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.dgn

The design files that you open in Smart Review. Several design files are referenced by one Smart Review interface (.dri) file. For example, model.dri references 40pipe01.dgn, 40eqp01.dgn, sarea39.prp, and others. (A .prp file is another type of design file created by plant design applications.) Each design file can have a label file associated with it. Label files are text files that contain database information. Label files are given the design file name with a three-character extension. For example, in the example model (model.dri), the label files for 40pipe01.dgn, 40eqp01.dgn, and sarea39.prp are named 40pipe01.drv, 40eqp01.drv, and sarea39.drv, respectively.

Smart Review reads.vue files and label databases created by SmartPlant Review Publisher or Smart Interop Publisher from Microstation V8 data files. Smart Review does not directly read in the Microstation V8 data file format.

.dri

This is an ASCII text file that references all the design files, label data files, and other files that are associated with a model. This file is given the model name with a .dri extension.

label data

Text files that contain database information about elements in the design file. There is a one-to-one correspondence with the design file. They can have any name, and any extension or no extension. You must use a .dri file to indicate which label files go with which design files.

tagseed.txt

An ASCII text file Smart Review uses to establish the pre-defined template used by the Place Comment command. You create this file, and it is called tagseed.txt. Smart Review looks first in the folder specified by the DR_TAGSEED_DIR variable. If it is not there, Smart Review searches your home folder and then C:\ before assuming that the file does not exist.

.mat

Text files that contain the material assignments to objects in the corresponding design file. Each .mat file corresponds to a design file with material assignments. An example material file might be sarea38.mat. This file contains the object level and color numbers, along with the material assigned to them. For example, all elements in the file on level 8 with color number 12 might be assigned to bronze. The material file is given the design file name with a .mat extension.

.pal

Palette files that contain material definitions. A palette file can be used with a number of models. An example palette file might be metal.pal. This palette file contains all the material definitions for items such as bronze, iron, aluminum, and so on. Any file with elements using these materials reference this palette file.

.rgb

Intergraph image files with a color file format that stores the red, green, and blue (RGB) data values of a screen image in a single file.

.vue

A .vue file reads in and manipulates data. You can create .vue files from the Save As option within Smart Review. To use this functionality, you must install the API module.

The .vue file format is read only by Smart Review.

Smart Review .vue files can be created by several applications, including Smart 3D, SmartPlant Review Publisher, and Smart Interop Publisher. Each of these applications can read data from third-party applications. For example, Smart 3D can read PDS or MicroStation .dgn files and ACIS .sat files. Because of this, a .vue file produced from Smart 3D could contain PDS data, MicroStation data, or ACIS data.

.svf

An .svf project is a streaming .vue file project. The .svf project allows graphic objects from multiple Smart Review .vue files and their attribute data in the corresponding .xml or .drv data files to be reviewed in a single runtime session. If you run into memory limitations when publishing 3D model data sets using the Smart 3D Drawing task, you can publish subsets of your Smart 3D model data into multiple .vue and .xml files that can be opened by Smart Review and combined into a single review session.

.tag

A .tag ASCII text file contains all comment data in a model, and can be imported and exported using Smart Review.

.zvf

A .zvf file is a local, compressed streaming .vue file project. The current view determines which .vue files are loaded. A .zvf file contains:

An .svf project file

Multiple .vue files

A .zvf file allows you to access a sub-set of your model data without having to load the entire model. If the entire model data does not fit into memory, portions are still accessible. SmartPlant Review Publisher and Smart Interop Publisher create .zvf files.