Saving Defaults (SAP Library - PDM Integration for AutoCAD)

Saving Defaults

Use

If you press this button, the templates and BOM blocks currently selected will be saved as defaults in the configuration settings.

Procedure

If you click the Type pushbutton, all the command queries to which the script files (you can select these by clicking Script) can respond automatically will appear. You will be asked a sequence of questions about the dialog box options required. Since you will usually (or always) create BOMs with the same default settings, you can specify that a BOM should be created using responses from a script file that can be edited.

Script

AutoCAD contains three standard script files. These are stored in the directory ../GEN/MSK, and can be selected from a dialog box:

Script file	What the script file does
GENDWG.SCR	Creates a BOM in the drawing
GENASCII.SCR	Creates a BOM for ASCII printers. You can also start this script under Windows. In this case, though, only an output file is created. The selected ASCII printer is used as the printer in this case.
GENWIN.SCR	This script creates and prints out a BOM for Windows printers.

By default, script files are stored in the directory ..\GEN\MSK.

A script file only contains responses to various queries from the BOM command. You enter the defaults either by selecting options for the "Create BOM" dialog box, or using a script file.

If you have saved defaults in the dialog box, and call up a script anyway, the statements of the script file will be executed, and the defaults for the dialog box ignored.

The only default required in the dialog box is whether a printer BOM or drawing BOM should be created.
You can create your own user-defined script file, or you can modify the standard script files (GENASCII.SCR, GENWIN.SCR, GENDWG.SCR). Do not change the structure of these files.

By clicking the Type pushbutton, you can view the command sequence so that you know what the various responses refer to.
If you click the Script pushbutton, and select a suitable script file, the commands will be processed automatically (i.e. you will not be queried by the system). If you output the BOM to a drawing, you are only asked to specify the insertion point.

Command Sequence for Outputting to a Drawing (GENDWG.SCR)

Name of the BOM <Proj1>:

BOM file already exists – Overwrite? (Y/N) <N>: or BOM file not yet created – Create? (Y/N) <Y>:

Summarized BOM/itemized BOM: <Itemized>

Create BOM for (D)rawing / (A)SCII file / (W)indows printer <Drawing>:

BOM Block <GENBPOS>:

Expand subordinate BOMs in current BOM (Y/N)? <N>: Y

If the response was "Yes":

Skip missing files (Y/N)? <N>:
Filter that must correspond to Type field (Return = no filter):
Print all groups without querying (Y/N)? <J>:
Suppress empty line sections <Y>:
Insertion point [GENIUS:END,SCH]:

You can leave the question regarding the insertion point open in the script file – you will be asked automatically to specify the insertion point when you insert a BOM.

Example

We will take the standard AutoCAD drawing script file GENDWG.SCR as an example. By default, this file is stored in the directory ..\GEN\MSK.

Command	What the command does
Genpart	Starts the BOM creation process
"Enter"	Use the default BOM file name
_Y	Create or overwrite BOM file
_P	Create itemized BOM
_D	Create for drawing
"Enter"	Use default BOM block
_N	Do not expand
"Enter"	Do not filter
_Y	Print all groups without querying
_Y	Suppress empty line sections

Any blanks (spaces) in the script file means "Return". This is referred to as "Enter" in the table above.