Varmain not defined error

[GeorgeKamieniecki]

I created some new custom components in the Spec Editor. I added these and some standard parametric defined components to 2 new specs. Everything works fine on my PC.

I copied my Plant3D project and the spec files to another PC. The tool palette which is populated automatically from the spec has icons missing for some of the standard components i.e. tees, reducers. When I attempt to insert a Tee I get an error message 'Varmain not defined'.

I tested on the Default Project with spec CS300. Some of the standard components in the tool palette were also missing icons and giving the same error.

Can anybody suggest a solution to this problem?

[TomislavGolubovic]

Did you copy the catalogs to the second PC also?

[GeorgeKamieniecki]

Hi Tomaislav,

Yes I copied over just the folder with the new specs from my content catalog to the other PC -that didn't help. I then copied my complete content catalog to the other PC and that solved the problem. I speculate that the Plant 3D installation on the other PC may have been corrupted.

Many thanks for your input

[TomislavGolubovic]

Yes, all computers have to be pointing to the same catalogs.

This also applies for anyone who has the catalogs on the network. If you look in the Spec Editor, under the menu at the top marked "Tools" there is a sub-entry called "Modify Shared Content Folder...". This is where you would change the path to a network drive for the catalogs. You have to do this on all machines.

The same command is also in Plant3D. Its PLANTMODIFYSHAREDCONTENTFOLDER and you have to be an administrator to run the command (in Spec Editor and Plant3D)