Integration with design applications

The CADMATIC design applications for plant and marine industries can be configured to connect to and exchange data with a CADMATIC eShare server. This integration enables project data created in design applications to be transferred directly to CADMATIC eShare, and 3D models and project documents to be published and made available to stakeholders who cannot access the design applications themselves.

In CADMATIC eShare, documents that are published from a CADMATIC design application are called managed documents, meaning that their content and linking with the 3D model is defined in the design application, and no further configuration needs to be performed in CADMATIC eShare. In addition to managed documents, CADMATIC eShare can also provide access to documents obtained from other sources, and these are called external documents.

All standard project administration functions of CADMATIC eShare can be applied to projects created in either CADMATIC eShare or a design application: you can define Smart Point Types, create new attributes, and add adapters to integrate projects with various external systems.

You must add the user account that the publishing service uses to the user list of CADMATIC eShare. For example, to allow Plant Modeller Service to publish to CADMATIC eShare, do the following:

If Plant Modeller Service uses the Network Service account, and Plant Modeller and CADMATIC eShare are installed in the same computer, create the CADMATIC eShare user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE.
If Plant Modeller Service uses the Network Service account, and Plant Modeller and CADMATIC eShare are installed in different computers, create the CADMATIC eShare user in the format DOMAIN\COMPUTERNAME$. For example, if domain is ACME and computername is PC-1, add the user as ACME\PC-1$.
If Plant Modeller Service uses a named user account, add that user to the CADMATIC eShare user list, in the format DOMAIN\USERNAME.
If Plant Modeller Service uses a local Windows account, create the CADMATIC eShare user in the format COMPUTERNAME\USERNAME.

Note that the NETWORK SERVICE name may be localized. Check the current Windows configuration to verify the correct name of NETWORK SERVICE if NETWORK SERVICE is used to run the service.

Note: If non-default font is used in managed documents, the corresponding font should be installed for All users in eShare server.

For more details on integrating a design application with CADMATIC eShare, and on working with models and documents created in a specific design application, refer to the online help of the application in question.