Adding Vessel Supports

We will next add some user-selectable supports to the vessel body. These will be specified in exactly the same way as for the vessel ends, namely by setting a property which includes specification references to some pre-defined sub-equipment templates representing different support configurations.

Exercise continues:

1. Redisplay the Define Template Properties form and use the following property settings.

   Define Template Properties form:

   Description	Supports
   Key	SUPP
   Definition	Sub Element Ref
   Data Type	Sub Ref
   Default	/STD/2-Footed-Box/CL/TYPE

   Set Valid Values form:

   /STD/2-Footed-Box/CL/TYPE

   /STD/3-Footed-Box/CL/TYPE

   If you want to check these, you will find them in the Catalogue database under the following hierarchy:

   SPWL/ADV/EQUIPMENT/SUPP/SPWL

   SPEC/ADV/EQUIPMENT/SUPPORTS

   SELE/ADV/EQUIPMENT/HORIZONTAL/VESS/SUPPS

   SELE/ADV/EQUIPMENT/HORIZONTAL/VESS/SUPPS/1

   Associated Rule Definition form:

   The catalogue definition for each of these supports has the support position at the origin of the Equipment and the orientation the same as that of the Equipment, so no associated rules are required. You must, therefore, remove any associated rules which may already be set. The dimensions of the support will be derived from the design parameters of the owning Equipment, so that the overall support will be resized automatically to suit the dimensions of the vessel body.

That completes the definition of the equipment template’s geometry. We will finish the design by adding some dimensioning annotation which can be displayed by the user when the template is instanced in a design model.