Design View vs Assembly View

The hull design view contains only hull objects and is created entirely within Hull and Structural Design (but may be accessed by any AVEVA Marine application).

The assembly model, on the other hand, is common to all AVEVA Marine applications, that means, it contains elements from both the hull model and for example, the outfitting model in the same structure. It is normally established in a separate AVEVA Marine application, Assembly Planning.

The assembly model is built up as a mapping onto the design model, that means, the design model comes first and contains most of the physical attributes and the assembly model is mainly a way to collect parts into an assembly oriented structure. It contains also some information that is specific to the assembly process, for example, orientation of an assembly when assembled.

Thus Hull offers two different views of and two different access paths to the product model. for example, even if the model is built up via the design model it is often natural to extract information for production via the assembly structure.

All hull parts must be modelled and become part of the design model before they can be referred to from the assembly structure. (Outfitting steel is modelled in the Structure application). The detail design work means a successive breakdown and refinement of the design model in such a way that the design intent is protected. This adaptation for production should be done before the final population of the assembly tree can be done (or at least is quite meaningful).

Examples of the relation between the design model and the assembly model will be given after the description of the Hull design model.