Intelligent Text Handling Enhancement

Draft allows all Design and Catalogue database attributes and pseudo-attributes to be used in the annotation of drawings. It is also possible to use attributes of related elements; for example, #SITE gives the name of site owning the referenced element.

Hull & Outfitting 12.1 additionally allows the more commonly used position attributes (POS, HPOS, TPOS, APOS, TPOS, NPOS, POSS, POSE, DRPS and DELP) to be qualified so as to provide only one of the coordinates. For example:

• #POS full 3D position, for example, W12250 N7890 U3120

• #POSE Easting coordinate only, for example, E12250, W9675

• #POSN, #POSU, #POSX, #POSY, #POSZ are also provided.

  Note:
  The codeword #POSE can have two meanings depending on the context: for SCTNs it means the POSE attribute (Section End Position), in other cases it means the Easting of the POS attribute

For other position attributes, single coordinates can be obtained by using a single index qualifier. For example:

• #GCOFG[2] would give the Northing (Y coordinate) of the Gross Centre of Gravity.

  Positions can be output in ‘+/-‘ format by appending ‘+’ to the codeword. For example:

• #POS+ would give -12250 +7890 +3120 for the example above

  For full details, please refer to Chapter 14 of the DRAFT User Guide.