Creating a Specification

In PARAGON command line, enter SPECONMODE to use the SPECON command syntax.

To create a new SPEC, use one of the commands

NEW SPECification specname

NEW specname

where specname is the PDMS name which will be used to refer to the complete Specification.

Note: The short form of the command is all that is necessary, since a SPEC is the only element type which you can create at this level in SPECON (the lower level elements SELEC and SPCOM are created indirectly when the tabular data is entered; see Entering Tabular Data).

For example, either of the following commands:

NEW SPEC /RF300

NEW /RF300

would create a new SPEC called /RF300.

To associate a descriptive text with the SPEC name, use the syntax

TEXT text

For example, the SPEC created in the preceding example might be given an associated text by entering the command:

TEXT '300 psi Piping Specification'

Note: The delimiting apostrophes enclosing the text string, which must not exceed 50 characters.

This text, which is stored in a TEXT element in the hierarchy, will be shown after the SPEC name when the Specification is output; see Outputting a Specification.

Two system attributes on the PDMS SPECIFICATION element are used when the product VPRM is the source of PDMS Specifications.

When a specification is imported to PDMS the attributes FISSUE and FINPUTBY hold the VPRM information.

• FISSUE holds VPRM issue number

• FINPUTBY holds information indicating that the source was VPRM and includes the date of issue

The system attribute FSTATUS also holds the VPRM status of the specification, usually working or approved.

For example:

Finputby |VPRM at 26-NOV-2003 12:04|

Fissue   |00|

Fstatus  |APPROVED|