Background

To populate OpenPlant Modeler Properties/attributes inside OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, there are two ways, to populate data in isometrics drawing using seed file. Either through assigning Text Nodes or through Tags. See below steps to describe the situation using Tags. With the use of Projectwisemap.txt file, user can assign all attribute inside this file and should be able to map the data by defining Tag inside seed file.     

OpenPlant Modeler & OpenPlant Isometrics Manager

Steps to Accomplish

A. To Define Tag set and Tags

B. To Map attribute inside projectwisemap.txt file

A. To Define Tag set and Tags

1. Launch OpenPlant Isometrics Manager
2. Open Isometric Configuration dialog->Advanced-> Open Seed File.
   
   
   
   
3. Go to Element -> Tags-> Define
   
   
   
   
4. In the dialog click add and give the Tag Set a name, say pw here.
   
   
   
   
5. The following dialog will come up. Select the pw tag set and create a few variables. All variables are character based. We have added some examples, say NAME here for reference.
   
   
   
   
6. Once Tags are defined, it will display like shown in below image.
   
   
   
   
7. From the tasks pane select Attach Tag.
   
   
   
   
8. Select the pw tag. Make sure the Association is checked and attach the tag to the drawing frame. It’s good to have a default value filled in when creating tags. You can now move the tag fields to anywhere in the drawing if display is required.
   
   
   
   
9. See default value displayed here -
   
   
   
   

B. To Map attribute inside projectwisemap.txt file

Projectwisemap.txt include the documentation for various ways of displaying tags.

Open projectwisemap.txt in a text editor and map drawing attributes to tags. The left hand side specifies tag set name and tag (case sensitive), the right hand side is the drawing attribute.

pw.SPEC=SPECIFICATION

pw.Style=STYLE

pw.PROJECT=PRJ_NAME

pw.Service = Service

pw.F_NAME = FILENAME

pw.NAME = NAME

pw.LINENUMBER = LINENUMBER



Note – Please note Tags & Tag sets are case sensitive

Save & close file generate isometrics and verify results. It should populate the correct data. 

Note - It could further be used inside Projectwise using the same attribute value

See Also

communities.bentley.com/.../modifying-text-and-annotation-settings

communities.bentley.com/.../how-to-feature-microstation-tags-and-autocad-attributes

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