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MEP set up transfered to another project

Conrado Dominguez — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:13:45 GMT

MEP Qustion.

How do we transfer the MEP System set up as shown on a project Attributes to another project.

In other word, I have the set up for MEP in one .pln file and I do not want to re-invent the wheel again to apply the same criteria to a .pln created before MEP was around.

Conrado

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

Erika Epstein — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:11:29 GMT

Are you referring to your work environment setup that includes the MEP tools? If so you should be able to just switch work environments. Perhaps I am not understanding your question.

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Maudlin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:37 GMT

Erika:

I believe he is referring to the MEP Systems that define pens, line types, etc. for the MEP systems. I don't know of a way to transfer these settings between files (this was requested during the beta test), I agree that these systems should be transferable between files, as well as the MEP Preferences (duct sizes, pipe sizes, etc).

David

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

Erika Epstein — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:22:43 GMT

David, you are so right

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:16:53 GMT

Erika and David,

You may recall from the beta that managing these things via Attribute Manager (or similar) is on the wish list for a subsequent MEP release. So, at least the MEP team knows of the need. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

Conrado Dominguez — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:24:11 GMT

Thanks,
David, you understood correctly my question. I was looking forward to save to a file, similar to the other attributes and then import and overwrite.

This is quite a deficiency in MEP and I hope we get a fix quickly.

Regards,

Conrado

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Shorter — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:22:26 GMT

I would have thought that favorites could be saved for each tool and loaded into any new project .... or am I not understanding the problem?

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Maudlin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:19:41 GMT

David wrote:
I would have thought that favorites could be saved for each tool and loaded into any new project .... or am I not understanding the problem?

The settings Conrado refers to are similar to pen sets: not stored with the objects but referred to by the objects, so the Favorites will not help in this case.

David

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Shorter — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:39:07 GMT

I see, bit daft not to even have them as an attribute. You can of course build them into a template and have them standard on each new job.

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Maudlin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:29:52 GMT

David wrote:
You can of course build them into a template and have them standard on each new job.

True, but not useful when wishing to utilize the settings you have created in one project on another existing project. Even better would be the ability to have various (multiple) MEP Systems that could be move around like pen sets or materials.

David

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Shorter — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:51:36 GMT

You're correct and its a major defect particularly when the product is new and we are developing our own standards. The template (as always) is a work in progress. We always need to move attributes to existing files.

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

cgrimley — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:47:10 GMT

Here's what you do. Copy/paste. It worked for me.

Casey

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

cgrimley — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:50:22 GMT

cgrimley wrote:
Here's what you do. Copy/paste. It worked for me.

Casey

Let me add to that, you can copy some MEP elements, i.e. ducts, diffusers, etc. from your .pln that has all your preferences setup and paste them to another project.

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Shorter — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:42:06 GMT

Thats fine, and yes it works, but it terms of consistency its not good. Is it in the MEP user guide? Some one tell me where..
And yes this works for other "attributes" so why have an Attribute manager.
Just lets be consistent

Re: MEP set up transfered to another project

David Maudlin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:01:04 GMT

cgrimley wrote:
Here's what you do. Copy/paste. It worked for me.

Yes, if the System does not exist in the paste Plan, no if it does (but the settings do not change). This needs to be implemented in the Attribute Manager so these settings can be rationally managed.

David