Units of Measure – Extended Range of Conversions

AVEVA Hull and Outfitting has always provided conversions for distance and (pipe) bore measurements, to cater for the use of both Metric and Imperial (English) units. This has allowed users to work with feet and inch input & output, but with database storage always in millimetres. Area and volume units have been derived from the length units. Other physical quantities have been handled as purely numeric and have had no conversions applied to them.

AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1 extends these facilities to a much wider range of measures, and includes built-in definitions and conversion factors for a wide variety of units of measure, with standardised storage and efficient conversion.

These extensions are needed to provide for the much wider range of data now being handled, particularly for plant engineering and schematic data. These data now include Distance, Bore, Area, Volume, Angle, Weight, Temperature, Density, Pressure, Force, Voltage, Current, Impedance, and many others.

Note:
This does mean that the behaviour of some real attributes is different; users’ PML applications that check or manipulate these values will need to be reviewed.