Generating PDL (Geometrics) for PDS - Intergraph Smart Materials - Version 10.1 - Administration & Configuration - Hexagon

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The generation of the PDL (physical data library), or geometrics, for PDS is in principle similar to that of commodity codes.

You can define all kinds of PDS geometries that you need, for example, a MAL table for diameters and wallthicknesses.

For this functionality to work, you must give Smart Materials the following two pieces of information:

  1. The composition of the PDS size table name

    For this purpose, you define a "String before" and a "String after." To include special information, select the check box, and enter the position you would like to have this information in the PDL Header Name field. Separating underscores are inserted automatically between all selected attributes. At job start time, Smart Materials will step through the available commodity codes and create all possible combinations of PDL header names with the mapped values of all the attributes you select here. Only the items that are in a spec are regarded.

    With the use of schedules in PDL generation, the simple case is having the schedule in the commodity code; the Schedule method for this case is S.30.01 (S.20.08). But schedules can also be considered if they are not in the commodity code; the prerequisite is that the Schedule method (PDS 10.01) is Geoms. The output geometrics are filtered for the schedule. The schedule must follow the rules of building geometrics for use of the standard version of mv_spec_item_idents. The following combinations of nominal sizes and schedules can appear:

    Input1: DN1
    Input2: SCH1

    Input1: DN1
    Input2: DN2
    Input3: SCH1

    Input1: DN1
    Input2: DN2
    Input3: SCH1
    Input4: SCH2

    The following are illegal combinations:

    Input1: DN1
    Input2: SCH1
    Input3: DN2
    Input4: SCH2

    or

    Input1: DN1
    Input2: something else
    Input3:SCH1

  2. The attributes in the size table

    Enter the attributes you need in the PDL table. While Smart Materials is executing a PDL generation run, it steps through the available commodity codes and collects the attached geometrics (S.40.22). It will regard every geometric that has at least one of the attributes mentioned on PDS 20.01. The link to combine/connect all participating geometrics in one size table is the Input check box for the attributes on PDS 20.01. The text for the attribute can be changed on PDS 20.01, and this change has no effect on the data on A.50.01.

    Enter all information on PDS 20.01. On PDS 20.10, Smart Materials will process all selected PDL rules one after the other.

Conversion of Geometries

If another unit of measurement for the geometry attributes is selected on PDS 20.01, the conversion is done in accordance with A.10.13. The unit assigned on A.50.01 is entered automatically when an attribute is entered here. If the unit is not changed, no conversion is carried out.

The text for the attribute can be changed without changing the data on A.50.01.

For example, a MAL table will not be generated for every kind of connection. MAL tables are connect geometries. Connect groups must be assigned to all connect geometries, so that the interface generates MAL tables only for the connect groups where it makes sense. For example, no MAL table is generated for connect group 200.

This assignment is done on PDS 20.03 Connect-Groups and PDS-Geom.

A similar situation applies to the commodity geometric. Not all commodity geometrics will be generated for each Zydex code.

This assignment is done on PDS 20.02 Zydex and PDS-Geometrics.

After completing the required definition, open the PDS 20.10 Generate and View PDS Geometrics screen, where you can generate and view the geometries.

In principle, the generation of geometries always proceeds in two phases:

  1. Generation of the geometrics in Smart Materials tables

  2. Generation of the corresponding ASCII files

In these two phases, you can check the PDS geometric for completeness and correctness in Smart Materials.

On PDS 20.10, you can use the following buttons:

  • Chk UPD - The resulting size tables are selected regardless of whether the original Smart Materials geometries have been changed. Modified PDS size tables get the status Update.

  • Gen UPD - After the Chk UPD operation runs, this button regenerates all PDL rules with the status Update.

  • Gen selected - All PDL rules with their check box selected are (re)generated in Smart Materials.

  • Select All - All of the defined PDL rules are selected to be generated.

  • Clear Selection - All check boxes are cleared, whether they were checked by Select All or manually.

  • All ASCII - All available geometries are generated as ASCII files.

  • New ASCII - Only geometries with the status NEW are generated as ASCII files.

    A geometry gets the status NEW if it was generated for the first time, or if the original Smart Materials geometry was changed and an update run was started.

The fields on PDS 20.10 and their meaning are as follows:

  • New - Number of generated PDL names with the status NEW.

  • OK - Number of PDL names that were generated as ASCII files.

  • Update - Number of generated PDL names that need an update.

  • Invalid - Number of PDL names with data missing.

  • #PDL Names - Number of generated PDL names (always the sum of all items above).

  • #Records - Number of geometry records for all PDL names.

Click the Next Block button to open Window 2, where the PDS names are displayed.

Names for PDS geometries beginning with "!" (like in !NDF) imply the same as in the PCD (in the present example: No Data Found).

The status of the PDS geometries is shown in the Status field.

The quantity of records generated for this geometry is shown in the #Records field.

The Units field shows the different unit text for the PDS geometrics. For the PDS geometries, the value translated from A.10.14 is shown in the line Units=.....

By clicking the View CC button, you can view the commodity codes that were the base for the PDL name generation.

If you click the Geoms button at the bottom of Window 4, you see the geometrics that will be the base for the PDL geometrics data generation.

Clicking the Back button twice brings you back to Window 2 of PDS 20.10.

By clicking the Gen Geometric button, you can restart the SQL statement generated before.

The Error Reason field on Window 2 shows the reason that the PDL name has the status Invalid generation. The error reasons are listed below.

  • PCD Data in Commodity Code is incorrect - An incomplete PDS geometry name was generated.

  • Invalid Number of Attributes - The SQL statement has fewer attributes than required by the definition for the PDS geometry. By scrolling to the right, you can view the SQL statement and find out which attribute is missing.

    You have either selected a wrong attribute during the attribute structure definition, or the geometries appended to the commodity code do not contain all attributes needed for this geometry.

  • No Records inserted by SQL Statement - The SQL statement is okay; no records were generated, however.

  • Generated Geometric Data contains 0 or NULL values - The generated PDS geometries contain zeros.

  • None unique INPUT fields - The fields defined as input are not unique, for example, double nominal sizes.