Structure Reference Object

The structure reference object is a small table containing information about names and name rules of objects in the structure data bank. The AVEVA Marine application modules access the name of this object via the environment variable SB_SREF.

The structure reference object is created by a feature of hull utility inithull.

The object contains the following information:

• The "ship letters"

  It is suggested that the names of all hull objects of a certain project should start in the same one or two letters. By using ship letters it is easy to differentiate between production names and the internal names of AVEVA Marine. It makes it also possible to have several projects in the same physical data bank with the "same" names. (This refers to the names used internally in the data banks only - they will normally disappear when the internal names are mapped onto the production oriented part names).

  If not used, the ship letters should be assigned an empty string

  When used, the ship letters must be explicitly added to the objects when they are created and also for example, to the group names of frames,

• The name of the Hull Structure object, that means, the object via which all whole structure design model may be accessed (that means, the "root object" of the design structure).

• The group names of longitudinal and transversal frames. The names of these types of objects are created by a "group name" plus a number (in the same way as for example, frame curves).

• The names of the extension table for longitudinal and transversal frames along the x-axis (min-max co-ordinate values). The names of limit tables for the extension along the Y- and Z-axes are formed by adding 'Y' and 'Z', respectively, to this name.

• The project name of the current project. This name may be used as a part the production oriented part names (and may thus be considered as an "external" correspondence to the ship letters that are for internal use).