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SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
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2020 (15.0)

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 then be opened by Smart Review and combined into a single coherent viewable session.

For best results, publish all of your subsets in a single session. Otherwise, various synchronization issues can arise (for example, deleted objects, changed objects, attribute data changes, and so forth).

Recommended Workflow in Smart 3D

  1. Create multiple 3D model documents using the Drawing Task, or use previously created model documents. These documents may contain objects in a particular area of the plant or objects divided between discipline filters. We recommend breaking up the data by proximity (location) and creating smaller VUE files whenever possible to improve streaming performance.

  2. Run Update Now on all the 3D model documents you want to review in a single Smart Review session.

  3. Run Save As Smart Review on all the updated 3D model documents to review in a single Smart Review session.

  • The output XML file name must match the output .vue file name up to the different extension.

  • You are responsible for organizing this published data in a synchronized, coherent fashion for viewing in a single Smart Review session. For example, you might add a date or version number to all of the 3D model document names created in the Drawings Task and to all of the output .vue file names.

  • If you are creating an .svf project from existing .vue files, specify the Smart 3D configuration files to use, even if you not using Smart 3D .vue files at first. Use the Add Vue Files command to add .vue files later to the .svf project. When adding a Smart 3D .vue file to your .svf project, the configuration files specified when you created your project are used to create the label database from the associated .xml attribute data file.

Recommended Workflow in Smart Review

  1. Delete any previously created .svf project database (.mdb) file.

  2. Click File > Open and select the multiple .vue files. You can multi-select only those .vue files created by Smart 3D. If you select any other file types or .vue files not produced by Smart 3D, you receive an error message.

    All .vue and .xml files produced by Smart 3D must reside in the same local folder and must have the same connection ID information (database name).

  3. Type a name for the new .svf project that combines all of the selected Smart 3D .vue files and their corresponding .xml files. Smart Review then creates the .svf file using this project name, a new project database (.mdb), and a new label database (.mdb2) that contains all of the .xml data associated with the .vue files, then opens the .svf project.

    The .xml files are read in latest modification date first order. Any duplicated data in subsequent files is ignored.

  4. After opening the .svf project, Smart Review reads the .vue files from the folder containing the .svf file.

  5. Smart Review Project Manager displays all of the Smart 3D disciplines in the Files node. During read-in, the discipline and component data in each .vue file is remapped to this master project list of disciplines and components.

  • The .vue files are read in latest modification date first order. Any duplicated graphic objects (with the same moniker) in subsequent files is discarded if the Remove duplicate geometry option was selected when the project database was created. For more information on removing duplicate graphics, see Smart 3D Tab (Create Project Dialog Box).

  • To support turning on/off individual .vue file data in local .svf projects, Smart Review Project Manager displays each .vue file name and its published disciplines as separate project files using a combined file name syntax (for example, VueFile1\Piping, VueFile1\Equipment). Graphic objects published without a discipline are grouped under just the .vue file name (for example, VueFile1).

  • Smart Review prompts you to recreate the label database (.mdb2) if any .xml file corresponding to any project .vue file (single or listed in a .svf project file) has a later modification date than the project label database. You can choose to allow Smart Review to delete and recreate the database from the .xml files, to continue without recreating the database, or to cancel opening the project.

For more information about the label database, see Smart Review Projects.

See Also

Large Plant Monument Command
Create Project Dialog Box
Open a Model from the Command Line