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Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

palmer_gavin — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:40:37 GMT

Using Civil 3D 2022:

When I try to create a new pressure network parts list, there are no available items to select when I try to add 'materials' for pipes or 'types' for fittings/appurtenances.

I have tried setting to current/adding different C3D default pressure network catalogs to the parts list, and they appear empty as well.
In the various 'add' windows I have right clicked and hit refresh and that did not make a difference.
I can see the pressure catalogs have parts when I open them in the Content Catalog Editor
I saw somewhere that customization files could make a difference? I do have a customized cui.
I have also tried the CREATEPRESSUREPARTLISTFULL command with different pressure catalogs set (SETPRESSURENETWORKCATALOG) and they just come up blank
Have tried using default catalogs from 2021 (also on our machines), same results

Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

BrianHailey — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:19:26 GMT

My guess is you're pathing too deep into the pressure network catalog path. When you use the "SetPressureNetworkCatalog" command, try setting it one folder higher than what you have typically been setting it to. In our office, Civil 3D is pathed to "C:\CADSupport\Common\enu\Pressure Pipes Catalog\Imperial"

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

Cadguru42 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:59:14 GMT

I had something similar happen years ago. I had sent the catalogs to Autodesk Support and was told they became corrupted. Autodesk had no idea how they became corrupted nor how to fix them. The only solution was to reinstall to get the default catalogs back and all of the custom catalogs became useless. After that, we mostly gave up using custom pressure parts. We had catalogs with hundreds of custom parts made and all that time and effort became wasted.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

Elmoataz.Bellah.Salem — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:24:57 GMT

Do you have solved this Issue or not yet?

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:48:22 GMT

Couldn't you go to another machine and get the parts catalogs from their c:\ drive and copy them to your machine, and then try creating a new parts list from your new catalog files?

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:58:07 GMT

Has this issue ever been resolved? I am having this same issue and my path is

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2023\enu\Pressure Pipes Catalog\Imperial\

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:27:56 GMT

@jnjhuz Is your actual path the "imperial" folder? Or is your path "Pressure Pipes Catalog"? Make sure it set to "Pressure Pipes Catalog", then choose the "imperial" catalog.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:34:39 GMT

That didn't work either. On one computer it works but on the rest of the computers we use there are no materials showing up to add.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:45:13 GMT

The next thing I'd check/try. Go to the computer it works on, copy that entire Pressure Pipes Catalog folder, paste it on one of the computers it does not work on and overwrite everything (prior to pasting and overwriting, make a backup copy of that folder somewhere). Start Civil 3D on that machine it was not working on and see if it now works. If so, good, if not, go to my next idea, which I can give you after you test this.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:59:08 GMT

All the computers point to the same catalog folder.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:05:30 GMT

.....it looks like earlier on 8-15-24 you said you were having the same problem and your computer was/is set to your c:\ drive.

Maybe I am mixing up who has what problem...😀

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:10:30 GMT

Sorry. I switched to a shared drive since then.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

Cadguru42 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:46:57 GMT

@jnjhuz wrote:
Sorry. I switched to a shared drive since then.

That could be a problem as the pressure parts lists use an embedded, absolute path to the catalog that cannot be changed after parts are added. If you add parts to the parts list and the catalog is moved/renamed then those parts have to be recreated in the parts list using the new catalog. That could be why you have problems.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:09:40 GMT

I am trying to create a new parts list. The parts catalog we are supposed to use is a shared one on the P drive. I tried the C drive to see if it would help but it didn't so I put it back to our P drive. Neither one works.

However, the one computer that is working seems to work no matter what drive I use.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:36:12 GMT

Yep, so make sure your pressure network catalog is set to your p:\drive, then create a new parts list from that catalog. Create a pressure network in a drawing and save that drawing somewhere on a server. I even double check the catalog settings as sometimes they get finicky after you initially switch them. Then go to another computer, set the pressure network catalog to the p:\drive, open that same drawing, can you use that pressure network? Are you seeing that same parts list?

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:28:30 GMT

I created the parts list from the good computer and created a pressure network. I opened a different computer and made sure the I was connected to the same catalog on the P drive and I opened the drawing. I saw the pressure network I made and the parts list but I was unable to edit or create another pressure network with the parts list. It tried to make a new network but no parts came in.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

Cadguru42 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:17:44 GMT

@jnjhuz wrote:
I created the parts list from the good computer and created a pressure network. I opened a different computer and made sure the I was connected to the same catalog on the P drive and I opened the drawing. I saw the pressure network I made and the parts list but I was unable to edit or create another pressure network with the parts list. It tried to make a new network but no parts came in.

Is the path to the catalog(s) on your P drive the same for everyone? I.e., no username or other difference between them?

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:09:54 GMT

Check this on both machines........

Also, maybe try a third machine to make sure that machine #2 doesn't have some weird antivirus or read/write permissions attached to it.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

jnjhuz — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:15:58 GMT

I have been checking that. Also, I have tried other machines and only the one works. As for the antivirus I don't have access to changing that because I don't have Admin privileges.

Re: Pressure Network Part List - Materials & Types are Blank

MSchille-1994 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:23:50 GMT

any way that you can send the catalogs .sqlite file and the drawing file to me?

mschille@fmgengineering.com