Exporting Linear Members

A series of checks is made before a Linear Member is output.

• Is the SPRE set?

• Is it a zero length member?

• Does it have a valid material?

• Is the Justification Pline mappable to a Cardinal Point if it is not a Cardinal Point itself?

• Are the start and end points valid?

If any of the above criteria is not satisfied, the linear member does not even get exported to the output file.

Note:
This will have an effect on the subsequent import process as the member will appear to have been deleted by AVEVA Bocad Steel since its export. In fact, the linear member never made the transfer to there in the first place.

As has been indicated before, Linear Members can be transferred as either Straight or Curved. However, GENSECs can be compound shapes with both straight and arc sections.

Once the Linear Member has been output, the relevant UDAs specific for the interface associated with Export are updated. These are principally the element's internal ID and UUID numbers and transfer and revision numbers. This is only the minimum core database changes that affect the modification dates and times.

The interface may not be able to update the export information on the elements. This would usually be because the database is read-only. If this is the case, a session related macro file is produced for execution immediately afterwards, or when one has write access to the database. This file is called updateVersionNos<export date/time>.mac and is stored in your work folder.