Setup for Free Naming of Seams and Shell Profiles

If a project is setup to enable free naming of shell profiles and shell seams, an NSEQ database has to be setup. This is done in the following way:

1. Create a new database of type Name sequence.

   This database will be update only, and if Global is to be used, one database must be created for each site that at any time will create shell seams or shell profiles (that means, longitudinals or transversals). For further information about Name sequence please see the User Guide for Data Management and Data Base / Admin / Database Management / Name Sequence.

2. Add the database to the appropriate MDBs.

   If global is not used at all, nothing more is required. Otherwise, name sequences must be defined manually via the .Net PML interface as follows:

   1. Create a new name sequence for shell seams for each surface in the project.

      The name of each sequence must be CSEAM_ followed by the name of the surface and a final _. For example, for a surface named HULL the sequence name should be CSEAM_HULL_. For further information about Name sequence please see the User Guide for Data Management and Data Base / Admin / Database Management / Name Sequence.

   2. Define a interval of valid numbers for the sequence by setting start number and maximum limit.

      It is essential that the interval does not overlap the interval at any other site. Sequence numbers may be in the range from 0 to 9999.

   3. Repeat sub-steps a and b for longitudinals and transversals.

      The procedure is the same, but the names of those sequences should have a prefix of CLONG_ and CTRANS_, respectively, instead of CSEAM_.

   It is possible to create new surfaces directly from within Hull Design (in the Structural Design and Curved Hull applications). Whenever that is done, corresponding name sequences must be defined as described in the steps above before any seams or profiles are modelled in the surface.

   For further information on the .Net PML interface to name sequences, see the .NET customization Reference Manual and the .NET customization User Guide.