SY007 - Validate Drawing

Drawings incorporate a version number, indicating which version of the programs that created the drawing. The version indicates the internal format and is used by the system to interpret the drawing correctly. Drawings of version less than the latest one can of course be handled by the system. Such a drawing will automatically be converted to the latest version when brought into the system. However, it will not be updated in the data bank until it is stored explicitly by user.

The conversion process could be quite time-consuming for big drawings, for example, arrangement drawings To avoid this conversion each time such a drawing is brought into the system, the drawing should be stored back in the data bank after conversion. Another way is to use this stand-alone program to convert all drawings once and for all. In the following, the conversion to latest version will be called validation. The program will validate all (or selected) drawing objects in the Drawing data bank, connected to SB_PDB.

Note: The current picture version is 8. Conversion of versions less than 8 is not supported. This means that until the next picture version (9) is introduced, invoking sy007 will have no effect.To read a picture object of version less than 8, it must first be converted to version 8 by using tbm3sp5 or older conversion software.

Operation

The user is prompted to key in the name of the picture(s) to validate. Wildcards are allowed in the picture name. To exit the program, click <CR>. For each picture matching the given name, the program will validate it and store it back on the data bank. Pictures already of latest version will of course not be treated.