You may follow the following guidelines for your cats & specs development.
1. Established a one (1) letter coding system that matches your engineering specs. Assign a coding system If your engineering specs are too long....see below
Code Description
A - 1143B Carbon Steel Ansi Class 150
SPCO Name
/PIPE:25
Catref Naming (SCOM)
A-PIPE-25
Detail Naming (SDTE)
A-PIPE-SDTE
MATX Naming (SMTE)
A-AA
2. Find/Select your preferred category from the the PDMS deafult cata and compile it to one "master" catalog folder...see below... (PDMS default cata points to different location...its very confusing)
CATA A-1143BX.CATA
CATE A-PIPE.CATE
CATE A-ELBO45.CATE
CATE ETC....
CATE A.SDTE (CONTAINS ALL COMPONENT DESCRIPTION)
CATE A.SMTE (CONTAINS ALL MATERIAL CODE)
BLTA A.BLTA
3. Include/Move you GMSETS & PTSETS under its own CATE
4. Create one master CATA and edit/check-recheck everything
5. You may used the master CATA as reference in creating other specs.
Note: The advantages of one letter coding systems is that its easier for you to point a particular file (few keys to inputs), easy to read and guarantees the uniqueness of your files.
You may follow the following guidelines for your cats & specs development.
1. Established a one (1) letter coding system that matches your engineering specs. Assign a coding system If your engineering specs are too long....see below
Code Description
A - 1143B Carbon Steel Ansi Class 150
SPCO Name
/PIPE:25
Catref Naming (SCOM)
A-PIPE-25
Detail Naming (SDTE)
A-PIPE-SDTE
MATX Naming (SMTE)
A-AA
2. Find/Select your preferred category from the the PDMS deafult cata and compile it to one "master" catalog folder...see below... (PDMS default cata points to different location...its very confusing)
CATA A-1143BX.CATA
CATE A-PIPE.CATE
CATE A-ELBO45.CATE
CATE ETC....
CATE A.SDTE (CONTAINS ALL COMPONENT DESCRIPTION)
CATE A.SMTE (CONTAINS ALL MATERIAL CODE)
BLTA A.BLTA
3. Include/Move you GMSETS & PTSETS under its own CATE
4. Create one master CATA and edit/check-recheck everything
5. You may used the master CATA as reference in creating other specs.
Note: The advantages of one letter coding systems is that its easier for you to point a particular file (few keys to inputs), easy to read and guarantees the uniqueness of your files.
