Baselining Designs

This task shows you how to create a baseline for designs that exist in ENOVIA.

Before you begin:
  • The design must exist in ENOVIA.
  • The design must be the active design in AutoCAD.
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About Baselines
Opening Baselined Designs

  1. Click ENOVIA > Baseline from AutoCAD toolbar.

    The ENOVIA Baseline dialog box opens.

    Enter the following parameters for the baseline:

    • Name. Enter a name for the baseline. By default, the name field specifies the design name with date stamp in <design name>-<UserName>-<mmddyy> format.
    • Description. Enter a description for the baseline.

  2. Click OK.

    A warning message is displayed if a baseline exists in ENOVIA with the same name. Click Yes to overwrite the existing baseline or click No to enter new parameters for the baseline.

    Note: Baselines are applied only to the design node active in AutoCAD and the structure beneath the node does not inherit the baseline.

    A success message is displayed once the baseline is created.

A baseline is created for the design active in AutoCAD with the specified parameters.

Known Limitation

Baseline creation from the CAD tool fails when you try to create a baseline for a structure wherein the participating designs are being referred from different directories.

For example,

The user has a parent -> child structure wherein the parent and child are located in different directories and the user tries to baseline this structure from the CAD tool using ENOVIA > Baseline menu.

An error message "Could not baseline as designs are opened from multiple directories. Please open all designs from ENOVIA to a single directory before baseline" is displayed.