Functional View on Shell Profiles

For shell profiles (both longitudinals and transversals) AVEVA Marine supports an additional and more functionally oriented view that is neither geographically oriented (as the hull design structure, see below) nor a production view (as the assembly structure).

Shell profiles, for example, longitudinals at a certain distance from the center line, are traditionally identified by a number that is common to all the different parts that are located at this distance along the whole ship. Towards the ends of the ship the trace curve has normally no longer the same fixed distance but the parts on it are still identified by the same number. Correspondingly, there is in AVEVA Marine a reference structure by which longitudinal parts belonging to a certain longitudinal may be referred to by the longitudinal number independent of the position in ship.

Thus, the shell stiffener parts may be part of three reference structures: The design structure, the assembly structure and a structure of type longitudinal or transversal (the latter structure being mandatory).