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The steps below illustrate how to map a CADWorx custom data value to a PCF component attribute. The example uses the custom property COLOR that has been created in specification 600.

  1. In I-Configure, create a new CADWorx project or enable an existing project for CADWorx.

    For more information, see Isometric Projects in the I-Configure User's Guide. You can access this document using the Help > Printable Guides command in I-Configure.

  2. Select a drawing style in the Project View panel, and then click Edit in the Properties panel.

    Isogen Configuration opens and displays the Home screen.

  3. Select Attribute Mappings in the CADWorx category tile.

    The software switches to the Configuration view and displays the contents of the Attribute Mappings panel.

  4. Expand Component Attribute Mapping, and then click Show Collapse ICP to open the Component Attribute Map data grid.

  5. Define the Custom Data Field setting. Click the browse button ().

    The Open dialog box displays.

  6. Locate the specification, and then click Open.

    The software opens the Select from spec dialog box and displays the contents of the selected specification in a tree view format. Each data table appears as a node in the tree.

  7. Expand and collapse the nodes to locate the custom data to map, and then click OK.

    The software closes the dialog box. The custom data that you selected (COLOR) displays in the Custom Data Field box.

  8. Select the corresponding mapping in the PCF Attribute list. For example, select COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTE7.

  9. Click Save to update the active style file with the new settings.

    When you generate a drawing in CADWorx that is based on specification 600, all entries from the specification now have the Component7 attribute set to blue (the default value as defined in the Specification Editor). An example of the PCF is shown below:

    ELBOW

    END-POINT 921.9656 427.3117 0.0000 8.0000 BW

    END-POINT 933.9656 439.3117 0.0000 8.0000 BW

    CENTRE-POINT 933.9656 427.3117 0.0000

    ANGLE 9000

    UNIQUE-COMPONENT-IDENTIFIER 3733B270-D159-4D2F-88BD-30E11D84BE76

    COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTE7 Blue

    SKEY ELBW

  • Instead of browsing a specification for the custom data field, you can type a value in the box. However, the name that you type in Custom Data Field (1) must match exactly the name that you defined for the custom data in the Specification Editor (2).

  • When mapping to PCF component attributes, do not use COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTE1 through COMPONENT-ATTRIBUTE4. These four attributes are used by CADWorx for such items as tags and part numbers.