PDM-UG: Document content property

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The content related properties of documents are represented accordingly to the general scheme outlined above. To indicate that the property is content related the used representation must be instantiated with:

representation.name = 'document content'

This document content capability specifies characteristics detailing the content of a given document object. Aspects of the content property can be modeled via the following instantiations of descriptive_representation_items collected in the above representation.


requirement Descriptive_representation_item.name Descriptive_representation_item.description
The level of detail that the document file or the document representation provides. 'detail level' Where applicable the following values shall be used:
  • 'rough 3d shape': 3D shape model without edge rounds and fillets;
  • 'rounded edges': 3D shape model with edge rounds and fillets.
The kind or kinds of geometry that an object contains 'geometry' Where applicable the following values shall be used:
  • '3D wireframe model': The document contains a 3D shape model in wireframe representation;
  • '2D shape': The document contains a 2D shape model or contours only;
  • 'surface model': The document contains a 3D shape model in surface representation;
  • 'closed volume': The document contains a 3D shape model in closed body topological surface representation;
  • 'solid model': The document contains a 3D shape model in advanced boundary representation;
  • 'solid and surface model': The document contains a 3D shape model in surface and advanced boundary representation;
  • 'assembly': The document contains an assembly structure with reference to the assembled components and their transformation matrices;
  • 'assembly with mating elements': The document contains an assembly structure including the mating components only, such as screws or rivets, with exact positioning information. This assembly representation is intended to be overlaid with the assembly structure for the main components;
  • '2D drawing': The document contains a technical drawing without 3D shape representation;
  • 'drawing derived from 3D data': The document contains a technical drawing that has been derived from a 3D shape model;
  • 'drawing related to 3D data': The document contains a technical drawing that visualizes a 3D shape model and possibly establishes associative links to the 3D shape model.
Language or languages are used in the characterized objects. 'language' e.g., 'English'
the scale that is used 'real world scale' e.g., '1:50'

The Instance Model: STEP exchange file format (ISO10303 Part 21 syntax)

/* Entities #210 to #250 assign document content parameters to 'file1' (#80)
#210 = PROPERTY_DEFINITION('document property', '', #80);
#220 = PROPERTY_DEFINITION_REPRESENTATION(#210, #230);
#230 = REPRESENTATION('document content', (#240, #250), #200);
#240 = DESCRIPTIVE_REPRESENTATION_ITEM('detail level', 'rough 3D shape');
#250 = DESCRIPTIVE_REPRESENTATION_ITEM('geometry type', 'solid model');
Example 36: exchange file segment for content property representation
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