User Set-up of Swage Characteristics

The characteristics of the swaging may be very different between different yards. A certain yard may also use multiple types of swages simultaneously. Therefore it is necessary that each customer should be allowed to control all characteristics of the type of swages used by him. This paragraph contains details about how this control is done.

All the characteristics of a customer's swaging are kept in a so called swage object which should be stored in the structure data bank (SB_OGDB). The name of this object can be selected freely but it must be given as an ip or default parameter in modules where the swaging is used, for example, in Planar Hull Modelling, Automatic Plane Part Generation (ppanparts), The swage object can be created in a subfunction of the inithull module.