Material Category Mapping

The mapping of a material type to a Catalogue/Section/Category combination is done in AVEVA Marine through a mapping table.

The image shows how a mapping is defined. For every ERM Material Type, a corresponding Section and a Category is assigned in the AVEVA Marine catalogue. This information is useful when importing the standard materials, raw plates or raw profiles from AVEVA ERM.

The generic type description GTYPE is valid for all components stored in the same category.

ERM Material Type defines the location where the standard material, raw plate or raw profile information is stored when importing it from AVEVA ERM into AVEVA Marine.

The Auto Generate CE button generates the material category mapping for the current element and all its child elements, and the Auto Generate Mapping button generates the material category mapping for each of the part elements in the current MDB (Multiple Database).

When a new standard material, raw plate or raw profile is transferred from AVEVA ERM, the category for the standard material, raw plate or raw profile found by looking up the transferred field Material Type in the mapping table. When searching for new or modified standard materials, raw plates or raw profiles to be transferred to AVEVA ERM, all categories defined in the mapping table are looked up.

You can store the data (for example, weight) through an associated General Part (GPART) in Component Data (CMPD) instead of directly storing it in the component. However, in order to be able to create GPARTs and CMPD definitions, you must first define Part World (PRTWLD), Part Element (PRTELE), Component World (CMPW) and Component Type (CMPT).

Most of the shared attributes may be stored as User Defined Attributes (UDAs) together with the component. You can define PML-scripts for reading and writing all shared attributes.

Plate/Profile Mapping

You can use the Plate/Profile Mapping area to map the raw plates and raw profiles to AVEVA ERM material type.

Click Add to add the mapping to the file and the grid. Click Apply to save the mapping or click Cancel to clear the fields without saving.

The following table describes the fields in the area.

Raw Profile Type Mapping

The Raw Profile Type Mapping tab lists the default mappings of the raw profile types and their AVEVA ERM dimension codes.You can use the Add, Delete and Edit buttons to add to the mappings, delete and edit the mappings respectively.

To add a mapping, type the AVEVA Marine raw profile type in the Marine Profile Type box and the AVEVA ERM dimension code in the ERM Dimension Code box, and click Add. The mapping is added. To edit a mapping, select the required mapping and click Edit. You can then edit the mapping as required. Click Delete to delete the selected mapping from the grid.

Note: The default mappings are available from AVEVA ERM 16.0 and later and AVEVA Marine 12.1 SP5 Fix 17 and later. If you add or edit the mappings, then you must make sure the same mapping is added in AVEVA ERM before transferring raw profiles.