Import and Export an AVEVA Initial Design Lines Datastore

Curves from a Lines datastore may now be imported into Surface using the FILE \ IMPORT \ LINES DATASTORE menu or using the syntax command IMPORT LINES $F.

These curves are imported as B-Spline curves and converted into ACIS entities. These curves may therefore be manipulated using the usual Surface curve manipulation routines.

The following curve types may be imported into Surface:

• All boundary curves

• Sections, waterlines, buttocks

• Knuckle, tangent and pline curves

Having read in a Lines datastore, or alternatively created a number of curves within Surface, and having optionally modified these curves within Surface, a new Lines datastore may be created by using the FILE \ EXPORT \ LINES DATASTORE menu.

The following syntax may be used to export the curves to the Lines datastore

EXPORT LINES $F