The Use of Clips in AVEVA Marine

The clips have a close relation with the cutouts and correspondingly they are defined together with the cutout in Hull Modelling. The forms for cutout definition contain fields for user control of most of the attributes of the clips. Each cutout may be associated with at most three clips. for further information see User Guide Planar Modelling / Design Language of Hull Modelling / Cutout Statement.

The functions for setting position numbers, forming part names, display of position numbers in drawings, behave in principle in the same way as for other plate parts. The functionality is normally extended to clips without any need for special activation.

Clips have series of position numbers reserved for them (that means, they will not be sorted together with other plate parts and behave in this respect as for example, brackets). It is also possible (necessary) to set up special rules for the part names of clips. Clips are extracted to the plate databank at the same time as all other parts in the ppanparts module and the nesting system treats them also equally.