MDS Drawing Production DRA-MDS-ABA-DEFAULTS

MDS uses the standard ABA (Area Based Automatic Drawing Production) facilities to produce its hanger and framework detail drawings from Draft. Using ABA certain MDS specific elements have been added into the delivered project (MDS). In summary these are: MDS specific Sheet Templates (SHTMPLs) and their associated Views Layers and Tasks, plus some referenced Library (LIBY) elements.

MDS specifics only are documented below. For other details of the administration of ABA see the MDS Customization Guide.

One of the principles of ABA is that it works on an area of the database defined by co-ordinates. MDS-ABA does not make use of this part of the functionality initially but calculates the area required around a support or hanger and then back-fills the requirement into the ABA forms.

A sample DRA-MDS-ABA-Defaults file is supplied with MDS default values, as shown here:

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-- General Defaults For Area Based ADP Use.

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!!abadefaults.libr.val = '/Aba/graphical_reports_library'

!!abadefaults.dlib.val = '/MDS-Drawing-Templates'

!!abadefaults.alib.val = '/MDS-ABA-Area-Library'

!!abadefaults.disl.val = '/PROJ/ABA/CLASS'

!!abadefaults.keyp.val = '/Aba/keyplans_library'

!!abadefaults.symb.val = '/Aba/symbols_library'

!!abadefaults.labl.val = '/Aba/tag_rule_library'

!!abadefaults.task.val = '/PROJ/ABA/TASK'

!!abadefaults.logf.val = '%PDMSABALOG%'

!!abadefaults.batf.val = '%PDMSABABATCH%'

!!abadefaults.logpath = '%PDMSABALOG%'

!!abadefaults.batpath = '%PDMSABABATCH%'

!!abadefaults.ustring = 'SYSTEM'

!!abadefaults.string = 'XXXXXX'

!!abadefaults.startbat = '%PDMSABABATCH%\pdmsBatch.bat'

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-- Permitted View Scales

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Metric \MET \1/1 \1 1 \1

Metric \MET \1/2 \1 2 \0.5

Metric \MET \1/3 \1 3 \0.333333,0.3333,0.33

Metric \MET \1/5 \1 5 \0.2

Metric \MET \1/10 \1 10 \0.1

Metric \MET \1/20 \1 20 \0.05

Metric \MET \1/25 \1 25 \0.04

Metric \MET \1/33.1/3 \1 33.1/3 \0.0303,0.03

Metric \MET \1/50 \1 50 \0.02

Metric \MET \1/75 \1 75 \0.013333,0.0133,0.013

Metric \MET \1/100 \1 100 \0.01

Metric \MET \1/150 \1 150 \0.006667,0.0067

Metric \MET \1/200 \1 200 \0.005

Metric \MET \1/250 \1 250 \0.004

Metric \MET \1/500 \1 500 \0.002

Metric \MET \1/1000 \1 1000 \0.001

Metric \MET \1/1250 \1 1250 \0.0008

Metric \MET \1/2500 \1 2500 \0.0004

Architectural \ARC \3" = 1'-0" \3Inch 1' \0.25

Architectural \ARC \1 1/2" = 1'-0" \1.1/2Inch 1' \0.125

Architectural \ARC \1" = 1'-0" \1Inch 1' \0.083333,0.0833

Architectural \ARC \3/4" = 1'-0" \0.3/4Inch 1' \0.0625

Architectural \ARC \1/2" = 1'-0" \0.1/2Inch 1' \0.041667,0.0417

Architectural \ARC \3/8" = 1'-0" \0.3/8Inch 1' \0.03125 ,0.0313

Architectural \ARC \1/4" = 1'-0" \0.1/4Inch 1' \0.020833,0.0208

Architectural \ARC \3/16" = 1'-0" \0.3/16Inch 1' \0.015625,0.0156

Architectural \ARC \1/8" = 1'-0" \0.1/8Inch 1' \0.010417,0.0104

Architectural \ARC \1/16" = 1'-0" \0.1/16Inch 1' \0.005208,0.0052

Engineering \ENG \1" = 10'-0" \1Inch 10' \0.008333,0.0083

Engineering \ENG \1" = 20'-0" \1Inch 20' \0.004167,0.0042

Engineering \ENG \1" = 30'-0" \1Inch 30' \0.002778,0.0028

Engineering \ENG \1" = 40'-0" \1Inch 40' \0.002083,0.002

Engineering \ENG \1" = 50'-0" \1Inch 50' \0.001667,0.0017

Engineering \ENG \1" = 60'-0" \1Inch 60' \0.001389,0.0014

Engineering \ENG \1" = 75'-0" \1Inch 75' \0.001111,0.0011

Engineering \ENG \1" = 100'-0" \1Inch 100' \0.000833,0.0008

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-- Symbol Templates

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-- Section 3

-- Plan View E/W axis

/Aba/SAM/grids/EW

-- Plan View N/S axis

/Aba/SAM/grids/NS

-- Elevation View EW axis

/Aba/SAM/grids/vert_EW

-- Elevation View NS axis

/Aba/SAM/grids/vert_NS

-- North Arrow

/Aba/north_arrow

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-- Auto Number Task

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-- Section 4

/Aba/AutoNumber

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-- Imperial Paper Sizes

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A \8.5 11

B \17 11

C \22 17

D \34 22

E \44 34

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-- Metric Paper Sizes

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A0 \1189 841

A1 \841 594

A2 \594 420

A3 \420 297

A4 \297 210

A5 \210 148

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