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Data Sizes

Streaming .vue file (.svf) data requires a larger memory footprint than a single Smart Review .vue file containing the same model data. Therefore, system limits are reached quicker with .svf data than with a corresponding .vue file. Your virtual memory page file must also be large enough to support the .svf data being streamed. For more information, see Performance Issues and Tips.

When the data being streamed exceeds the currently available memory, Smart Review automatically unloads data from memory in reverse of the current Streaming Data Order. This allows higher priority data to be loaded instead. You can navigate to sub-sets of the streaming dataset even if all of it cannot be fully loaded at the time.

Export > Project Command

Disabled when using .svf data. You cannot create a single .vue file locally from .svf data.

Most Recent Files List

Does not maintain SmartPlant Foundation .svf data project names. Smart Review can be launched with .svf data from SmartPlant Foundation or with local .svf data. Therefore, you cannot use the most recent file list to select a previously streamed project from SmartPlant Foundation, but you can select one previously streamed from a local .svf project.

Plant and Elevation View Updates

Not automatically updated, for performance reasons. You must manually update these views in order to see any newly-streamed data in them. However, the Main view is updated with each new streaming data packet upon arrival.

Generating Static Images during Streaming

Not advisable while streaming data because the data arrives in an asynchronous manner and automatically updates the Main view. If you want to print, raytrace, or generate a snapshot of the current view or of an animation before all data has streamed, click Stream on the Status Bar to pause streaming before trying the action. We recommend waiting until all data has streamed for the model (100% complete) before trying these actions.

File Names

Original filenames of the published PDS data are not maintained in SVF data. However, graphic objects exist on their original levels. The single filename displayed in the Project Manager, Level Settings, and in display set file selection criteria is set to the name assigned to the SVF data when published. Streaming VUE file projects from SmartPlant Foundation also have only a single file name. However, local streaming VUE file projects will have file names based on predefined Smart 3D disciplines.

  • This name may be an arbitrarily generated name without any intrinsic meaning. Smart 3D data are always on level 1 because Smart 3D does not have the concept of levels.

  • For Smart 3D generated VUE file data (not SmartPlant Foundation 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.

Tools > Display Sets > Auto-Define Command

Valid only with PDS or Smart 3D label data in a Smart Review label database. Because there is no label database with SmartPlant Foundation SVF data, there is no data for use in auto-defining display sets by value.

Resolving Display Sets to Graphic Objects

Uses streamed data currently in memory (on the client) only. Because display sets never trigger streaming for data, you must use Tools > Refresh Data to trigger display set resolution for newly streamed data. In other words, if you create several display sets in one session and exit Smart Review, then restart Smart Review with the same SVF model data, those existing display sets are not resolved to the data currently in memory until you click Tools > Refresh Data command.

Display Set Criteria Keywords

  • Data - Use the new keyword Item Type to access data information in SmartPlant Foundation SVF data. The Data keyword does not function with SmartPlant Foundation SVF data, but applies only to PDS or Smart 3D label data that exists in the Smart Review label database. The SmartPlant Foundation .SVF data does not have a label database and all non-graphic attribute information is on the SmartPlant Foundation server.

  • Picked Objects - Use the Linkages keyword to create display sets of specific objects with SVF data. The Picked Objects keyword is valid only for the current Smart Review session with the SVF data as based on the object index of the picked object within the file. Because SVF data can arrive in any order from session to session, the object index may change from session to session, resulting in the display set resolving to different objects.

  • Item Type - Queries containing code list values are limited to the Equals (=) or Not Equals (<>) operators because SmartPlant Foundation supports inequality operators only on attributes that do not have code list values. Also, SmartPlant Foundation inequality comparisons are string data comparisons, where the alphabetical order of the values are used instead of numerical order, even if the values are numeric.

Tools > Materials > Assign Materials Command

Use Tools > Display Sets > Material to assign materials to SVF data. Materials indexed by file, level, and color cannot be assigned to SVF data. The SVF data reflects the materials that were assigned when published in SmartPlant Foundation from Smart 3D or by the Smart 3D Save As SmartPlant Review command.

SmartPlant Foundation Connection

Closing SmartPlant Foundation after launching Smart Review causes Smart Review to lose its connection to the SmartPlant Foundation data, resulting in any functionality dependent on querying SmartPlant Foundation to not function. Therefore, we recommend leaving the SmartPlant Foundation application open while using Smart Review to view data streamed from SmartPlant Foundation.

Single Smart Review Session per SmartPlant Foundation Session

SmartPlant Foundation supports only a single Smart Review session running per SmartPlant Foundation session. If a Smart Review session is running when you start a new Smart Review session from SmartPlant Foundation (with different data), the current Smart Review session automatically terminates.

DMRS Linkage Components

Use display sets and the Linkages keyword to group elements by DMRS linkage with SVF data. Because DMRS linkage grouping cannot be maintained across the separate data packets of the published SVF data and because performance is adversely affected when automatically resolving the components as the data is streamed, Smart Review does not group components of the same DMRS linkage in PDS SVF data.