MDS Drawing Lock

Use this option to lock a drawing, preventing any changes to be made.

1. Select the option Utilities > MDS Drawing Lock and the form shown below is displayed.

   

2. Select the Lock Drawing option and click on Apply to lock the drawing.

3. To unlock a drawing, select Unlock Drawing and click Apply.

   A locked drawing will NOT be deleted and/or overwritten via the MDS ABA drawing creation process, even if the MDS support name is selected in the main 'Create MDS Drawing' form.

   However the user will have to check the ABA log file, for example, %PDMSABALOG%/Aba_7-June-07_10-52-36.log, for the list of MDS support drawings successfully created or aborted. A typical ABA log file output is shown below.

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   ABA Log File - Processing 1 Drawings

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   Entry for Drawing /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA (=23706/324,=22384/63420)

   End of Process List

   Processing Drawing (1 of 1)

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   7 Jun 2007 10:52:37

   Cannot delete old drawing /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA as it is locked - Drawing aborted

   Drawing (1 of 1) Processed

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   Draft run-time warnings:

   64,353) 0 elements with null or illegal IDNM attributes have been deleted. IDLIST /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA/S1/V7/IDLIST/IDLI

   64,353) 0 elements with null or illegal DDNM attributes have been deleted. VIEW /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA/S1/V7

   64,353) 0 elements with null or illegal IDNM attributes have been deleted. VIEW /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA/S1/V7

   Cannot delete old drawing /MDS-ABA-3-VIEWS(METRIC)-PS01005-AREA as it is locked - Drawing aborted