Title board ISO 7200

The drawing archive complies with the ISO 7200 standard

We updated the contents of the drawing archive (d_PICREG) database and related display files and utilities to support ISO 7200-compliant fields.

According to the standard, there are 8 mandatory fields and they are:

• Owner. (This is the field with the company logo and contact information)
• Identification number (i.e. Drawing number)
• Release date.
• Block / sheet number.
• Title (i.e. Description).
• Acceptor. 
• Creator. (i.e. Designer)
• Document type.

Optional fields included in the Vertex G4 drawing archive are:

• Change ID (i.e. Revision)
• Number of blocks / sheets.
• Additional headings (i.e. Description 2 and Description 3).
• Language code.
• Responsible department.
• Technical support (person to provide additional information if necessary).
• Document status.
• Keywords.

The title board of the drawing complies with the ISO 7200 standard

Fields have been added to the title board for the following information

• Responsible department.
• Technical support.
• Document status.
• Document type.
• Release date.
• Block / sheet number.
• Number of blocks / sheets.
• Language code.

You can use the new sample sheets when you make the sheets that is appropriate for your business. The new sheets can be found in the folders:

• G4: Symbols/Standards/Sheets_ISO7200
• G4-Flow:  Symbols/Standards/FlowSheets_ISO7200
  

The Inspected field has been removed from the title table, although it is still left on the archive card.

The drawing archive card has been renewed

New fields have been added to the sheet, but old fields such as Product, Connected to, Previous, and New have also been left there, as they are still in use by some of our customers.

Use the new preselections on the archive card

The following fields have a preselection button that you can use to retrieve information:

• Type. Retrieving information from the Document Type (d_DOCUMTYPE) database.
• Department. Retrieving information from the database Department (d_DEPARTMENT).
• Support. Retrieving information from the user database (d_MBOX_P).
• Language. Retrieving information from the language database (d_LANGUAGE).
• Status. Retrieving information from the status database (d_STATUS).
• Released. Open the calendar application for the release date.

Complete new database content

You can edit the contents of the databases

• System-ribbon >  Application

Below are pictures of the interface of the new databases

Copy the shared/setup/DBMENU file or

The DBMENU file defines which functions are displayed in the Application Databases menu described above.

• If you do not have any customer-specific changes in that menu, you will receive the new selections (framed in red in the previous image) by copying the DBMENU file that came with the Delivery Pack to the old location.

1) Extract the shared.zip inside the installation package, eg to the C:\tmp folder.

2) Name the old ../vxg4(_srv)/shared/setup/DBMENU eg to the name DBMENU.old

3) Copy the new (shared/setup/DBMENU) file to the Vertex G4 system you are using to (../vxg4(_srv)/shared/setup/DBMENU)

Below the old version 27.0 (Vertex 2021) of the Application Databases menu.

• This needs additions.

Update the contents of the BDMENU by adding the following lines

If you have customized the DBMENU menu, then that menu must be modified (eg with a Notepad texture).

Back up old ../vxg4(_srv)/shared/setup/DBMENU eg to DBMENU.old

Open DBMENU with Notepad or Notepad ++ and add the lines:

EDIT {" "+DOCUMENT+": "+TYPE} DOCUMTYPE doc_type.frm

EDIT {" "+LANGUAGE} LANGUAGE lang_code.frm

EDIT {" "+DEPARTMENT} DEPARTMENT department.frm

EDIT {" "+STATUS} DOC_STATUS doc_status.frm

If necessary, complete the custom/texts/ALIAS file

• If you don't have the ALIAS file in the ../vxg4(_srv)/custom/texts folder, then you don't need to do anything.
• Note that although we recommend that the custom ALIAS file be saved in the custom/texts folder, some clients have possibly saved it in the ../vxg4(_srv)/shared/texts folder.

Configurations in the ALIAS file are required when the information in the drawing title board is supplemented with information in the drawing archive.

1) Extract the shared.zip inside the installation package, eg to the C:\tmp folder.

2) Copy the old ../vxg4(_srv)/custom/texts/ALIAS eg to the name ALIAS.old

3) Open ALIAS with Notepad or Notepad ++ and add the lines:

# alias DEPARTMENT PICREG.DEPARTMENT:a

# alias DOCTYPE PICREG.DOC_TYPE:a

# alias LNG PICREG.LANG_CODE:a

# alias RELEASE PICREG.RELEASE:a

# alias SHN PICREG.SHEET_NUMBER:a

# alias SHNS PICREG.SHEET_NUMBERS:a

# alias STATUS PICREG.STATUS:a

# alias SUPPORT PICREG.SUPPORT:a

Add new databases

As of version 28.0.00, the delivery package includes the following databases in the vxg4/shared/dbases folder: Document type, drawing language code, responsible department, and document status.

• These databases are not automatically updated in the vxg4/shared/dbases folder of older installations, but must be copied separately.

Extract the installation package file data/shared.7z somewhere, eg to the C:\temp folder (by no means over the existing vxg4 folder)

Make sure you don't have the files listed below in the vxg4 (_srv)/shared/dbases folder (which someone would have sometimes set up there for some purpose themselves).

Copy the eight files from the extracted package to either the file server you are using (vxg4_srv/shared/dbases) or the single user installation (vxg4/shared/dbases) folder:

• d_DEPARTMENT (Responsible department)
• d_DEPARTMENTc
• d_DOC_STATUS (Document status)
• d_DOC_STATUSc
• d_DOCUMTYPE (Document type)
• d_DOCUMTYPEc
• d_LANGUAGE (Drawing language code)
• d_LANGUAGEc

You can also get the above databases if you download the ISO7200Databases.zip package here.

Project field in title table when using Flow with G4

• If you don't have the ALIAS file in the ../vxg4(_srv)/custom/texts folder, then you don't need to do anything.
• Note that although we recommend that the custom ALIAS file be saved in the custom/texts folder, some clients have possibly saved it in the ../vxg4(_srv)/shared/texts folder.

If you are using Vertex Flow with G4 and want the project information related to the drawing to be updated to new sheets (Symbols/Standards/FlowSheets_ISO7200), remove the comment mark ! (i.e. exclamation point) from the ../vxg4(_srv)/custom/texts/ALIAS file, from the beginning of the line:

!# alias PDMPROJECT PDMPROJECT.OBJCODE:a

The correct line is:

# alias PDMPROJECT PDMPROJECT.OBJCODE:a