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PSDS to OpenPlant V8i migration and HVAC components

Simone Padovan — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:23:54 GMT

Hi everyone,

we're migrating some dgn files from PSDS to OpenPlant V8i application. For piping components the procedure create weld joints and the pipe line is entirely connected. This is not true for HVAC components that are all not connected. My question is, is there any problem in the components itself or the migration procedure does not create joints for HVAC ?

Thanks all for answers. Regards,

Simone

IBMECObject.GetDoubleValue api is no longer available from Bentley.Building.Mechanical.Components

Simone Padovan — Mon, 03 May 2021 13:20:18 GMT

Hi community,

we're upgrading C# code for OPM V8 SS5 edition to OPM CE (upgrade 9). The IBMECObject.GetDoubleValue method is no longer available and there are some others the gets values in specific unit (ie GetDoubleValueInMM, GetDoubleValueInUors, GetDoubleValueInDegrees and so on). Because our software works in millimeter I thought that the right choose was GetDoubleValueInMM but these methods doesn't always work, i.e. return 0 even if the property has another value or the property does not exist in the EC class but 0 is a valid value in some context yet. I've also tried GetUnitlessDoubleValue and works better than GetDoubleValueInMM but not well yet. After further searches I found an indexer method in IECInstance.this[string property.] By it all seems to work well and so the question is: is it valid use the indexer instead of the GetDoubleValueXXX method ?

Here an example:

// Old code:
// var val = _bmECObject.GetDoubleValue("EC class property name");

// New code
var val = _bmECObject.Instance["EC class property name"].DoubleValue

More over the indexer throw an exception if the EC class has not the property and this is better than a 0 value. Another point is, does anyone can explain me the logic behind the GetDoubleValueXXX methods ?

Thank you all in advance,

Regards,

Simone

OPPA CE update 9 crash !!

Simone Padovan — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:53:34 GMT

Hi community,

on my Window 10 workstation I've installed OPM CE update 9 and OPPA CE update 8. Launching OPPA it crash. I've tried to reinstall all CE programs, cleaning first all the files from Appdata, program files, and from Program data, but it seem not to have worked. I've also clean manually the registry, but nothing. The problem seems to be related to the OPM configuration files parsing: in fact if I remove the cfg files under C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenPlant CONNECT Edition\Configuration\Workspaces the program starts well but obviously I'm not able to see the any workspace. Looking in the events registry, the problem is an unhandled exception in Bentley.DgnPlatform.MacroConfigurationAdmin.DefineMacro.

The previous OPPA product update 8 version remains in hang as I wrote here.

Can anyone help me ? Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Simone

OPPA CE update 8 remains in hang

Simone Padovan — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:19:53 GMT

Hi community,

on my Window 10 workstation I've installed OPM CE update 8, OPIM CE update 8 e OPPA CE update 8. When I launch OPPA it stays in hang and the only choose is to kill its process. I've tried to reinstall all the CE programs but it seem not to have worked. The problem seems to be related to the OPM configuration files parsing: in fact if I remove the cfg files under C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenPlant CONNECT Edition\Configuration\Workspaces the program starts well but obviously I'm not able to see the any workspace. Moreover if I try to create a new workspace the application hangs again.

Can anyone help me ? Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Simone

PS: CONNECTED POST FOR UPDATES 9 PRODUCT THAT CRASH HERE!!

Something about DMPWClient and KNCore dlls ?

Simone Padovan — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:40:56 GMT

Hi all,

I've found under ProjectWise\bin directory some Net dll like these in the subject that seems to be very useful for ProjectWise programming. Anyone has some information about these ?

Thank you to all.

Regards,

Simone

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Any example in using aaApi_FindDocuments2 api in C# ?

Simone Padovan — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:11:37 GMT

Hi all,

I'm new in Microstation / ProjectWise programming and I'm searching for an example about using of aaApi_FindDocuments2 api in C# because I've some problem in parameters Marshaling. I've seen "MostODaveClasses.cs" where is implemented DocumentRequestColumns, DocumentProperties_stc structs and so on. My goal is select some document by a saved searched to gets its attributes after. All works well, until the call to aaApi_FindDocuments2 that throw an exception about memory corruption: I suspect that is the marshaling of this struct since the C++ method gets an union type. This is the code:

// The callback...

PwWrapper.HandlerFindDocuments2 dd = delegate (int reason, ref PwWrapper._FINDDOC_RESULTS result, IntPtr userData)
{
return true;
};

bool cancel = false;

// The column requested: I've not understood the logic, I would like to retrieve all columns

var wantedColumns = new PwWrapper.CompactPropertyReference[]
{
new PwWrapper.CompactPropertyReference()
{
guidPropertySet = PwWrapper.PSET_DOCUMENT_GENERIC, sPropertyName = "", uiResultType = 0, uiPropertyID = 0
},
};

var properties = new PwWrapper.DocumentProperties_stc
{
eResultFlags = PwWrapper.QueryResultFlags.NoDocVersions, // QRY_RESULT_NO_DOC_VERSIONS I' don't know what is the meaning of this
sProperty = wantedColumns,
uiPropertyCount = (uint)wantedColumns.Length,
};

var request = new PwWrapper.DocumentRequestColumns();
request.padding = new byte[120];
request.properties = new PwWrapper.DocumentProperties_stc
{
sProperty = wantedColumns,
eResultFlags = PwWrapper.QueryResultFlags.NoDocVersions, // QRY_RESULT_NO_DOC_VERSIONS
uiPropertyCount = (uint)wantedColumns.Length
};

var tre = PwWrapper.aaApi_FindDocuments2(criteriaBuffer, request, dd, IntPtr.Zero, true, ref cancel, 0, 0);

Any help is welcome. Thank you in advance.

Simone

PS: ProjectWise is V8i Select Series 4