Design Conventions
for Catalogues and Specifications
Set Steelwork Conventions
: Materials in MODEL
Materials in MODEL
For the materials of a structural element (MATR) to be set in MODEL, you must be able to see a Properties DB containing the available materials.
To create a Material World, carry out the following steps:
1.
In ADMIN, change the module definition for PARAGON so that it has Read/Write access to the Properties DB, thus:
edit module PARAGON mode PROP rw
2.
Create a Properties DB (if there is not one already) and include it into the relevant databases. If there is a Properties DB with a Material World already existing, go to step 4.
3.
Enter PROPCON in Read/Write mode and create a MATW.
4.
Enter PARAGON in Read/Write mode (R/W to the Properties DB) and run the property loading macro, thus:
$m/%PMLUI%/DES/DATA/MLOADPROP
By default, the DENSITY.DAT data in the AVEVA_DESIGN_DFLTS directory will be loaded into the first Material World found. Where elements already exist, the macro will modify them to the values contained in the file.
If new material densities are required to be added to the system, DENSITY.DAT can be modified to include your new materials. The format of the file is as follows:
# NAME
\Description
\Density kg/cu m
AL-CAST
\Aluminium, cast
\2560
Al-WROUGHT
\Aluminium, wrought
\2700
DURALUMIN
\Aluminium, Duralumin
\2790
.
.
.
The hash character ( # ) signifies a comment line: any line beginning with it will be ignored.
Note:
All densities are in kg/cu m.
To load the new/modified materials into the system, follow step 4 above. If you moved the file to some other directory, run the macro by passing the full pathname of the file, thus:
$m/%PMLUI%/DES/DATA/MLOADPROP <
pathname
>
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