Overview

In OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, to Display UNIT information for Support in BOM.

Problem Description

In OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, using OpenPlant Modeler, user wanted to concatenate a property with multiple attribute. During the process UNIT attribute does not appears in Bill of Material report.
Below steps will aid user to get the desired information.

Steps to Resolve

  This can be achieve by Two Major steps:

       A. To Define a New Property in Schema.

       B. To Define Attribute in Report Definition File.


To Define a New Property in Schema.

1. Launch Class Editor,open "OpenPlant_3D.01.08.ecschema.xl" & Supplement it with below schema
   
   “OpenPlant_3D_Supplemental_Modeling.01.08.ecschema.xml”
   “OpenPlant_3D_Supplemental_Isometrics_Isoextractor.01.08.ecschema”
   
   
2. Add Custom Attribute "Default Bill of Material Labels" to Support Class.
   
    a. To override above custom attribute, need to copy the custom attribute from existing class an paste it on Support class.
                                                                
                                                                                              OR
   
   b. Go to PLANT_BASE_OBJECT class Right click on it and copy the custom attribute then Navigate to Support class and paste it over as show in mage below.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. In the added custom attribute right click on the "Other attribute " option to add new element as shown below.
   
   
   
   
4. Add name & value to new field like shown below.And save and close the class editor.
   
   Name - IE_UNIT
   
   Value - this.GetRelatedInstance("DEVICE_HAS_SUPPORT:1:PIPING_COMPONENT").UNIT
   
   
   

To Define Attribute in Report Definition File

1. Launch OpenPlant Modeler
   
   
2. Generate the Isometric.
   
   
3. Go to the style folder in the isometric extractor and in the report definition add the custom property under shop field as shown in the image below.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Save & Close
   
   
5. Generate the isometric drawing and verify the result.
   
   

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