How to dump PDMS attributes to be read into Naviswork

Hi, Neild

  It's not exported all the attributes..........No success........I checked many times...Anyone have any solution........Please my project is having about 93 sites.....In each and every site there are many zones available.....I need to export all the attributes of all hierarchy elements ......and every week , I have to send the latest model , review files and dump attributes to my client.........Please suggest some easy way friends............

I am unable export the dump attributes for all the sites at time.............For each and every site , I have to export individually.......

Please guide me to resolve this issue.......

Thanks & Regards,
Naresh Tarani

.......using AVEVA Review........there would be no problems! :-)

Several threads on this forum are reporting problems/questions accessing PDMS data with Naviswhat.....
It is really worthly using that kind of software?
Is Autodesk giving support about all that?

You are right Corrado....I agree with you..!!..,But It depends on managers & managment of the company you are working for...Always they look at how much we are spednding and how much we are earning....They will always choose the one which comes at lower price, But With AVEVA-PDMS for everything is linked with money, money ..........money.

1) If you want to go for importing & exporting you need to spend extra money....

2) For review extra money (Seperate license)

3) For Final designer extra money

4) For support modeling extra money

Then who will choose what ....? Can you tell me frankly............

regards,
Naresh

Naresh,

the latest version of AVEVA Review can connect directly to a PDMS project. No need to export rvm and direct access to all the elements data. So no loss of time and informations (money savings).
With MDS you have the best tool to design supports (3d phisycal ones-->no clashes-->money savings) and get shop drawings automatically (time saving-->money savings).
Can you see? In Italy we have a way of saying: The more you pay, the less you pay......
I have tried to translate it as better as possible. Did you get it?
And by the way...you can rent Aveva products....you can suggest your managers to speak with Aveva and ask for the different kinds of commercial policies.....

My best regards
Corrado

Dear All,
I am generating attribute file from PDMS for all the sites using export dump attribute macro.
I have kept the .rvm and .ATT file in same location with same name.While using in naviswork it is showing attribute of only first site listed in .ATT file .I want to see the attributes of all the sites listed in .ATT file.Do anybody else is also getting this problem?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,

Since the synchronisation between .rvm and .att export is not based by reference number as in PDMS, but by sequence number (SCTN 5 of FRWM 7 of SUBST 4 of STRU /MySTRU) any error can bring the assignment of attributes to displayed model items out of order. A clean PDMS model is the best prerequisite for success.

Or export each SITE to a particular pair of files and combine mit multiple load these files to one Navisworks model.

Delete SCTNs with CUTLEN =0, all items with BADREFs for SPREfs and so forth. Lists can be helpful for that!

Good Success!

All,

I have created my dumb files .att .txt .attribute trying all three and my rvm file placing them in the same folder and it will not show the attributes. I am at a bit of a loss. My buddies have shown me that it should work but I just cannot get it too. When it loads the RVM it shows that it is looking at the .att files but doesn't show any of the attributes. I am at a bit of a loss. Any ideas, settings I am missing??? I did check the check box to read the attribute files and also tried naming the files the same.

Thanks!!!!

Hi JamesBond - I think I can help you.
I am not a secret agent myself but I am a bit of a detective, and I think I have found the solution to your issue. You're doing everything correctly - that's not the problem. Aveva made a change that is currently affecting Naviswork's ability to read PDMS Attributes Dump files.

Starting at PDMS 12.1 Aveva started writing almost everything using a format known as

UTF-8 with Byte Order Marker (BOM)

. This BOM thing is 3 bytes of binary data prepended to the beginning of the file. I know - a text file should be a text file - but that would take all the fun out of tracking down these silly things, wouldn't it?

Note that many text editors like Notepad and Wordpad can't display the BOM, but other text editors can can. And Wordpad can actually help you

fix

your file's so they're simple text files again.

Simply open your attribute dump file in Windows Wordpad (write.exe) and use

Save As

>

Other Formats…

and under

Save As Type

choose

Text Document – MS-DOS Format (*.txt)

. This will effectively strip off the Byte Order Marker (BOM) leaving only the textual data that you could already see. In fact, if you save the file with a new name, you'll notice that there are three fewer bytes in your new file.

By the way, Autodesk's Navisworks folks are aware of this, and it may be something that is handled in the future. It would probably be better though, if Aveva provides guidance on the best method to enable dumping plain text files again.

HTH and if so enjoy.
Regards.
HotDog

thanks for sharing

[FONT=arial black][/FONT]Hello everyone, unfortunately I can not fully export all the attributes of my components in PDMS.I followed these steps:


1) I create the export of my project in ". Rvm"
2) Then I am aware of having to extract a file. "Txt" or in ". Att" so that Naviswork can read the necessary information.
Then I will have to place this file within my directory where my file is present rvm appointing him the same way.
Reflected the following problems though.




2.a) If I run the export of the project with the command "Utilites-> DB Listing" I do not get all the necessary information, such as all the UDA are not recognized.


2.b) If I run the export of the project with the command "Utilites-> Export-> Dump Attribute" is that you export the file. "Att" or. "Txt" in Naviswork do not see any information.


In setting Naviswork in the "Global Option" I've selection all options except "Convert Origins" and "Convert Zero-Thickness Solids".


Use Naviswork 2010, if this information can be considered relevant.