Decision Table

The conditions for conversion of profiles to plate parts are defined in a decision table in an ordinary file, whose total file specification should be assigned to the environment variable SBH_PROF_TO_PLDB.

This file should be built up by a number of "statements" with one statement per line. The line width is restricted to 80 characters.

Each statement starts with a keyword followed by a varying number of values.

The structure of the input file is (only statement keywords shown):

(See also the remark in the example in section Conversion of Profiles - Example).

Limitations:

• Number of DIMENSION:s per PROFILE_TYPE is restricted to 200.

• Number of QUAL_LENGTH:s per DIMENSION is restricted to 200.

• Number of BEVEL:s per PROFILE_TYPE is restricted to 200.

• The statements FLANGE, COMP and STRAIGHT can be given once and are valid for all dimensions within the profile type.

• The file assigned to SBH_PROF_TO_PLDB must not have empty lines.