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Smart Isometrics I-Data Integrator Help

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When you repeatedly process the same pipeline through Isogen, the material for each run is appended to the Material Control, Weld Summary, Spool Information and Bending files. I-Data Integrator strips out everything but the most recent set of data for each pipeline. In other words, each time that you run I-Data Integrator, the software produces data that reflects the current state of the set of pipelines that have been processed through Smart Isometrics or Spoolgen. The recommended practice is to set up a style that you use to process pipelines when they have reached their final state. The drawings and data reports produced by this style are often the completed deliverables from a project.

When you use Smart Isometrics, you have two options for producing final issue isometric drawings from the project:

  • Single pipeline processing, which uses the Generate Drawings command to process each pipeline individually to produce drawings and data, appended to the output reports.

  • Multiple pipelines processing, which uses the Batch Generate Drawings command to process a batch of pipes and generate both the drawings and output reports automatically.

You can run I-Data Integrator only once, typically at the end of the project, to produce a consolidated and accumulated set of materials that require purchasing. Alternatively, you can run I-Data Integrator on a daily or weekly basis as the project progresses. In the latter scenario, automatically deleting the material files from Smart Isometrics and Spoolgen after running I-Data Integrator ensures that the software only collects material from the last run. The command line execution option is typically used in this scenario because it allows you to schedule an automated batch process to run at regular intervals to convert the current output files.

  • I-Data Integrator is not a material control system. It is intended to serve as a link to such a system.

  • For more information about Smart Isometrics drawing generation, see the Smart Isometrics Help.