Administrator
User Guide
AVEVA E3D™ Databases
: Database Types
Database Types
An AVEVA E3D™ project can contain the following types of database:
Administration Databases
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The SYSTEM database itself, which holds the access control data for the model data and modules.
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The COMMS database, which stores information about who is using which module and which model databases are available.
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The MISC database which stores inter-user messages, and inter-database macros.
Model Databases
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MODEL databases which contain all the design information for the project.
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CATALOGUE databases which contain the project catalogue and specifications.
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PADD databases which contain data about drawings produced by DRAFT.
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ISOD databases which contain spool drawings produced by SPOOL.
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PROPERTIES databases which can contain material properties, and can be referenced by the catalogue.
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DICTIONARY databases which contain the definitions of User-Defined Attributes (UDAs), User Default Element Types (UDETs) and User System Defined Attributes (USDAs) as set up in LEXICON.
The following are specific to Marine Projects
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SCHEMATIC databases, which contain P&ID (Schematic) information.
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MANU databases, which contain detailed manufacturing data
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NSEQ databases, which store name sequences.
Each project can have only one of each type of administration database, but it can have any number of each type of model database.
1974 to current year.
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