After installing uCAD, you can configure it. This consists of the following:
- View uCAD connections. This allows you to verify that all necessary connections have been created. These connections are maintained in the uClient Configurator.
- You can optionally configure uCAD to automatically synchronize with your AutoCAD designs.
To open the uCAD Configurator Window
From the Windows Start button, click Start, Oracle, Primavera-Unifier, uCAD, uCAD Configurator. The uCAD Configurator window opens, listing the connections and import options for your implementation.
About the connections
uCAD connects to Primavera Unifier to download level-type and space-type design definitions (the properties of which correspond to the attribute forms you designed in uDesigner for the Space type and Level type records). These designs must be imported into Primavera Unifier before uCAD can take advantage of them. (Refer to the Unifier Administration Guide for instructions on how to design and import these forms into Primavera Unifier).
The connections between uCAD and Primavera Unifier are setup in the uClient Configurator.
To view connection details
- Open the uCAD Configurator window.
- Click on each connection listed in the window. This displays the connection name and details, and the last date designs were imported.
These connections are created and maintained in the uClient Configurator.
To access uClient Configurator and create connections
- If you have not already done so, you must create the connections in uClient that will be used by uCAD. From the Windows Start button, click Programs, Oracle, Primavera-Unifier, uClient. The uClient Configurator window opens.
- For details about setting up connections in the uClient Configurator, see Setting Up Primavera uClient Configurator.
About Auto Synchronization
uCAD enables you to integrate your AutoCAD drawings with Primavera Unifier Space Manager. In order to do this, you must first import Space Manager designs into uCAD. These designs include level-type, space-type, and the data elements on the Space Manager attribute forms that have been enabled for uCAD Integration in uDesigner.
This import process can be done manually, or you can choose the uCAD Auto Synchronization option. When this option is enabled, uCAD will check for any new space types that have been imported into Primavera Unifier from uDesigner, or any changes to the data elements enabled for uCAD Integration in existing level or space types.
With Auto Synchronization enabled, uCAD tries to connect to Primavera Unifier when you open a drawing file that was previously set up with a connection to check if there have been any changes to the design. This is done in the background. If the application detects changes, you are asked if you want to import them into Primavera Unifier. If you ignore the message, you can continue working with the drawing file. If you accept the changes, close the drawing file so that uCAD can rebuild the menu structure and map data to the new imported design.
If you choose not to enable Auto Synchronization, you must manually import any new designs.
For more information about this process, see Working in AutoCAD with the uCAD Plug-in.
To enable auto synchronization of drawing file changes between AutoCAD and Primavera Unifier
- Open the uCAD Configurator window, and select the Connections node.
- Click the Edit button.
- Select Auto Synchronize of Design and click OK.
To manually import Space Manager designs for the Levels and Space types
- Open the uCAD Configurator window.
- Click on a connection listed in the Connections node.
- Click the Import button.