OpenBuildings™ Designer Help

Export Design Model with Managed Data Items

  1. ISM Import a Structural frame from RAM Structural Systems.


  2. Select CIS/2 Export from the backstage (File > Export > Structural > CIS/2 Export).

    The CIS/2 Export dialog appears.

  3. Make sure the Export Mode setting is set to Design. Keep the others settings as they are, and click Export. The CIS/2 file (*.STP) is exported to the location displayed in the Export to File field at the top of the CIS/2 Export dialog.
  4. Open the *.STP file with a text editor. The Managed Data Items are added to the file, one for each member in the exported model.


  5. Save a copy of the exported CIS/2 file to another location.
  6. Return to OpenBuildings Designer and make some changes to the Structural frame model.
  7. Export the Structural frame to CIS/2 again using the same settings used for the first export overwriting the first version.
  8. Open the exported CIS/2 file (*.STP) in a text editor and compare it with the copy of the first version of the CIS/2 file exported previously.