Converting Piping Assemblies to PTC Creo Parametric Format
When you work with pipeline assemblies that are created in versions of Piping earlier than Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, the piping data stored in the assembly must be updated or converted to the Wildfire format. Otherwise, you cannot check design rules, display flow direction, or perform an automatic reordering of the piping model. If parameters such as STOCKNUMBER and MATERIALDATA are stored in the fitting component features that are created in versions of Piping earlier than Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, then these parameters must be converted to appropriate parameters in the Wildfire format. For example, STOCKNUMBER must be converted to STOCKNO and MATERIALDATA must be converted to MATERIALCODE and MATERIALDESC in the Wildfire format.
When you specify
automatic as a value for the
piping_wildfire_convert configuration option, piping assemblies are automatically converted when you invoke the Piping application. If you set the
piping_wildfire_convert configuration option to
manual, you can use the
Piping Assemblies Conversion dialog box and select one of the following conversion types to convert pipeline assemblies. The
Convert Piping Assemblies dialog box opens when you click
Applications >
Piping.
• Automatic—Automatically converts all the piping assemblies in the current Piping session.
• Never—Piping assemblies are not converted in the current Piping session.
• Manual—Selects the piping assemblies to be converted from the Select piping assemblies to convert list. All the assembly names are selected by default. You can select any assembly that you want to convert from the list.
|  When you convert piping assemblies, the assembly revision number is updated automatically. |