Basics Page -Create Mode

Three methods of creating a basic compartment are available:

• Predefined - you must select the 6 appropriate boundaries before clicking Apply.

• Interactive - clicking Apply begins the interactive selection cycle, with the system prompting for selection of the aft bounding surface. This is selected with the cursor from a view. After the aft boundary has been selected, the system will prompt for the forward, lower, upper, starboard and port boundaries in turn. It is possible to select the current envelope at any stage by clicking the space bar.

• Slice - clicking Apply causes the system to automatically select the nearest boundaries to a predefined location, specified by the slice plane position. A prerequisite of this method is that two graphics views (in slice mode) displaying any 2 of the 3 orthogonal views (section, waterline or buttock) are open. You should first position the slice plane intersection at a location within the compartment space, prior to clicking Compartment.

If the additional option, Both Sides, is selected, the compartment defined in any of the above process will be reflected about the centerline and then the two components merged to form a single compartment definition.