I am creating an NTL file manually from PDMS thru PML programming, but Im getting a lot of error when loading the NTL file to AUTOPIPE, is there a special requirement in creating the NTL file? can it be like a .txt file that you change extension to .NTL?
Hello Edgar,
NTL formatting is a very restrictive file format. The data must be written with data in the correct location for each Batch Command Card. IF necessary data is missing, the program will try to use default information/settings, However, if data is written in the wrong format or just missing than AutoPIPE does not know how to read it and stops importing the file.
A few suggestions, first take a look at each command Card in the file that you are trying to read into AutoPIPE and compare that format against AutoPIPE's command card format.
Example AutoPIPE's NTL Pipe command card data should e written like this:
Does your imported NTL file have the same format?
Remember column alignment and rows are very important. See AutoPIPE Help for Command Card References:
Another suggest, create a simple PDMS model with a few of each components (Valve, reducer, guide , V-stop, pipe, bend, Tee, etc..). Save this PDMS model to an NTL file, and send to us in a Bentley Service Request. Be sure to add detailed information about the PDMS version being used, and version of AutoPIPE being used. The development team will review to see what, if anything, can be done to help your workflow.
Regards,
Mike DattilioBentley Systems Design AnalystDesign Engineering Analysis group===================================================
the problem was the file format of the output NTL file, the output format was in UTF-8 BOM and Autopipe is not able to read this kind of file format so I had to add a script to change the file format to ASCII/ANSI which is readable in Autopipe.