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  • DerekC's Blog: Every-time I open a spec in AutoPLANT SpecGen, it says it has been modified outside of SpecGEN! Why?!

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Most of the time, the message is accurate. Somebody modified the file in Microsoft Access. The error is actually just a warning message. If you added spec records on the fly (manually), you'll lose those changes when you rebuild the spec in the Specification…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: AutoPLANT AutoIsogen creates an iso drawing for every single component! Help!

    DerekC
    DerekC

    No, this is not a connectivity issue. This is actually an attribute issue with the naming convention of the PCF file.

    To show how this could happen, let's say you create a new project. You go to modify your Relationship Instances in Project Administrator…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: AutoPLANT Error! It won't start. 'unable to read the AT.INI file'

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Are you getting this error?

    Typically, this can happen if someone installed but did not have Administrative privileges. Thus, the files were not copied over or registered properly. The message received is actually just a note in a lsp file that will…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: AutoPLANT Bill of Materials Error: BOMCAD.TXT Invalid File Name

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Overview:

    Bill of Materials report is crashing. Report Writer: Cannot export to a file C:\Documents & Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bentley\Plant V8i\Reports\BOMCAD.TXT Invalid File Name

    This will happen when the version of Crystal Reports…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: How do I add SPOOL to the AutoPLANT Component Preferences toolbar

    DerekC
    DerekC
    Spool is partially installed as a Relationship in the project database. This can easily be enabled by opening the AutoPLANT project database.
    1. If using a MS Access distributed mode project, you may go to the following file: ..\project name\projdata…
    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: Error: "Publish failed" when processing AutoPLANT Piping model in through Isogen in Projectwise Integrated project

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Overview:

    Error: "Publish failed" appears in the Export Progress dialog for AutoPLANT AutoIsogen when processing piping in a Projectwise integrated project. This error is caused by having an incorrect output path for Isogen, which is stored in the ISOGEN…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: How to add linenumber as prefix to spool in AutoPLANT AutoIsogen (ex. L100-1)

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Overview:

    This is a solution for modifying how spool number is output to Isogen. This shows how to add Linenumber as a prefix. So the end result will be something like <L100-1>.

    Solution:

    Open and modify the following file in the Rebis Script…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: AutoCAD Mechanical Content Library error when starting AutoPLANT V8i SS3

    DerekC
    DerekC

    AutoPLANT Plant Design V8i SelectSeries 3 does not add in the Content Library path information required in the AutoCAD Mechanical profile. It's not necessary to have. AutoCAD will still work. But if you want to get rid of the error message, follow the…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2012
  • DerekC's Blog: How do I create item sets in Bentley Navigator?

    DerekC
    DerekC

     

    Overview

    This blog shows how to create an item set within Bentley Navigator. Item sets will allow you to group elements based on user-defined criteria from component data. Once the groups are created you can then change the color and transparency of…

    • Thu, Jun 2 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: ODBC Errors during AutoPLANT V8i SelectSeries 3 install

    DerekC
    DerekC

    A MS Access 2010 Database Engine plug in is required in order to install AutoPLANT V8i SS3 64bit. Without it, you will get ODBC errors during installation of the product. You can download this from the following link:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads…

    • Thu, Apr 21 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: Records or particular sizes not in spec preview or built into spec

    DerekC
    DerekC

    This is a solution for those who have found that SpecGen is not bringing in all records from the catalog. Possibly, some sizes are missing from the spec preview and cannot be inserted into AutoPLANT Piping with this spec.

    1. Open SpecGen and open the…

    • Thu, Apr 21 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: Cannot see or select relationship instances (project objects) in the AutoPLANT Component Preferences toolbar

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Product: AutoPLANT Piping

    Version: V8i SelectSeries 2; 08.11.07.60

    Area: Project Object; Relationship Instance; Select; Pick; Add; User Defined; multiproj; multi-proj

     

    Solution:

    This solution applies to an individual project object that cannot…

    • Fri, Apr 15 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: Component Preferences not loading properly and showing corrupt display

    DerekC
    DerekC

     

    Component Preferences not loading properly and showing corrupt display. When this error happens, normally the Component Preferences toolbar looks like it just didn't load fully. The relationship instances and other pulldowns are missing, only showing…

    • Fri, Apr 15 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: How are bolt lengths calculated in AutoPLANT Piping?

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Overview

    Bolt length calculations within AutoPLANT have changed and improved over the years. And with the AutoPLANT V8i releases, calculations for each bolt type have been documented in the help files for AutoPLANT Piping and SpecGen.

    You can minimalize…

    • Tue, Mar 29 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: How to change an AutoPLANT Piping project database to a new SQL Server

    DerekC
    DerekC

    These steps only apply to changing the database. More is involved if the AutoPLANT project configuration files or documents change to a new location. However, if only the SQL database is moved, then use the steps below.

    1. First, make sure everyone is…
    • Mon, Mar 28 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: BOM and Report Errors in AutoPLANT V8i

    DerekC
    DerekC

    AutoPLANT V8i now comes with runtime version 11.5 for Crystal Reports. This version works with Crystal Reports version 11 and 12 (2008). However, most users are still running Crystal Reports version 7, 8 or 9 since all previous versions of AutoPLANT back…

    • Mon, Mar 28 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: Converting units of an AutoPLANT project (Imperial, Metric, Mixed Metric)

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Typically, if an AutoPLANT 3D project has started and has already been modeled, there is no conversion process to change the units of the project. This is, unfortunately, due to AutoCAD being units based. (example: 1 unit = 1mm; 1 unit = 1 inch) So, the…

    • Wed, Feb 9 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: AutoPLANT Component Preferences toolbar not showing Relationship Instances (Project Objects)

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Every once in a while, when creating Relationships through Project Administrator, you may find that they don't show up in the Component Preferences toolbar when loading AutoPLANT. This blog shows how to manually turn them on for this toolbar.

    …
    • Wed, Jan 19 2011
  • DerekC's Blog: Hardware recommendations and requirements for Projectwise Navigator

    DerekC
    DerekC

    I figured I'd post this because there can be some confusion as to what we put in the readme (minimum requirements) versus what are the ideal requirements.

    Click here for the recommended hardware for running Microstation V8i. Same recommendations…

    • Wed, Dec 22 2010
  • DerekC's Blog: Where is Bentley AutoPLANT dwg path information stored?

    DerekC
    DerekC

    This blog pertains to Bentley AutoPLANT 3D Plant Design software only. Most of these changes were brought into the software starting with the support of SQL Server databases in 3.0 and have continued on up to the current version (V8i SelectSeries 2).

    …
    • Thu, Dec 16 2010
  • DerekC's Blog: Can't see any "base" components in the Select Classes section of SpecGen

    DerekC
    DerekC

    "Base" components are all the standard components (pipes, fittings, valves etc) that you would find under the Piping menu in AutoPLANT. These standard components are generally considered carbon steel or stainless steel as opposed to module specific components…

    • Thu, Dec 16 2010
  • DerekC's Blog: View Errors in Bentley View or Document Manager/Vision

    DerekC
    DerekC

    This issue comes up often enough that I thought it worth posting in BE Communities. If you are running Bentley products with AutoCAD 2010 or 2011, you may have run into an error in one of our viewing programs (Bentley View, Projectwise Imodel Composer…

    • Thu, Dec 16 2010
  • DerekC's Blog: error when accessing at_prodsv8i.dbf

    DerekC
    DerekC

    In the past, a user could manually change the project root files (AT_PROJ.DBF, AT_PRODS.DBF and ACCESS.MDB) if necessary. The DBF files should be opened through MS Access (which basically creates a new MDB file and links to the DBF). However, with the…

    • Wed, Sep 1 2010
  • AutoPLANT | OpenPlant | PlantWise Blog: Creating and Configuring Projects in AutoPLANT V8i

    DerekC
    DerekC

    Pre-setup


    Designate an area on the network where the AutoPLANT Project root will be created. Ensure that the user has read/write access. If possible, user should have full access to those directories. If it is necessary to have restricted security…

    • Mon, Jun 7 2010
  • DerekC's Blog: Where the files are stored for AutoPLANT (and how to wipe it clean)

    DerekC
    DerekC

    There are times when you'll need to reinstall AutoPLANT whether due to problems on the machine, incorrectly uninstalling the first time, or even upgrading. In any event, if you're going to uninstall and reinstall, it's sometimes better to wipe the machine…

    • Fri, Apr 23 2010
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