The Job

The nodes under the job node come in a fixed order indicating a typical work flow. However nothing prevents the user from populating the nodes and applying functions in another order. In some cases this flexibility can be used to produce different results.

The green icon on each node indicates that they are OK so far. The child nodes Selected Objects and Logs are mandatory while Cutters and Target Blocks are optional and depending on the specific job.

The popup menu for the job node has the functions Add, Setup and Delete.

The Add function can add the Cutters and Target Blocks nodes if not already there. The Delete function deletes the whole job. The Setup function allows the user to set some overall control parameters.

The minimum plate width defines the smallest plate strip that can form a new panel. If a panel is cut in a way that one of the resulting plates is narrower that the given value the cut is ignored. Likewise if a stiffener is cut in a way that one of the parts is smaller than the minimum stiffener length, the stiffener is not cut and belongs to one of the panels.

It is possible to maintain a panel as symmetrical even if it is sorted into two side specific blocks. These two blocks need to be named with a common root and an additional P on the portside one and an S on the starboard one. Furthermore, no block is allowed to exist with a name equal to this common root.

Warnings can be included in the Verify logs, but then they must be corrected before the panels can be further processed in Block Divide.