Multi-Discipline Supports
Administrator Guide
MDS ‑ Drawing Production DRA-MDS-ABA-DEFAULTS
MDS uses the standard ABA (Area Based Automatic Drawing Production) facilities to produce its hanger and framework detail drawings from Draft. Using ABA certain MDS specific elements have been added into the delivered project (MDS). In summary these are: MDS specific Sheet Templates (SHTMPLs) and their associated Views Layers and Tasks, plus some referenced Library (LIBY) elements.
MDS specifics only are documented below. For other details of the administration of ABA see the MDS Customisation Guide.
One of the principles of ABA is that it works on an area of the database defined by co-ordinates. MDS-ABA does not make use of this part of the functionality initially but calculates the area required around a support or hanger and then back-fills the requirement into the ABA forms.
