Installation Guide: Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Installation Guide
Version 11.5
Windows 2000 and Windows XP
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Contents
1 Introduction.................................................................................................... 1-1
1.1 Contents of this Guide ........................................................................ 1-1
2 Hardware and Software Requirements........................................................ 2-1

2.1 Hardware............................................................................................. 2-1
2.1.1 Graphics Cards ...................................................................... 2-1
2.2 Software and Configuration ............................................................... 2-2
3 Installing PDMS ............................................................................................. 3-1

3.1 Basic Installation ................................................................................ 3-1
3.2 Uninstalling and Reinstalling ............................................................ 3-2
3.3 FLEXMAN License Manager ............................................................. 3-2
3.4 Remote Installation............................................................................. 3-2
4 Setting Up the Windows Environment......................................................... 4-1

4.1 Windows Control Panel ...................................................................... 4-1
4.2 Graphics Board Settings..................................................................... 4-2
4.3 Setting the License File Location....................................................... 4-2
4.4 PDMS Environment Variables ........................................................... 4-3
4.5 Running PDMS from a Command Prompt Window.......................... 4-5
4.6 Customising PDMS Start-Up ............................................................. 4-5
4.7 Plotting ................................................................................................ 4-7
5 Language Support......................................................................................... 5-1

5.1 Preparing Windows to Use Supported Languages ............................ 5-2
5.1.1 Windows 2000........................................................................ 5-2
5.1.2 Windows XP ........................................................................... 5-2
5.2 Preparing PDMS to Use Latin-1, Latin-2 or Latin-Cyrillic Languages
............................................................................................................. 5-3
5.3 Preparing PDMS to Use a Far Eastern Language ............................ 5-3
6 Running PDMS under Windows ................................................................... 6-1

6.1 Spaces in Windows pathnames .......................................................... 6-1
6.2 Linking to Microsoft Excel.................................................................. 6-1
6.3 Windows Parameters .......................................................................... 6-2
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7 PDMS Projects............................................................................................... 7-1

7.1 The Sample Project............................................................................. 7-1
7.1.1 Copying Project SAM to Your User Area ............................. 7-1
7.1.2 Users and Teams in the Sample Project .............................. 7-2
7.1.3 MDBs in the Sample Project ................................................ 7-2
7.2 Creating PDMS Projects .................................................................... 7-3
7.2.1 The Sample Project and Your Own Projects ........................ 7-4
8 Installing AutoDRAFT ................................................................................... 8-1

8.1 Compatibility ...................................................................................... 8-1
8.2 The AutoDRAFT Software ................................................................. 8-1
8.3 Configuring AutoDRAFT with AutoCAD .......................................... 8-2
8.4 Installing and Configuring AutoCAD ................................................ 8-2
8.4.1 AutoCAD R2000i ................................................................... 8-3
8.4.2 AutoCAD R2002 .................................................................... 8-3
8.5 Getting Started with AutoCAD.......................................................... 8-4
8.6 Application Macros for Use with PDMS DRAFT .............................. 8-4
9 Upgrading Projects to Version 11.5............................................................. 9-1
10 Troubleshooting...........................................................................................10-1
10.1 General...............................................................................................10-1
10.2 License Manager Errors ....................................................................10-1
10.3 Entering PDMS .................................................................................10-2
10.4 Starting Appware in DESIGN/DRAFT/ISODRAFT/
PARAGON/SPOOLER/ADMIN.........................................................10-3
10.5 Problems with Graphics ....................................................................10-3
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Version 11.5
1 Introduction
This guide explains how to install and set up PDMS Version 11.5 on a
workstation running the Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP
operating system (hereafter referred to jointly as 'Windows'). Local
Administrator rights are required to perform the installation.
This guide assumes you are familiar with the concepts of folder/file
hierarchies for storing data on disks and with basic Windows
terminology and commands. If you are not, you may also need to refer to
your operating system documentation while you carry out the
installation.
The guide also assumes that you have already gained access to the
PDMS installation files via a CD, from the AVEVA Web site, or by some
other route.
1.1 Contents of this Guide
Hardware and software requirements are described in Chapter 2. For

completely up-to-date information, please see the AVEVA Website at
http://www.aveva.com/engineeringit and refer to the Customer Support
Hardware pages. The Web pages also give hints on ways of setting up
and running PDMS on different computers in order to achieve the most
efficient performance.
Chapter 3, Installing PDMS, describes how to install PDMS 11.5 and
license the software.
Chapter 4, Setting Up the Windows Environment, explains how to
configure the Windows operating system before you run PDMS.
Chapter 5, Language Support, describes how to set up the Windows
Environment to use PDMS with different Language options.
Chapter 6, Running PDMS under Windows, gives some advice on using
PDMS in a Windows environment.
Chapter 7, PDMS Projects, describes the sample project that is supplied
as part of PDMS, and how to set up your own projects.
Chapter 8, Installing AutoDRAFT, describes how to install and configure
PDMS AutoDRAFT.
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Chapter 9, Upgrading Projects to Version 11.5, describes how to upgrade

your existing PDMS 11.3 or 11.3SP1 projects for use with PDMS 11.5. No
upgrade process is required to use PDMS 11.4 projects with PDMS 11.5.
Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, describes some of the errors that you could
encounter when running PDMS.
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2 Hardware and Software Requirements
This section describes the hardware and software configurations that

PDMS requires to run under Windows.
2.1 Hardware
The following list gives a minimum specification for your computer.

Processor Intel Pentium family, or equivalent.
Memory 128MB minimum; 256MB recommended.
Hard disk At least 670MB free space for a full
installation; more free space is recommended to
allow for projects etc.
Graphics Card See below.
CD drive CD-ROM will be used for media distribution.
Mouse Three-button mouse strongly recommended.
2.1.1 Graphics Cards

PDMS uses standard OpenGL for its 3D graphics.
Due to the continuously and rapidly changing list of hardware
accelerated OpenGL graphics cards commercially available, an up-to-
date list of supported graphics cards cannot be included in this
document. However, the AVEVA Web pages
(http://www.aveva.com/engineeringit) contain a current list of both tested
and supported graphics cards.
Other graphics cards which fully support the OpenGL standard should
also work, but AVEVA cannot offer assistance in configuring these. You
may also find some problems, for example, when picking items in PDMS.

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Hardware and Software Requirements
2.2 Software and Configuration
The following software should be installed and configured on your

computer to enable PDMS 11.5 to run.
PDMS 11.5 is fully supported under:
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Professional
Note that Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Packs and Hot
Fixes from Microsoft are required for PDMS to run effectively.
Please refer to the AVEVA Support web site, or contact the AVEVA
Support team for details of the latest recommended Windows 2000
and Windows XP environment for PDMS.
PDMS 11.5 databases must be on an NTFS File System: FATC
partitions are not supported.
The license manager must have a drive called C: available for
writing temporary information. In the case of double boot machines,
where D: is the system disk for Windows XP/2000 and C: is used for
an earlier version of Windows, the license manager will still work,
since it does not require NTFS.
Optionally, you can have Microsoft Excel installed for outputting
reports.

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3 Installing PDMS
3.1 Basic Installation
Local Administrator rights are normally required to install PDMS.
1. To install PDMS from CD Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.

If you have AutoPlay enabled for the drive, the installation starts
automatically. Otherwise, run Start.htm on the CD.
If you are installing PDMS from the network Click Start>Run on
the Windows taskbar and type the path to the Start.htm file on
your network.
2. Click on CD CONTENTS and select the product which you want to
install (in this case PDMS Version 11.5), then click INSTALL. Click
OK on any confirmation forms which appear.
3. On the File Download form, select Run this program from its current
location (IE 5.0) or Open (IE 5.5 later) to install the program files
directly from their current location onto your hard disk. Select Yes
on the Security Warning query about an Authenticode signature.
4. This starts the InstallShield Wizard, which will lead you through
the rest of the installation process.
During the installation sequence, follow the on-screen instructions as
they appear. You will be given a choice between two levels of installation:
Full installation: Installs all available product components
(recommended for a new installation unless there are good reasons
for restricting the options available to end users).
Custom installation: Presents you with a list of all available product
components from which you can select those to be installed.
It is recommended that you use the default settings for folder paths etc.
unless you have good reasons for doing otherwise. You must not use
embedded spaces in folder path names.
The process needs at least 670MB of free disk space for a full installation
of all options. InstallShield checks that there is enough space available
before it starts, and warns you if there is not.

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When the process is complete, select Start>Programs/Aveva/VANTAGE

PDMS 11.5 to reach the Run PDMS, Make PDMS project and PDMS manuals
options.
3.2 Uninstalling and Reinstalling
If InstallShield detects an existing PDMS installation, it will display the

options for modifying/repairing/removing the files rather than simply
offering the standard installation options.
To remove installed components from your hard disk, or to add additional
components to an existing installation, select Start>Settings>Control Panel
and use the Add/Remove Programs tool.
As an alternative procedure, repeat Steps 1 to 4 of the installation
sequence detailed above. The InstallShield Wizard will detect your
existing installation and will give you the following options:
Modify: Displays the same list of options as the Custom installation.
Select new components to be added and/or deselect any currently
installed components to be removed.
Repair: Reinstalls all currently installed components (to correct any
corrupted files etc.).
Remove: Removes all currently installed components.
3.3 FLEXMAN License Manager
You must install and set up the FLEXMAN license system before PDMS
can be used. See the FLEXMAN Installation Guide.
3.4 Remote Installation
If you wish to have one server installation of PDMS accessed from remote
workstations, you must ensure that the Windows system DLLs on each
remote workstation are upgraded to a suitable version for running the
PDMS 11.5 application programs. You can achieve this by installing
PDMS 11.5 itself in minimal form; that is, select the Custom Installation
type and then deselect everything except 'PDMS Core Components'.

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In addition, this release includes a stand-alone 'Thin Client' installer

which can be used on individual workstations to update the necessary
Windows system DLLs, and which also provides start menu shortcuts to
the main PDMS installation.
The Thin Client installer is a self-extracting Installshield executable
which is held in the C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.5\thin_client_installer\
subfolder. It is applicable when the main PDMS 11.5 product is installed
either from the 'Full Installation' option, or the 'Custom Installation'
option with the 'Thin Client Installer' component selected.

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4 Setting Up the Windows Environment
This chapter describes how to configure the Windows operating system

before you run PDMS. Following installation of PDMS, you should
perform the following steps:
Check the settings for your graphics board: See Section 4.2.
Ensure the FLEXMAN License Manager daemon is running, and
set environment variables relating to FLEXMAN: See Section 4.3.
Configure Windows parameters for PDMS: see Section 4.4.
You can then run PDMS by clicking on the PDMS shortcut or icon,
which will set up the remaining environment variables required.
Note: In the following instructions it is assumed that PDMS 11.5 has
been installed in folder C:\AVEVA. If it has been installed
elsewhere, substitute C:\AVEVA with the name of the installation
folder.
4.1 Windows Control Panel
The Windows Control Panel contains tools that are used to change the
way Windows looks and behaves. This Install Guide describes how to use
Control Panel tools to configure Windows to run PDMS.
Open the Control Panel as follows:
Windows 2000
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel
Windows XP
If your computer is set up with the Classic Start menu, click Start,
point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
If your computer is set up with the standard Start menu, click Start
and then click Control Panel.

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4.2 Graphics Board Settings
You should set your display to a resolution of at least 1024 x 768 and the
colour depth to True colour or 16.7 million colours.
This can be set by opening the Control Panel. Select Display and select the
Settings tab. Make the appropriate selections on the form for your
graphics card.
Due to the rapidly changing list of hardware accelerated OpenGL
graphics cards commercially available, an up-to-date list of supported
graphics cards, graphics device drivers and recommended device driver
configuration cannot be included in this document. However, the AVEVA
Support Web pages (http://www.aveva.com/engineeringit) contain a
current list of both tested and supported graphics cards, along with
advice on configuration of graphics device drivers.
4.3 Setting the License File Location
Before you can use PDMS, you must set up the FLEXMAN license
system and connect to the FLEXMAN License Manager daemon (see the
FLEXMAN Installation Guide),.
Each User needs to set a license path that defines the location of the
license file or service. For earlier versions of FLEXMAN, setting the
environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE did this. However, this
applied to all software using FLEXlm. You can now set
CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE instead that applies only to software
using our Vendor License Manager Daemon.
To avoid users having to repeatedly set such an environment variable,
FLEXlm itself now remembers the current setting in the Windows
Registry. This Registry setting will initially come from the value of the
corresponding environment variable, but cannot then be modified by
changing the environment variable you must use the FLEXlm utility
lmtools or the new command-line lmpath to query or set the license
path.
The environment variable can be set in one of three ways, either in the
PDMS entry script, as a User Environment Variable in the Control Panel
or manually in a command window.
To set manually or in the PDMS entry script, type the following in a
command window or in the entry script before starting PDMS:
set CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE=Port@Computername

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To set automatically:
Open the Control Panel.
Select System, and pick the Advanced tab
Click on the Environment Variables button
Set the CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE user environment
variable to the location of the license obtained from AVEVA
(Port@Computername). For example:
CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE
744@licserv
To confirm the licence environment variable setting, open a command
window and type the command SET. You should see a list of
environment variables, including:
CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE=Port@Computername
or to check the Registry setting, type
lmpath status
You should see an output including the following:
lmpath - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software,

Inc.
Known Vendors:
cadcentre: 744@licserv
...
4.4 PDMS Environment Variables
PDMS uses Windows Environment variables to locate folders containing

PDMS system files and users project data. This allows you to locate these
folders anywhere on the file system. The default location for PDMS
system files is C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.5, but the location of the pdms11.5
folder can be changed if desired when PDMS is installed.
PDMS is supplied with a file evars.bat in the PDMS executables folder
(C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5) which sets default values for the environment
variables so that they point to the folder structure as installed. It also
sets the PATH variable to include the PDMSEXE folder containing PDMS
executables.

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You may need to modify this file to reflect the folder structure of your
own installation. The following is a list of the variables you may need to
reset, with a brief description of each one and the default setting.
Note that all environment variables must be UPPERCASE.
It is recommended that users should not write to the pdms11.5
installation folder or any of its contents:
PDMS System Environment Variables

The following environment variables refer to the location of PDMS
system files.
PDMSEXE Executable folder
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5
PDMSEXEMAIN Copy of PDMSEXE, but can be a search path
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5
CADCENTRE_LICENSE_FILE License file
See section 4.3, Setting the License File
Location
PDMSUI Application User Interface folder (PML 1)
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsui
PMLLIB Application User Interface folder (PML 2)
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pmllib
PDMSDFLTS Applications defaults folder
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsui\dflts
PDMSPLOTS Applications PLOTS folder
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsui\plots
PLOTCADC Pointer to the PLOT executable.
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\plot\plot.exe
PDMSHELPDIR Online help data files.
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\onlinehelp
PDMS User Environment Variables

The following environment variables refer to the location of users PDMS
folders. Users must have write permission to these folders.
PDMSWK Temporary PDMS work file folder
C:\temp
PDMSUSER Application Users save/restore setup area (or the users
'home' folder)
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsuser
PDMSREPDIR PDMS Applicationware Report Input and Output folder.
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsui\reports

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PDMSDFLTS Applications defaults folder. Note that individual users

may not have permission to change PDMS System
defaults in C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsui\dflts, but
they should have their own local defaults area. This is
achieved by setting a PDMSDFLTS search path, e.g.
C:\USERDFLTS C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdmsui\dflts
Project Environment Variables
For each PDMS project, four more environment variables must be set.
For example, for a project ABC:
ABC000 Project database folder
ABCISO Project ISODRAFT options folder
ABCMAC Project inter-DB connection macro folder
ABCPIC Project DRAFT picture file folder
PDMS is installed with sample project data (See Chapter 7 PDMS
Projects). PDMS Project Environment variables for these projects are set
in evars.bat.
4.5 Running PDMS from a Command Prompt Window
You can run PDMS from a Command Prompt window rather than using
the Start/Programs menu. To do this you must set your PATH variable
to include the folder where PDMS is installed.
Open the Control Panel.
Select System, and pick the Advanced tab.
Click on the Environment Variables button.
Edit the system variable Path to add the PDMS folder (for example,
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5) to the list of folders in the Path variable.
Once the Path variable includes the pdms11.5 folder, you can run pdms
by typing pdms at a command prompt.
4.6 Customising PDMS Start-Up
There is a batch (.bat) file supplied in C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5 called

pdms.bat which allows entry into PDMS.
You can run PDMS using this batch file in any of the following ways:

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Use the shortcut in the Windows Start menu,

Start>Programs>AVEVA>VANTAGE PDMS 11.5>Run PDMS
You can create a shortcut on your desktop to run your batch file.
With the cursor in the desktop area, click with the right-hand
button and select New>Shortcut. This shows a sequence of dialogs to
help you create the shortcut. Type in the location of pdms.bat, for
example:
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdms.bat
then press Next and give the shortcut a name.
Press Finish. You should now be able to double-click on the shortcut
icon to enter PDMS.
If you have C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5(the path name for the pdms.bat
file) in your PATH environment variable, just type pdms in a
command window to execute the batch file.
Otherwise, navigate to the folder where the batch file is stored and
type pdms or pdms.bat.
You can set up your own batch files to run PDMS. For example, you may
wish to run design checking utilities every night, or update batches of
drawings overnight.
Begin by creating a batch file, for example, runpdmsmacro.bat.
Type the following line into this file:
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\pdms.bat TTY SAM SYSTEM/XXXXXX /STRUC $M/mymacrofile
Where:
TTY tells PDMS not to start the PDMS GUI. This gives command line
only operation.
SAM is the project name.
SYSTEM/XXXXXX is the PDMS username/password to be used
when running the command macro
/STRUC selects the required MDB
mymacrofile is the pathname of a PDMS command macro, containing
the commands that you want to execute in PDMS.
In this example, running runpdmsmacro.bat will enter PDMS in project
SAM, as user SYSTEM/XXXXXX, in MDB /STRUC, and run the PDMS
command macro mymacrofile.
The VANTAGE PDMS MONITOR Reference Manual provides more
details on running PDMS batch programs.

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4.7 Plotting
To plot in a Windows environment, we recommend that you use the

plotcadc.bat file supplied in the pdms11.5 folder. Note that you may have
to modify the plotcadc.bat file to suit your local printer installation.
The Network Plotter must be mapped using the NET USE command. See
your network documentation for more information.
To run the plotcadc.bat file, give a command in the format:
C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5\plotcadc.bat plotfile format printer options
Where options are the AVEVA PLOT utility options, and may be omitted.
See the PLOT User Guide for more information. Note that the options
must be enclosed in quotes.
For example:
plotcadc.bat c:\pdms\plot1 ps \\ntserver\NTPostScript
plotcadc.bat c:\pdms\plot1 hpgl \\ntserver\NThpgl 'CE=Y'

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5 Language Support
By default, your PDMS project can use any language whose characters
are contained within the Latin-1 character set. The Languages covered
by the Latin-1 character set a listed in the table below. If you want to use
any of the other, non-Latin-1 languages supported by PDMS, it is
necessary to configure your PDMS project and the Windows operating
system. This chapter describes how to use PDMS on Windows 2000 and
Windows XP Professional in each of the supported language groups:
Latin-1
Latin-2
Latin-Cyrillic
Far Eastern
Supported languages
Name Description Languages covered

Latin 1 ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet 1 Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese,
Finnish, French, German,
Icelandic, Irish, Italian,
Norwegian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Swedish,
Latin 2 ISO 8859-2 Latin alphabet 2 Albanian, Czech, English,
German, Hungarian, Polish,
Rumanian, Serbo-Croat, Slovak,
Slovene
Latin Cyrillic ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic Bulgarian, Byelorussian,
alphabet English, Macedonian, Serbo-
Croatian, Ukrainian, Russian
Far Eastern Japanese, Korean, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese
PDMS does not support any other language character set, nor does it
support the mixing of any of the above, except for mixing one Far
Eastern language with English.

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5.1 Preparing Windows to Use Supported Languages
5.1.1 Windows 2000

To add an additional language in Windows 2000, follow these steps:
1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Double-click Regional Options to show the Regional Options dialog.
3. Click the Input Locales tab.
4. In the Input Locales box, click the required language, and then
click Properties.
5. In the Keyboard Layout box, click the required keyboard layout,
click OK, and then click OK.
6. Click the General tab. Click to select the check box next to the
language group you wish to install, and then click Apply. The
system will either prompt for a Windows 2000 CD-ROM or access
the system files across the network. Once the language is
installed, Windows 2000 will prompt you to restart the computer.
5.1.2 Windows XP
To add an additional language in Windows XP, follow these steps:
1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Double-click Regional and Language Options.
3. On the Regional options tab, under Standards and formats,
select the required language from the list.
4. Click the Languages tab, and then click Details under "Text
services and input languages".
5. Under Default input language, select the required language. If
the required language appears in the list, click OK.
If it does not appear in the list, then click Add under "Installed
Services", and then click the language you want to add and the
keyboard layout you want to use for that language.
To configure the settings for the Language bar, click Language
Bar under "Preferences". The Language bar is used to switch
between languages while you are using PDMS. Click OK to close
the Language Bar Settings dialog.
Click OK to close the Text Services and Input Languages dialog.

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6. Click the Advanced tab. Under Languages for non-Unicode

programs, select the required language. Click Apply. It may be
necessary to install new code page conversion tables. Only member
of the Administrators group can install code page conversion
tables. The system will either prompt for a Windows XP CD-ROM
or access the system files across the network. Once the language is
installed, Windows XP will prompt you to restart the computer.
Note: For Far Eastern language support, it is necessary have the East
Asian support option installed.
5.2 Preparing PDMS to Use Latin-1, Latin-2 or Latin-

Cyrillic Languages
In PDMS ADMIN, you must specify a character set for each project by
using one of the following commands on the PDMS ADMIN command
line:
Command Languages covered

PROJECT CHARSET LATIN 1 Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese,
Finnish, French, German, Icelandic,
(default)
Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Swedish,
PROJECT CHARSET LATIN 2 Albanian, Czech, English, German,
Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Serbo-
Croat, Slovak, Slovene
PROJECT CHARSET LATIN CYRILLIC Bulgarian, Byelorussian, English,
Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian,
Ukrainian, Russian
The corresponding font family must be selected for Draft and Isodraft
drawings. Use Project>Font Families and select the Font Type appropriate
for you chosen language.
For details, see the VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN User Guide and
VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN Command Reference Manual.
5.3 Preparing PDMS to Use a Far Eastern Language
You must ensure that your licence file is for the language version you
require.

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Before you use PDMS, you must set the environment variable
CADC_LANG as follows:
CADC_LANG=Japanese Kanji
CADC_LANG=Korean
CADC_LANG=Chinese Simplified Chinese
CADC_LANG= TChinese Traditional Chinese
In PDMS ADMIN, you must specify the multibyte character set for each
project by using the command corresponding to your required language:
PROJECT MBCHARSET JAP
PROJECT MBCHARSET KOR FILE /<font filename>
PROJECT MBCHARSET CHI Simplified Chinese
PROJECT MBCHARSET TCHIN FILE /<font filename>
Traditional Chinese
For details, see the VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN User Guide and
VANTAGE PDMS ADMIN Command Reference Manual.

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6 Running PDMS under Windows
6.1 Spaces in Windows pathnames
To run macros with spaces in the filenames, you must enclose the
filename in quotes, without a leading slash. For example:
$m'c:\Program Files\Macros\space.mac' arg1 arg2
6.2 Linking to Microsoft Excel
You can make your reports load directly into a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet, as comma-separated files:
Select Utilities>Reports>Modify from the PDMS main menu bar.
Pick a report template.
Click on OK: the Modify Template form is displayed.
Select Options>Other Formats... from the Modify Template form menu
bar. This displays the Report Format form. From this form:
Choose the CSV option from the Format drop-down list.
Click on OK: this returns you to the Modify Template form.
Select the Overwrite radio button
For the filename enter %PDMSUSER%/fname.csv (the .csv
extension is important).
In the System command text box enter
'cmd/c C:\<excel folder>\excel.exe %PDMSUSER%\fname.csv'
where C:\<excel folder> is the location of Excel on your system.
Note that it is necessary to enclose Windows command arguments
in double quotation marks if the argument contains embedded
spaces. :\<excel folder>\

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6.3 Windows Parameters
The following setting can be used to improve performance when

repositioning forms in PDMS. This is an optional Windows Parameter
setting.
Windows 2000
Open the Control Panel. Select Display and select the Effects tab. On the
form, uncheck Show Window Contents While Dragging.
Windows XP
Open the Control Panel. Select Display, then select the Appearance tab and
click on the Effects button. On the form, uncheck Show Window Contents
While Dragging and Show shadows under menus.

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7 PDMS Projects
7.1 The Sample Project
PDMS is supplied with a sample project, which can be used in several

ways:
It provides you with examples of the use of PDMS.
It provides you with sample libraries, catalogues and specifications
which enable you to use PDMS before you set up your own, and can
be used as starting points when you do start to create your own.
It provides you with starting points for the tutorials in the following
manuals:
Pipework Design Using PDMS
Pipework Spooling Using PDMS
Structural Design Using PDMS
Industrial Building Design Using PDMS
Support Design Using PDMS
HVAC Design Using PDMS
Reporting from PDMS
Drawing Production Using PDMS
It provides an example of how to set up your own projects.
The sample project is actually two projects in PDMS terms:
MAS (Master) provides data in read-only databases. This data
should not be deleted or changed in any way, or the rest of the
sample project will become unusable.
SAM (Sample) contains several MDBs which can be modified, and
so they can be used for training,
7.1.1 Copying Project SAM to Your User Area

The sample project is loaded automatically when you install PDMS. You
should copy the sample project to your user area and run it as supplied.

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The project files are held in two directories: sam000 holds all design
data and catalogue data; sampic holds the DRAFT picture libraries.
7.1.2 Users and Teams in the Sample Project
Free User
The Free user has username/password SYSTEM/XXXXXX.
General Users
Team Username/password
CATS CATS/CATS
DEMO DEMO/DEMO
EQUI EQUI/EQUI
HANGER HANGER/HANGER
HVAC HVAC/HVAC
PIPE PIPE/PIPE
SAMPLE SAMPLE/SAMPLE
STRUC STRUC/STRUC
General User with Administration Rights

There is a user named ADMIN who is a member of all teams except
MASTER. In particular, ADMIN is a member of the following teams:
CATADMIN
DRAFTADMIN
HSADMIN
ISOADMIN
Membership of these teams gives special administration rights within
the corresponding constructor module.
Each MDB contains databases with appropriate access rights. There are
also teams and users associated with each MDB with appropriate access
rights.
7.1.3 MDBs in the Sample Project

This section assumes that you are already familiar with PDMS
databases.
The sample project contains the following MDBs:

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CATS An MDB for practising using Catalogues and

Specifications.
DEMO A demonstration MDB.
EQUI An MDB for the Equipment tutorials.
HANGER An MDB for the Support Design tutorial. This MDB
contains suitable pipework, steelwork and civils as a
starting point.
HVAC An MDB for the HVAC Design tutorial. This MDB
contains suitable steelwork and civils as a starting point.
SAMPLE An MDB for the Reporting from PDMS and Drawing
Production tutorials. This MDB contains design data from
which reports and drawings can be produced. You can
also produce isometrics.
STRUC An MDB for the Structural Design tutorial.
PIPE An MDB for the Pipework Design and Pipework Spooling
tutorials.
7.2 Creating PDMS Projects
For full information on setting up your own projects, see the VANTAGE
PDMS ADMIN User Guide.
You will need to create project folders for each project; for example, for a
project xyz:
md xyz000
md xyzpic
md xyziso
md xyzmac
Set the corresponding environment variables that point to these
directories. You can do this by setting Environment Variables using the
Control Panel, or by modifying the evars.bat file used to configure
your PDMS Windows installation. (see Chapter 4, Setting Up the
Windows Environment, for further details). Alternatively, type the
following in an MS-DOS window:
set XYZ000=pathname\xyz000
set XYZPIC=pathname\xyzpic
set XYZISO=pathname\xyziso
set XYZMAC=pathname\xyzmac
Note: Users converting from Unix should note that there is no direct
equivalent of the .cshrc file in which these variables can be set.

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Use the 'Make PDMS project' icon supplied to start the PDMS Make
program, then enter:
XYZ
$m/%PDMSEXE%/makemac.mac
FINISH
Note: Users converting from Unix should note that the makemac.mac
file is the same as on Unix. The executable for each module is
also named identically to that on Unix, e.g. DESIGN runs
%PDMSEXE%/des. The extension '.exe' needed by Windows is
added automatically.
7.2.1 The Sample Project and Your Own Projects

You can add databases from the sample projects SAM and MAS to your
own projects from within PDMS ADMIN, using the Install options on the
main menu bar. Note that these options are only available if you have
the project environment variables for SAM and MAS set.
Note on DRAFT Libraries:

You must have DRAFT libraries available in your current project before
you can enter the module. You may find it convenient to install the
libraries supplied by AVEVA in the MAS project (using the Install
options), even if you wish to create your own libraries for the project.

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8 Installing AutoDRAFT
This chapter explains the steps needed to install and configure

AutoDRAFT.
Under Windows, AutoDRAFT may be run in stand-alone mode or it may
be run from PDMS DRAFT or ISODRAFT. You can use the adraftde,
adraftbe and adraftse scripts as described in the VANTAGE PDMS
AutoDRAFT User Guide. The DRAFT and ISODRAFT applicationware
generates interface files for AutoCAD, which are then used by the
scripts.
AutoDRAFT generates interface files for DRAFT, which can be imported
using the DRAFT applicationware.
8.1 Compatibility
The version of AutoDRAFT released with PDMS 11.5 is compatible with

AutoCAD Releases 2000i and 2002.
8.2 The AutoDRAFT Software
AutoDRAFT software consists of three AutoCAD applications that run

with AutoCAD Releases 2000i and 2002, and PDMS application macros
to link the AutoDRAFT applications with PDMS DRAFT and
ISODRAFT.
The three AutoCAD applications are:
AutoDRAFT Drawing Editor
AutoDRAFT Frame Editor
AutoDRAFT Symbol Editor
All three editors can be used with PDMS DRAFT. The AutoDRAFT
Drawing Editor can be used with ISODRAFT.
The Drawing Editor is used to modify drawings transferred from PDMS
DRAFT or PDMS ISODRAFT.
The Frame Editor is used to transfer AutoCAD drawings into backing
sheets or overlay sheets in PDMS DRAFT.

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The Symbol Editor is used to convert AutoCAD graphics into symbol

templates within PDMS DRAFT symbol libraries.
8.3 Configuring AutoDRAFT with AutoCAD
The AutoDRAFT 11.5 software is installed under the PDMS executables

folder:
pdms11.5
autodraftACAD autodraftfonts autodraftACADsource
The autodraftACAD folder contains .bat files, AutoDRAFT scripts,

AutoLISP programs, binary DRAFT menu files and an AutoCAD
linestyle file.
The autodraftfonts folder contains AutoCAD font files. All of these
are needed to run AutoDRAFT programs in AutoCAD.
In addition to the AutoDRAFT binary menu files, text versions are
also provided. These are supplied in the autodraftACADsource folder
for reference/customisation. This folder should not be visible by
AutoCAD.
Note: The AutoDRAFT software will only operate properly if AutoCAD
can be run using the acad command. AutoDRAFT cannot be
guaranteed to work if the AutoCAD executable acad has been
renamed, or if the acad command runs a user-supplied file which
itself runs AutoCAD.
8.4 Installing and Configuring AutoCAD
In order to use AutoDRAFT, AutoCAD must be installed and configured

for each computer where AutoDRAFT will be used. The AutoCAD
Installation and Performance Guide supplied with AutoCAD describes
how to do this.

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Configure AutoCAD so that it can find the extra menus and fonts used in
AutoDRAFT. How you do this depends on your version of AutoCAD;
typically:
In AutoCAD, move the cursor into the command region and click the
right-hand mouse button. Select Preferences, then Environment.
Add the appropriate paths to the autodraftACAD,
autodraftACADsource and autodraftfonts directories to the
Options>Files>Support File Search Path field.
The AutoDRAFT environment variable setting commands applicable to
each release of AutoCAD are listed in the following sections. The
environment variables are set within the supplied pdms.bat file. These
should be edited to suit the installed version of AutoCAD.
8.4.1 AutoCAD R2000i

set PDMS_ACAD=2000i
set PDMS_ACAD_PATH=pathname for AutoCAD R2000 files
e.g. C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2000i;C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared
set ACAD_VERSION=%PDMS_ACAD%
set path=location of autodraftACAD folder;%PDMS_ACAD_PATH%;
%path%
Before running AutoDRAFT, you need to run AutoCAD R2000i and add
the following as file paths:
Location of autodraftACAD folder
Location of autodraftACADsource folder
Location of autodraftfonts folder
8.4.2 AutoCAD R2002

set PDMS_ACAD=2002
set PDMS_ACAD_PATH=pathname for AutoCAD R2002 files
e.g. C:\Program Files\Acad2002;C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Autodesk Shared
set ACAD_VERSION=%PDMS_ACAD%
set path=location of autodraftACAD directory;%PDMS_ACAD_PATH%;
%path%
Before running AutoDRAFT, you need to run AutoCAD R2002 and add
the following as file paths:

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Location of autodraftACAD directory

Location of autodraftACADsource directory
Location of autodraftfonts directory
8.5 Getting Started with AutoCAD
Before using the Drawing Editor make sure that AutoCAD has been
correctly installed and configured by entering the command acad at the
operating system command prompt.
8.6 Application Macros for Use with PDMS DRAFT
The applicationware provides the additional menus and forms required

to run the AutoDRAFT editors in AutoCAD directly from DRAFT and
ISODRAFT.

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9 Upgrading Projects to Version 11.5
No upgrade procedure is required for PDMS 11.4 projects. You can

directly access PDMS 11.4 projects using PDMS 11.5.
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of PDMS, it is necessary to
upgrade your PDMS projects from each PDMS version to the next by
using the upgrade procedure supplied with the appropriate version of
PDMS. For example, to upgrade a project from PDMS 11.3 to PDMS
11.5, it is first necessary to load the PDMS 11.4SP1 product, and use its
upgrade procedure to create a PDMS 11.4/11.5 version of your project.

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Version 11.5
10 Troubleshooting
Here are some suggestions about solving some problems you may
encounter when using PDMS under Windows.
10.1 General
Error: The dynamic link library DFORMD.dll could not be found in the
specified path.
Explanation: This is supplied with PDMS. Perhaps you have not set your PATH
variable. The PATH setting must include C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5.
Error: STOP The application failed to initialise properly (0xc0000135). Click

on OK to terminate the application.
Explanation: This occurs after a number of other errors. The most likely reason is a
problem with the PATH variable.
10.2 License Manager Errors
Error: When you start up lmgrd it says <time> (lmgrd) Can't make folder
C:\FLEXlm, errno: 2 No such file or folder, etc.
Solution: There is no C: drive for the license manager to write to. As the System
Administrator or a Power User, you need to make a shared disk called
C:. This can be done on a networked or non-networked computer.
Within the Windows Explorers File menu, create a new folder (e.g.
D:\C_drive) and make it current. Select File>Properties and select
the Share tab. Click on the Shared As: radio button and then click OK.
Then from the Tools menu select Map Network Drive. Select C: from
the Drive: drop-down list in the displayed form and type
\\hostname\C_drive
in the Path box. Then click on OK. (C:) should now appear in the list of
available drives in Explorer.
Error: <time> (lmgrd) "<host>": Not a valid server hostname, exiting.

Explanation: The hostname used by AVEVA to create the license file does not
correspond with the computer on which you are running PDMS. The
hostname comes from the variable COMPUTERNAME, which you can

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obtain by typing 'env|findstr COMPUTERNAME' in a Command

Prompt window. Compare this with the license file contents, and
resubmit if necessary.
Pop-up Mess.: FLEXlm: checkout failed: Cannot connect to license server (-15,
10:10061) WinSock error code.
Explanation: lmgrd has not been started up - see above for details.
Pop-up Mess.: FlexLM: checkout failed: Cannot find license file (-1,73:2) No such file
or folder.
Explanation: lmgrd has not been started up - see above for details.
Pop-up Mess.: FlexLM: checkout failed: Licensed number of users already reached
(-4,132).
Explanation: You have exceeded the permitted number of users specified in your
license file.
10.3 Entering PDMS
Error: (43,9) Environment Variable not defined for project name.

Explanation: You have not set the environment variable for the project, e.g. XYZ000.
Error: (43,1) Project <xxx> not available!

Error 7 allocating system database.
Explanation: The environment variable for the project does not point to the correct
location. Either the disk and/or folder do not exist or are not readable.
Error: <username> not found.

or
Bad password.
Explanation: You are trying to enter PDMS without a valid PDMS username and/or
password.
Error: PDMSWK environment variable not set.

Solution: Set PDMSWK to c:\temp or some other folder where PDMS can create
temporary files.
Error: Error 34 opening variables file.

Explanation: You cannot create a file in the location pointed to by environment
variable PDMSWK.

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Error: Project <xxx> is pre version 8.
Explanation: This can happen if you have transferred the project from Unix using
FTP in ASCII rather than Binary format.
10.4 Starting Appware in DESIGN/DRAFT/ISODRAFT/

PARAGON/SPOOLER/ADMIN
Error: Fatal Druid error handler UI_init. Couldn't even find the Default
Visual.
Solution: The Display colour selection is incorrect. Refer to the Support pages on
the AVEVA website for information on supported graphics cards and
drivers.
Error: Syntax errors occur when entering PDMS, but before the initial form
appears.
or
Using the 'q directory ...' syntax results in the message 'The system
cannot find the path specified'.
Solution: This may be caused because the TEMP environment variable is not set,
or points to a folder to which PDMS cannot write.
10.5 Problems with Graphics
Error: Cannot pick certain items in DESIGN 3D shaded views.

Solution: There is probably a problem with the display driver for the graphics
board that you are using. Make sure you have the version of the display
driver recommended on our supported display drivers Web page.
Error: Incorrect colours.

Solution: Check the setting of your Display. The colour resolution should be set to
True Colour or 16.7 million colours.
Error: Graphics speed (for example in 3D views) is poor.

Solution: Check the setting of your Display.

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2 Hardware and Software Requirements........................................................ 2-1

3 Installing PDMS ............................................................................................. 3-1

4 Setting Up the Windows Environment......................................................... 4-1

5 Language Support......................................................................................... 5-1

6 Running PDMS under Windows ................................................................... 6-1

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7 PDMS Projects............................................................................................... 7-1

8 Installing AutoDRAFT ................................................................................... 8-1

9 Upgrading Projects to Version 11.5............................................................. 9-1

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1.1 Contents of this Guide

Hardware and software requirements are described in Chapter 2. For

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Chapter 9, Upgrading Projects to Version 11.5, describes how to upgrade

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This section describes the hardware and software configurations that

The following list gives a minimum specification for your computer.

2.1.1 Graphics Cards

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2.2 Software and Configuration

The following software should be installed and configured on your

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3.1 Basic Installation

Local Administrator rights are normally required to install PDMS.

1. To install PDMS from CD Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.

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When the process is complete, select Start>Programs/Aveva/VANTAGE

3.2 Uninstalling and Reinstalling

If InstallShield detects an existing PDMS installation, it will display the

3.3 FLEXMAN License Manager

3.4 Remote Installation

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In addition, this release includes a stand-alone 'Thin Client' installer

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This chapter describes how to configure the Windows operating system

4.1 Windows Control Panel

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4.2 Graphics Board Settings

4.3 Setting the License File Location

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4.4 PDMS Environment Variables

PDMS uses Windows Environment variables to locate folders containing

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PDMS System Environment Variables

PDMS User Environment Variables

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PDMSDFLTS Applications defaults folder. Note that individual users

4.5 Running PDMS from a Command Prompt Window

4.6 Customising PDMS Start-Up

There is a batch (.bat) file supplied in C:\AVEVA\pdms11.5 called

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Use the shortcut in the Windows Start menu,

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