Create Feature - Notch

Purpose:

To create one or more notches in a number of shell profiles.

Prerequisites:

A shell profile (and thus at least one shell stiffener) must exist.

Instructions:

• In create mode, the user must indicate one or more shell profiles in which to create the notches, and then give a notch definition. If any shell profiles are already selected, they will be used as input to this function.

  The user may enter notch positions or names of the seams at which to set notches in the Positions field. Multiple seam names are separated by a comma. Reference is used to tell whether coordinates or seam references have been entered. If Indicate Seam Refs is checked, the user will instead be prompted to pick seams interactively after the form has been closed with the Ok button. The notch type may be entered in the form, selected from a list or copied from another notch (Same As). Alternatively, the notch may be generated from an arbitrary two-dimensional curve object (Arbitrary).

• In modify mode, the user may change the notch definition. The modification will only affect the notches in the selected shell profile. If notches have been created in several profiles at once, the notch definitions in the different profiles must be changed one at a time.

Options:

None available.

Result:

• In create mode, notches will be created in the selected shell profiles. The Store function may be used to store the shell profile with the new notches on the hull structure data bank.

• In modify mode, the shell profile will be updated with the new notch definition. To make changes permanent, Store must be used. Using the Skip function before the shell profile has been stored will undo the changes.