Smart Interop Publisher projects organize your PDMS source files and corresponding Smart Models. These projects contain the settings that define the translation of the source files for Smart Models. You can use the default project available in Smart Interop Publisher or create your own. The steps below show how to create a project and define project settings.
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From the Projects View in Smart Interop Publisher, click Create
or right-click in the grid, and then click Create.
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Type the project name. Use the list to see all projects contained in the current SQL Server instance.
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Use the default SQL Server Data Pathname and SQL Server Log File Pathname locations (recommended). -OR-
Clear Use the SQL Server default locations for data and log files, and then type or browse to data and log file locations. -
For Shared Content Location, type or browse to a folder to store copies of Smart Interop Publisher support files.
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Click Create to display the new project in the Projects View.
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Right-click the project and select the Settings > Translation Settings Command.
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Click New in the Select or Create Settings Group list.
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Type in the name to use. For example, enter PDMS.
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Select PDMS as the format, and then define the working units in Common.
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Review and define any required PDMS options, and save your translation settings.
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Right-click the project, and then select the Settings > Project Settings Command.
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Select the file locations for your Smart Model files in General.
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Select the translation settings you just created in Translation Settings Group. In Logging, set up log files to help troubleshoot translation issues. If you enable logging, periodically check the log file. Information sent to the log file is accumulated, and its size could get extremely large after just a few translation operations.
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In Target Applications, select Smart 3D, and then click Save.