Cardinal Point Plines

The standard AVEVA Solutions Limited steelwork catalogue at AVEVA E3D 2.1™ 2.1 is already compatible with SDNF. Older catalogues, and user catalogues might need to be upgraded to include the Pline representations of the SDNF Cardinal Points. Refer to Cardinal Points for further information.

Note:
This upgrade process works only for the supplied catalogues. Further, it only works on the old British, American and DIN catalogues, to upgrade them to the new Plines. The mechanism should be easily extended to include other supplied catalogues. Upgrading user catalogues is described elsewhere.

You may upgrade the catalogues by performing the following actions:

1. Enter the Paragon or Catalogue module with write access to all relevant catalogue databases.

2. In a command window run the upgrade macro by the following command:

3. call !!bocCataUpgrade( )

4. The macro suite will check to see if this upgrade has already been executed and create or modify the original set of Cardinal Points with an updated set.

5. Exit from the module, saving the changes.

There are 15 Cardinal Points defined in the AVEVA Bocad Steel Interface. The interface uses only 14 of them. Of the remaining Cardinal Points the interface tries to use those between 1 and 10.

If you have not used Plines representing Cardinal Points to place Linear Members in the base product, during the Export or Import processes an attempt is made to map existing Plines onto Cardinal Points.

This mapping is performed using information stored in a configuration file, bocloadcpdata.pmlfnc in the PMLLIB\Bocad\functions folder in the installation folder. This basic Pline mapping for the old (that is pre AVEVA E3D 2.1™ 2.1) structural catalogue and the new AVEVA E3D 2.1™ 2.1 supplied catalogue are as follows: