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Project Settings Database - The project settings database (.mdb) is stored in the temporary folder on the client machine by default. You can change this location by browsing to another folder when creating the database for the first time. A redirection file (filename.dbn) that points to the database location is also stored in the temporary folder. For more information, see Smart Review Projects.

  • If you change the temporary folder location on your system, you must copy the location file (filename.dbn) to the new temporary folder.

  • The project settings database is not created on the SmartPlant Foundation server and is not pushed to the SmartPlant Foundation server when Smart Review exits. However, the project settings database can be reused on the client whenever the model data is streamed from SmartPlant Foundation again.

Labels Database - SmartPlant Foundation streaming VUE file (SVF) data does not include any PDS label or Smart 3D attribute information, which means there is not a Smart Review labels database (MDB2) associated with SmartPlant Foundation SVF data projects. All attribute information comes from a live connection to the SmartPlant Foundation server at runtime. No attribute information resides on the client machine, making any Smart Review functionality based on PDS label data unusable.

Stream - Appears on the right side of the Smart Review status bar until 100% of the model data has been streamed into Smart Review. When pressed in (default), it allows streaming to occur. To pause streaming, click Stream (the button pops up). Click the button again to resume streaming. When all of the data has been streamed, this button disappears.

Whenever you start any motion either by using the classic navigation commands or the new 3D navigation, streaming (if in progress) of remote SVF file data stops. Streaming automatically resumes once you stop the motion.

Streaming Data Order - When you change the view point through motion navigation, Smart Review requests streaming data ordered by proximity to the current view eye point after motion stops (closest range first). However, when fitting or recalling a saved view, Smart Review requests streaming data ordered by the range of each packet (largest range to the eye first). For example, fitting to the whole model requests all the model data. If the user then fits to an object or navigates to a sub-set of the model, then the whole model may no longer stream in. Only the current view data and any requests already in progress will be streamed. Later streaming data requests may result in overriding earlier data requests.

Streaming Data Percent Complete Status - The status bar displays the percent complete message as each data packet arrives until all model data has been received. It includes:

  • Model Streamed - The percentage of the model streamed from the server to the client so far

  • Files Loaded - The number of files (packets) currently loaded

  • Model Loaded - The percentage of the model currently loaded into memory (if memory management is active).

Fit All to Model and Fit View to Model Commands - When the Main view has the focus, the View > Fit > All to Model and View > Fit > View to Model commands fit only to the range of graphics currently streamed (and visible) in the view. However, both commands will request ALL of the data for the model to be streamed, which is compromise behavior between existing Smart Review Fit behavior for non-.SVF data and SmartPlant Foundation Viewer Fit behavior. This way you are able to force all data to be streamed by running one of these commands, while the actual Fit applies only to currently visible data.

View > Fit > View to Object Command - Honors the Select mouse drag modes so that you can fit to an element, to a complex element (cell or symbol), or to a component (normal or special Smart 3D component).

View > Settings Command - When streaming .SVF data without a pre-existing Smart Review project settings database, the published .SVF data provides some of the view settings, while other view settings are initialized to various defaults. If there is a pre-existing Smart Review project settings database, then the view settings are not changed by the .SVF data.

View > Save and Recall Command - When recalling a saved view before all model data has been streamed, the view is recalled and the data for that view range is requested from the server (using the largest range first request order).

  • This file name may be an arbitrarily generated name due to current design limitations.

  • For Smart 3D generated VUE file data (not SVF data), this single arbitrarily generated name may be replaced with multiple Smart 3D discipline names instead, with named level categories corresponding to various Smart 3D components below them.

Item Type Display Set Criteria - When connected to SmartPlant Foundation with SVF data, Smart Review provides a new display set criteria keyword, Item Type. When you select this keyword, a list of item types for the SmartPlant Foundation data displays. These item types correspond to view definitions currently set up in SmartPlant Foundation. You can use the default view definitions delivered with SmartPlant Foundation or you can create your own.

  • An important distinction from standard Smart Review functionality is that the item types (view definitions) may or may not correspond to graphic object property categories. View definitions set up a view into ALL of the available SmartPlant Foundation data, which may or may not include some or all of the available object properties.

  • When data is published from Smart 3D, you may not be able view all the properties that were published in the SmartPlant Foundation client. You can customize view definitions to allow you to see additional properties. For more information about defining view definitions in the SmartPlant schema, see Create a View Definition. For further assistance with visualizing data in SmartPlant Foundation, contact Support Services.

  • Display set queries are based on live, runtime data inside SmartPlant Foundation. Thus, when resolved anew during each session, the display sets may resolve to different graphic objects than they did before if the SmartPlant Foundation data has changed.

  • Another important difference is that display set criteria selections may become invalid if the SmartPlant Foundation data changes view definitions or attribute data. With PDS data, the Smart Review label database is local and (usually) static after it is created.

Operators - To facilitate SmartPlant Foundation-style queries, Smart Review now supports the Not Equals (<>) operator, which limits the search to objects containing the specified attribute (instead of all attributes). This is a subtle difference from using the ALL BUT criteria key word. For example:

FIND Item Type Equipment List, Number <> 100

Returns only graphic objects in the model within the Equipment List item type (view definition) that have the "Number" property with a value not equal to 100.

FIND ALL BUT Item Type Equipment List, Number = 100

Returns ALL graphic objects in the model except for the few specific ones within Equipment List item type (view definition) that have the "Number" property with a value equal to 100.

Display Set Manipulations - Note that display set manipulations (such as show, hide, move, or materials apply only to the objects currently resolved to the corresponding display set. If data has streamed since the display set was created or loaded from the database, you must use the Tools > Refresh Data command to resolve the display set using the new data in memory. For performance reasons, display sets do not automatically re-resolve as new data streams in. For more information, see Refresh Data Command in the SmartPlant Review documentation.

Because the order of the streaming VUE files varies with point of view and user actions and/or launching SmartPlant Foundation, object numbers are valid only per Smart Review session. That is, any display sets created with Picked Objects may not be correctly resolved in the next Smart Review session or after running the Refresh Data command, because the data may arrive in a different order. To avoid this situation, create display sets by DMRS Linkage instead.

Auto-Highlight or Selection Locate Filter Options for SmartPlant Foundation SVF Data - When viewing Smart 3D-published SVF data from SmartPlant Foundation, Smart Review provides three additional selection options available under the Edit menu.

In Smart Review 2012, the term "Auto-Highlight" has been changed to "Select." The additional Smart Review commands that display in SmartPlant Foundation have been renamed as shown below.

Select All - Queries SmartPlant Foundation for the element itself when an element is selected. If returned, then a single element component is created. If the element was previously grouped as a run or a feature, then that run or feature is ungrouped first. This option also affects what properties are returned. In this mode, for example, if you click on a pipe element, you may get Details, Item Tag: Pipe.

Select Features - Queries SmartPlant Foundation for all the members of the Smart 3D feature to which the selected element belongs.  If any members are returned, then all members currently in memory are grouped into a Smart Review component, resulting in the entire feature in memory to highlight and be selectable as a single component. If the element was previously grouped as a run, then that run is ungrouped first. This option also affects what properties are returned. In this mode, for example, if you click the same pipe element, you may get Details, Item Tag: P3DPipeStraightPathFeature.

Select Runs - Queries SmartPlant Foundation for all the members of the Smart 3D run to which the selected element belongs. If any run members are returned, then all members currently in memory are grouped into a Smart Review component, resulting in the entire run in memory to highlight and be selectable as a single component. If the element was previously grouped as a feature, then that feature is ungrouped first. This option also affects what properties are returned. In this mode, for example, if you click the same pipe element, you may get Details, Item Tag: P-14403-10"-1C0031.

  • The SmartPlant Foundation Locate Filter mode determines which properties are returned and what elements are grouped together when selected using the Smart Review Select modes. This Locate Filter mode in SmartPlant Foundation is set to Select All by default at the start of each Smart Review session launched from within SmartPlant Foundation.

  • Because the SmartPlant Foundation Locate Filter default mode is separate from the Select options persisted between Smart Review sessions, the Select All, Select Features, and Select Runs settings are not persisted between Smart Review sessions. These Smart Review Select commands change the Locate Filter value inside SmartPlant Foundation during the launched Smart Review session, but do not change the default Locate Filter mode.

  • The selection behavior of the additional Smart Review Select commands is inclusive. That is, if Select Runs is the current selection mode, even objects that are not runs or in a run can be selected. This behavior is consistent with previous Smart Review auto-highlight behavior for element, complex, or component options. However, the SmartPlant Foundation Viewer selection behavior is exclusive. If the current locate filter is runs, then only runs can be selected.

  • These commands are not available with PDS SVF data, hidden with non-SVF data, and are considered as special selection sub-categories.

  • After a feature or run has been grouped into a component or a linked objects, you can change the selection filter to Linked Objects (Edit > Select Filter > Linked Objects) if you want to select or fit to these objects in memory without querying SmartPlant Foundation again.

Properties - To view component properties, right-click in the Main view and select the Properties command, which displays the Properties window. If the Properties window is not already visible, component properties display in the Text view.

See Also

Review Limitations When Using SVF Files (Local Streaming Mode)
Review Limitations When Using SVF Files (Remote Streaming Mode)
Display Streaming Data in the Properties Display