Drawing Production DRA-MDS-ABA-DEFAULTS
- Last UpdatedFeb 17, 2025
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The Supports application uses the standard ABA (Area Based Automatic Drawing Production) facilities to produce hanger and framework detail drawings from Draw.
Using ABA, certain supports specific elements have been added into the delivered project. In summary these are: supports specific Sheet Templates (SHTMPLs) and their associated views layers and tasks, plus some referenced Library (LIBY) elements.
Supports specifics only are documented. For other details of ABA administration, refer to Supports Automatic Drawing Production for further information.
One of the principles of ABA is that it works on an area of the database defined by co-ordinates. Supports ABA does not make use of this part of the functionality initially but calculates the area required around a support or hanger and then back-fills the requirement into the ABA windows.
A sample DRA-MDS-ABA-Defaults file is supplied with Supports default values:
--
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-- General Defaults For Area Based ADP Use.
-- ========================================
--
-- Section 1
!!abadefaults.libr.val = '/Aba/graphical_reports_library'
!!abadefaults.dlib.val = '/MDS-Drawing-Templates'
!!abadefaults.alib.val = '/MDS-ABA-Area-Library'
!!abadefaults.disl.val = '/PROJ/ABA/CLASS'
!!abadefaults.keyp.val = '/Aba/keyplans_library'
!!abadefaults.symb.val = '/Aba/symbols_library'
!!abadefaults.labl.val = '/Aba/tag_rule_library'
!!abadefaults.task.val = '/PROJ/ABA/TASK'
!!abadefaults.logf.val = '%AVEVA_DESIGN_ABA_LOG%'
!!abadefaults.batf.val = '%AVEVA_DESIGN_ABA_BATCH%'
!!abadefaults.logpath = '%AVEVA_DESIGN_ABA_LOG%'
!!abadefaults.batpath = '%AVEVA_DESIGN_ABA_BATCH%'
!!abadefaults.ustring = 'SYSTEM'
!!abadefaults.string = 'XXXXXX'
!!abadefaults.startbat = '%AVEVA_DESIGN_ABA_BATCH%\Batch.bat'
-- End Section 1
--
-- =============================================
-- Permitted View Scales
-- =============================================
--
-- Section 2
Metric \MET \1/1 \1 1 \1
Metric \MET \1/2 \1 2 \0.5
Metric \MET \1/3 \1 3 \0.333333,0.3333,0.33
Metric \MET \1/5 \1 5 \0.2
Metric \MET \1/10 \1 10 \0.1
Metric \MET \1/20 \1 20 \0.05
Metric \MET \1/25 \1 25 \0.04
Metric \MET \1/33.1/3 \1 33.1/3 \0.0303,0.03
Metric \MET \1/50 \1 50 \0.02
Metric \MET \1/75 \1 75 \0.013333,0.0133,0.013
Metric \MET \1/100 \1 100 \0.01
Metric \MET \1/150 \1 150 \0.006667,0.0067
Metric \MET \1/200 \1 200 \0.005
Metric \MET \1/250 \1 250 \0.004
Metric \MET \1/500 \1 500 \0.002
Metric \MET \1/1000 \1 1000 \0.001
Metric \MET \1/1250 \1 1250 \0.0008
Metric \MET \1/2500 \1 2500 \0.0004
Architectural \ARC \3" = 1'-0" \3Inch 1' \0.25
Architectural \ARC \1 1/2" = 1'-0" \1.1/2Inch 1' \0.125
Architectural \ARC \1" = 1'-0" \1Inch 1' \0.083333,0.0833
Architectural \ARC \3/4" = 1'-0" \0.3/4Inch 1' \0.0625
Architectural \ARC \1/2" = 1'-0" \0.1/2Inch 1' \0.041667,0.0417
Architectural \ARC \3/8" = 1'-0" \0.3/8Inch 1' \0.03125 ,0.0313
Architectural \ARC \1/4" = 1'-0" \0.1/4Inch 1' \0.020833,0.0208
Architectural \ARC \3/16" = 1'-0" \0.3/16Inch 1' \0.015625,0.0156
Architectural \ARC \1/8" = 1'-0" \0.1/8Inch 1' \0.010417,0.0104
Architectural \ARC \1/16" = 1'-0" \0.1/16Inch 1' \0.005208,0.0052
Engineering \ENG \1" = 10'-0" \1Inch 10' \0.008333,0.0083
Engineering \ENG \1" = 20'-0" \1Inch 20' \0.004167,0.0042
Engineering \ENG \1" = 30'-0" \1Inch 30' \0.002778,0.0028
Engineering \ENG \1" = 40'-0" \1Inch 40' \0.002083,0.002
Engineering \ENG \1" = 50'-0" \1Inch 50' \0.001667,0.0017
Engineering \ENG \1" = 60'-0" \1Inch 60' \0.001389,0.0014
Engineering \ENG \1" = 75'-0" \1Inch 75' \0.001111,0.0011
Engineering \ENG \1" = 100'-0" \1Inch 100' \0.000833,0.0008
-- End Section 2
--
-- =============================================
-- Symbol Templates
-- =============================================
--
-- Section 3
-- Plan View E/W axis
/Aba/SAM/grids/EW
-- Plan View N/S axis
/Aba/SAM/grids/NS
-- Elevation View EW axis
/Aba/SAM/grids/vert_EW
-- Elevation View NS axis
/Aba/SAM/grids/vert_NS
-- North Arrow
/Aba/north_arrow
-- End Section 3
--
-- =============================================
-- Auto Number Task
-- =============================================
--
-- Section 4
/Aba/AutoNumber
-- End Section 4
--
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-- Imperial Paper Sizes
-- =============================================
--
-- Section 5
A \8.5 11
B \17 11
C \22 17
D \34 22
E \44 34
-- End Section 5
--
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-- Metric Paper Sizes
-- =============================================
--
-- Section 6
A0 \1189 841
A1 \841 594
A2 \594 420
A3 \420 297
A4 \297 210
A5 \210 148
-- End Section 6