Discipline

This tab is concerned with associating the values of a selected Marine attribute with the values of Plant Model Management discipline attributes for the purpose of automatic assignment of an owner discipline to a clash. Displayed data is directly provided by VPE Workbench, except in the case of Stand Alone Clash Manager.

The pane at the top of the tab displays the list of Disciplines and their attribute values and, except for Stand Alone Clash Manager, are read-only. For Stand Alone Clash Manager, a Popup Menu is available (mouse right-click) with options to Add, Edit, Delete and Set as Default. This is used to add a new discipline, edit an existing discipline, remove an existing discipline and automatically set a discipline as default. Using this menu, the user creates the list of Disciplines and their attributes that Clash Manager can match with the values of the specified Marine attribute.

It is necessary to tell Clash Manager how to identify a discipline from a clashing element’s attributes or its owner’s attributes. The Attribute box enables the user to do this by specifying the particular attribute that, when evaluated, matches one of the attribute values shown in the right-hand column in the discipline table. For example, an :MMSDISC value of 'P' would normally correspond to the 'P' set as the attribute of discipline 'Piping'. Clash Manager will search for the attribute on the clashing item, and if not found there, will search the owning hierarchy for it.

Note:
If Not Used is selected, the attribute does not appear in the Clash Manager GUI, but the default discipline will be UNALLOCATED, unless set otherwise, by the drop-down list.

If a match is found then that discipline is associated with the clashing element, otherwise the clash is assigned to a default discipline selected from the Default drop-down list. If a clashing element does not match any of the specified values then it is set to a special discipline called ‘UNALLOCATED’.

Note:
This configuration is separate from the 'Project Defined Field' configuration at the Project Tab.