For successful data exchange between SmartPlant Electrical and Smart 3D, SmartPlant Electrical reference cables used in the project must match the cables in the Smart 3D catalogue.
Smart 3D identifies the type of retrieved cable by looking at the reference cable name in the catalogue; if that cable does not exist in the catalogue, the retrieved cable is identified as "unknown cable" for cable-routing purposes.
SmartPlant Electrical includes a sample report named "Reference Cable Data Interface to S3D" to Smart 3D, which can be uses as a source to be transferred to Smart 3D, so that Smart 3D users can use the report data to create their catalogue.
If cables that originated in SmartPlant Electrical were subsequently deleted in Smart 3D and then published back from Smart 3D, SmartPlant Electrical will not generate Delete tasks for those cables.
Make sure that the following select lists in SmartPlant Electrical match the content of the related select lists in Smart 3D:
Routing status
Segregation level
SmartPlant Electrical also publishes the relations to the cable side 1 and side 2 to Smart 3D. If Smart 3D does not contain the relations, Smart 3D cannot perform cable routing.
This means that:
In SmartPlant Electrical, the cables must have their side 1 and side 2 associated before publishing.
In Smart 3D, users must make sure that each object referenced in the cable sides has a corresponding object in the Smart 3D data model.
