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Set up

Turning the DCS environment on in a trusted workspace, what it needs, and how to work on copies of DeltaV exports.

Verification state: detection and the enable offer are modelled, tested on Linux with unit and rendering tests. Not seen in the running Editor by a DeltaV engineer; not run on Windows.

Turn it on

The module runs only while neuralInverse.dcs.enabled is on and the workspace is trusted. It is off by default.

  1. Open a folder that holds .fhx exports (copies, in a scratch folder) and trust it.
  2. The module detects .fhx files in the workspace, in either case of the extension. A notification offers, once for that folder, to enable the DCS environment. Accept it, or run Neural Inverse: Enable DCS Environment from the Command Palette. This sets neuralInverse.dcs.enabled for the workspace.
  3. The DeltaV Plant view appears in the Explorer.

Disable DCS Environment turns it off: views, checks, the save guard and agent tools stop, and their markers go.

In an untrusted window where the setting is already on, a notification says the environment starts only once the folder is trusted, and nothing else runs. The FHX language and its colouring are available whether or not the environment is on; nothing else is.

Requirements

WhatNeeded for
FHX exports from DeltaV Explorer (File > Export), UTF-16 or UTF-8Everything. The module reads exports in UTF-16 LE and BE and UTF-8, with or without a byte order mark
A Windows DeltaV engineering station (ProfessionalPLUS or DeltaV Simulate) with a non-production databaseOnly for Export DeltaV Database (FHX)
The DeltaV import in DeltaV ExplorerBringing an edited export back into DeltaV, which you do yourself

Nothing else is installed: the module's readers are its own code.

Work on copies

  • Work on copies of exports, under Git, in a scratch folder, never on a plant's running database.
  • Do not send plant exports outside your company.
  • An export is often a part of the database. Checks and impact read one export at a time, so references to modules in other exports cannot be resolved.

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