Selection and Display of Bevel via Text String

An option has been implemented to use a text string for specification of the bevel when generating seams in panels and beveling along boundaries. This has been done by adding a new keyword BVT (for BeVel Text) in the SEAM and WELD statements of the design language of Hull Planar Modelling. The given text will be displayed in symbolic views replacing the symbols normally indicating the bevel. If the bevel is symmetric the bevel text is drawn across (and parallel with) the seam line, otherwise on the side of it where the bevel is defined.

Furthermore, this text can be used to select a symbol via a conversion table described below. If the given bevel text matches one of the bevel texts in column 1 of this table, the corresponding symbol will replace the given text in the views.

The conversion file has four columns and an unrestricted number of rows. The columns contain information as follows:

• The "name", that means, the text given as input.

• The basic bevel type (see documentation of AVEVA Marine bevel handling). A negative value indicates that the bevel should be looked upon from "the other side".

• The font number of the symbol.

• The number of the symbol to represent the text.

  Example:
  Al	10	100	2
  SOVS	20	100	3
  SOVN	-20	100	4

The name of the table should be assigned to the environment variable SBH_BEVEL_TEXT.

When the bevel is defined in this way, the system may also examine if any of the involved plate edges should be chamfered (see below). If so, a special chamfer text will be added after the given text/ selected symbol. The chamfer text will be selected depending on the side of the plate that should be chamfered.

The appearance and contents of the bevel and chamfer text are controlled by a number of default parameters:

Note: The feature described is used only for drawing development, that means, this bevel setting will not affect the beveling in plate parts extracted from the panel.