What is AT_WAFER_BOLT? It is not in our specs and it keeps reappearing in our piping databases and iso's. The long descriptions somewhat resembles what we had in the spec many months ago, but nowhere can similar descriptions be found in any spec now. Even after we have updated the LONG_DESC in the PIPING table they still seem to come back (albeit this may be newly inserted ones as well). What are these, where do they come from, and how can they be eradicated?
Versions: AutoPLANT Plant Design 08.09.03.30 (w/.49 sp2 update) Plant Framework 08.09.04.47 Projectwise 08.09.04.89
We have specific manufacturers specs for our bolts and for every non-wafer bolt it worked fine, but with wafer bolts it inserted the moddesc from waferblt.ebs built on the criteria which is different then our description we use in LONG_DESC, which is what is represented on our iso's. We still wanted the supplimentary fields to show certain specifications that weren't represented in LONG_DESC, so thats why we had the difference. By changing that ebs file to return LONG_DESC we have now found a way around this, I just had trouble finding a solution before I posted this here and happened to hear back from a Bentley rep right about the same time.
It wasn't so much a functionality issue as it was an awareness one. I searched this site and a couple others about Wafer Bolts, and the Bentley help files, and there was very little information abou them. My only recommendation would be to have a page or two documentation in the plant design help files about wafer bolts.