Choose Insert ModelDraft Data from the Project Setup Manager main form

Plant Design System (PDS) Project Administrator (PD_Project) 77 The Insert ModelDraft Project form is displayed.

2. Enter MDR Project Directory and Node.

Key in the location information for the ModelDraft project files.

 ModelDraft Project Name - Key in the name of the ModelDraft subproject.

 ModelDraft File Directory - Key in the directory path name for the location of the structural models.

 ModelDraft Network Address - Key in the node name or network address for the location of the structural models.

 ModelDraft Mount Point - Key in the prefix of the mount point for the location of the structural models (such as /usr3). The prefix is required because the structural PDS file includes the mounted path name rather than a network address and a path name.

The specified mount point must be created on each machine that will access the ModelDraft product. This value cannot be changed after the project is created.

The system stores this data in the Project Control Database for use in creating structural models in the Project Environment and to support ModelDraft network operations within the PD_Shell environment.

3. Accept or Revise ModelDraft Information.

Choose the Confirm button to accept the specified ModelDraft subproject information.

The defined subprojects are listed in the scroll field at the bottom of the form. The system also verifies that the specified data defines a valid ModelDraft project directory.

 If the ModelDraft project does not exist, the system creates a structural project subdirectory structure at the specified network address and path name. It copies supplementary data from the ModelDraft product directory to the structural project directory. In this process, the structural symbology data, symbology.md, is copied as symbology.sms.

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 If the ModelDraft project exists, the system updates the ModelDraft project information in the Project Control Database but does not create any directory files.

4. The system clears the input fields to allow you to specify additional subprojects.

When you are finished defining the structural subprojects, choose the Cancel button to return to the Create Project form.

Warning: If structural models already exist for the inserted ModelDraft project, use the Create Model from ASCII File command rather than the Create Model command to add the necessary model information to the project database.

This command deletes FrameWorks sub-projects from the current PDS project. This command does not delete the FrameWorks Plus project directory or its subdirectories. It only removes the FrameWorks Plus entries from the PDS project database. You can use Windows Explorer to remove the actual project.

1. Choose Delete FrameWorks Sub-Project from the Project Setup Manager form.

The system displays the Delete FrameWorks Project form.

2. Select the project to be deleted from the display window.

3. Choose the Confirm button to delete the selected project.

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The Project Environment Manager is used to create, revise, and delete disciplines, design areas, and model files; revise the project information location of a project or model; or create a report of information in the project control database and design database.

The Project Control database is created as part of a new project. (See the Project Setup Manager.) The project is the fundamental structure for working in PDS. Each project contains all the information required to design a plant in the PDS environment. PDS uses the following organization to divide the project:

 A discipline is a grouping based on application. The project is initially created with the following disciplines: Piping, Equipment, Structural, HVAC, Raceway and Architecture.

Additional user-defined disciplines (up to a total of ten) can also be created.

 A design area represents a specified volume of the project for a specific discipline. Design areas are used to divide the project into smaller areas for operations to be performed only on a subset of the entire plant, such as interference checking or reporting.

 A model corresponds to a specific 3D volume for a discipline within the specified design area.

A model represents the smallest subdivision of the project based on work responsibility.

Because PDS projects do not support MicroStation V8 drawing files, you can use the ChkDgnv7 utility to find any MicroStation V8 design files in a project. After running the utility, an ASCII-based log file is generated at a user-defined location. The log file provides a report on files contained in the project. You can then remove any MicroStation V8 files from the project.

After you create a project and you begin working, the error message below displays if PDS finds a MicroStation V8 file:

To locate the problem file(s) in the project, run the utility as described below. The utility can only be run from a Windows command line.

1. Locate the ChkDgnV7 utility in the [drive]:\WIN32APP\INGR\PDPROJEC\bin folder.

2. Open a Windows command line and go to the above folder containing the utility.

3. Enter the following syntax to run the utility:

chkdgnv7 [PDS project name] [Log file name]

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82 Plant Design System (PDS) Project Administrator (PD_Project) PDS Project name - the name of the project file you want to use. All files contained in that project are checked.

Log file name - the name of the text file that is generated by the utility. Type in the path and file name you want to use.

The project name in the syntax is case sensitive.

The utility generates the log file at the specified location.

4. Open the file using any ASCII text editor to see a report on the project files. For any MicroStation V8 files, the message, "Unsupported V8 file found in the path..." displays.

5. Repeat steps 3-4 for each project you want to check.

6. Exit the Windows command line window when you have finished.

You can run this command-line utility at any time.