PDS Interface Configuration Overview - Intergraph Smart Materials - Version 10.1 - Administration & Configuration - Hexagon

Intergraph Smart Materials Integration (10.1)

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10.1

The configuration of the PDS interface has two parts.

  • Configuration and creation of pipe class data including pipe material class data codelists, short description library, and so forth

  • Configuration and creation of physical data library (PDL, or geometric data)

Each customer can decide according to his needs if he wants to create only the data out of the first part, or if he also wants to maintain the geometric data in Smart Materials. If the geometric data is not maintained in Smart Materials, it must be maintained in PDS. In this case, the operation within PDS Reference Data Manager is the same as the normal operation.

Due to the fact that Smart Materials is a highly flexible tool, it is not fixed how customers store their standardization data. So from the Smart Materials point of view, the interface should not force Smart Materials to use only one way for standardization, because Smart Materials would lose its flexibility. So all Smart Materials interfaces that transfer data from Smart Reference Data to any other IT system are always configurable. The configuration informs the interface about the methods for how the standardization on the actual system has been done and where certain data values can be found.

The configuration of the first part takes place on the PDS 10.01 Configure PDS screen. This screen consists of the following tabs:

  • General Configuration - Settings for global values of standardization

  • PMC-Specials - Piping material class configuration

  • PCD-Specials - Piping commodity data configuration

  • PDL-Specials - Physical data library configuration

  • Config of Additional Files - Additional file size depending on data, short description, and codelists