Structural Design

Marine is a powerful suite of facilities, for the design of Process Plant, the emphasis being on maximizing both design consistency and design productivity:

• The user can incorporate modifications into their design at any stage without fear of invalidating any of their prior work, because data consistency checking is an integral part of the product. Marine automatically manages drawing production, material take-off reports, and so on, by reading all design data directly from a common set of databases, to prevent errors from being introduced by transcribing information between different disciplines.

• The applications allows the user to check all aspects of the design as work progresses. This includes on-line interdisciplinary clash detection, so the chances of errors and inconsistencies reaching the final documented design are reduced to an exceptionally low level.

• The applications are controlled from a graphical user interface. This means that all design, drawing and reporting operations are initiated by selecting choices from menus, and by entering data into on-screen forms. For ease of use, pictorial icons also represent many common actions.

The Marine structural applications offer the following key benefits:

• The applications incorporate a number of geometric design aids, such as 3D positioning grids, design pins and 2D routing planes, to make it easy to position structural elements accurately within the design model. In most cases the user can specify the points at which design items are to be positioned using the pointer to pick the required points in a 3D model view.

Where possible, the Design applications create and maintain connectivity of the structural network automatically.

• The user can carry out multi-disciplinary clash checks at any stage of the design, thus avoiding spatial conflicts within the overall model which could be expensive to rectify at the construction stage. This is particularly important where different features of the design model are under the control of different designers.

• At any stage of work, the user can create reports listing specified data from the current database. The user can specify a standard report template, so the user can derive lists of commonly-required information very quickly, or design a one-off report format to suit special needs. The resultant output, which can include data from any design discipline, sorted in any way required, can be either displayed on screen or sent to a file (for storage and/or for printing).