Hole Standards in AVEVA Marine

By definition closed contours in plate parts and profiles are in AVEVA Hull called holes. Holes should normally bet set in the interior of panels and in the interior of the web of profiles. In panels holes may very well be located across seams dividing the panel into plate parts. In that case the hole will result in edge openings in the parts on both sides of the seam. It is also possible to place a hole across the outer contour of a panel. The extracted plate parts will then be correct but holes across panel boundaries may cause inconveniences in 3D views of the hull model. A better solution in these cases is to replace the hole by a notch.

A hole can be either a physical hole or a fictitious hole. A physical hole is always presented in both symbolic views and 3D view as a free space. A fictitious hole is a hole that in the parts generation will rather be treated as a marking of a hole that will at a later stage in the production be cut out manually. This fictitious hole is by default not presented in 3D view. To enable these holes in a 3D view, the environment variable SBH_INPM_FICT_HOLE has to be defined (set to any arbitrary value). The hole is always presented in symbolic views.

It is possible to specify bevels to be applied around any hole. If the hole is created by reference to a penetrating object the possibly varying bevel angle may be calculated and applied for the selected bevel type ("dotori"). (Contrary to dotori along plate edges the bevel type is not picked automatically).