Knuckled Panels

Plane panels are by definition planar, that means, their plates must be located in one plane. Knuckled panels (including corrugated panels) are special in the sense that they may contain plates that are located in more than one plane.

AVEVA Marine handles this type of panel by letting all parts of a knuckled panel that are located in one plane be generated as individual ‘sub-panels’. These sub-panels are then collected into a knuckled ‘main’ panel and connected to each other for automatic extraction of parts across knuckles.

The knuckled main panel is inserted into the hull structure like all other panels. The sub- panels are (like panel brackets) not referenced directly from a block but only indirectly via the main panel.