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Intergraph Smart Materials Classic Lab Tutorials (2020)

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Before we can start to create commodity codes, we must define commodity attributes or properties. The property values are stored in tables, where a table identifies the property, for example, design standard or material grade.

A table can be divided into groups to clearly arrange the property values. For example, if you have a table called Materials, you could arrange the details in groups like steel materials, plastic materials, and so forth. The table details represent the property values, which are used to create the commodity codes and to describe the components.

Defining the commodity properties in this manner ensures that a specific property is always used in the same way, because the list of available entries is restricted to the pre-defined values. This is crucial for quick and clear identification of components.

For example, when thinking about a property called Material, one user might say ā€˜Carbon Steelā€™, while another user says ā€˜C Steelā€™. Even if both of them are talking about the same thing, Smart Reference Data is not able to understand that both descriptions are really identical.

The property values are defined on the S.20.02 Tablenames with Details screen, found in the S.20 Commodity Attributes branch under Smart Reference Data.

The tables used in S.20.02 must be defined on the A.50.02 Tables screen with table type COMMATTR (commodity attributes) assigned.

At least one table group must be defined on S.20.01 Tablenames with Groups to make the table available on S.20.02.

Now open the S.20.02 Tablenames with Details screen and query for the tablename P_END_PREP and the group WELD.

The table details represent the property values that can be used to describe a component. The code for a detail is stored in the Table Detail field. The codes are used to build the commodity code. The description text of the component will be built with the language dependent text entered in the Short Desc and Description fields.