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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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>.
Open and modify the following file in the Rebis Script…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Product: AutoPLANT Piping
Version: V8i SelectSeries 2; 08.11.07.60
Area: Project Object; Relationship Instance; Select; Pick; Add; User Defined; multiproj; multi-proj
This solution applies to an individual project object that cannot…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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).
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…