Penetration Subapplication Menus

The floating menu bar gives you full control of the Penetration subapplication, which allows you to create and modify the geometry of penetrations where one or more design items pass through a hole in another item. Both this menu bar and the main application menu bar are active: one gives access to those functions specific to penetration design, the other accesses the general design functions. The menu bar shown below is displayed in the Pipework Application:

The menu options are:

Control > Close lets you dismiss the Penetration subapplication while remaining in the main application from which you selected it.

Display lets you show a separate graphical view of the region around a penetration, clipped to remove design items not involved in the current penetration. Also lets you display details of an existing penetration (which you can modify if required).

Settings lets you set default specifications (so that you do not need to specify clearances separately for each penetration), and maximum permitted angles for non-orthogonal penetrations.

Navigate lets you navigate to selected penetration items in the graphical view and/or in the database in various ways.

Create lets you create penetrations automatically, where existing design items pass through other items, or explicitly, where you simply want to insert a hole into an existing item.

Modify lets you modify the details of an existing penetration. Also lets you merge separate penetrations into a multiple one, such that the hole is adjusted to accommodate more than one penetrating item.

Delete lets you delete entire penetrations or tidy up redundant cross-references after you have modified items.

Position lets you reposition a hole explicitly, associate a hole with an item which does not actually pass through it, or realign a hole to suit a penetrating item which has been repositioned.

Orientate lets you reorientate a hole explicitly, or realign a hole to suit a penetrating item which has been reorientated (including orientating holes for non-orthogonal penetrations).