BOLTING

Function:

Specifies where and how bolt lengths are to be shown in the material list.

Description:

Isodraft calculates bolting requirements from the Catalogue bolt tables. Bolt lengths can be included in the itemcode or the item description or both. If bolt lengths are to be included in the itemcodes, they can either be appended to the rest of the code or they can be inserted in place of a specified text string.

By default, bolt lengths are included in the item description column of the material list and are appended to the itemcodes.

For the Material Control File, the user can specify that the lengths and diameters are both shown as metric, or both shown as imperial. Setting the Material Control file units changes the bolt dimensioning units specified by the UNITS command; it sets a flag in the Material Control File (the ‘tens’ column of Word 2 of Record 60). This flag setting can be interpreted by an independent material control program, which must provide its own look-up tables of standard size conversions to give the required dimensioning units.

The user can set up the SPCOM name in the Specification to include text, which can then be replaced by the bolt lengths to form the itemcode.

Examples:

BOLT LENG DESC ON

Bolt lengths are shown in description column of material list.

BOLTING LENGTH DESCRIPTION ON APPEND

Appends bolt length to description.

BOLTING LENGTH DESCRIPTION ON INSERT AT 'Here'

Replaces first occurrence of text 'Here' in description with bolt length.

BOLT LENG ITEMCODE INSERT AT ’Here’

Bolt lengths replace locating text 'Here' in the itemcode.

BOLT LENG DESC OFF ITEMCODE INSERT ’Here’

Bolt lengths omitted from description column but inserted in the itemcode column where shown by the ‘Here’ keyword.

BOLTing LENgth ITEMcode APPend

Adds the bolt length to the end of the itemcode.

BOLTing LENgth ITEMcode OFF

Bolt lengths are not shown in the itemcode.

BOLTING DEFAULT

Resets all the bolting options to their default states (namely lengths shown in descriptions and lengths appended to the itemcodes).

Material control units flag set to metric lengths and imperial diameters.

BOLTing OFF

Bolting information will not be shown on the material list.

Command Syntax:

>-BOLTing --+-- UNITs --+-- METImp* ---.
            |           |              |
            |           |-- METric ----|
            |           |              |
            |           |-- IMPerial --|
            |           |              |
            |           ‘-- DEFault ---+--------------------------------------------.
            |                                                                       |
            |              .-----------------------------------------------------.  |
            |             /                                                      |  |
            |-- LENgth --*-- DESCription --+-- ON* --.                           |  |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 |         +-- APPend -----------------|  |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 |         +-- INSert -+- AT -.        |  |
            |            |                 |         |           |      |        |  |
            |            |                 |         |           ‘------+- text -+ |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 |         |                           |  |
            |            |                 '-- OFF --+---------------------------|  |
            |            |                                                       |  |
            |            ‘-- ITEMcode --+-- OFF ---------------------------------|  |
            |                           |                                        |  |
            |                           |-- APPend* -----------------------------|  |
            |                           |                                        |  |
            |                           ‘-- INSert -+- AT -.                     |  |
            |                                       |      |                     |  |
            |                                       ‘------+- text --------------+--|
            |                                                                       |
            |                                                                       |
            |-- DEFault --.                                                         |
            |             |                                                         |
            ‘-- OFF ------+---------------------------------------------------------+->

Querying:

Q BOLTing

Q OPTions