Generating a Panel Separately

In this case the panel is generated starting with a blank screen. The picture of the panel grows up as its components are generated. The only pieces of its environment that are displayed are the cross-sections of the profiles of its boundaries. The result of the generation is the same as when executing in batch mode (see Model Generation, Batch Mode) with some minor deviations:

• The "system directives" (see Design Language of Hull Modelling) do not work in the interactive mode.

• The output of a generation is always produced under direct operator control (updated model and input schemes, plots, listings).

Of course, the operator can benefit from the interactivity in correcting errors, as they occur.

Some of the aspects, in which the separate generation differs from generation in a view, are emphasized below:

• A separate picture is generated, containing in a pattern the brackets belonging to a panel.

• The picture of the panel includes all boundaries and the cross-sections of intersecting profiles are calculated automatically for each panel.

• The order numbers (S- and F-numbers) are displayed for stiffeners and flanges.

• The panel picture is always described in the uv-system of the panel, seen from the direction of its positive w-axis.

• When storing the panel in the model data bank, the picture of the panel (and the bracket picture, if any) is stored in the picture data bank, simultaneously.