Material Text

Material Text (SMTE) elements contain descriptive text describing the material(s) from which the physical component is constructed, and is used during the construction of drawings, reports, take-off sheets An SMTE element exists at the same level in the Catalogue database hierarchy as a Component element (that means, it is a member of a Section or Category) and is referred to from SPCOM elements in the Specification.

An SMTE element (which will usually be named) is created simply by entering, for example:

NEW SMTE /5L-S-80

The text itself exists as an attribute of the SMTE element; namely one of the attributes XTEX, YTEX or ZTEX. The text is input simply by entering the attribute name followed by the text itself in quotes, for example:

XTEX 'SCM.80 API 5L GR.B SMLC'

The choice of attribute name depends on the PDMS module which is to use the related text, the attribute to be used being specified from that module. XTEX is used by Isodraft.