General Querying Facilities

When working in AVEVA E3D Design, the user is required to check existing information about some aspects of the program’s operations; for example:

• Current usage in terms of users, modules and DBs.

• The currently selected output device.

• The unique code which identifies the process the user is running and the station the user is running it from (useful for generating unique workfile names).

• The current setting, perhaps the default setting, of a command option.

• The contents of part of a particular DB; for example, the current setting of an attribute or the list of member elements owned by a specific element.

• The elements which match specific selection criteria entered by the user.

To ask for such information from within Model, type:

Query(almost always abbreviated to Q)

followed by the relevant querying option as described in the following sections.