Surface Manager Replacing Surface Server

Description

For a long time the only way of using an external surface with Aveva Marine has been through the surface server. This has limited the type of operations performed on the surface and control of the quality, "fit for purpose", of the surface.

Starting with AVEVA Marine 12.1 all surfaces have to be released into the database and the surface server will not be used. To help with this when working with surfaces created by non AVEVA software, there is a new application, the AVEVA Surface Manager. It can import surfaces in IGES, SAT, STEP and dml formats. It also has a number of features for checking and repairing the surface.

Benefits

More advanced operations can be performed on the surface and the user can check the externally created surface before importing it to the database.

Compatibility Constraints

None

For More Information

Refer to User Guide AVEVA Surface Manager

Affected Programs

None.