Select Elements

You can select the element types through the Select Elements area of the Element Selection and Filters page in the AVEVA AIM Export Setup window. The element types you select here are included in the EIWM file and are tagged in the SVG file. To select the child element types, you must drill down by clicking the arrow adjacent to the check box.

The following image shows the user interface of the Select Elements area.

To select the element types:

1. In the Select Elements area, click the arrow adjacent to the element types to drill down, and then select the check boxes corresponding to the element types you want to export to AVEVA™ Asset Information Management.

   Note: The Document Page element type always is selected and cannot be cleared.

2. Through the Generate Graphical Data check box, you can specify if you want to export the graphical data. If you do not want to export the graphical data, select the Document Page element type and clear the Generate Graphical Data check box. The suffix [SVG] is removed from the element type indicating that no graphical data will be generated during export. By default, the check box is selected and the suffix [SVG] is added to the element type indicating that an SVG file will be generated during export.

   Note: The Generate Graphical Data check box is available only for the Document Page element type. To select or clear the check box, the Document Page element type must be highlighted in the Select Elements area.

Element Selection Strategies

Due to the complex nature of AVEVA™ Diagrams and the associated project data, it is advised to create the configurations so as to ensure that the publishing performance of the AVEVA™ Gateway for Unified Engineering remains optimal.

Elements in AVEVA™ Diagrams could often have large number of sub element under a parent element. For such projects, publishing the graphical data of the topmost parent as a single model (single SVG file) can result in memory-related issues and sub optimal performance of the AVEVA™ Gateway for Unified Engineering. Therefore, it is advised to create configurations in such ways that generated SVG drawings would be split into multiple files of smaller sizes.

Dividing drawings into smaller parts for publishing is also beneficial in case of future model updates. Consider the case where a large SITE has been published as one model to AVEVA™ Asset Information Management and at a later point in time, it must be updated due to changes in source model. In such cases, the entire SITE need not be published once again if the graphical data has been split into multiple files.