Background Extraction of Bill of material can be customized. It will make it easier for the user to extract the report from isometrics Bill of Material/Quantity report and to generate CSV file thus providing flexibility to use. Steps To Accomplish 1. Launch Open Plant Isometrics Manager, Select unit of working, say Metric here. 2. Open Configuration manager. See image below; 3. Go to ‘Advanced’ option, click on ‘report definition’. It will open report definition file. See image below: Note: User can also navigate through the project folder for report.def file. Below is the suggested path for user: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\Bentley Plant V8i Projects\SAMPLE_METRIC\Config\OpenPlant \Isometrics \styles\IFC\config\report.def 4. In report definition file add new definition to report.def file. See below: #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # A sample report that writes a CSV file #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPORT = CSV # this to exclude welds EXCLUDE = IE_TYPE=CT_WELD COLUMN = 3: R : PARTID COLUMN = 19: R : QUANTITY COLUMN = 7: R : SIZE1 COLUMN = 7: R : SIZE2 COLUMN = 60: W : "\"" + IE_DESCRIPT + "\"" GROUP = PARTID SORT = PARTID:N SEP = , TEXT = @PARTID,QUANTITY,SIZE1,SIZE2,"DESCRIPT" Write = END 5. This definition will create a CSV file as a comma separated list. This file can be opened with EXCEL to handle it as a spreadsheet. And can be available in ‘Isometrics’ project folder. See path mentioned below where a report gets created: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\Bentley Plant V8i Projects\SAMPLE_METRIC\Isometrics\Styles\IFC\reports Note: With different culture settings on computers, the separation character (SEP) may need to be changed for something else. Sometimes it needed a “;” as column separator instead of a “,”. Comments or Corrections? Bentley's Technical Support Group requests that you please confine any comments you have on this Wiki entry to this Comments or Corrections?" section. THANK YOU!
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