Storage Areas for Hole Management Data

Hole management data is stored in various locations in product Design data in order to allow System Administrators to restrict cross-discipline access to Design model data. For example, a piping user can request a penetration in a steel panel, and a structural user can create a hole in response to that request without requiring write access to each others data.

The storage areas required are:

• Hole Management Associations - the area that records the links between all elements in a penetration

• Virtual Hole storage area - where data about the shape of a requested penetration is stored

• Coaming storage area - where the coaming items are stored.

Hole management associations are stored in an Association World that contains an Association Group (ASSOGP) with PURPOSE attribute set to HOLE. Storage of hole management associations can be distributed to different databases by using Data Access Control functions to restrict user access to certain Association Groups. The system stores hole management associations in the first hole management association group (Purpose=HOLE) where you have permission to create Association (ASSOC) elements.

Virtual Holes are stored as FIXING elements under Framework (FRMW) elements. These storage areas are identified by the STRU element having PURPOSE set to HOLE. Coaming is stored in STRU elements with PURPOSE set to HMCM. Storage of Virtual Hole Fixings and Coaming is controlled in the same way as hole management associations.

Note:
Users approving holes must have write access to hole management associations.