagram designers and 3D model designers, Diagrams includes some functions to manage the release of information to 3D. These are as follows:

• Setting the Release Status.

• Highlighting and Visualizing Release and Linked-to-3D status.

• Warnings and Restrictions for Released and Linked-to-3D items.

Diagrams supports a Release status that can be set or re-set through the application and serves as a flag to the 3D designers that the diagram data is now complete and approved and can be used as a base for 3D modelling. When related 3D data is created through the Schematic 3D Integrator, a link between 2D schematic items and corresponding 3D items will be established in the database. These items are then considered to be linked, and this is represented by a linked-to-3D status attribute. If items have been linked they can be considered as being picked up and re-used by the 3D designers.

The release status can be set on database items in a flexible way, among these is to set the release status for all items in a diagram. However, the diagram document as such does not have a release status and will not be managed in this way.

The release status is represented by the RESTAT attribute in the database. A value of 1 means that the item is released, and a value of 0 means that it is not released.

The diagram documents are made available to 3D design users as SVG files, created for each foreground page on the drawing. This can then be used for viewing the diagram without the need for having MS Visio installed. The SVG file name for a particular page can be found by querying the NVIEWF(N) pseudo attribute on the SCDIAG element, where N is a number of a page.

Depending on the ‘Create SVG on Save Work’ setting available in Diagrams Options>General Options>System configuration>SVG, the files can be created automatically on Save Work for every drawing, for pages containing data released to 3D only or if the setting is set to ‘Never’ the SVGs will have to be created manually using the Release Diagram to 3D function. If this function is used, then all items on pages the SVGs are created for are released to 3D. For further information, refer to Save Work and SVG Creation.