Description

Stiffeners to be manufactured are normally modelled via the Hull Modelling and stored together with the panel they are generated on. Panels are then split into parts to be manufactured and profiles are in this process placed on a data bank for profiles. Programs for manufacturing (profile nesting, profile sketches, ) are fetching information about profiles from this data bank.

There are situations in a shipyard, when there is no obvious need to create a model (ship repair, ) Still, the profile parts are to be manufactured in the same automatic way as the modelled parts. Manufacturing lists, link files for robots, profile sketches, are to be produced with the same sequence of operations by the user as for profiles from the model.

The Profile Part Programming Tools as this function is called is intended to cover this need as described below.