2 Sets of Spec

[Sameer]

I Hope I am not the first one who is facing this situation! AutoPlant V8i with AutoCAD 2007

I have two on going AutoPlant projects. Till now we were using same set of Specs for both the projects, but now I have separated it due to some unavoidable spec requirement.
i have kept two sets of spec in two different folders as "Specs and Catalog/Specs/Mmetric" and "Specs and Catalog/Specs2/Mmetric", and referred the same in PA master spec folder as shown in attached pic.
But SpecGen doesn’t deal well with two sets of spec......
When I open SpecGen it cannot handle two different SpecGen.ini file from the only location (C:\Program Files\Bentley\Plant V8i\SpecGen)
Please suggest how to deal with this by being on “External Database” method.

[grinch2000cs]

So you have changed the path for one project to Specs and the other project to Specs2 and when you go into those projects they are not reading the correct path? i.e Project A is pathed to Specs and Project B is pathed to Specs2, when you go into project A you get the original specs and when you go into project B you don't get the modified specs from Specs2?

The way we have setup our projects is to have a catalog and a spec folder in the project directory. I build the cats and specs and place them into the project directory, this allows for project specific cats and specs. This has kept us from this problem you are having now.

[Plant Salad]

Folder structure I used was a main Spec folder on the server, then folders reflecting the project names and the specs in each folder for each project. Never had a problem with projects or using Specgen with this.

[Sameer]

Thanx for your replies!

Grinch: You got it right!
But in your case you are using various spec folder for different projects; hence you are dealing separately with each project Specs.
In my case we have total 7 nos. of projects was (now separated 5 and 2) using one set of specs (of same client). and i am sure no one will enter values 7 times in each specs one by one. When we were having only two projects we were using SpecGen as you said.

PS: in your case also you must be making entries separately in each project spec right?

To run the show I am running SpecGen using two batch files for different specgen.ini as shown below.
[Xcopy "R:\Autoplant_Projects\proj1\SpecGen\SpecGen.ini" "C:\Program Files\Bentley\Plant V8i\SpecGen\" /Y
"C:\Program Files\Bentley\Plant V8i\SpecGen\APSpecGen.exe"]

[Xcopy "R:\Autoplant_Projects\proj2\SpecGen\SpecGen.ini" "C:\Program Files\Bentley\Plant V8i\SpecGen\" /Y
"C:\Program Files\Bentley\Plant V8i\SpecGen\APSpecGen.exe"]


Thanx again,

Sameer.