PDMS Installation Guide

Installation Guide Version 11.6.SP1

Windows 2000 and Windows XP

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Revision History

Date Version Notes

Sept 2004 11.6 Updated: Hardware recommendation; Upgrading; Licensing; AutoDRAFT chapter (versions supported) New: Information on .NET and its effect on PDMS installation; Background Process Manager Minor corrections and updates Added Section 47 – Running PDMS in batch

May 2005 11.6.SP1 Updated

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Contents

1 Introduction.................................................................................................... 1-1

1.1 Contents of this Guide ........................................................................ 1-1 1.2 Associated products ............................................................................ 1-2

2 Hardware and Software Requirements........................................................ 2-1

2.1 Hardware............................................................................................. 2-1 2.1.1 Graphics Cards ...................................................................... 2-1

2.2 Software and Configuration ............................................................... 2-2

3 Installing PDMS ............................................................................................. 3-1

3.1 Basic Installation ................................................................................ 3-1 3.1.1 .NET Framework Installation .............................................. 3-2

3.2 Uninstalling and Reinstalling ............................................................ 3-2 3.3 FLEXMAN License Manager ............................................................. 3-2 3.4 Remote Installation............................................................................. 3-3

4 Setting Up the Windows Environment......................................................... 4-1

4.1 Windows Control Panel ...................................................................... 4-1 4.2 Graphics Card Settings....................................................................... 4-2 4.3 Setting the License File Location....................................................... 4-2 4.4 PDMS Environment Variables ........................................................... 4-3 4.5 Running PDMS from a Command Prompt Window.......................... 4-5 4.6 Customising PDMS Start-Up ............................................................. 4-5 4.7 Running PDMS in batch..................................................................... 4-7 4.8 Plotting ................................................................................................ 4-7

5 Language Support......................................................................................... 5-1

5.1 Preparing Windows to use Supported Languages............................. 5-2 5.1.1 Windows 2000........................................................................ 5-2 5.1.2 Windows XP........................................................................... 5-2

5.2 Preparing PDMS to use Latin Languages ......................................... 5-3 5.3 Preparing PDMS to use Far Eastern Languages .............................. 5-3

6 Running PDMS under Windows................................................................... 6-1

6.1 Spaces in Windows pathnames .......................................................... 6-1

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6.2 Linking to Microsoft Excel ................................................................. 6-1 6.3 Windows Parameters.......................................................................... 6-2

7 PDMS Projects............................................................................................... 7-1

7.1 The Sample Project............................................................................. 7-1 7.1.1 Copying Project SAM to Your User Area ............................. 7-1 7.1.2 Users and Teams in the Sample Project .............................. 7-2 7.1.3 MDBs in the Sample Project ................................................ 7-3

7.2 Creating PDMS Projects .................................................................... 7-3 7.2.1 The Sample Project and your own Projects.......................... 7-4

8 Installing AutoDRAFT ................................................................................... 8-1

8.1 Compatibility ...................................................................................... 8-1 8.2 The AutoDRAFT Software ................................................................. 8-1 8.3 Configuring AutoDRAFT with AutoCAD .......................................... 8-2 8.4 Installing and configuring AutoCAD................................................. 8-2

8.4.1 AutoCAD R2002 .................................................................... 8-3 8.4.2 AutoCAD R2004 .................................................................... 8-3

8.5 Getting Started with AutoCAD.......................................................... 8-3 8.6 Application Macros for use with PDMS DRAFT............................... 8-4

9 Upgrading Projects to Version 11.6.SP1..................................................... 9-1

10 Troubleshooting...........................................................................................10-1

10.1 General...............................................................................................10-1 10.2 License Manager Errors....................................................................10-1 10.3 Entering PDMS .................................................................................10-2 10.4 Problems with Graphics ....................................................................10-3

11 Structure of PDMS on .NET.........................................................................11-1

11.1 Overview ............................................................................................11-1 11.2 PDMSEXE..........................................................................................11-1 11.3 GUI module structure .......................................................................11-1

11.3.1 Wrappers ..............................................................................11-2 11.3.2 .NET Loading rules..............................................................11-2 11.3.3 Win32 DLLs .........................................................................11-3

11.4 Components .......................................................................................11-3 11.4.1 PDMSEXE directory ............................................................11-3 11.4.2 PDMSEXE/Design subdirectory..........................................11-5 11.4.3 PDMSEXE/Draft subdirectory ............................................11-5

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11.4.4 PDMSEXE/Monitor subdirectory........................................ 11-5 11.4.5 PDMSEXE/Isodraft subdirectory........................................ 11-5 11.4.6 PDMSEXE/Admin subdirectory.......................................... 11-5 11.4.7 Add-ins ................................................................................. 11-5

11.5 Forms and Menus ............................................................................. 11-5

12 Troubleshooting the .NET installation....................................................... 12-1

12.1 Version Error..................................................................................... 12-1 12.2 Wrappers or a dependency missing.................................................. 12-1 12.3 Interface incompatibility .................................................................. 12-2 12.4 Security error with thin client.......................................................... 12-2 12.5 No Add-ins......................................................................................... 12-4 12.6 Window Layout ................................................................................. 12-4 12.7 Serialization ...................................................................................... 12-4

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1 Introduction

This guide explains how to install and set up PDMS Version 11.6.SP1 on a workstation running the Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system (hereafter referred to jointly as 'Windows'). Local Administrator rights are required to perform the installation. This guide assumes you are familiar with the concepts of folder/file hierarchies for storing data on disks and with basic Windows terminology and commands. If you are not, you may also need to refer to your operating system documentation while you carry out the installation. The guide also assumes that you have already gained access to the PDMS installation files via a CD, from the AVEVA Web site, or by some other route.

1.1 Contents of this Guide

Hardware and software requirements are described in Chapter 2. For completely up-to-date information, please see the AVEVA Website at http://www.aveva.com/products/support/support.html and refer to the Customer Support Hardware pages. The Web pages also give hints on ways of setting up and running PDMS on different computers in order to achieve the most efficient performance. Chapter 3, Installing PDMS, describes how to install PDMS 11.6.SP1 and license the software. Chapter 4, Setting Up the Windows Environment, explains how to configure the Windows operating system before you run PDMS. Chapter 5, Language Support, describes how to set up the Windows Environment to use PDMS with different Language options. Chapter 6, Running PDMS under Windows, gives some advice on using PDMS in a Windows environment. Chapter 7, PDMS Projects, describes the sample project that is supplied as part of PDMS, and how to set up your own projects. Chapter 8, Installing AutoDRAFT, describes how to install and configure PDMS AutoDRAFT.

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Introduction

Chapter 9, Upgrading Projects to Version 11.6.SP1, describes how to upgrade your projects from PDMS 11.6, PDMS 11.5, PDMS 11.5SP1, or earlier releases, for use with PDMS 11.6.SP1. Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, describes solutions for some of the errors that you could encounter when running PDMS. Chapter 11, Structure of PDMS on .NET, outlines the way in which PDMS in installed and configured in a Microsoft .NET environment. Chapter 12, Troubleshooting the .NET installation, describes solutions to some of the .NET related issues you might encounter.

1.2 Associated products

There are various other VANTAGE products that may be used in conjunction with PDMS. You may wish to consider installing these at the same time. Those closely associated with PDMS include the following VANTAGE Plant Design products:

Router for automatic rule-based pipe routing within PDMS

Global for synchronisation of PDMS projects between world-wide sites

Model Management for change & status control of engineering objects (e.g. pipes, welds, …) from system design through detailing and into deliverable production

And new at PDMS 11.6: Final Designer AutoCAD editing of PDMS DRAFT drawings,

including final detailing For details of the installation of these ‘add-on’ products, please refer to the relevant installation guide. If they are required, it may be advisable to read these before installing PDMS.

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2 Hardware and Software Requirements

This section describes the hardware and software configurations that PDMS requires to run under Windows.

2.1 Hardware

The following list gives a minimum specification for your computer. • Processor Intel IA-32 architecture, e.g. Pentium

- at least 1 GHz. • Memory 256 MB minimum,

512 MB, or more, highly recommended. • Graphics Card High performance card recommended

- see below. • Display A resolution of at least 1024x768 (XGA) is

strongly recommended • Storage Approximately 670 MB

- see AVEVA web-site for details. • CD drive CD-ROM will be used for media distribution. • Mouse 3-Button mouse required;

Mouse with wheel strongly recommended.

2.1.1 Graphics Cards

PDMS uses standard OpenGL for its 3D graphics. Due to the continuously and rapidly changing list of hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics cards commercially available, an up-to-date list of supported graphics cards cannot be included in this document. However, the AVEVA Web pages http://www.aveva.com/products/support/support.html contain a current list of both tested and supported graphics cards in the Support section. Other graphics cards which fully support the OpenGL standard should also work, but AVEVA cannot offer assistance in configuring these. You may also find some problems, for example, when picking items in PDMS.




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2.2 Software and Configuration

The following software should be installed and configured on your computer to enable PDMS 11.6.SP1 to run. • PDMS 11.6.SP1 is fully supported under:

Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 11

Note that Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Packs and Hot Fixes from Microsoft are required for PDMS to run effectively. Please refer to the AVEVA Support web site, or contact the AVEVA Support team for details of the latest recommended Windows 2000 and Windows XP environment for PDMS.

• PDMS 11.6.SP1 databases must be on an NTFS File System: FATC partitions are not supported.

• The license manager must have a drive called C: available for writing temporary information. In the case of double boot machines, where D: is the system disk for Windows XP/2000 and C: is used for an earlier version of Windows, the license manager will still work, since it does not require NTFS.

• PDMS 11.6.SP1 requires Microsoft’s .NET Framework: it will be installed from the CD if necessary.

• Optionally, you can have Microsoft Excel installed for outputting reports.

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3 Installing PDMS

3.1 Basic Installation

Local Administrator rights are normally required to install PDMS. 1. To install PDMS from CD – Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.

If you have AutoPlay enabled for the drive, the installation starts automatically. Otherwise, run Start.htm on the CD. If you are installing PDMS from the network – Click Start>Run on the Windows taskbar and type the path to the Start.htm file on your network.

2. Click on CD CONTENTS and select the product which you want to install (in this case PDMS Version 11.6.SP1), then click INSTALL. Click OK on any confirmation forms which appear.

3. On the File Download form, select Run this program from its current location (IE 5.0) or Open (IE 5.5 or later) to install the program files directly from their current location onto your hard disk. Select Yes on the Security Warning query about an Authenticode signature.

4. This starts the InstallShield® Wizard, which will lead you through the rest of the installation process.

During the installation sequence, follow the on-screen instructions as they appear. You will be given a choice between two levels of installation: • Full installation: Installs all available product components

(recommended for a new installation unless there are good reasons for restricting the options available to end users).

• Custom installation: Presents you with a list of all available product components from which you can select those to be installed.

It is recommended that you use the default settings for folder paths etc. unless you have good reasons for doing otherwise. You must not use embedded spaces in folder path names. The process needs at least 670MB of free disk space for a full installation of all options. InstallShield checks that there is enough space available before it starts, and warns you if there is not.



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When the process is complete, select Start>Programs/AVEVA/VANTAGE PDMS 11.6.SP1 to reach the Run PDMS, Make PDMS project, Run Background Process Manager and PDMS manuals options.

3.1.1 .NET Framework Installation

The new graphical user interface included in PDMS 11.6.SP1 requires that Microsoft’s .NET Framework 1.1 be installed. The .NET Framework is supplied on the installation CD, and is installed automatically if it is not already installed.

3.2 Uninstalling and Reinstalling

If InstallShield detects an existing PDMS installation, it will display the options for modifying/repairing/removing the files rather than simply offering the standard installation options. To remove installed components from your hard disk, or to add additional components to an existing installation, select Start>Settings>Control Panel and use the Add/Remove Programs tool. As an alternative procedure, repeat Steps 1 to 4 of the installation sequence detailed above. The InstallShield® Wizard will detect your existing installation and will give you the following options: • Modify: Displays the same list of options as the Custom installation.

Select new components to be added and/or deselect any currently installed components to be removed.

• Repair: Reinstalls all currently installed components (to correct any corrupted files etc.).

• Remove: Removes all currently installed components. NOTE: Uninstalling PDMS will not uninstall Microsoft’s .NET Framework:

this must be removed separately if required.

3.3 FLEXMAN License Manager

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3.4 Remote Installation

If you wish to have one server installation of PDMS accessed from remote workstations, you must ensure that the Windows system DLLs on each remote workstation are upgraded to a suitable version for running the PDMS 11.6.SP1 application programs. You can achieve this by installing PDMS 11.6.SP1 itself in minimal form; that is, select the Custom Installation type and then deselect everything except 'PDMS Core Components'. In addition, this release includes a stand-alone 'Thin Client' installer which can be used on individual workstations to update the necessary Windows system DLLs, and which also provides start menu shortcuts to the main PDMS installation. The Thin Client installer is a self-extracting InstallShield® executable which is held in the C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.6.SP1\thin_client_installer\ subfolder. It is applicable when the main PDMS 11.6.SP1 product is installed either from the 'Full Installation' option or the 'Custom Installation' option with the 'Thin Client Installer' component selected.



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4 Setting Up the Windows Environment

This chapter describes how to configure the Windows operating system before you run PDMS. Following installation of PDMS, you should perform the following steps: • Check the settings for your graphics board: See Section 4.2. • Ensure the FLEXMAN License Manager daemon is running, and

set environment variables relating to FLEXMAN: See Section 4.3. • Configure Windows parameters for PDMS: see Section 4.4. • You can then run PDMS by clicking on the PDMS shortcut or icon,

which will set up the remaining environment variables required. Note: In the following instructions it is assumed that PDMS 11.6.SP1

has been installed in folder C:\AVEVA. If it has been installed elsewhere, substitute C:\AVEVA with the name of the installation folder.

4.1 Windows Control Panel

The Windows Control Panel contains tools that are used to change the way Windows looks and behaves. This Install Guide describes how to use Control Panel tools to configure Windows to run PDMS. Open the Control Panel as follows: Windows 2000

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel Windows XP

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4.2 Graphics Card Settings

You should set your display to a resolution of at least 1024 x 768 and the colour depth to True colour or 16.7 million colours. This can be set by opening the Control Panel. Select Display and select the Settings tab. Make the appropriate selections on the form for your graphics card. Due to the rapidly changing list of hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics cards commercially available, an up-to-date list of supported graphics cards, graphics device drivers and recommended device driver configuration cannot be included in this document. However, the AVEVA Support Web pages (http://www.aveva.com/engineeringit) contain a current list of both tested and supported graphics cards, along with advice on configuration of graphics device drivers.

4.3 Setting the License File Location

Before you can use PDMS, you must set up the FLEXMAN license system and connect to the FLEXMAN License Manager daemon (see the FLEXMAN Installation Guide). Each User needs to set a license path that defines the location of the license file or service. For earlier versions of FLEXMAN, setting the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE did this. However, this applied to all software using FLEXlm. You can now set CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE instead that applies only to software using our Vendor License Manager Daemon. To avoid users having to repeatedly set such an environment variable, FLEXlm itself now remembers the current setting in the Windows Registry. This Registry setting will initially come from the value of the corresponding environment variable, but cannot then be modified by changing the environment variable – you must use the FLEXlm utility lmtools or the new command-line lmpath to query or set the license path. These utilities are installed with FLEXMAN. The environment variable can be set in one of three ways, either in the PDMS entry script, as a User Environment Variable in the Control Panel or manually in a command window. To set manually or in the PDMS entry script, type the following in a command window or in the entry script before starting PDMS:

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To set automatically: Windows 2000 and Windows XP • Open the Control Panel. • Select System, and pick the Advanced tab • Click on the Environment Variables button • Set the CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE user environment

variable to the location of the license obtained from AVEVA (Port@Computername). For example:

CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE 744@licserv

To confirm the licence environment variable setting, open a command window and type the command SET. You should see a list of environment variables, including:

CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE=Port@Computername

To check the Registry setting, you will need to use the FLEXMAN utility lmpath –status

You should see an output including the following:

lmpath - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software, Inc.

Known Vendors:

cadcentre: 744@licserv

…

4.4 PDMS Environment Variables

PDMS uses Windows Environment variables to locate folders containing PDMS system files and users project data. This allows you to locate these folders anywhere on the file system. The default location for PDMS system files is C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.6.SP1, but the location of the pdms11.6.SP1 folder can be changed if desired when PDMS is installed. PDMS is supplied with a file evars.bat in the PDMS executables folder (C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1) which sets default values for the environment variables so that they point to the folder structure as installed. It also sets the PATH variable to include the PDMSEXE folder containing PDMS executables. You may need to modify this file to reflect the folder structure of your own installation. The following is a list of the variables you may need to reset, with a brief description of each one and the default setting.



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Note that all environment variables must be UPPERCASE. It is recommended that users should not write to the pdms11.6.SP1 installation folder or any of its contents:

PDMS System Environment Variables

The following environment variables refer to the location of PDMS system files. PDMSEXE Executable folder

C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1

PDMSEXEMAIN Copy of PDMSEXE, but can be a search path C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1

CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE License file

Note that this variable relates to AVEVA’s former name for historical reasons! See section 4.3, Setting the License File Location

PDMSUI Application User Interface folder (PML 1) C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdmsui

PMLLIB Application User Interface folder (PML 2) C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pmllib

PDMSDFLTS Applications defaults folder C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdmsui\dflts

PDMSPLOTS Applications PLOTS folder C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdmsui\plots

PLOTCADC Pointer to the PLOT executable. C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\plot\plot.exe

PDMSHELPDIR Online help data files. C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\onlinehelp

PDMS User Environment Variables

The following environment variables refer to the location of users PDMS folders. Users must have write permission to these folders. PDMSWK Temporary PDMS work file folder

C:\temp

PDMSUSER Application Users save/restore setup area (or the users 'home' folder) C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdmsuser

PDMSREPDIR PDMS Applicationware Report Input and Output folder. C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdmsui\reports

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but they should have their own local defaults area. This is achieved by setting a PDMSDFLTS search path, e.g. ‘C:\USERDFLTS C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdmsui\dflts’

Project Environment Variables

For each PDMS project, four more environment variables must be set. For example, for a project ABC: ABC000 Project database folder ABCISO Project ISODRAFT options folder ABCMAC Project Inter-DB connection macro folder ABCPIC Project DRAFT picture file folder PDMS is installed with sample project data (See Chapter 7 PDMS Projects). PDMS Project Environment variables for these projects are set in evars.bat.

4.5 Running PDMS from a Command Prompt Window

You can run PDMS from a Command Prompt window rather than using the Start/Programs menu. To do this you must set your PATH variable to include the folder where PDMS is installed. Windows 2000 and Windows XP • Open the Control Panel. • Select System, and pick the Advanced tab. • Click on the Environment Variables button. • Edit the system variable Path to add the PDMS folder (for example,

C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1) to the list of folders in the Path variable.

Once the Path variable includes the pdms11.6.SP1 folder, you can run PDMS by typing pdms at a command prompt.

4.6 Customising PDMS Start-Up

There is a batch (.bat) file supplied in C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1 called pdms.bat which allows entry into PDMS. You can run PDMS using this batch file in any of the following ways: • Use the shortcut in the Windows Start menu,

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• You can create a shortcut on your desktop to run your batch file. With the cursor in the desktop area, click with the right-hand button and select New>Shortcut. This shows a sequence of dialogs to help you create the shortcut. Type in the location of pdms.bat, for example: C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdms.bat then press Next and give the shortcut a name. Press Finish. You should now be able to double-click on the shortcut icon to enter PDMS.

• If you have C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1(the path name for the pdms.bat file) in your PATH environment variable, just type pdms in a command window to execute the batch file.

• Otherwise, navigate to the folder where the batch file is stored and type pdms or pdms.bat.

You can set up your own batch files to run PDMS. For example, you may wish to run design checking utilities every night, or update batches of drawings overnight. Begin by creating a batch file, for example, runpdmsmacro.bat. Type the following line into this file:

C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1\pdms.bat TTY SAM SYSTEM/XXXXXX /STRUC $M/mymacrofile

Where: • TTY tells PDMS not to start the PDMS GUI. This gives command line

only operation. • SAM is the project name. • SYSTEM/XXXXXX is the PDMS username/password to be used

when running the command macro • /STRUC selects the required MDB • mymacrofile is the pathname of a PDMS command macro, containing

the commands that you want to execute in PDMS.

In this example, running runpdmsmacro.bat will enter PDMS in project SAM, as user SYSTEM/XXXXXX, in MDB /STRUC, and run the PDMS command macro mymacrofile.



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4.7 Running PDMS in batch

PDMS creates a separate PDMSConsole process to manage the command-line input/output for all modules. When PDMS is invoked from a .bat file, processing of this file resumes as soon as you leave Monitor – even though you are still using PDMS. To help manage this situation, PDMSWait.exe is distributed as part of PDMS and can be used to make a PDMS script wait for PDMS to complete before continuing. PDMSWait uses Windows facilities to wait for an event triggered by PDMSConsole when PDMS finishes. Because you can be running more than one PDMS session on any one computer, both PDMSWait and PDMSConsole look for an environment variable PDMS_CONSOLE_IDENTIFIER before doing this. You can set PDMS_CONSOLE_IDENTIFIER to any unique string. In a .bat file you can use the %RANDOM% or %TIME% values provided by Windows; in a Perl script, you can use the process number, accessible as $$. Example:

echo Start PDMS at %TIME% set PDMS_CONSOLE_IDENTIFIER=%RANDOM% call %PDMSEXE%\pdms call %PDMSEXE%\pdmswait echo Returned to .bat at %TIME%

This will start PDMS, then wait until it has finished before resuming the script. The VANTAGE PDMS MONITOR Reference Manual provides more details on running PDMS batch programs.

4.8 Plotting

To plot in a Windows environment, we recommend that you use the plotcadc.bat file supplied in the pdms11.6.SP1 folder. Note that you may have to modify the plotcadc.bat file to suit your local printer installation. The Network Plotter must be mapped using the NET USE command. See your network documentation for more information. To run the plotcadc.bat file, give a command in the format:

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Where options are the AVEVA PLOT utility options, and may be omitted. See the PLOT User Guide for more information. Note that the options must be enclosed in quotes. For example: plotcadc.bat c:\pdms\plot1 ps \\ntserver\NTPostScript

plotcadc.bat c:\pdms\plot1 hpgl \\ntserver\NThpgl 'CE=Y'



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5 Language Support

By default, your PDMS project can use any language whose characters are contained within the Latin-1 character set. The Languages covered by the Latin-1 character set a listed in the table below. If you want to use any of the other, non-Latin-1 languages supported by PDMS, it is necessary to configure your PDMS project and the Windows operating system. This chapter describes how to use PDMS on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional in each of the supported language groups:

• Latin-1 • Latin-2 • Latin-Cyrillic • Far Eastern

Supported languages

Name Description Languages covered

Latin 1 ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet 1 Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish,

Latin 2 ISO 8859-2 Latin alphabet 2 Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Serbo-Croat, Slovak, Slovene

Latin Cyrillic ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic alphabet

Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Russian

Far Eastern Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

PDMS does not support any other language character set, nor does it support the mixing of any of the above, except for mixing one Far Eastern language with English.



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5.1 Preparing Windows to use Supported Languages

5.1.1 Windows 2000

To add an additional language in Windows 2000, follow these steps: 1. Open the Control Panel. 2. Double-click Regional Options to show the Regional Options dialog. 3. Click the Input Locales tab. 4. In the Input Locales box, click the required language, and then

click Properties. 5. In the Keyboard Layout box, click the required keyboard layout,

click OK, and then click OK. 6. Click the General tab. Click to select the check box next to the

language group you wish to install, and then click Apply. The system will either prompt for a Windows 2000 CD-ROM or access the system files across the network. Once the language is installed, Windows 2000 will prompt you to restart the computer.

5.1.2 Windows XP

To add an additional language in Windows XP, follow these steps: 1. Open the Control Panel. 2. Double-click Regional and Language Options. 3. On the Regional options tab, under “Standards and formats”,

select the required language from the list. 4. Click the Languages tab, and then click Details under "Text

services and input languages". 5. Under “Default input language”, select the required language. If

the required language appears in the list, click OK. If it does not appear in the list, then click Add under "Installed Services", and then click the language you want to add and the keyboard layout you want to use for that language. To configure the settings for the Language bar, click Language Bar under "Preferences". The Language bar is used to switch between languages while you are using PDMS. Click OK to close the Language Bar Settings dialog. Click OK to close the “Text Services and Input Languages” dialog.



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6. Click the Advanced tab. Under ”Languages for non-Unicode programs”, select the required language. Click Apply. It may be necessary to install new code page conversion tables. Only member of the Administrators group can install code page conversion tables. The system will either prompt for a Windows XP CD-ROM or access the system files across the network. Once the language is installed, Windows XP will prompt you to restart the computer.

Note: For Far Eastern language support, it is necessary have the East Asian support option installed.

5.2 Preparing PDMS to use Latin Languages

In PDMS ADMIN, you must specify a character set for each project by using one of the following commands on the PDMS ADMIN command line:

Command Languages covered

PROJECT CHARSET LATIN 1

(default)

Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish,

PROJECT CHARSET LATIN 2 Albanian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Serbo-Croat, Slovak, Slovene

PROJECT CHARSET LATIN CYRILLIC Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Russian

The corresponding font family must be selected for Draft and Isodraft drawings. Use Project>Font Families and select the Font Type appropriate for you chosen language. For details, see the VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN User Guide and VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN Command Reference Manual.

5.3 Preparing PDMS to use Far Eastern Languages

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Before you use PDMS, you must set the environment variable CADC_LANG as follows: CADC_LANG=Japanese Kanji CADC_LANG=Korean CADC_LANG=Chinese Simplified Chinese CADC_LANG= TChinese Traditional Chinese In PDMS ADMIN, you must specify the multibyte character set for each project by using the command corresponding to your required language: PROJECT MBCHARSET JAP PROJECT MBCHARSET KOR FILE /<font filename> PROJECT MBCHARSET CHI Simplified Chinese PROJECT MBCHARSET TCHIN FILE /<font filename>

Traditional Chinese For details, see the VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN User Guide and VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN Command Reference Manual.



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6 Running PDMS under Windows

6.1 Spaces in Windows pathnames

To run macros with spaces in the filenames, you must enclose the filename in quotes, without a leading slash. For example: $m'c:\Program Files\Macros\space.mac' arg1 arg2

Due to the way in which PDMS parses its command lines, this format is also recommended for use with filenames containing Asian characters.

6.2 Linking to Microsoft Excel

You can make your reports load directly into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, as comma-separated files: • Select Utilities>Reports>Modify from the PDMS main menu bar. • Pick a report template. • Click on OK: the Modify Template form is displayed. • Select Options>Other Formats... from the Modify Template form menu

bar. This displays the Report Format form. From this form: • Choose the CSV option from the Format drop-down list. • Click on OK: this returns you to the Modify Template form.

• Select the Overwrite radio button • For the filename enter %PDMSUSER%/fname.csv (the .csv

extension is important). • In the System command text box enter 'cmd/c “C:\<excel folder>\excel.exe” %PDMSUSER%\fname.csv'

where C:\<excel folder> is the location of Excel on your system. Note that it is necessary to enclose Windows command arguments in double quotation marks if the argument contains embedded spaces. :\<excel folder>\



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6.3 Windows Parameters

The following setting can be used to improve performance when repositioning forms in PDMS. These are optional Windows Parameter settings. Windows 2000 Open the Control Panel. Select Display and select the Effects tab. On the form, uncheck Show Window Contents While Dragging. Windows XP Open the Control Panel. Select Display, then select the Appearance tab and click on the Effects… button. On the form, uncheck Show Window Contents While Dragging and Show shadows under menus.



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7 PDMS Projects

7.1 The Sample Project

PDMS is supplied with a sample project, which can be used in several ways: • It provides you with examples of the use of PDMS. • It provides you with sample libraries, catalogues and specifications

which enable you to use PDMS before you set up your own, and can be used as starting points when you do start to create your own.

• It provides you with starting points for the tutorials in the following manuals: Pipework Design Using PDMS Pipework Spooling Using PDMS

Structural Design Using PDMS Industrial Building Design Using PDMS Support Design Using PDMS HVAC Design Using PDMS Reporting from PDMS Drawing Production Using PDMS

• It provides an example of how to set up your own projects. The sample project is actually two projects in PDMS terms: • MAS (Master) provides data in read-only databases. This data

should not be deleted or changed in any way, or the rest of the sample project will become unusable.

• SAM (Sample) contains several MDBs which can be modified, and so they can be used for training,

7.1.1 Copying Project SAM to Your User Area

The sample project is loaded automatically when you install PDMS. You should copy the sample project to your user area and run it as supplied.



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The project files are held in two directories: sam000 holds all design data and catalogue data; sampic holds the DRAFT picture libraries.

7.1.2 Users and Teams in the Sample Project

Free User

The Free user has username/password SYSTEM/XXXXXX.

General Users Team Username/password

CATS CATS/CATS DEMO DEMO/DEMO EQUI EQUI/EQUI HANGER HANGER/HANGER HVAC HVAC/HVAC PIPE PIPE/PIPE SAMPLE SAMPLE/SAMPLE STRUC STRUC/STRUC USERA USERA/A USERB USERB/B USERC USERCC USERD USERD/D USERE USERE/E USERF USERF/F USERG USERG/G

General User with Administration Rights

There is a user named ADMIN who is a member of all teams except MASTER. In particular, ADMIN is a member of the following teams:

CATADMIN DRAFTADMIN HSADMIN ISOADMIN

Membership of these teams gives special administration rights within the corresponding constructor module. Each MDB contains databases with appropriate access rights. There are also teams and users associated with each MDB with appropriate access rights.



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7.1.3 MDBs in the Sample Project

This section assumes that you are already familiar with PDMS databases. The sample project contains the following MDBs which can be used for demonstration or training purposes:

CATS An MDB for practising using Catalogues and Specifications.

DEMO A demonstration MDB. EQUI An MDB for the Equipment tutorials. HANGER An MDB for the Support Design tutorial. This MDB

contains suitable pipework, steelwork and civils as a starting point.

HVAC An MDB for the HVAC Design tutorial. This MDB contains suitable steelwork and civils as a starting point.

MASTER An MDB containing the master Catalogues and Specifications, Lexicon Dictionaries etc.

MASTERCAT An MDB used for practising the use of Catalogues and Specifications.

PIPE An MDB for the Pipework Design and Pipework Spooling tutorials.

SAMPLE An MDB for the Reporting from PDMS and Drawing Production tutorials. This MDB contains design data from which reports and drawings can be produced. You can also produce isometrics.

STRUC An MDB for the Structural Design tutorial. TRAINA to TRAING Additional MDBs available for training purposes.

7.2 Creating PDMS Projects

For full information on setting up your own projects, see the VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN User Guide. You will need to create project folders for each project; for example, for a project xyz:



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md xyz000 md xyzpic md xyziso md xyzmac

Set the corresponding environment variables that point to these directories. You can do this by setting Environment Variables using the Control Panel, or by modifying the evars.bat file used to configure your PDMS Windows installation. (see Chapter 4, Setting Up the Windows Environment, for further details). Alternatively, type the following in an MS-DOS window:

set XYZ000=pathname\xyz000 set XYZPIC=pathname\xyzpic set XYZISO=pathname\xyziso set XYZMAC=pathname\xyzmac

Note: Users converting from UNIX should note that there is no direct equivalent of the .cshrc file in which these variables can be set.

Use the 'Make PDMS project' icon supplied to start the PDMS Make program, then enter:

XYZ $m/%PDMSEXE%/makemac.mac FINISH

Note: Users converting from UNIX should note that the makemac.mac file is the same as on UNIX. The executable for each module is also named identically to that on UNIX, e.g. DESIGN runs %PDMSEXE%/des. The extension '.exe' needed by Windows is added automatically.

7.2.1 The Sample Project and your own Projects

You can add databases from the sample projects SAM and MAS to your own projects from within PDMS ADMIN, using the Install options on the main menu bar. Note that these options are only available if you have the project environment variables for SAM and MAS set. Note on DRAFT Libraries: You must have DRAFT libraries available in your current project before you can enter the module. You may find it convenient to install the libraries supplied by AVEVA in the MAS project (using the Install options), even if you wish to create your own libraries for the project.



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8 Installing AutoDRAFT

This chapter explains the steps needed to install and configure AutoDRAFT. AutoDRAFT may be run in stand-alone mode or it may be run from PDMS DRAFT or ISODRAFT. You can use the adraftde, adraftbe and adraftse scripts as described in the VANTAGE PDMS AutoDRAFT User Guide. The DRAFT and ISODRAFT applicationware generates interface files for AutoCAD, which are then used by the scripts. AutoDRAFT generates interface files for DRAFT, which can be imported using the DRAFT applicationware.

8.1 Compatibility

The version of AutoDRAFT released with PDMS 11.6.SP1 is compatible with AutoCAD Releases 2002 and 2004.

8.2 The AutoDRAFT Software

AutoDRAFT software consists of three AutoCAD applications that run with AutoCAD Releases 2002 and 2004, and PDMS application macros to link these AutoDRAFT applications with PDMS DRAFT and ISODRAFT. The three AutoCAD applications are: • AutoDRAFT Drawing Editor • AutoDRAFT Frame Editor • AutoDRAFT Symbol Editor The Drawing Editor is used to modify drawings transferred from DRAFT or ISODRAFT. Please note that the new Final Designer product provides much closer integration between DRAFT and AutoCAD. The Frame Editor is used to transfer AutoCAD drawings into backing sheets or overlay sheets in DRAFT. The Symbol Editor is used to convert AutoCAD graphics into symbol templates within DRAFT symbol libraries.



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8.3 Configuring AutoDRAFT with AutoCAD

The AutoDRAFT 11.6.SP1 software is installed under the PDMS executables folder:

autodraftACAD

pdms11.6

autodraftfonts autodraftACADsource • The autodraftACAD folder contains .bat files, AutoDRAFT scripts,

AutoLISP programs, binary DRAFT menu files and an AutoCAD linestyle file.

• The autodraftfonts folder contains AutoCAD font files. All of these are needed to run AutoDRAFT programs in AutoCAD.

• In addition to the AutoDRAFT binary menu files, text versions are also provided. These are supplied in the autodraftACADsource folder for reference/customisation. This folder should not be visible by AutoCAD.

Note: The AutoDRAFT software will operate properly only if AutoCAD can be run using the acad command. AutoDRAFT may not work if the AutoCAD executable acad has been renamed, or if the acad command runs a user-supplied file which itself runs AutoCAD.

8.4 Installing and configuring AutoCAD

In order to use AutoDRAFT, AutoCAD must be installed and configured for each computer where AutoDRAFT will be used. The AutoCAD Installation and Performance Guide supplied with AutoCAD describes how to do this. AutoCAD should be configured to locate the extra menus and fonts used in AutoDRAFT: the method depends on the AutoCAD version, typically: • Add the appropriate paths to the autodraftACAD,

autodraftACADsource and autodraftfonts directories to the >Tools>Options>Support File Search Path field.

The AutoDRAFT environment variable setting commands applicable to each release of AutoCAD are listed in the following sections. The environment variables are set within the supplied pdms.bat file. These should be edited to suit the installed version of AutoCAD.



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8.4.1 AutoCAD R2002

set PDMS_ACAD=2002 set PDMS_ACAD_PATH=pathname for AutoCAD R2002 files e.g. C:\Program Files\Acad2002;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared set ACAD_VERSION=%PDMS_ACAD% set path=location of autodraftACAD directory;%PDMS_ACAD_PATH%; %path% Before running AutoDRAFT, you need to run AutoCAD R2002 and add the following as file paths: Location of autodraftACAD directory Location of autodraftACADsource directory Location of autodraftfonts directory

8.4.2 AutoCAD R2004

set PDMS_ACAD=2004 set PDMS_ACAD_PATH=pathname for AutoCAD R2004 files e.g. C:\Program Files\Acad2004;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared set ACAD_VERSION=%PDMS_ACAD% set path=location of autodraftACAD directory;%PDMS_ACAD_PATH%; %path% Before running AutoDRAFT, you need to run AutoCAD R2004 and add the following as file paths: Location of autodraftACAD directory Location of autodraftACADsource directory Location of autodraftfonts directory

8.5 Getting Started with AutoCAD

Before using the Drawing Editor make sure that AutoCAD has been correctly installed and configured by entering the command acad at the operating system command prompt.



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8.6 Application Macros for use with PDMS DRAFT

The applicationware provides the additional menus and forms required to run the AutoDRAFT editors in AutoCAD directly from DRAFT and ISODRAFT.



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9 Upgrading Projects to Version 11.6.SP1

It is necessary to upgrade your PDMS projects by using the appropriate upgrade procedure. The procedure supplied with PDMS 11.6.SP1 will work with all releases from PDMS 11.2 onwards. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of PDMS, it is necessary to upgrade from each PDMS version to the next by using the upgrade procedure supplied with the appropriate version of PDMS. For example, to upgrade a project from PDMS 10.5 to PDMS 11.6.SP1, it is necessary first to load the PDMS 11.2 product, and use its upgrade procedure to create a PDMS 11.2 version of your project, before using the upgrade scripts supplied with 11.6.SP1. No database upgrade is necessary for PDMS 11.4 or 11.5 projects. The only action of the upgrade in this case is to remove the *vir.dat files from the project – if you say yes to the prompt. These files are now stored in PDMSEXE to simplify the upgrade process: the change was made at PDMS 11.4sp1.



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10 Troubleshooting

Here are some suggestions about solving some problems you may encounter when using PDMS under Windows.

10.1 General

Error: The dynamic link library DFORMD.dll could not be found in the specified path.

Explanation: This is supplied with PDMS. Perhaps you have not set your PATH variable. The PATH setting must include ‘C:\AVEVA\pdms11.6.SP1’.

Error: STOP. The application failed to initialise properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.

Explanation: This occurs after a number of other errors. The most likely reason is a problem with the PATH variable.

10.2 License Manager Errors

Error: When you start up lmgrd it says <time> (lmgrd) Can't make folder C:\FLEXlm, errno: 2 No such file or folder, etc.

Solution: There is no C: drive for the license manager to write to. As the System Administrator or a Power User, you need to make a shared disk called C:. This can be done on a networked or non-networked computer.

Within the Windows Explorer’s File menu, create a new folder (e.g. D:\C_drive) and make it current. Select File>Properties and select the Share tab. Click on the Shared As: radio button and then click OK.

Then from the Tools menu select Map Network Drive. Select C: from the Drive: drop-down list in the displayed form and type

\\hostname\C_drive in the Path box. Then click on OK. (C:) should now appear in the list of

available drives in Explorer.

Error: <time> (lmgrd) "<host>": Not a valid server hostname, exiting. Explanation: The hostname used by AVEVA to create the license file does not

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obtain by typing 'env|findstr COMPUTERNAME' in a Command Prompt window. Compare this with the license file contents, and resubmit if necessary.

Pop-up Mess.: FLEXlm: checkout failed: Cannot connect to license server (-15, 10:10061) WinSock error code.

Explanation: lmgrd has not been started up - see above for details.

Pop-up Mess.: FlexLM: checkout failed: Cannot find license file (-1,73:2) No such file or folder.

Explanation: lmgrd has not been started up - see above for details.

Pop-up Mess.: FlexLM: checkout failed: Licensed number of users already reached (-4,132).

Explanation: You have exceeded the permitted number of users specified in your license file.

10.3 Entering PDMS

Error: (43,9) Environment Variable not defined for project name. Explanation: You have not set the environment variable for the project, e.g. XYZ000.

Error: (43,1) Project <xxx> not available! Error 7 allocating system database.

Explanation: The environment variable for the project does not point to the correct location. Either the disk and/or folder do not exist or are not readable.

Error: <username> not found. or Bad password.

Explanation: You are trying to enter PDMS without a valid PDMS username and/or password.

Error: PDMSWK environment variable not set. Solution: Set PDMSWK to c:\temp or some other folder where PDMS can create

temporary files.

Error: Error 34 opening variables file. Explanation: You cannot create a file in the location pointed to by environment

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Error: Project <xxx> is pre version 8. Explanation: This can happen if you have transferred the project from UNIX using

FTP in ASCII rather than Binary format.

10.4 Problems with Graphics

Error: Cannot pick certain items in DESIGN 3D shaded views. Solution: There is probably a problem with the display driver for the graphics

board that you are using. Make sure you have the version of the display driver recommended on our supported display drivers Web page.

Error: Incorrect colours. Solution: Check the setting of your Display. The colour resolution should be set to

‘True Colour’ or 16.7 million colours.

Error: Graphics speed (for example in 3D views) is poor. Solution: Check the setting of your Display.



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11 Structure of PDMS on .NET

From PDMS 11.6.SP1, the GUI uses the Microsoft .NET environment including the latest WinForms based user interface components. Using this state-of-the-art technology enables docking forms and toolbars in PDMS and provides a robust foundation for the future provision of standard application programming interfaces. This does affect the way PDMS is installed: this section gives a brief overview and the following one outlines how to troubleshoot the installation.

11.1 Overview

This section describes the overall structure and components of the PDMS .NET installation, and the environment necessary to run it. Each PDMS GUI module now consists of a thin .NET exe, a .NET Wrapper DLL and a Win32 DLL plus some other shared components including 3rd party controls from Infragistics. The .NET components are private assemblies installed under the root directory %PDMSEXE%.

11.2 PDMSEXE

The environment variable %PDMSEXE% is used to locate the executable on module switch. It is also used to locate attlib.dat (attribute and noun definitions), message.dat (message definitions), desvir.dat (schema definition) etc. Normally PDMS is started from pdms.bat which is located in your %PATH%. Both %PDMSEXE% and %PATH% should include the install directory.

11.3 GUI module structure

Each GUI module is structured in the same way. For Design the structure looks like this



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des.exe

Wrappers.dll

des.dll

where des.exe and des.dll live in the directory %PDMSEXE% and Wrappers.dll lives in the Design subdirectory below %PDMSEXE%. So, when running a PDMS GUI module %PDMSEXE% is used to locate the executable, .NET loading rules are used to load Wrappers.dll and Win32 DLL loading rules are used to load des.dll (and other Win32 DLLs on which des.dll depends).

11.3.1 Wrappers

For each GUI module (Design, Draft, Admin, Isodraft and Monitor) there is a Wrappers.dll in a subdirectory with the same name as the module. Each Wrapper.dll has a dynamic link to the appropriate Win32 DLL for that module. .NET loading rules are used to load the appropriate Wrappers.dll for a given module. So, when running des.exe, the version of Wrappers.dll linked with des.dll will be loaded. Design and Draft subdirectories also contain a drawlistWrapper dll which is used by the Drawlist add-in.

11.3.2 .NET Loading rules

All the .NET assemblies are Private assemblies and are installed under %PDMSEXE% (Assembly Base directory) or a subdirectory below. .NET loads private assemblies from the base directory of the application. If it can’t find the private assembly here it uses the applications configuration file called <module>.exe.config to see whether it contains any path hints. Path hints are stored in the <probing> element. So, for example, des.exe.config has the following probing path <probing privatePath="Design" />. This means that Wrappers.dll is loaded from the subdirectory Design below the application directory.



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11.3.3 Win32 DLLs

Each Wrappers.dll depends on the given module’s Win32 DLL, e.g. Design’s Wrappers.dll found in the Design subdirectory depends on des.dll. Win32 DLL loading rules apply here. These are:

• The directory from which the importing component loaded. (e.g. the Design subdirectory where Wrappers.dll is loaded)

• The (application's) current directory (where it’s run from) • The Windows directory (default: C:\Windows) (we don’t install anything

here) • The directories that are listed in the PATH environment variable

Since the module DLL does not live in the same directory as the Wrappers.dll then unless you are running from %PDMSEXE%, your %PATH% will be used to locate the module DLL. (The Wrappers.dll subdirectory is the directory which is first searched for all the Win32 DLL’s on which Wrappers depends i.e. <module>.dll, sglNet.dll, udDNet.dll, …)

11.4 Components

The following components will be installed under %PDMSEXE% or one of its subdirectories. This is not a complete list but a list of all .NET related files for GUI modules (Design, Draft, Isodraft, Admin and Monitor). Each module has an .exe and corresponding dll e.g. des.exe and des.dll, a config file, a manifest file and an Addins file. The config file is used to specify the location of the Wrappers dll’s for each application, the manifest file is used to set the visual style of the application and the Addins file defines which add-ins the application will load (e.g. Explorer, Drawlist, …).

11.4.1 PDMSEXE directory

Design/Spooler des.exe, des.dll, des.exe.config, des.exe.manifest, DesignAddins.xml, SpoolerAddins.xml

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Monitor mon.exe, mon.dll, mon.exe.config, mon.exe.manifest

Isodraft iss.exe, iss.dll, iss.exe.config, iss.exe.manifest, IsodraftAddins.xml

Admin adm.exe, adm.dll, adm.exe.config, adm.exe.manifest

Shared Depends.dll, DrawList.dll, DrawListAddin.dll, ExplorerAddin.dll, ExplorerControl.dll, ForeignLanguage.dll, HistoryAddIn.dll, MyDataAddIn.dll, ReferenceListAddin.dll, PDMSCommands.dll, PDMSFilters.dll, PDMSResources.dll, PDMSResources.resources, StartUp.dll, ApplicationFramework.dll, udNet.dll, DruidNet.dll

Infragistics This is a third-party GUI tool-kit: Infragistics.Shared.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinExplorerBar.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinStatusBar.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinTabbedMdi.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinTabControl.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.UltraWinTree.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.v3.dll, Infragistics.Win.Misc.v3.dll

System msvcp71.dll, msvcr71.dll

Other DLLs required by DRAFT These DLLs are loaded as required by specific DRAFT commands: Draft_DXF_LI.dll, Draft_DGN_LI.dll, Draft_Test_LI.dll, Draft_SVG_LI.dll

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11.4.2 PDMSEXE/Design subdirectory

drawlistWrappers.dll, Wrappers.dll

11.4.3 PDMSEXE/Draft subdirectory


11.4.4 PDMSEXE/Monitor subdirectory

Wrappers.dll

11.4.5 PDMSEXE/Isodraft subdirectory


11.4.6 PDMSEXE/Admin subdirectory

Wrappers.dll

11.4.7 Add-ins

These new user interface .NET components are loaded by the Application Framework. Each module has an addin file which defines the set of add-ins it will load, e.g. for Design this file is DesignAddins.xml. The toolbar entries to show and hide each add-in are defined in PML.

11.5 Forms and Menus

Most of the User Interface is still defined in PML located in %PMLLIB% and %PDMSUI%.



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12 Troubleshooting the .NET installation

12.1 Version Error

Error: System.IO.FileLoadException: The located assembly's manifest definition with name 'PDMSResources' does not match the assembly reference. Solution: All .Net assemblies must be the same version. Check File>Properties>Version Assembly Version on all assemblies is 11.6.1.0 or whatever the current version is.

12.2 Wrappers or a dependency missing

Error: An exception ‘System.IO.FileNotFoundException’ has occurred in mon.exe. Additional information: File or assembly name Wrappers, or one of its dependencies, was not found.

Solution: All the .NET assemblies are Private assemblies and are installed under %PDMSEXE% (Assembly Base directory) or a subdirectory below. .NET loads private assemblies from the base directory of the application. If it can’t find the private assembly here, it uses the application’s configuration file called <module>.exe.config to see whether it contains any path hints. Path hints are stored in the <probing> element. So, for example, des.exe.config has the following probing path <probing privatePath="Design" />. This means that Wrappers.dll is loaded from the subdirectory Design below the application directory. Each Wrappers.dll depends on the given modules Win32 DLL e.g. Design’s Wrappers.dll found in the Design subdirectory depends on des.dll. Win32 DLL loading rules apply here. These are

• The directory from which the importing component loaded. (i.e. the Design subdirectory where Wrappers.dll is loaded in the case of Design)

• The (application's) current directory (where it’s run from)

• The Windows directory (default: C:\Windows) (we don’t install anything here)

• The directories that are listed in the PATH environment variable

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the module DLL. (The Wrappers.dll subdirectory is effectively is the directory which is first looked in for all the Win32 DLL’s which Wrappers depends on i.e. <module>.dll, sglNet.dll, udDNet.dll, …)

Make sure that both %PDMSEXE% and %PATH% point to the root directory in which PDMS is installed.

12.3 Interface incompatibility

Error: An exception ‘System.MissingMethodException’ has occurred in mon.exe Or An exception ‘System.IO.FileNotFoundException’ has occurred in mon.exe Additional information: A procedure imported by 'Wrappers' could not be loaded. Solution: The interfaces between components are not compatible. Check File>Properties>Version Assembly Version on all assemblies is 11.6.1.0 or whatever the current version is.

12.4 Security error with thin client

Error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occurred in Unknown Module. Additional information: Unverifiable assembly 'Wrappers' failed policy check.

Solution: .NET security gets in the way when running PDMS across the network where the assemblies reside on a different machine to the .NET runtime. The default security level for the local intranet is not set to Full Trust which means that programs may not be able to access resources on the local machine. To overcome this, the intranet security may be set to Full Trust. However this means that any .NET assembly may run. Alternatively, Full Trust may be given to a specified group of strongly named assemblies. This is done using the code access security policy tool caspol. This should be run on each client machine to add all the assemblies on a given server directory to a group and give Full Trust to this group.

Use Administrative Tools>.Net Configuration 1.1>My Computer>Runtime Security Policy>Machine>Code Groups>All Code>LocalIntranet_Zone to check the group properties.

If the security Policy has not been set, this can be done by hand using:



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caspol -m -ag LocalIntranet_Zone -url \\<ServerName>\<FolderName>\* FullTrust -n "<Name>" -d "<Description>"

where <ServerName> is the UNC (Uniform Naming Convention) - the format of a UNC path is: \\<servername>\<sharename>\<directory>

Or If you are not concerned about other .NET remote assemblies running on your machine, this can be set for the entire intranet using: Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Configuration>Configure Code Access Security Policy>Adjust Zone Security>Make changes to this computer Then change Local Intranet to Full Trust



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12.5 No Add-ins

Problem: Add-ins missing from module

Solution: Add-ins loaded by each module are defined in the following xml files:

DesignAddins.xml DraftAddins.xml IsodraftAddins.xml SpoolerAddins.xml

If Add-ins are missing, check that these files exist in %PDMSEXE%

12.6 Window Layout

Problem: Window layout is not restored e.g. Add-ins position and/or docked state, … Solution: The file <module><version>WindowLayout.xml in the %PDMSUSER% directory stores this information for the each GUI module. If this file is deleted then the window layout will return to its default.

12.7 Serialization

Serialization is the process used to store the data – e.g. history stacks, toolbar state – for the GUI in a .NET environment. Problem: Information is stored per project and per module in the following files in the %PDMSUSER% directory:

<project><version>Settings.bin <module><version>Settings.bin.

Solution: These files may be deleted or transferred between users working on the same project.



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