The PDS (Plant Design System) Translator allows you to migrate your PDS piping specifications to Smart 3D piping reference data. The tool also allows you to populate dimension table name rules and to update industry commodity codes.
The PDS translation process requires the specification writer to make some manual edits to complete the conversion.
Workflow
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Populate Dimension Table Name Rules.
Populating the dimension table name rules is performed only once, before the translation process.
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You may need to run the translation step a number of times.
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After translation, define necessary manual information. For information on defining manual translation, see Define Manual Information after Translation. For information about required reference data, refer to Required Worksheets.
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Create Commodity Codes (optional).
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Bulkload the translated workbooks: piping specification data, piping commodity data, and codelist data.
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Run the Verify Consistency command in the Catalog task. For more information, see the Catalog User's Guide available from the Help > Printable Guides command.
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Run the PDS Model Data Exporter, and import the PDS model data into the software. For more information, see the Common User's Guide, available from the Help > Printable Guides command.