Gateway for SmartPlant 3D 6​.1

The AVEVA NET Gateway for SmartPlant 3D (henceforth, referred to as the Gateway) is a type of CAD File processing gateway, which converts a 3D model and its associated engineering data from a Smart 3D project into a format that can be imported into AIM or AIM-A. The 3D model is converted into XGL/ZGL format and the associated engineering data is converted into EIWM XML or CSV.

The Gateway provides a user interface with a set of configuration settings and data mappings that are saved as projects. When a Smart 3D project is to be created, you define the required extraction configuration settings to choose the source Smart 3D project and its components, and edit the transformation mapping file(s) to define the Engineering attributes which will be imported into AIM, such as tag and class values.

You can run the Gateway either directly through the user interface or from the command line. When processing is complete, the extracted XGL/ZGL and EIWM XML files are loaded into AIM using the Import Controller or into AIM-A using the Gateway Data Publisher.

Benefits of the Gateway:

The following are the benefits of the Gateway:

• Connects with the Smart 3D database to extract the information.

• Transforms extracted data from Smart 3D input data through XML base mappings. Results of each transformation can be exported to a .CSV file for inspection.

• Supports Load (output) of objects and attributes to EIWM and graphics to XGL, suitable for AIM.

• Supports creation of XGL/ZGL file.

• Provides a summary report of the process.

  

  High Level Diagram of the AVEVA NET Gateway for SmartPlant 3D

This guide explains how to install and use the Gateway. It includes the following key information:

• Extracting the input data from Smart 3D model

• Transforming the extracted data

• Defining Project settings and mappings and generating output files.

• Running the Gateway from the command line and from user interface.

• Exporting of transformed data into AVEVA™ Asset Information Management (previously known as AVEVA NET)

This guide is intended for those users who will be using the Gateway to convert various Smart 3D files containing project, engineering and 3D model data into intelligent EIWM XML format and 3D renditions as XGL.

Users should have the following pre-requisite skills to set up, maintain and monitor the Gateway:

• Configuration of the Smart 3D in use.

• SQL expression construction and XML data sources.

• Configuring and using AVEVA Asset Information Management import functions.