Structure Menu Functions - Properties

Purpose:

To add modelling properties to the RSOs available on the

databank SB_TID, in order to prepare them for automatic

generation of steel.

To copy, create, edit, move or recreate RSOs.

Prerequisites:

When releasing items from Surface/Compartment to the PIM

(menu item: File / Release / Design) the following issues should

be observed to ensure that correct limits are produced (to allow

automatic steel generation).

• A Main Deck should be defined as part of the envelope

definition. This may be a deck definition or a more general

surface. Whichever is used should be marked for release (a

tick appearing in the Design column of the Full View tree); as

it will be referenced by any Reference Surface Objects,

RSOs, (i.e. transverses, longitudinals or decks) that are also

marked for release.

• RSOs may also reference the bounding shell surface (in

Surface/Compartment this is the parent envelope). The name

of this surface is determined by checks in the following order:

1. If the envelope is marked for Design release, its ID is

used.

2. If the barehull of the envelope is marked for Design

release, its ID is used.

3. If the barehull used a Hull Form (i.e. a dml file) for its

definition, then the dml name is used.

Notes: The dependency of the barehull on a released dml file is set when the dml file is used to create a surface (menu item: File \ Use \ Hull Form…).

Any of these surfaces must also be registered through the function Project / Surfaces or via Initiate Hull Standards.

4. If none of the above items are found, then the limit will be

called ìHULL_NOT_KNOWNî.

The functional descriptions are based on the standard set-up of these descriptions. If these are not displayed properly, then check the functional descriptions and make additions according to this documentation. Alternatively, the current standard object can be deleted (with risk of loosing any added information). The next time

any access is made to the object, it will automatically be recreated with the standard descriptions.

Instructions:

The function brings in all the RSOs from the databank and

presents them in a tree-type dialog.

RSOs of types General Limits, Block Limits and Backdrop are presented below specific named nodes in the tree browser within the dialog. For these types of RSOs, general information is presented together with an editable field for the RSO type.

For RSO of type Compartment Limit or General Inner Structure also structural properties, such as functional descriptions,materials, profile data and end cut information can be added to a complete RSO or individually on faces of an RSO. The RSOs from which panels shall be generated automatically, should be marked using a tic box in the dialog. The properties of a RSO are described in Extracting RSO Information in Chapter Batch Utilities.

The end cut information is based on the set-up of the standard object for stiffener connections. See Hull / Setup and Customisation / Profiles in AVEVA Marine.

Bracket can currently be added to transversal bulkheads, using the bracket instance handling of AVEVA Marine. Set-up of this instance handling is further described in Hull / Setup and Customisation / Brackets.

This function also contains a possibility to generate new RSOs or

copy, move, recreate, delete or edit the shape of existing ones simply by using the right-click-button within the dialog.

Options:

Not available

Result:

The RSOs will be stored with the updated information.