Message File

Isodraft outputs a report of pipes detailed and drawings produced, together with any problems found when the pipes were processed.

The file to which this information is to be sent is specified by the command

MESSagefilename  filename

At the end of an Isodraft run this file will contain:

• the references of all pipes which have been processed;

• the references of any pipes which have been rejected and the reason for rejection;

• advisory messages, such as item codes being truncated;

• the name of the plot file in which each drawing of each pipe will be stored.

Typical messages showing errors in the design are as follows:

  Isodraft MESSAGE FILE 22 Feb 2000
-------- ------- ---- -----------
(33:194) STARTING TO DETAIL PIPE /PIPE2
(33:168) Cannot find FLANGE to match PPOINT 3
    of VTWA /PIPE2/VTWA-1
(33:168) Cannot find FLANGE to match PPOINT 4
    of VFWA 1 of BRAN /PIPE2-1
ISODRAW Mk11.3  (WINDOWS-NT 4.0)  ( 20 Feb 2000 : 23:22)
Run on Tues,  22 Feb 1992 14:30
The following drawings are in plotfile  plot006
          Drg.   1   /PIPE2
                     Plotted

Any errors reported in the message file should be corrected and the pipes for which errors were reported should be run through Isodraft again.

The message file name can be queried by using the command

Query  MESSagefilename