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    PW DCS and AECOsim Dynamic Views

    brentmauti
    brentmauti over 10 years ago

    When creating a rendition using PW SS4, we have noticed that the PDFs generated don't seem to be honouring the dynamic view settings built into AECOsim.  AECOsim creates "building views" where they control specifically unification of components within the parts and families.  When creating extractions, the content is vectorized and thus when creating renditions within PW it is simply reading vector lines in the DGN file.  BUT, when using dynamic views in AECOsim, the content is a model view with display styles and component resymbolization.  We are finding that if PW DCS is using Microstation as an iPlot render engine, it doesn't appear to be recognizing the building-specific settings driven by AECOsim and thus walls are not showing as unified within the generated PDFs.

    Is anyone familiar with this and if so does anyone have a workaround (other than manually generating the PDFs)?  Is this a bigger platform issue where AECOsim building view rules need to be recognized in Microstation standard dynamic views, and in OpenPlant Modeler dynamic views?  How will PW publish content generated from the various power applications and ensure it is maintaining the correct intent?

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    • Dawn Clark Gentry
      Offline Dawn Clark Gentry Wed, Oct 2 2013 1:03 PM in reply to Neil Norberg

      Neil, set IPLOT_MULTIENGINE_SUPPORT=TRUE in iplot.cfg.  This variable makes InterPlot Organizer use the Application set on the dgn in PW to process the plot instead of using the Print Engine.



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    • Neil Norberg
      Offline Neil Norberg Thu, Oct 3 2013 2:19 PM in reply to Dawn Clark Gentry

      Thank you Dawn , this is a big help

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    • Gary Mansager
      Offline Gary Mansager Wed, Jan 10 2018 9:50 AM in reply to Dawn Clark Gentry

      Dawn, so by this statement, ProjectWise iCS will use the AutoCAD print engine if the application is installed on the iCS server and properly configured?

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    • Dawn Clark Gentry
      Offline Dawn Clark Gentry Wed, Jan 10 2018 10:03 AM in reply to Gary Mansager

      No, it will not... DWG file are always processed by MicroStation (IPLOT forces this).  If AutoCAD was installed on the iCS server, I don't recall if it would fail because we would attempt to use AutoCAD and it would not work or if we ignore the AutoCAD application and fall back on the print engine set in the ProjectWise InterPlot Organizer Configure utility.  Either way, we do not use AutoCAD to process DWG files in iCS.  Best practice is do not install AutoCAD on the iCS server and since the application is not there, iCS uses the print engine in the ProjectWise InterPlot Organizer Configure utility.  However you can attach the AutoCAD style table (ctb, stb) as the MicroStation pen table in the IPLOT settings file (rendition presentation) for output matching AutoCAD weights/colors.



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    • Gary Mansager
      Offline Gary Mansager Wed, Jan 10 2018 10:05 AM in reply to Dawn Clark Gentry

      Thanks Dawn. The iCS documentation regarding print engines needed is rather vague. This clarifies.

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