Synchronizing changes between CAD drawings and TRIRIGA records
After you modify an attached drawing or TRIRIGA® record, you must synchronize the changes between the drawing and the record that the drawing is attached to. The drawing then reflects the current record information. You can configure your drawing preferences to automatically and fully synchronize an attached CAD drawing with the record that it is attached to when you open the drawing in TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher. By default, TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher does not synchronize a drawing when you open the drawing.
About this task
TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher provides two methods of synchronization. Both methods synchronize the currently applied reporting.
- Area synchronization
- Synchronizes the modified boundary area values in a CAD drawing with the TRIRIGA records that the boundaries are attached to. Use this synchronization method after you modify boundaries in the drawing or when you need to refresh the CAD reporting.
- Full synchronization
- Synchronizes the modified boundary area values in a CAD drawing
with the TRIRIGA records
that the boundaries are attached to. Checks the associations for linked
records, and updates how the blocks or cells are displayed in the
CAD drawing. Updates the attachment data for TRIRIGA records.
Use this synchronization type in the following situations:
- Associations for linked records are modified in the TRIRIGA environment. For example, you moved an asset to a different location by using TRIRIGA records instead of by using TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher.
- Attached information in the drawing appears to be out of synchronization with the TRIRIGA environment. For example, a space is attached in your drawing, but the space is displayed as detached in the TRIRIGA environment.
The changes that you make in CAD drawings to attached objects update the records only after you synchronize the objects and the records. The changes that you make to records are displayed in the attached CAD drawing objects only after you synchronize the objects and the records. Area values from drawing objects override area values from the records.
TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher uses the standard TRIRIGA state transitions to update records. If the state transition includes a process that leaves a record in a read-only status such as "review in progress", the record update process fails. In this case, you can wait until the record is in an active status before you synchronize the changes.
To perform an area synchronization, select . Optionally, in AutoCAD you can run the TRGA_SYNC command from the command line. To perform a full synchronization, select . Optionally, in AutoCAD you can run the TRGA_SYNCFULL command from the command line. The full synchronization takes longer to run than the area synchronization.