Setting the Environment

You can set up the environment for Earth Materials and Volumes by importing a Coordinate Reference System (CRS), creating a resource table, and assigning Geosciences resources to them in Data Setup.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: You must have the required access roles:
  • Baseline: Owner role (to use Data Setup). Leader role to import a CRS.
  • App-specific: Earth Engineering Coordinator role.
See Also
Understanding Geolocation
Design Range Management

Context: Data Setup helps you put together resources and make them available to every project's stakeholder within a single or several collaborative workspaces.

Import a Coordinate Reference System (CRS)

You can import a single CRS for geolocation purposes for the project's collaborative space. You can import the CRS with the As Reference option selected.

  1. In the top bar, select Add > Import.
    The Import dialog box appears.
  2. Click to choose a folder.
  3. Select the required .3dxml file and click Open.
    The 3D XML file is imported.
    Tip: The 3D XML files that contain the CRS are originated from the online EPSG registry. Extract EPSG-9.1.0-CRS-3dxml.zip located in l file is located at ...\win_b64\resources\geolocation.

Declare Geolocation Resources

You can define geolocation resources to specify administration preferences for geolocation that consist in:

  • Defining a default CRS to geolocate new and existing objects.
  • Allowing or forbidding the selection of a CRS different from the default CRS.
  • Listing all objects to geolocate at creation.

Before you begin: See Geolocation Resources.
  1. Select the XML file located in \win_b64\resources\standard\Geolocation.
  2. Make the edits as required.
  3. Save the XML file.
  4. Associate the resource with the required project in Data Setup.
  5. Select Share > Save > Save with Options.
    The geolocation resource (XML file) is assigned and saved. It is now available for all users working in the collaborative space.

Declare Geoscience Resources

You can declare a semantic dictionary and a palette in Data Setup to enable the import of geodata—such as a geophysics file or a block model in 3DEXPERIENCE.

  1. Create a Geoscience resource table.
  2. Assign
    • The semantic dictionary (.csv file) in the Geoscience resource table.
    • The palette (.csv file) in the Geoscience resource table.
  3. Associate the resource with the required project.
  4. Select Share > Save > Save with Options.
    The resource is assigned and saved.