Okay so here is what I have been working on. I have this VBA macro that will do a couple different things and help streamline this process, it works pretty smoothly no worries. Now I'd like to take it to the next level but I'm at a loss.
So inside plant 3d, if you open up data manager you can export the data of a drawing into an excel file, once that occurs my current vba macro will pull an entire list, compare line numbers, fill in a bunch of details in the extracted list... I'd like to streamline it a bit further and have a script export it from inside plant 3d, and then import it back saving etc so it will update all the object's properties from the master spreadsheet. Is there a way to use lisp to do this? I haven't done a bunch of cross program API coding scenarios, there's kind of a disconnect in my head as far as capabilities. I don't see a command I can type in to perform this export and not much is coming up in google searches. The lisp/vba i've done thus far all uses existing commands when performing routines etc... Any help or rudimentary guideline/process in coding outside of existing commands would be appreciated, Thanks for your time.
You can only read a limited amount of Plant 3D data via LISP (because a good portion does not reside in the .dwg but in a separate SQLite or SQL database) and you can't write to any Plant 3D properties via LISP AFAIK. You could set up a report in Report Creator to read everything but no writing.
You can do everything you describe with the .NET API but you'll need to invest some time in learning C# (recommended) or VB.NET. There is no other supported way to modify the data programmatically, AFAIK.
Okay thanks, this gives me a direction to go in. If you know of any helpful links to get me started that'd be awesome, I know c++ pretty well already but like I said there's always been a disconnect in my mind on how programs can interface. Thanks mate, cheers!
Another quick question if you have time, one of the links you gave me has a tutorial/video introduction to C# api and it is saying to download the software development kits for p3d and autocad, however I don't see any links and cannot find a download portal for the 2018 version. Do you know if it is already streamlined into the newer versions? Also, after looking at some of the C# code I'm getting pretty excited because I know C++ pretty well. Anyways, thanks for your time again.
I have installed the enabler add-on for 2018 Plant 3D, now my model looks fine in Navis Simulate... but when I open Plant 3D all of the fittings have now vanished.. if i uninstall the object enablers, Plant 3D shows the fittings fine, but they no longer appear in Navis... Any ideas? I cannot seem to get a scenario where fittings are shown in both Navis AND Plant 3D.
had the same problem , export to autocad and bring this in to navis should solve it. elbows and fittings valves etc coming in as wireframe hard to explain to the boss all your good work and the model in navis looking like a pile of filrewood. hope it helps previous poster has brushed on this so i'm presuming im just repeating the answer. had it and others looking at this and could not explain it. works perfect although the extra step in the process is not welcomed.
Appreciated gents, I think I've found the route of my particular cause - I'm using very large and dense cloud scan(s) even though they are broken down into several individual scans within the CAD file, it seems having multiple scans sends the graphics 'west'. Once I remove the scans and regen all is fine. Initially presumed it may have been a computer spec issue but this machine is pretty top end spec'd so can only assume its an issue with the software itself.
@ryan.bales Both! Initially the issue was within Plant, though once I'd installed the OE and the export utility the fittings shown fine in plant. Once I opened the dwg up in Navis the fittings had disappeared whereas before the OE and export utility import they were showing fine. If I uninstalled both Navis worked fine but Plant had issues. Maybe it was purely coincidental as I seem to have no issues now that I'm working with smaller point clouds within plant.
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