Load SVG

Load exports graphical data together with metadata to SVG format. Select the graphical data output type SVG format under the Load, SVG settings.

After you select the required settings, click Save Settings to save the Load geometry settings of graphical data.

The SVG setting contains the following options:

• Graphics Output Type: Select the output file type for storing the graphics, such as SVG (XML-based two-dimensional format). Use None option if no 2D graphical data is needed, for example, if only the EIWM file is needed. Selecting None means that no graphical data is written, for example, if only the engineering data via EIWM XML is to be imported into AIM.

• Output Destination: Select whether the output will be written to a File System or an AWS or Both.

  • File System Details:

    • Output Path: Type the Output file path or click the Browse for Folder panel to enter the output folder path.

  • S3 Bucket Details: To access an S3 bucket requires the relevant authentication details like credential file, region information, bucket name and output directory. For more information, see Accessing an AWS S3 Bucket.

  • AVEVA Cloud Storage: For more information about accessing AVEVA Cloud Storage, see Accessing AVEVA Cloud Storage.

• Replicate Input Structure: Select this option if the input folder contains subfolders and you want the relevant output files to be located in the same subfolders of the output location.

• Generate Trigger File: After output file generation, to trigger the Import Controller, a trigger.start file is created in the staging area. It passes through three stages: start, process and finish. When the file reaches the finish stage, the output files are imported into AIM. The generateTriggerStart option is used to generate a trigger start file which directs the AIM Import Controller to start importing the output files in to AIM. The trigger file will be created after all processing has completed, if no errors have occurred. Configure this using the generateTriggerStart element, for example, <generateTriggerStart apply="true" />.

  Note: The apply value must be an xsd schema supported Boolean value. The valid values for xsd:boolean are true, false, 0 and 1. Attribute values that are capitalized (for example, TRUE) or abbreviated (for example, T) are not valid.

• Optimize SVG: This option restructures the SVG without changing the SVG appearance, which usually reduces its size and rendering time, but does increase the Gateway processing time.

• Background: Select the background color of drawings. The background color of the SVG files generated by the project can be selected by any of these methods:

  • Override Color: Some of the input drawings used for creating the SVG may or may not contain information about the background colour. If a background colour is specified in the input drawing, set the SVG’s background to the same colour, or use a different background colour by setting the Override Colour option.

  • Color: Select the required color from the Color list, for example, Black.

  • R, G, B: Enter the RGB values of the color in the fields provided.

  • Pick Color: Click Pick Color and select the required color from the standard color selection dialog. A preview of the selected color is displayed next to the Pick Color button.

    Notes:

    • If any graphic or text has the same color as the background color, then the color of this item is inverted. For example, if the background color is Black and any graphics or texts have source color of Black, then these items will be converted to White in the output SVG.

    • Raster images are normally exported in their source colors. Bitonal (two colors) raster images are exceptions as they have two colors:

    • Primary: If the image's Primary color is the same as the SVG Background Color, then it is changed to be visible against the new background color (this is similar to the behavior of AutoCAD application).

    • Background: If the input image has a transparent background, then the image's background in the output SVG is also transparent, otherwise, the image's background color is set to the same background color as configured for the SVG.

• Save Settings: Click Save Settings to save the settings.

  Notes:

• Set the tracking of changes provided by SVG Load on data using annotations feature. For information about annotations, see Appendix C: Tracking Changes in Data.

• Exporting ‘wipeout frames’ from DWG to SVG is dependent on the global ‘WIPEOUTFRAME’ variable in the drawing:

  • Values ‘0’ and ‘2’ mean that frames are not written to SVG.

  • Value ‘1’ means that frames are written to SVG.

• When the input DWG/DXF document contains a wipeout object, then tag objects metadata grouped by Patterns 2D are assigned separately to each member of the SVG group, rather than to the single grouped object. This is to ensure correct rendering of the SVG group members where those behind the wipeout object are not visible or only partially visible.

  This causes each member of the group to be highlighted when the mouse hovers over each, but when any one of them is selected then all members are selected with the one single tag.