AutoCAD Naming Protocol

• The names of the text files that will be sent to the user as strings of AutoCAD commands will be named as follows:
  • AC.Name of piece
    • For the floc tank including all components: AC.Floc
    • For the sed tank including all components: AC.Sed
    • For subcomponents use AC.SedLaunder (but this might not be necessary or useful at this stage). The main need is to have the major components available in variables that the online design tool can access.
• To save these text strings as a text file, right click at the end of the AutoCAD program and insert File Output. Select Tab Delimited Text. In the browse box, save the file to the LabVIEW Scripts folder in the Final Designs folder as the name of the variable (save the floc tank design as AC.Floc in the LabVIEW Scripts folder.)
• Once we get the rest of the sedimentation pieces coded, we can work on implementing them into one sed tank drawing. Ideally, when everything is coded and correct, we should have a few files saved in the LabVIEW Scripts folder that draw the major pieces of the plant. We could eventually even combine them all into one code that could be sent to LabVIEW to draw the entire plant, but we should work on finishing the smaller parts first.
• The online design tool will not use the files that are saved with MathCAD. Those files are only useful for debugging purposes by the design team. The online design tool will access the AC variables and then send the commands to AutoCAD.