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How do I setup a model template / seed file, which can be utilized for my future projects?
What is seed file?
Often, we wish that we could save a model template which we could use every time we start working on a new project, which could save man hours to setup all the standards again before starting the project. The standards could be like design standards, color coding, legends, annotations, engineering libraries newly created items, composite outlet structures, user data extensions, default units of model, standard flex tables, custom report formats etc. Which is essential part of any model so if you have these standards predefined then you can just start working on the model.
The above-mentioned standards can be saved in seed file format, so every time you are creating a new model you can just import the seed file (File > Seed > New from seed) and these standards will appear there by default, so you don’t need to set them up separately for each model.
Seed file
Seed file are customized files created from the model file, which can contain all of the information from the. wtg and. wtg.sqlite file. If you want to create a standard seed file from a model you should delete all the elements in the model and then save it as seed file (Else model elements will get saved in seed file). So this seed file then can be utilized for creating new models.
What information can a seed file (*.wgs) store? To name a few,
For Storm-Sewer products
For water products
Once you have setup the above-mentioned standards for a model in Bentley OpenFlows products, which you feel can be utilized for the next projects by you and your colleagues, then create a seed file of that mode, File>Seed>Save to Seed (save model before creating seed).
This is useful say for water product you have added HDPE pipes in engineering library for modeling purpose as HDPE does not exist in default engineering library. Now you would want to save this engineering library data for the next project/model, so you don’t have to create this entry every time, so you will create a seed file out of this model.
For storm-sewer products if you want to preserve storm data i.e. IDF curve , time-depth curves, then you can include that in your existing seed file as well. To do this, create a model using seed file, create storm data in this model file now and then save it to seed and rewrite the existing seed file. This way you can keep on adding data to seed file as required.
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