AVEVA Asset Information Management Export Configuration

Before files can be published for AVEVA AIM, the export must be configured.

1. From the Project tab, click Setup, then Publish to AIM Configuration. The AIM Export Configuration window is then displayed.

   

2. Electrical data of various types and from different sources can be exported to AVEVA AIM, for example drawing data or data from reports. From the Name field, select the type of data export to AVEVA AIM to be configured.

3. If a log file is to be generated for the export type, check the Log Enabled checkbox.

4. The Log File field will then become enabled. In the field, specify the file name and the location of the log file (a .txt file). Click the button to browse for the required folder.

5. In the Staging Area field, specify the top level folder into which files are to be exported. Click the button to browse for the required folder.

6. If the Create Trigger File checkbox is checked, a trigger.start file (an empty text file) is created in the staging area folder for each file type. The purpose of the trigger.start file is to trigger the AVEVA AIM Portal’s import controller to automatically process all the files that reside in the same folder.

7. To select mapping files for the export of data and specify other settings, click Settings.

8. If Report exports are being configured, the Non-CAD Mapping Configuration window is displayed.

   

9. If Drawings or Installation Detail Drawings exports are being configured, the CAD Mapping Configuration window is displayed.

   

10. The mappings between Electrical data and AVEVA AIM Portal format data are stored in XML files, one for each of the types of mapping:

    • Presentation Mapping (Drawing and Installation Detail Drawing exports only)

    • Object Mapping

    • Class Mapping

      For details of these files, refer to AVEVA Asset Information Management Export Configurations Files.

11. In Non-CAD Mapping Configuration window and on Mapping tab of the CAD Mapping Configuration window, click the appropriate button to browse for the required mapping file.

12. Click the open file button to open the selected file. It will open in the default text editor, for example Notepad.

13. If no file is specified in the field, a new, blank .txt file is opened. If a file is specified that does not exist, the user will be asked if they want to create that file at the specified location. If Yes is clicked, a new blank .txt file is created and opened for editing.

14. To populate the fields with the default mapping files supplied with AVEVA Electrical, click Copy Sample Files.

15. On the Mapping tab of the CAD Mapping Configuration window, if unmapped attributes, i.e. Electrical attributes not mapped to AVEVA AIM Portal characteristics in the Attribute mapping files, are to be exported to export files as characteristics, check the Keep Unmapped Attributes checkbox.

16. Additional export settings may be specified for the export of Drawings and Installation Detail Drawings on the Settings tab of the CAD Mapping Configuration window.

    

17. To select the background colour of the SVG files generated by drawing exports, either:

    • select the required colour from the Colour field list, or

    • enter the RGB values of the colour in the fields provided, or

    • press the Pick Colour button and select the required colour from the standard colour selection dialog.

18. In Scale Factor field, enter the stroke-width attribute value of lines in the output SVG files.