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PDMS Quick Commands From The Command Line

The document provides quick commands and shortcuts for the PDMS software. It lists commands for getting information on objects, copying and moving objects, connecting objects, and setting display settings. Common shortcuts are also included like using notepad for quick access to commands and creating synonyms of commands for easier use.

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218 views

PDMS Quick Commands From The Command Line

The document provides quick commands and shortcuts for the PDMS software. It lists commands for getting information on objects, copying and moving objects, connecting objects, and setting display settings. Common shortcuts are also included like using notepad for quick access to commands and creating synonyms of commands for easier use.

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Quick Commands from the command line

ON SCREEN NOTEPAD FOR QUICK REFERENCE Quick Access: Use notepad and have it visible on the screen while youre working in PDMS. This will allows you to have commands already created before you need them which allow you to copy and paste them into the command line dialog window. This will save you time and allow you to have macros created to make hard commands easy.

GET DETAIL INFO ON CURRENT OBJECT Q STYP (GIVES YOU YOUR SELECTION) Q DTXR (GIVES YOU DESCRIPTION) Q MTXX (MATERIAL/VENDOR INFO) Q SPRE (PDMS DATABASE INFO) Q PL BOP WRT SITE (Allows you to query the bottom of pipe elevation with respect to the site) Q PL BOP WRT WORLD (Allows you to query the bottom of pipe elevation with respect to the world) Q INSU (Gives you the insulation thickness) Q SEQ (Gives you the sequence of the CE in the hierarchy) Q ALL BRAN WHERE (HBORE GT 1) FOR CE (Done at the pipe level and GT stands for greater than) Q ALL BRAN WHERE PSPEC EQ /SOMESPEC FOR CE (Done at pipe level and EQ stands for equal) Q ATT (Gives you a list of CE attributes) Q POS WRT SITE (WRT = WITH RESPECT TO?) Q POS WRT ID STRU@ CREATING QUICK COMMANDS A SYNONYM IS USUALLY A FEW LETTERS WHICH CAN BE USED TO FIRE OFF A BUNCH OF SYNTEX, SUCH AS: $S CO = Q ORI (WILL GIVE THE ORIENTATION OF YOUR CE) SOME GOOD COMMAND TO EXIST PDMS

EXIT (exits you to MONITOR with a SAVE) FINISH (exits you entirely out of PDMS with a SAVE) QUIT (exits you to MONITOR without you've done since the last savework) COMMAND LINE COPY FOR PDMS OBJECTS NEW BRAN COPY PREV BY N 2' NEW STCN COPY PREV BY E 32 NEW BOX COPY PREV BY D 12.3/8

saving

whatever

DATABASE

NAME DBNAME OBJECT

Q NAME NAME /(WHAT EVER) INSTRUMENTS

RADIUS 3.1/16 HEIGHT 4 DESPARAM 165.1 DEFAULTS TO (MM) OR IF YOUWOULD LIKE INCH/FEET THEN TYPE DESOARAM 6.1/2 IN Name /PSV-40135-039A MOVING OBJECTS (N = NORTH, S ON THE SCREEN CE IS = SOUTH, E = EAST, W = ELBOS WEST)

BY N 40'1.3/8 BY S 6.3/4 BY E 1' BY W 2' BY U 48.5/16 BY D 1 SOME COMMAND SHORT CUTS AND MEANINGS CONN=CONNECT PH=PIPE HEAD MEM=MEMBER BRAN=BRANCH PT=POINT POS=POSITION DRAG=MOVE @ = SCREEN PICK WRT=WITH RESPECT TO DIST=DISTANCE E=EAST, W=WEST, N=NORTH, S=SOUTH, U=UP, D=DOWN BOP=BOTTOM OF PIPE ORI=ORIGAN MANIPULATING COMPONENTS Move a branch to an entirely different spot CONN PH TO FIRST MEM MOVING

DRAG POS PH AT PT OF ID BRAN @ Move a primitive in the proper direction irregardless of its owners orientation MOVE E WRT SITE DIST 1 Move the bottom of a piping component 5 up past an identified STRU BOP ONTO U 5 WRT ID STRU @ Move an item west through the plane of another item MOVE W THRO ID @ MANIPULATING COMPONENTS COPING Copy an existing branchs member into another branch COPY MEM 4 TO 10 OF ID BRAN @ COPY MEM OF /EQUIP 10 MANIPULATING COMPONENTS ROTATE Rotate a pipe tee or valve ORI AND P3 IS W CONN AND P3 IS W45N RECOMMENDED DISPLAY SETTING Q DISP TOLERANCE ANGLE: 0.0573 TOLERANCE OFFSET: 0.1/32 TOLERANCE RATIO: 0.001

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