Conversion recommendations and requirements

Conversion stage (E3D)

• Any component description over 256 characters long will be truncated.

• Avoid any ghost elements (primitives with null volume, panels with the wrong loop definition and so on).

• Avoid unset spref/catref attributes although unset spref attributes are allowable for SJOI and PJOI, refer to Limitations for further information.

• Write access to the first DESIGN DB is required, temporary elements need to be created and Savework is not required.

• A suitable MDB with all the required catalog information should be used.

• For best results in the piping discipline, avoid manual reconnections.

• Check data consistencies

• Ppoints should share the same origin and have an opposite direction.

• Offset tolerance = 0.

• Angle < 0.001.

• PFIT export, POS and DRPS attributes can cause issues, refer to Macros for E3D for further information.

Conversion stage (S3D)

• Create an empty S3D project.

• Backup is strongly recommended.

• Load a catalog.

• Design load.

• Register the generic PdmsSymbol dll, refer to S3D for further information.

Post conversion (S3D)

• Generate a Piping.xml file.

• Open isometric style option browser.

• Import data file for the SymbolMap.

• Import the Piping.xml file (merge with standard file).

• Generate ISOS sheets to check the conversion quality.

• Rearrange the PDBS/WBS to match up with S3D best practices.

• Manually reconnect piping connections.