Create and Assign an Industry Model Template

When you work offline, you must select an industry model template. The name of the template is stored in the enterprise industry model, and with the drawing that is created for your offline editing session. It ensures that you are working with the same set of data when you open this project from different clients.

If you create your own industry model template, there are two way to do this; create one manually, or reverse engineer an existing template.

Note: It's very important to keep the enterprise industry model and the industry model template in sync. Whenever you add a new feature class in the enterprise industry model, you also have to add it in your template.

Once you have associated a template with the offline drawing, editing offline is much faster.

You can associate a template with an enterprise industry model that contains a single project. Templates are not available for enterprise industry models that contain multiple industry models.

You can change the template later by deleting the current template and selecting a new one. Before you change the template, make sure all changes are checked in for this enterprise industry model. Users with checked-out data might not be able to check in their changes if the schema in the new template does not match the old one.

To manually create an industry model template

  1. Open Infrastructure Administrator, and click File menu > New.
  2. Select the required Extensions and Modules.
  3. Click OK.
  4. Click File menu > Save.
  5. Do the following to build your structure under the Data Model node:
  6. Under the Industry Model node, do the following:
  7. Click File menu > Save.

To reverse engineer an industry model template

    To create an industry model template following a semi-automated workflow, you can use the 'Create From Industry Model' option found in the Industry Model Editor. Follow these steps to export an existing enterprise industry model schema into an XML file.

    Note: Using the default filter (MY.*) while generating the *.genx will not export Representations, Point Numbering, and Feature Searches.
  1. Open Infrastructure Administrator, and click File menu > New.
  2. Load the customized data model (*.genx) file you created above.
  3. Select the required Extensions and Modules, and click OK.
  4. Click File menu > Save.
  5. Important: The reverse engineering method can lead to the following issues while creating and updating an industry model template:
    • View definitions fail
      • Start the Industry Model Editor and remove all view definitions from the *.genx file containing provider specific functions, which are not supported in SQLite.
      • • Manually re-create the view definitions required.
    • Label definitions contain provider specific functions
      • Start Autodesk Infrastructure Administrator and open the industry model template.
      • Update all label definitions containing provider specific statements.
    • Utility model fails
      • Start Industry Model Editor and remove the Utility model which failed.
      • Manually re-create the Utility model using Infrastructure Administrator.

To assign an industry model template to an enterprise industry model

  1. In Infrastructure Administrator, connect to an enterprise industry model.
  2. In the tree structure, expand the industry model node.
  3. Click the Industry Model Template node.
  4. Click the folder icon for Select An Industry Model Template and navigate to the template you want.

Next workflow (enterprise industry models only): Set Up Jobs and Job Templates