If a piece of rigid PVC conduit is placed in Bentley AutoPLANT, then you will see a red dot or placeholder get added along with it. This comes out in the BOM as a glue. If you place enough of these, it counts the welds. How does this work – can I do the same […]
I always said I would do this and I have hit the last straw since I need it often – here is a list of them all. [1 week later] – some of the items are defined in the [ALIAS] section of the AT.INI file in C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\CFG\AT.INI %APP_DIR% is simple the short directory name of […]
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When you print the spec fields and their meanings to pdf using the print driver I had, it jumbled many words – Hence I copied it here for my own and your reference – I added a few columns for a colleague s well to add more electrical context than the piping-centric docs would naturally give. The […]
This tutorial / step-by-step can be used as a training manual. If you want the log book style article on how to figure all this out see the other article. No lesson in Bentley Docs describes this. There is a help file on linking in the Equipment Modules as a .ebs drawn entity and how […]
This is my log on figuring out how to make new Electrical / Raceway (piping module!) components and I hope to help you know the ins and outs. From this, I made another post which is more “do this, do that, etc.” for those that just want to get things done. I needed to write […]
I am using report services to publish my reports instead of using Crystal Reports for many Bentley AutoPLANT items. Here is my journey over the past couple of weeks: Install the Tools If you set up SQL Express with Advanced Services – this is 2008 (download link) – not 2008 R2 (download link). If you […]
The documentation in Bentley AutoPLANT is in the Program Files (x86)\Bentley\Plant v8i\Help directory and teases us enough to know Bentley is VERY configurable. This is NOT a discussion of the Datamanager reports – I have not figured out how these fit in. Here is how to deconstruct what the manuals START to tell us but […]
Bonita Open Source (BOS) is a system to allow an organization that is local or across the globe to work a process from start to it’s finish and know where in the process one is. You can start one or dozens of the same one or different ones. As a friend of mine said – […]
I seem to use this code all the time so I published it for others to use. Java Date to MySQL [cc lang=”groovy”] java.util.Date dt = new java.util.Date(); java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(“yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”); String currentTime = sdf.format(dt); [/cc] date MySQL string to Java: [cc lang=”groovy”] import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.text.DateFormat; String target = “2012-02-01 20:29:30”; […]