| Applies To | |||
| Product(s): | AutoPIPE | ||
| Version(s): | 2004, XM, V8i | ||
| Area: | Import | ||
| Original Author: | Bentley Technical Support Group | ||
| Date Logged & Current Version | June 2015 09.06.02.06 |
Problem:
When importing an *.NTL file, noticed that all the Pipe Properties PipeIDs have Material = NS instead of the material setting shown in the actual NTL file:
Why and how to avoid?
Solution:
1. Open the NTL file in any text editing program (i.e Notepad, Wordpad, MS Word, Ultra Edit, etc..) .
2. Look at the first 5 lines of data, is there a line that starts with the Word JOB?
Fig #1:
To keep up with the new file formats of AutoPIPE, new versions of the NTL fie have been created. If the JOB card is missing in the NTL file ( see Fig #2 below), AutoPIPE will assume the file is in the default version 1.2 format.
Fig #2:
If the Job card is present, look in column #60 to the far right in order to see the NTL file format version (i.e. version = 1.8, fig #1 above).
Depending on the file format version, be sure the data matches the format requirements of that version.
Example:
the data in Fig #2 above matches the 1.8 file format, but since the JOB card was missing AutoPIPE assume the data was in the default version 1.2 format. For NTL version 1.2, Pipe material should be in 2nd line of PIPE card. As 2nd line is empty, therefore default type set to ‘NS’. In this case, the issue was resolved by adding the JOB card into the file as shown in Fig #3 below.
Fig #3:
Note: what is the format of this NTL? 2nd line of the Pipe Id (fig #2) is for Pipe Tag. which was added in AP9.5 having NTL version 1.8 or higher.