ABA Defaults

Start the Plant/Marine application and load the Draft module.

Select Draft > Auto Drawing Production... from the main menu

From the ADP top menu bar, click on Settings and select Area Based ADP Defaults¼ from the drop-down menu shown below.

This opens the ABA Defaults form.

Use the ABA Defaults form for the following tasks:

• Defining the ABA data structure

• Modifying the ABA data structure

• Setting file locations of log files and batch files

• Settings for the Batch User configuration

• Input of text (data) files and supplied template data files

  Your project has probably been organized in such a way that different disciplines have different ABA Libraries; the one for MDS-ABA is shown below:

  %MDDDFLTS%/DRA-MDS-ABA-DEFAULTS

  You will see that MDS-ABA uses the Standard ABA Libraries where available, but has specific MDS Area and Template Libraries.

In general, to select a different defaults file to that initially loaded, enter the name of the file in the Defaults File text box and press the Return key.

The values held in the defaults file will appear on the form.

Alternatively, click the Defaults File button, which enables you to browse to and select the required ABA defaults file.

As you loaded this new defaults file, the name was stored. When you re-enter the ABA application at the next session, this defaults file will be the one opened initially.