System Attributes

As well as user-defined attributes, your application utilizes a collection of reserved attributes, used for system processing.

These can be recognized in the Attributes panel as grey text. These attributes are read-only (as they will be assigned and calculated as a result of other managed task functions. The names of these attributes are reserved, so you can't call a user attribute the same as an existing system attribute.

The following system attributes are currently reserved:

_X/Y/Z_Coord: Numeric virtual coordinate fields indicating a 3D location
SEG_NUM: A numeric attribute representing an activity segment, which is a portion of a design string. Also sed to store information retrieved from EPS writeback operations.
GRP_POS: An alphanumeric field describing the position from which a geospatial search will be made when calculating spatial dependencies.
DESIGNDF: an alphanumeric field describing a design definition.
DESIGNID: An alphanumeric field uniquely describing a set of related SEG_NUMs.
DES_TYPE: An alphanumeric field describing the design type (FXS, CXS, OUT, WFM).
COLOUR: Reserved system colour field containing a standard Datamine colour number. Note that this attribute is no longer used to uniquely identify a design definition as in legacy products such as Studio 5D Planner and Mine2-4D.
LSTYLE: A numeric value that corresponds to a particular line format (solid, dashed etc). Note that this attribute is no longer used to uniquely identify a design definition as in legacy products such as Studio 5D Planner and Mine2-4D.
SYMBOL: A numeric value representing a symbol within Datamine's standard symbol library. Note that this attribute is no longer used to uniquely identify a design definition as in legacy products such as Studio 5D Planner and Mine2-4D.
TAG: Reserved for tag string identification. Tag strings are used to control the surfacing of solid wireframe data. Tag strings will not be used to generate solids for sequencing.
WIDTH: a system width field used to store the width of a profile shape forming part of a design definition. Represents the maximum width for freeform profile shapes. This information will be exported to EPS as a numeric Code Field.
HEIGHT: A system width field used to store the height of a profile shape forming part of a design definition. Represents the maximum height for freeform profile shapes. This information will be exported to EPS as a numeric Code Field.