Selection of an EU

The selection of the EU object to be used can either be made automatically or manually. The automatic selection depends on the geographical position of the two steel structures to be joined (the abutted and the abutting structure). In the manual method a specific EU object is selected that shall be used during a certain activity (that means, when evaluating the welds of an assembly in the Weld Planning application).

The selection criteria that are used during the automatic selection of an EU object should be set up and customized by the customer. In this way it will be possible to define the search order for EU objects (that means, first compartment, second a reference surface, third geographical…). The default search order is defined as below:

1. Panel

2. Reference Surface Object (RSO)

3. Compartment

4. Compartment type

5. Geographical

The search order can be changed by setting the environment variable SB_EU_ORDER to the wanted search order, using the abbreviations P (panel), RSO, C (compartment), CT (compartment type) and G (geographical) delimited by an underscore (_). The default search order as shown above would be defined by the following assignment to the environment variable:

P_RSO_C_CT_G