Another point, description wall thickness values must be in a specific format, WT xxx (ex. However, once the information has been found then the PCF Translator will not continue searching for a wall thickness in the other locations. PCF Translator first read all the important data from COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTES like wall thickness from COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTE4, if COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTE4 is not available then it will read from the component's ITEM-DESCRIPTION, and if that is not available, it will finally read the Material Item-Code description typically located at the bottom of the file. The following enhancement has been logged :Įnhancement 224511 / 590524: PCF Translator: Fetch Pipe wall thickness from Item Code > Description Update: PCF translator has been updated to read in a wall thickness from the description. Update program creating the PCF file to correctly export the wall thickness to Component Attribute 4 or manually update the PCF file Attribute 4 data as needed. Therefore, what ever application created this has used Component Attribute 4 for another purpose than what the PCF translator has been set up to handle, The PCF translator will try to read this attribute information as a wall thickness (ex. Look back in the actual PCF file for information mapped in COMPONENT ATTRIBUTE 4 = 60 See section on Mappings - Attributes, note that the wall thickness information in a PCF file format would be located in COMPONENT ATTRIBUTE 4. Now perform a new search in the file for "Item-Code 2", (typically located near the bottom of the file): Note the Call out description = "Item-Code 2" PCF file that was imported in NotePad, and search for "PIPE": *** Warning: Extremely Large Thickness May Cause Error Let us look at the *.MSG file message that was displayed during the import:Īs can be seen in the *.MSG file the following warning was displayed multiple times: Why does this occur and how to avoid it? Solution:
After importing a model the pipe wall thickness values were found to be very large compared to the pipe size:
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