BOM Import Configuration - Intergraph Smart Materials - Version 10.1 - Administration & Configuration - Hexagon

Intergraph Smart Materials Integration (10.1)

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The material used in PDS can be transferred to Smart Materials via OMI (B.40.01). For more information, see Open MTO Interface.

You can use the PDS MTO report 'piping_g.rpt' or other formatted reports to spool out your items to the file system. We will explain two examples: The first kind of format we will call "piping_g," and the other we will call "ISOGEN." Both of these names just stand for two different ways to format your PDS output, and they are not fixed.

On the PDS 30.01 Configure BOM Import screen, you configure where OMI can find the data. You must define at least one configuration set and reference it on B.40.01 to enable OMI to read from the PDS report. Each configuration can be used system-wide, which means that if you have the same layout for the PDS report for all product groups and projects, you will probably have only one record on this screen for all of Smart Materials.

For each configuration set, you configure the items that are important for OMI to read. For piping_g, you do not have to configure all items. Only LINE_TYPE is mandatory. If you specify one of the following: POS_CC, POS_QTY, POS_SIZE1, or POS_SIZE2, you must specify all of these four. In general, it is a good working practice to specify all attributes needed to make the setting visible to the user.

When you define a new configuration item, you must assign a type from the dropdown list in the Type field. The available values are:

  • Column (C) means that you want to define the horizontal position of the item in fixed column numbers. The Digit from value is the first column to be read from the PDS file, and the Digit to value is the last column to be read. Both of these fields must be filled if you use this type for an item. Otherwise, the software will cause a data jam. The fixed column numbers are read before the sequential order information, which means that when you begin to specify an item as sequential (Sequence), you cannot return to fixed column numbers. If you use Column, you can use the same position in ASCII to feed multiple configuration items.

  • Sequence (S) means that you want to define the horizontal position of the item in sequence with the lowest first and highest last. The Seq field contains the sort order, which defines when the specified item is expected in the PDS file. The step size of the sequence value can be different from 1, and the first sequence number can be different from 1. You can even use negative values. The Length field contains the last column to be read. The length is counted from the beginning of the new item. Leading blanks are not considered. While the Seq value is mandatory, the Length value can be omitted. If you omit the length, the software reads the item until it comes to the specified line/position separator symbol.

  • Other (O) means that the configuration item has neither fixed-column nor sequential information.

The valid values for the Item field are described in the next topic, Configuration Items.