as far as I know there is not really good manual on specon. I think there is an old catalog training manual that have a chapter on how spec is created/modified.
I would recommend you output a spec from the IMP/MAS project, take a look and post any questions you have.
Specon stores info by asking questions. For piping- if you navigate to the say /A spec, you will see a whole bunch of "Sele" that owns "Sele" that owns "sele" and the bottom is the "SPCO" item which stores the CATREF,DETREF, MATXT, CMPREF,BLTREF info.
So when you output spec /A you will see sth like this.
OLD SPECIFICATION /A
VERSION 1151
MATREF =0
FLUREF =0
RATING 0.000
LINETYPE NULL
BSPEC =0
TEXT 'PIPING'
HEADING
NAME TYPE PBOR0 SHOP CATREF DETAIL MATXT CMPREF BLTREF
DEFAULTS
- - - =
....
A couple useful command in specon are:
1. output a spec from specon to text file
>ffile /c:\temp\a.txt
>out old /A
>term
2. output a gtyp from specon to text file
>ffile /c:\temp\a-valv.rpt
>out old valv /A
>term
3.output valve, pcom, inst from /A /B /D spec
>ffile /c:\temp\zzz.txt
>out old valv pcom inst /A /B /D
>term
4. output an old spec in a new format so you can create a new spec.
>ffile /c:\temp\New-A-Spec.txt
>out new /A
>term
...
There are the basics, then you will need to know the heading default etc. There is not much to it, and if you have done catalog creation work, spec is a breeze.
Post more qustions you have as you go along, I will try to answer them when time permits.
as far as I know there is not really good manual on specon. I think there is an old catalog training manual that have a chapter on how spec is created/modified.
I would recommend you output a spec from the IMP/MAS project, take a look and post any questions you have.
Specon stores info by asking questions. For piping- if you navigate to the say /A spec, you will see a whole bunch of "Sele" that owns "Sele" that owns "sele" and the bottom is the "SPCO" item which stores the CATREF,DETREF, MATXT, CMPREF,BLTREF info.
So when you output spec /A you will see sth like this.
OLD SPECIFICATION /A
VERSION 1151
MATREF =0
FLUREF =0
RATING 0.000
LINETYPE NULL
BSPEC =0
TEXT 'PIPING'
HEADING
NAME TYPE PBOR0 SHOP CATREF DETAIL MATXT CMPREF BLTREF
DEFAULTS
- - - =
....
A couple useful command in specon are:
1. output a spec from specon to text file
>ffile /c:\temp\a.txt
>out old /A
>term
2. output a gtyp from specon to text file
>ffile /c:\temp\a-valv.rpt
>out old valv /A
>term
3.output valve, pcom, inst from /A /B /D spec
>ffile /c:\temp\zzz.txt
>out old valv pcom inst /A /B /D
>term
4. output an old spec in a new format so you can create a new spec.
>ffile /c:\temp\New-A-Spec.txt
>out new /A
>term
...
There are the basics, then you will need to know the heading default etc. There is not much to it, and if you have done catalog creation work, spec is a breeze.
Post more qustions you have as you go along, I will try to answer them when time permits.
