HullandOutfitting User Bulletin
HullandOutfitting User Bulletin
HullandOutfitting User Bulletin
1 (Service Pack 2)
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Contents
AVEVA Hull & Outfitting Release 12.1 (Service Pack 2) User Bulletin 1.
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Introduction
About AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1 1.1.1 1.2 1.3 About AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1.SP2 *12.1.SP2*
About this Bulletin Software Distribution and Installation 1.3.1 Projects in Folders with Embedded Spaces
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Licensing AVEVA Hull and Outfitting Software AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1 Test Projects
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International Characters (Unicode) Units of Measure 2.9.1 2.9.2 Units in Outfitting Units in Hull and Drafting
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Schematics Functions
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Configuration
Operating Environment PC Hardware Configuration Microsoft Windows 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.4 3.5 *12.1.SP2*
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Textual File Handling Filenames and PML Using Forms and Menus Using TTY Mode Graphical Output
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Units of Measure 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3 4.2.4 Supported Dimensions and Units Other UNITS Commands Upgrading to use new Units Units set up for Hull and Drafting
Enhanced Password Protection Status Control Report generation 4.5.1 4.5.2 New Reporting Add-in Classic Reporting
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GML Performance
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Database changes
New Database types 5.1.1 5.1.2 5.2 5.3 Engineering Database Design Reference Database
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Duplicate Names Flexibility of Data Organisation 5.5.1 5.5.2 5.5.3 5.5.4 Database Views Distributed Attributes Handling of Duplicated Names of UDAs and UDETs Top-Level Element Creation in Specific Database
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Dynamic Groups Database Performance 5.7.1 5.7.2 Specifying the Buffer Size Dabacon Index Tables
Units of Measure Unicode Storage of Name and Text Attributes DRAFT Line-style World Hierarchy Extract Control Include Flush Capability
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Entry to System Save and Restore Views
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Grid Control Toolbar Popup Menu PML Collections Attribute Display, Editing and Validation Auto-naming Utility Enhancement Additional Debug Information about PML Applications 6.8.1 6.8.2 Help About PML Alert
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Infragistics Toolkit
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Administration
GUI Improvements Lexicon 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.3 New Lexicon Graphical View UDA Lists of Values Database Views General
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Admin GUI Changes for Global 7.3.1 7.3.2 7.3.3 7.3.4 7.3.5 Global Support for Linked Documents Database Distribution Form Creation of an Event without Times Remote File Details in Admin Enhanced User Interface for Sessions
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Lines - Individual Tuft Size in Views in PACE Lines - Macro Editor in PACE Lines - Clines Project Limits (PMB and Mid Ships) Lines - Curve Highlighting Lines - Locking and Fitting to a Plane Lines - Curve Interrogation Lines Angle Curve Creation/Editing Lines - User Local View Corrugated RSOs Compartment Export/Import in XML Format Release of Weights to Calc Axis Setting Reflected in Dialogs Sea Water Density Multiple Lightship Weights Oil Outflow Inclining Experiment Probabilistic Stability to SOLAS 2009 Rules Damage Case Summary Table MODU Wind Heeling Moments Connected Compartments ABS Towing Criteria
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Reuse of Seam and Profile Numbers Multiple Negatives when Designing User Defined End Cut Split of Hull Notes and Posno Enhanced Selection Filtering Blocks and Panels from Tree View Set-up of a Project to Use Free Naming Hole Annotation Enhancement Hull Qualities in CATA Shellx with Plate Scantlings, Position Numbers and Material Quality New Dialog when Setting Functional Descriptions Increased Number of Surfaces
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Bevel Chamfer Option Bevel for Shell Stiffener Ends Position of Upper and Lower Cutting Curve Position Control of Shell Profile and Plane Panel Stiffener Compensation for Shell Plate Thickness Top View of Stiffener Improved Weld Built Profiles before Bending Weight Unit in Profile Sketches Generic File Viewer Looking Field Changed for Hull Mark Projection Control of Marking Gap at Holes GSD Marking of Built Profiles Mark Reference Plane on Both Sides of Profiles Nest Profiles without Rest New Nesting Default Parameters
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Nesting Plug-In Interface Storing Changes after Running Production Programs New MANU Data Model Automatic Naming of Production Sketches Find Documents Related to Production Parts Naming of Curved Plates and Stiffeners Function to Find and Remove Dangling MANU Parts Enhancement in Dialogue for Automatic Position Number Definition. Reflection in Hull Element Names and Hurefl Attribute FRP Additions Tribon 5 Curved Hull Input Data
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Assembly Planning Context Menu *12.1.SP2* Curved Hull Panel as Base Panel for Assembly Orientation Clean Up Assembly References New Drawing Type for Assembly ADP Drawings Multiple Select Change Projection of an Assembly ADP Drawing View POS attribute available for ASMBLY Elements
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Multi-line Dimension Texts *12.1.SP2* Marine Drafting Open Sheet *12.1.SP2* Marine System Font *12.1.SP2* *12.1.SP2*
Default Action at Start-up New Module Name Drawing Export Formats Navigate To
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General Note Choose Projection Fill Styles Symbol Files Dynamic Highlighting Arc Quarter Points New Definition of Line Segment, Direction + Length Simple Arithmetic in 2D Offset Input Automatic Chaining of New Contours to Existing Ones Dimensioning UI Improvements Improved Dragging Technique Plane Reference Text in Distance-To-Plane Dimensioning Delete Last Entity Persisting Contours to PADD Text Font Attributes Dimming & Checking of Menu Items Unicode Restriction of Symbolic Views Inspect Drawing Draw Assemblies RSO Default Colours RSO Enhancements in Insert Model Curved Panel Holes in Input Model Base Line Position Ruler Overlays Protection of the Drawing Form View Open Drawing Drag and Drop to the 2D Canvas. Marine .NET API (hull views) Removing Default Variables TBSystemFonts Persisting of part level modifications in Linear Dimensions
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Enhanced Angular Dimensions Enhanced P-line Picking Improved Performance of Extrusions Drawing Gridlines Intelligent Text Handling Enhancement Export to CAD Formats Support for Unicode Text Improved Drawing Feature Export Configurable DXF & DWG Export Configurable DGN Export AVEVA Isometric ADP
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AVEVA Diagrams
Flipping Labels *12.1.SP2* Improved Copy/paste Capability *12.1.SP2* Diagram Change Highlighting Connection between Instrument and Process Items Automatic Upgrade of Options Settings Files Admin Settings vs. User Settings Handling of Units in Annotations Publish Diagrams Data to AVEVA NET Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority. Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic Model Viewer Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority. Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic Model Viewer Split-Merge for SCBRAN Setting SCVALV GTYP to INST rather than VALV Changes to Upgrade Drawing Functionality. Linked Files Update
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Possibility to Determine Connector Re-route Style Default Value of the Stencil in Batch Job Auto Hide Option for Shape Text for Short Connectors Miscellaneous Minor Improvements
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AVEVA Engineering
Tags Admin Tab Tag Deletion 24.1.1 24.1.2
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Schematic Model Manager Use of units Units upgrade Change Highlighting in Diagram
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Move, Drag Move and Plane Move Commands Summary of Move, Drag Move and Plane Move options
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Change highlighting and reversion Enhanced User Interface for Sessions Revert Elements Command Change Highlighting via Extract Data Control Change Highlighting via Model Changes Add-in
Enhanced attribute export to Review Weight and Centre of Gravity (CofG) form DRAFT Explorer AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface
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Create Holes Merge Holes Modify (and Delete) Holes Utilities Configuration of Hole Management Data Hole Association Manager
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Multi-Discipline Supports Cable Tray Supports Automatic generation of pads Updating client project defaults Outfitting Piping Isometrics New Output File Formats, Including PDF TrueType Fonts Large Coordinates Additional Coordinate Formats Drawing Pipe Spool North Arrow Text Pipe Penetration Seal Symbol Setting Units in Options files
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Global WCF Global Claim Commands Global WCF Service Name ADUUID Attribute Length
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Known Issues
Outstanding Faults and Issues General Issues AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator AVEVA Global New Reporting Add-in *12.1.SP2* 29.1.1 29.1.2 29.1.3 29.1.4
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Revision History
Date September 2011 28/9/2011 29/9/2011 Description Initial release of 12.1 Updated Added information about ASL, moved Piping Isometrics to Outfitting Design. Added section 1.3.1 Projects in Folders with Embedded Spaces. Added section 29.1.3 New Reporting Add-in. Added section 29.1.3 AVEVA Global. Added reference to Upgrade documentation in chapter 2, release note 9.1 ha been updated with a last bullet point. Updated for 12.1.SP2 service pack.
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Introduction
This bulletin describes the new and enhanced functionality available in AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1 as compared to AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.0. It gives an overview of the major changes, which are described in full in new and revised User Documentation. Some known issues are also described in this bulletin.
*12.1.SP2*
AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1.SP2 is a full release that supersedes AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1 and any subsequent partial fix releases. It comprises a significant number of fault corrections, including those previously released in the fix release 12.1.1.1 (and ongoing fix releases of Hull and Outfitting 12.0) together with enhancements. It addresses a number of issues found by early adopters of the 12.1.1 release, together with those found during AVEVAs extensive test programme. The documentation has been updated to suit; each manual now has a revision sheet, which gives a brief history of changes to the manual.
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There are fewer separate installers, each corresponding to an AVEVA release, on the DVD. The Hull & Outfitting/Marine installer now includes options to install many of the associated products, although, for various reasons, some products still use a separate installer.
Using separate installers means that a selection of products can easily be installed together. This includes the AVEVA Global client option, which enables the use of Hull and Outfitting or other Marine products with Global. However, there is a separate installer for Global server, which is usually installed on a separate machine, such as a server, which does not necessarily have Hull and Outfitting installed. There are options to install batch files and shortcuts on the desktop and/or in the start menu for direct entry to popular modules. In addition, the pml index can be automatically configured. Please note that there is no thin client installation option as this is no longer supported. Existing installations should be changed, repaired or removed using Add or Remove Programs from the Control Panel. This process will prompt for the original DVD if required. This ensures that a consistent product set, as tested by AVEVA, will be deployed. Fix releases (patches) will use a standard updating process, which also checks, and if necessary heals, the existing installation. There is therefore no prompt for location, as the system already has this information. Fix releases may also be removed using Add or Remove Programs. Fix releases are applied to all products installed together, not to the individual products. The use of the latest fix release is recommended: this includes any previous fixes to products installed together. Please note: During the installation it is fully possible to change the path in which the Marine product is installed from its suggested default. However, it is required that the installation path does not include folders with spaces in the names.
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For full details of the installation options and procedure, and the hardware and software requirements, please refer to the Marine Software Installation Guide and Minimum System Requirements Marine.
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Project
MAR
MDB
ALL_NO_MDS ALL_WITH_MDS ASSYPLANNING CABLEAFT CABLETRAYAFT CURVEDHULL DBPROMPT EQUIPAFT HADMIN HULLNESTING HVACAFT INITDES LAYOUTAFT MDSAFT OUTSTEELAFT PIPEAFT PLANARHULL PROJADMIN SCHEMATICS STRUCDESIGN WELDPLANNING
Description
MDB for Project Setup with ALL databases except MDS MDB for Project Setup with ALL databases including MDS For Assembly Planning Hull and Outfit Users For Outfit Aft Cable User For Outfit Aft Cabletray User For Curved Hull User For creating required db elements from DB Prompt For Outfit Aft Equipment User For Hull Admin User For Hull Nesting User For Outfit Aft HVAC User For Initial Design User For Outfit Aft Layout User For Outfit Aft MDS User For Aft Outfit Steel User For Outfit Aft Piping User For Planar Hull User For Project Admin User For Schematics User For Structural Design User For Weld Planning User
MAS (Catalogue)
The MDBs can be accessed by the system (FREE) user (SYSTEM/XXXXXX), each has their own 'dedicated' user as well. There will be a full Project Description PDF file with each project which contains the details outlined in the table above, plus the Teams and Users (including passwords) available in the project. This can be found for the Marine (MAR) project at the projects installation location top level, (MARProjectDescription.pdf and MASProjectDescription.pdf).
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Please note that the full Upgrade documentation is available from the User Documentation index page Read Me First / Upgrade 12.0 to 12.1.
This warning (or similar) indicates that the project needs to be upgraded to the latest version in order to allow write access. All the Part Upgrades will be run by a new Upgrade Framework, which converts a Hull & Outfitting 12.0 project to 12.1. This is initiated from Admin using the following commands in the Command Pane (or TTY mode):
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The Upgrade tool is invoked from Admin; it controls the upgrade process and runs each Part Upgrade in the appropriate order. Upgrades relevant to Hull & Outfitting that are covered by this process are: UKEYs (now include database number to avoid duplicates) Performance of finding database elements (index by type) Module Definitions new TAGS module (and renamed Marine Drafting module) Character handling (Unicode representation for names, text etc.) HULL FEM Data Model Compressed HULL Objects New Index on Hull Object Type Start Value for Name Sequence Assembly POS Attribute Line widths in Draft (widths of thin, medium and thick lines now stored in system database) The upgrade tool puts an upgrade number in the databases, indicating the level to which they have been upgraded. This makes it easy to detect, on opening, whether a database has or has not been upgraded. This upgrade number will also be used by the Reconfigure process.
Pre 12.1 Software Version Pre 12.1 12.1.1 Future (e.g. 12.2) R/W R R
Database Upgrade Version 12.1.1 Future (e.g. 12.2) Max Open Mode X X R/W X R R/W
This control ensures that AVEVA software that opens a database is compatible with the contents of that database and thereby prevents accidental data corruption. It also ensures that data intended for use with one software version is not modified by a newer, incompatible software version. X indicates no access; however, versions earlier than 12.1 do not make this check, so cannot detect a database upgraded to 12.1 or later.
2.5 Global
Each database must be entirely in either an upgraded or non-upgraded state for Hull & Outfitting to work correctly. Therefore it is essential that all extracts of any database are processed during an upgrade. The whole project, excluding Foreign databases, should be upgraded at once.
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LOCK AT <location>
The HUB can be locked without the need for a daemon command using the command:
LOCK
It is possible to confirm whether locations are locked by evaluating the return result from:
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between extracts (working extracts are an exception to this see below). Nor should they need to delete any extract families to leave only Masters. However all extracts will need to be relocated to a single location, although this does not need to be the HUB.
FROM DB MASTER/DICT TO FILE /c:\DICT1 /c:\DICT2 RCFCOPY ALL RECONFIG SESSIONS FROM FILE /c:\DICT1 /c:\DICT2 TO DB MASTER/DICT RECONFIG
Doing it this way means that no deletion and recreation (or copy) is required for the DB, and therefore neither is re-adding to the MDB structures required. Using RECONFIG SESSIONS in the FROM phase of the reconfigure operation will preserve both the sessions and references.
Summary
Locally Encoded (Legacy) Databases: can be opened for read access in both Hull & Outfitting 12.1 and earlier versions can be opened for write access in both Hull & Outfitting 12.1 and non-Unicode versions, but the range of characters which may be used is restricted to the set defined by the project settings require that the project settings are correct so that characters can be interpreted correctly can be reconfigured to a Unicode encoded database
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Unicode Encoded Databases: cannot be opened for read or write access in versions of Hull & Outfitting prior to 12.1 can store the full range of Unicode characters available in Hull & Outfitting 12.1
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Shape upgrades in Diagrams automatic when opening a diagram in write mode Systems moved to Reference Design database
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Configuration
*12.1.SP2*
Hull & Outfitting 12.1 is supported for use on Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack (SP) 3 or on Windows 7 (Business and Enterprise editions) Service Pack 1, with appropriate patches. A single 32-bit version of the Hull & Outfitting system is available; this is supported on both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. It is no longer supported on Windows 2000; indeed Microsoft no longer offers support for Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2. Please note that User Account Control (UAC) introduces new security restrictions at Windows 7). In particular, this makes it important to ensure that files that need to be written are accessible by users without Administrator privileges.
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Serialization
Please note that serialized settings (of the user interface configuration) are now saved in the following location on Windows XP:
C:\users\<username>\Appdata\Local\AVEVA\
Excel Interoperability
Import of data into a grid control requires an optional component from Microsoft Office. This is not supplied with Hull & Outfitting but is an installation option for Microsoft Office. Please ensure that .NET Programmability Support under Advanced customisation of applications is enabled when Office is installed. This will install the Microsoft Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll. If this assembly is not enabled, invoking the Excel import facility will not work.
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4.1.1 Restrictions
Hull & Outfitting MS has been tested using the same range of languages as previous releases. No font files are available for any other language; this means that TrueType fonts must be used on drawings and that therefore it is not possible to produce plotfile output. With that restriction, it is anticipated that many other languages will work, though there are aspects of the Unicode standard that are not yet implemented. Hull & Outfitting currently handles the following correctly: Left to Right languages; and therefore not, for example, Arabic and Hebrew Pre-composed characters; for example, the single ch Upper and lower casing of characters, where both cases have the same number of bytes
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not currently fully support Unicode filenames. AVEVA has also encountered problems using files with non-ASCII names in some development tools.
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Data Access Routine User Guide Database Management Reference Manual Design Reference Manual Creating The Model Design Reference Manual General Commands Lexicon Command Reference Software Customisation Guide Software Customisation Reference Manual
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Name of Dimension AbsPressure Acceleration Angle Angular Frequency AngularMomentum Area Bore Capacitance Charge Conductance Content Currency Current Density DensityMANDB ElectricConductivity ElectricField EMF Energy EnergyDensity Force FoulingFactor Frequency GaugePressure HeatCapacity HeatingValue HeatTransferCoeff Impedance Inductance Inertia KinematicViscosity Length LinearDensity MagFieldIntensity MagFluxDensity MagneticFlux Mass MassFlow Momentum Permeability Permittivity Power Pressure RadiationDose Radioactivity Resistivity RotationalStiffness SpecHeatCapacity SpecificEnergy Speed Stiffness SurfaceDensity
HashCode /Word ABSP ACCL ANGL ANGF ANGM SQDI BORE CAPA CHAR COND PCUD CURY CURR DENS MAND CNDT EFLD EMF ENER EDEN FORC FFAC FREQ GAGE ENTR HVAL HTRA IMPE INDU INER KVIS DIST PDIS MFIN MFXD MGFX MASS MFLO MOME PMBT PMTT POWE PRES RDOS RADY REST STFR SHCP SENG SPEE STIF PSQD
Database units pascal m/s2 degree rpm N.m.s mm2 mm farad coulomb siemens mm-3 USDollar ampere kg/m3 kg/mm3 Si/m V/m2 volt kiloWatthour kg/m3 newton m2.K/W hertz pascal J/m J/m3 W/m2/K ohm henry kg/m2 m2/s millimetre mm-1 A/m tesla weber kilogram kg/s N.s H/m F/m kiloWatt pascal sievert bequerel ohm/m N.m/rad N/K J/kg m/s N/m mm-2
other specific units bar atm PSI torr mmHg inHg gforce (gravity) radian grade arcmin arcsec
acre hectare in
UKPound Euro
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joule BTU cal poundal dyne kgF lbF rpm bar atm PSI torr mmHg inHg
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Name of Dimension Temperature TemperatureGradient ThermalConductivity ThermalResistance Time Torque UnitMass ViscosityDynamic Volume VolumetricFlow None WORD Parameter
HashCode /Word TEMP TPDI TCON TRES TIME TORQ UMAS VISC CUDI VFLO NONE WORD UNIPAR
Database units degCelsius degC/mm W/m/K K/W second N.m kg/mm s/Pa mm3 m3/s
comment
numerical real attribute used to assign parameter dimensions etc. used for parameter attributes
DEFAULT Units
The default unit of a physical dimension is the database storage unit, which is listed in the table above. The command UNITS DEFAULT formerly set the DISTANCE default units to mm; it now sets the units of all the dimensioned attributes to their database storage units. Individual dimensions can be set to their default selectively using the command:
NUMERIC Units
All attributes that have the UNIT field set for the first time, were stored in previous versions as values with no specified unit. The units that were previously attributed to their values were determined by use and convention and could change from application to application, and project to project. This flexibility can no longer be supported as storage units must be defined. Database storage units have been set to those most commonly used, but this will not be universally compatible. The UNITS NUMERIC command is introduced for compatibility:
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No unit qualifying strings will be appended to output values Input values with no qualifying unit strings will be stored without conversion in the database If input values have a unit qualifying string, a conversion factor will be applied. This is of particular value to users who wish to continue storing and using attribute values as now, and especially when the values stored are assumed by their system to be in units that are DIFFERENT to those now being assumed by Hull & Outfitting. The system also supports UNITS NUMERIC DISTANCE for completeness. When a fundamental dimensions unit is NUMERIC, all derived dimensions that use this fundamental dimension will also be treated as NUMERIC. For example, setting NUMERIC MASS will force densities and pressures to be numeric, irrespective of the currently set distance units. Derived units can have their units set to NUMERIC even if their fundamental dimensions have units set.
Pressures
Pressures are in Force per unit area. Pressure units are supported but whether the pressure is absolute or relative to atmospheric pressure (Gauge Pressure) is a matter for the user to determine when he sets values. No conversion is performed.
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Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted Any customer appware managing unit conversion or display can be removed or replaced by standard functions
If quantities have been stored in mixed units with a UDA recording the unit for each Set the UUNIT for any UDAs Set the dimensions to numeric, e.g. UNITS NUMERIC TEMPERATURE Output a file with the attribute values, with the value from the unit UDA appended Check the format of the value plus unit conforms to new input format rules If necessary edit the file with a text editor or script to achieve this Read the file back in Set current units as preferred, e.g. UNITS DEGF TEMPERATURE Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted Any customer appware managing unit conversion or display can be removed or replaced by standard functions If quantities have been stored in mixed units with custom and practice being the only record of the unit, which is hopefully rarely the case: For the short-term set the dimensions to NUMERIC Plan to move to more rigorous use of units, probably employing a combination of the techniques above
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A warning is also given, when using the Generate Script dialog, if the password for logging in to the project is not correct. An incorrect password could cause an invalid password error when the script is later executed.
In addition to the ConfirmID(), method on the SESSION object, an analogous method has been added to the USER object. This method also takes a string as argument: the suggested password text with leading / character. It returns a boolean value that determines whet her the password is correct for the specified user. Example: !u = object USER(|MYUSER|) if !u.ConfirmID( |/SESAME| ) then $*
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Spooler, Draft and Isodraft, as well as in some of the Engineer product modules (Schematic Model Manager, Diagrams and TAGS.) Running existing reports should be simple. For detailed instructions on designing new reports, please see the new Report Designer User Guide. A chapter in that guide gives some further information about running reports from the Search results grid and from Run Report:
A new PML Reporting API is documented in the Software Customisation Reference Manual.
The reporting functions are largely unchanged; however, there are some changes due to the implementation of more units handling. The effect is that: The units output for quantities other than distance will be the appropriate current working unit; distances will be given in mm unless inch is specified When Units Conversion is set to Off, quantities will have their units appended. In this case, distances will be in mm with mm appended, for example a one inch distance will be shown as. 25.4mm. When Units Conversion is set to Any/mm or Inch, the units are not appended but are show as 25.4 or 1. Details are available, as before, in the Reporting Reference Manual. The new Report tool is available in Marine Drafting, but in Hull the reports are generated in the traditional way, with specific hull functions.
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Database changes
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with the specified values; if more than one range is required for the project, these should be created on the command line. A Unique button for DB Number on the Create Database form ensures creation of a database within the projects range: see picture in section 5.1.2.
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Simplified access control o It may be sufficient to use database ownership (by teams)
Data may be included or excluded by database Extensibility of data structures an alternative to direct use of UDETs and UDAs A binding element is used to achieve this: it may bind any number of bound elements, but these bound elements can only bind to one binding element. The attributes defined on the bound elements are then available on the binding element for both querying and manipulation. Details of the configuration and use of distributed attributes can be found in the Database Management Reference Manual and Lexicon User Guide.
ALL PIPE WHERE (BORE GT 80) ALL BRAN MEMBERS WHERE (SPREF EQ /MYSPEC) for SITE /SITE1
There is a performance overhead in evaluating more complex selection expressions.
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Dabacon Buffer
The Dabacon buffer is used for temporary storage of data in local memory and can therefore have a significant effect on performance. Increasing its size is likely to reduce the amount of network I/O, so in generally a larger buffer will improve performance. However if it is larger than the available memory, paging will increase, thus offsetting some of the advantages. Previous versions of Hull & Outfitting 12 have limited the buffer to between 32,000 and 51,200,000 (integers) with a default of (in general) only 12,800,000. This corresponds to a default of 50 and a maximum of 200 Mbytes; with modern PCs, most customers found it best to use the maximum value, set by use of the BUFFER command in Admin. These values have been increased at Hull & Outfitting 12.1; it may now be set to between 20 Mbytes and 1 Gbyte.
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Querying the Amount of Unused Buffer This may be queried using the command: Q DABACON AVAIL.
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User Interface
Note: The console window may be suppressed by using a noconsole argument to the start-up script. It may also be controlled using an environment variable: if you wish to run the system with the console hidden, use:
set AVEVA_NOCONSOLE=TRUE
6.2 Save and Restore Views This new feature allows a user to take a
snapshot of a view and save it to file. The saved view can be reinstated when required, including a new session of Hull & Outfitting. A saved view consists of three elements: The current drawlist View properties (e.g. view direction) A snapshot picture of the view when it was saved When selecting which view to restore, the snapshot picture is shown to help identify the correct view. Note that this snapshot is just a picture captured at the time the view was saved. Elements in that picture may have been modified or deleted since the picture was saved, so when the view may look different once it is restored. In fact, it is possible that an empty view may appear if all elements in the drawlist have been deleted or moved outside the view area since the original view was saved.
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The Save & Restore 3D Views function is accessed via a new icon on the 3D View: The old numbered saved views are no longer available. For details, please refer to the Graphical Model Manipulation Guide.
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!!ce.fluref.namn & '-' & !!ce.pspec.namn & '-' & !!ce.ispec.namn & '-' & !index
However this rule will fail if any of the attributes (FLUREF, PSPE, ISPE) have not been set. You can now use the IFTRUE function in PML1 form to do the same by using the following rule:
iftrue(badref(fluref) ,'unset' , namn of fluref) & '-' & iftrue(badref(pspec) ,'unset' , namn of pspe) & '-' & iftrue(badref(ispe) ,'unset' , namn of ispe) & '-' & !index
Please note that the whole Format must be PML 1, concatenated with the &. It is not possible to mix PML1 and PML2 functions. The result of this rule can be seen below:
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The FLUREF and ISPE have not been set but the PSPE is set to /A3B, so the resultant name is unset-A3B-unset-1.
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An additional button has been added to the PML alert dialog to allow extra information relevant to the alert to be saved to file. Clicking the Save Support Info button will bring-up a save file dialog and allow the user to save the extended information:
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7.
Administration
7.2 Lexicon
7.2.1 New Lexicon Graphical View
A new user interface can show a graphic representation of the relationships between Lexicon data entities, using nodes and links, in the style of UML and entity relationship diagrams. There is a series of graphical views, which are shown on separate tabbed panes in the Lexicon User Interface. There are 4 types of view, showing UDAs, UDETs, status definitions and distributed attributes. Each view tab is opened by selecting the Graphical View menu option during a right click on an element of a supported type in the Lexicon explorer. The picture below shows a screenshot of Lexicon with the new Graphical View on the right, sideby-side with the Dictionary Explorer and Current Element Editor. Individual views are associated with a single database element. To open a view, select the element of interest in the explorer and click the context menu. Each view opens in a separate tab, whose title reflects the name of the element for which it was opened.
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database attribute or an expression run against the equipment element. The user can also specify how to navigate to related elements, such as the owning SITE or ZONE, and derive further columns from that element. This is similar in concept to a saved search except that editable columns may be derived from several elements. Database Views may be defined and modified in the DICTIONARY database using Lexicon to set up new elements in a new Database View World (DBVWWL/D). Their definition may alternatively be stored as a local settings file (similar to saved searches) or as part of an application. This allows: User defined Database Views for reports, ad-hoc working etc. Project defined Database Views, shared via Global Application defined Database Views for specialist applications The Editor is currently available in the LEXICON and TAGS modules, under Display > Database Views Editor.
Access to the full Editor is gained by selecting Element Views from the dropdown list in the View Definition Set area. For details, please refer to the Tags User Guide. Database Views are created automatically to represent element type structures so that users dont have to define them to make element information accessible to the generic reporting tool. This means there is already a Database View for equipment elements with their attributes defined in columns.
7.2.4 General
The User Interface has been changed to help with maintenance and improve consistency. In particular the following have changed: New menu on the menu bar Explorer right click menu (now consistent with other modules) Edit Members on the Explorer menu New element types, which have changed the contents of the Explorer, Current Element editor and ElementType editor.
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Note: Link Documents are only available in DESI databases Link Document Propagation can be enabled on the command line by setting the GLINKP attribute on the GLOCWL (/*GL) element. The default is false indicating that Link propagation is disabled for the project. To determine which documents require propagation the update process must scan applicable databases. As this has a performance impact on the overall time for updates, the administrator can select which databases to scan. By default all DESI databases will be scanned for Link documents. It is possible to disable Link Documents propagation for a single database via the CREATE/MODIFY Database form by deselecting the Link Documents tick box:
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Note: The linked Document tickbox is only available for DESI databases; this option is not available for other types of databases. The DBLOC element for the Database contains the attribute NOLNKP to determine whether the database should be scanned for link documents. This defaults to False indicating that links will be propagated if enabled. To determine if a Database can support Link Documents the attribute ISLNKD can be queried. The attribute DBLNKP can be queried to determine if the update process will scan this database for link documents. The Global update process will scan all relevant databases to determine what linked documents to propagate to the remote location. Link Documents are applied to the database through the creation if a LNDESC element. The scan will select all link documents that have the LNKPRP attribute set to SEND. The document is referenced via the URL link which must have the format file:///<pathname>; The file specified by <pathname> must exist at both the source and destination locations. Usually this is best achieved using an Environment variable to hide installation differences. Link Documents fully support the use of spaces in path/filenames. The Update process only propagates documents that are not present at the remote location. It does not support documents that have changed and as a result these will not be propagated over the top of the previous version. However, it is possible to force the propagation of link documents by using the following command in Admin:-
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Note: The originating location of a document referenced by an extract hierarchy may be unclear. For this reason RECOVER and the FORCE option of SYNCHRONISE should be used with caution for extracts. Progress and State (Success/Failure) of linked document propagation is recorded in the transaction database
Limitations
When creating a new location with allocated databases the linked documents will not be transferred. These will require a forced Synchronisation after the location has been configured and initialised. Global does not delete linked documents at the remote location when the linked document has been marked with LNKPRP DELE. Offline transfer is not supported. Linked documents propagation does not guarantee consistency between files at different locations. In particular:Linked documents functionality is primarily intended for files which are part of the data model, such as PDF Plotfiles, and certain Marine files; Linked documents are not definitely linked to the database which references them. It is therefore difficult to track such documents once the link description is no longer available. Likewise linked documents may be referenced multiple times. This will be the norm for extract databases. This makes it difficult to identify the primary location of a document. It is possible to reference Linked documents for other data types of documents, such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets; It is possible for users to change documents at the destination location; this will lead to an inconsistency between locations. The update process does not detect this. Behaviour for extract hierarchies may not be as expected. For this reason the FORCE option should be used with caution on databases in an extract hierarchy, since it could overwrite the wrong version of the file. No documents are deleted when a database is de-allocated. For this reason ALLOCATE will always overwrite any pre-existing files. There is a strong likelihood that orphan linked documents will be left behind after databases have been merged, backtracked, de-allocated or deleted.
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The Data Distribution form lists all Databases in the project and maps it against a matrix of locations. This uses the common symbols of:-
+ - > *
indicates the database is primary at this location indicates the database is allocated to this location but is primary elsewhere indicates the database is in transit from this location under a pending transaction indicates the database is foreign and allocated to this location
By selecting a number of databases and a location, it is possible to change all those databases to be primary to the selected location.
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8.
This bulletin describes the new and enhanced functionality available in AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.1 as compared to 12.0. It gives an overview of the major changes, which are described in full in new and revised User Documentation.
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9.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
All PDMS based applications
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Benefits
Handle wraparounds and name sequence restarts from specified initial value.
Compatibility Constraints
To store an initial value other than zero upgrade of NSEQ dbs is required.
Affected Programs
Curved Hull Design and any customisation using NSEQ dbs.
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Example:
Benefits
The new PML function makes it possible to create Hull Blocks without using DBPrompt.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design
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HSTIFF idsp 6003 of HPANEL /ER2-LP32_2 The value 6003 is provided by the TBID attribute for the HSTIFF element. Hull elements with a TBID attribute will be presented in this format. Command graphs are adjusted so that the same format can be used as input by user to change position in the element hierarchy.
Benefits
More stable identification of unnamed hull elements.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
This is a core change that affects all programs exploring hull data.
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Benefits
Performance in terms of read/write I/O; and less space consumed in the database. I/O reductions on up to 40 percent can be achieved.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
HullDesign, HullDrafting
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Benefits
None.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design, Outfitting Design, Marine Drafting
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V WX Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - . _ +
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Benefits
Hull user does not need to make explicit extract claims.
Compatibility constraints
None
Affected programs
Hull Design applications
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9.12 Documentation
A great many changes have been made to the documentation set for Hull and Outfitting 12.1, with all manuals updated. Notable improvements to the documentation set include: A new 12.0 to 12.1 Upgrade manual Manuals for new functions and products: Design Reuse, Space Management, Surface Manager, Report Designer, Tags, Isometric ADP Major update for Lexicon manual A new section on Event Driven Graphics in the Software Customisation Reference Manual A new index page gives access to the online help system, which may also be accessed direct from the system using <F1> as usual.
It should be noted that the PDF manuals are no longer supplied separately but may be obtained from the on-line help by clicking on entry to any manual.
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Benefits
A less intrusive grid and more distinct rulers make it easier to work when geometry and grid coincide.
Compatibility Constraints
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
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None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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Benefits
This makes fairing easier when the scale difference is large between individual views.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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Benefits
There is now a possibility to run macros without interaction, without having to switch to Lines.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines.
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Benefits
The parallel surface limit can be automatically set for curves which has a Cline as source.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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Benefits
It is more apparent which curve is currently selected
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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Benefits
Easier fairing and manipulation of planar curves not lying in a principal plane.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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Benefits
Coordinates can be derived for inserting a point into a curve
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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The angle curves can be created by function Curve, Create Angle Curve and the angle coordinates are put by means of the dialog box.
Benefits
The angle curves can more easily be changed in PACE.
Compatibility Constraints
None
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Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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Selecting this option will provide a dialog where an arbitrary Cartesian coordinate system can be specified. The user entered coordinates are normalized and adjusted to ensure the axes are orthogonal. To ensure a right handed system is defined, the z axis may require negation. If the user coordinates can be used to form a system, the resulting system is displayed as edits are made. Clicking ok will switch the view to one defined by the calculated axes. Benefits Makes definition and fairing of planar curves easier when they are not located in a principal plane.
Compatibility Constraints
None
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Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Lines
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10.10
Description
Corrugated RSOs
Corrugated bulkheads with stools created in Surface & Compartment, using the Corrugation or Stool tab in the Internal Surfaces dialog, now has an extended representation which closes the design loop between Surface & Compartment and Structural Design for these RSOs. As previous a parametrically defined bulkhead will be stored in the model, but alongside it a geometric identical copy will be stored, but instead of the parametric definition it will be defined by using sheer and camber curves. In this new representation the stools and corrugation are individual entities. These new entities will be possible to edit in the same way a knuckled bulkhead is today. The above allows for creation of corrugated bulkheads with stools in Surface & Compartment, releasing them to design, further editing with Structural Design tools and updating Surface & Compartment with the changes via the Use Design function.
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Geometry.
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10.11
Description
A new open XML-based format is introduced to support import/export of compartments. The format covers compartment definition and content data as well as category information. The export and import functionality is accessed through added functionality in the File Export and File Import functions.
Benefits
Open format for describing compartments.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Geometry
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10.12
Description
The default settings for releasing weight of objects to the Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics application have been changed. Previously the default was to release the weight. This will now be set to off. As before the setting of this is done in the weight analysis dialog,
Benefits
Ease of use.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Surface & Compartment
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10.13
Description
In Hydrostatics/Hydrodynamics it has been possible to set the direction of the x-axis and y-axis to be used in reports. This setting is now also reflected in dialogs in Hydrostatics/Hydrodynamics application.
Benefits
Ease of use.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics AVEVA Marine Hydrodynamics
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10.14
Description
A different sea water density can now be specified for each Loading Condition. The sea water density is entered on the Options page of the Loading Condition dialog.
Benefits
Ease of use.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
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10.15
Description
Hydrostatics/Hydrodynamics can now handle alternative lightweights. More than one Lightweight module can be created in the General Particulars folder. A combo box for selecting which lightweight to use, has been added to the Loading module dialog. The Deterministic, Loading Sequence and Summary Table modules have also been updated to handle multiple lightweights.
Benefits
Ease of use.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
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10.16
Description
Oil Outflow
A new Oil Outflow module has been added to the Regulations folder. This calculates the oil outflow performance according to MARPOL Regulation 12A p11 concerning the probability of oil outflow from damaged fuel tanks.
Benefits
Ensures compliance with the statutory regulations.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics
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10.17
Description
Inclining Experiment
The Inclining module In Hydrostatics/Hydrodynamics has been corrected and revised according to comments received from users. The calculations and output should now fully comply with statutory requirements.
Benefits
Ensures compliance with the statutory regulations.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
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10.18
Description
The Probabilistic Stability module In Hydrostatics/Hydrodynamics has been updated to include the latest 2009 SOLAS cargo/passenger ship rules. The damage case generation algorithm for multizone damage has also been revised to bring it in line with the recommended interpretation of the rules. The implementation also provides for different damage permeabilities for different loading conditions, as specified in the rules.
Benefits
Ensures compliance with the latest statutory regulations.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
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10.19
Description
A summary of damage cases is now included in the loading condition intact condition report. The table is included by default, but there is an option for turning it off.
Benefits
A concise way of reporting damage case results.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
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10.20
Description
The IMO Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit method of calculating the wind force and moment on the structure has been implemented. To use this feature, all exposed above and under water elements, must be defined as compartments and assigned to a special category with an identifier, SL, and name, Sail. The program assumes that the specified Structural permeability is the Shape Factor for these elements. Also the wind moment must be set to the MODU wind moment, in the Criteria file.
Benefits
Allows stability assessment for MODU's.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics.
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10.21
Description
Connected Compartments
Compartments specified as connected to damaged compartments, are now just added to the list of damaged compartments for the analysis and treated as being damaged to the outside waterline. Previously, such compartments were combined to form one multi-compartment, but this meant that only one damage permeability could be applied, which was that of the first damaged compartment. With this new method, each connected compartment will have its own damage and probabilistic stability permeability. The latter can vary with loading draft. Also compartments are now connected in one direction only. Flood water will flow from the first to second compartment, but not the other way. Note that this means that to specify flow in both directions, two connected compartment records are now needed.
Benefits
Ensures compliance with the latest statutory regulations.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics
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10.22
Description
The special ABS bollard pull criterion has been added. The user must edit a local copy of the Criteria file and specify the bollard pull heeling moment arm for the particular vessel according to the rules, using the Edit/Criteria menu option in the program.
Benefits
Ensures compliance with the latest statutory regulations.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
maridcalc
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*12.1.SP2*
Benefits
The enhancements made to the statement wizard will make designers more productive by remembering entered data which can be reused for components of the same type. Make sure the layout for similar components follow the same rules. Support the designer in common operations such as selecting a new component to modify by selecting in a drawing.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hull Design.
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*12.1.SP2*
The MODREF attribute will now return an array of model references and the syntax has been extended from MODREF to MODREF/S.
Benefits
An element with this attribute can now return multiple references. An example of such an element is the notch of a planar panel stiffener, which can refer many seams.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine
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Benefits
The name sequence database is better utilised and thus less numbers will be used.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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Benefits
The improvement makes it possible to define any type of complex end cuts
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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Benefits
Possibility to handle all the Hull Notes without disturbing the position numbers in e.g. delete notes/all.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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Benefits
By using the OR operator in defining the filters a greater variety of panels and groups can be collected in one selection.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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Benefits
Tree view available for picking blocks and panel for the Panel Scope
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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Benefits
It will no longer be possible to change this setting if seams or shell profiles have been created in a project.
Compatibility Constraints
The variable will still be used as a last resort for determining whether the project allows free naming. However, as soon as the hull reference object has been recreated in InitHull, the variable will not be used any longer in that project.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design.
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Benefits
Enables the user to control the annotate hole note better.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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11.10
Description
The definition of the Hull qualities has been moved from the file assigned to the environment variable SBH_QUALITY_LIST to the catalogue in the Property World. The quality elements can be defined in Paragon using the PML script HullCreateQualityList. Input to the script is the file defined by the environment variable SBH_QUALITY_LIST.
Benefits
This change is beneficial for projects using Global.
Compatibility Constraints
The qualities must be defined on cata.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hull Design
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11.11 Shellx with Plate Scantlings, Position Numbers and Material Quality
Description
The shell expansion view is now created with plate thickness, plate quality and plate position number annotated on each plate. Furthermore, each plate is drawn with a hatch pattern chosen to display the plate thickness that is used. The user can control the visibility of this information in two ways: By using the function Symbolic View->Curved Hull View->Properties and picking a shell expansion view. The user will get the possibility to display or hide the plate information. Furthermore, if plate hatching is chosen to be shown, an accompanying legend can also be created that shows each used hatch pattern and the thickness it represents. The shell expansion view is initially presented with shown information controlled by new keywords available in the default file:
SHX_DRAW_PLATES = TEXT
= DRAW
Plates are shown with hatch patterns representing the plate thickness
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SHX_SHOW_POSNO
= NOT SET
SHX_SHOW_MATQ
= NOT SET
Benefits
Visual overview of plate thicknesses in shell expansion view.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design
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First select an interval from the drop-down list. This interval represents either a component on a planar or curved panel or a planar or curved panel. When the selection is made, the functional descriptions that are specifically defined for this interval will be presented and possible to select. A Tick-box is available to show all system defined functional descriptions in case these are the ones to be set on components or panels. Its also possible to key in any integer value. Once the selection is made, the use of the OK button will hide the dialogue and the user is requested to pick components or panels depending on the interval that was selected. Picked elements will be updated with the selected functional description. Involved objects are made active before the update and its necessary to apply the changes to get the update confirmed.
Benefits
Easier update of functional descriptions
Compatibility Constraints
None.
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See User Guide Hull Detailed Design / Planar Modelling / Interactive Planar Hull Modelling Functions / Hull Tools.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hull Design
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11.13
Description
The number of surfaces to be used in the Hull system is limited. With the possibility to add parametric surfaces, the limit of 100 is easily reached. To be able to add and handle more surfaces, the limit has been increased to 1000. This affects the Hull default keyword SURFACES, where the surface numbers to be used in Create View are listed.
Benefits
More surfaces can be handled
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Marine Planar and Curved Hull
97
User Bulletin
Benefits
Key features are: Import surfaces into AVEVA Marine projects Graphically displays the layout of the surface Finds problem areas and shows them graphically If possible optimises the surface by removing problem areas Extract curves for use in Hull Design Extracts surfaces from existing AVEVA Marine projects Exports surfaces to file Possible to select only part of a surface to export Mirror surfaces in the centre line plane Supports the most commonly spread formats: IGES, SAT, DML, STEP AP203
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hull
98
User Bulletin
99
User Bulletin
Benefits
A visual interpretation of the differences between two surfaces will help in taking the correct decisions when replacing one surface with another.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Surface Manager
100
User Bulletin
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
Affected Programs
None.
101
User Bulletin
102
User Bulletin
Benefits
Key features are: A new tool for simulations, estimations and decisions, de-risking design of more complex ships Better productivity for GA activities and drawings Better cost follow-up by getting early and precise estimates of e.g. insulation material or painting areas Increased production efficiency by optimisation of block structure
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Space Management
103
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
Benefits
This interface provides a direct link to Patran and Nastran.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design.
104
User Bulletin
When a new envelope is defined, the tick-box Generate from Box can be used. When ticked the boundary list will be dimmed and the key-in fields for minimum and maximum points are enabled. If data for general particulars is available, these will be fetched and added to the key-in fields when using the function Box from GP. The fetched values are extended with one meter in all directions. When the limits selected to generate an envelope generate more than one closed volume there is now the possibility to select which one to use as the desired envelope, by specifying a point inside the created envelope.
Benefits
The new possibility to generate envelopes enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management.
105
User Bulletin
When an envelope is selected from the drop-down list, all RSOs belonging to this envelope are presented in the list. When a target envelope is selected, one or many RSOs can be selected and added to the target envelope. The added RSOs are recreated in the new envelope by selecting Apply or OK.
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Structural Design Space Management
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
106
User Bulletin
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management
107
User Bulletin
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Space Management AVEVA Marine Structural Design
108
User Bulletin
Benefits
More accurate naming can be defined.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management
109
User Bulletin
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management
110
User Bulletin
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management
111
User Bulletin
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management
112
User Bulletin
14.10
Description
When positioning a plane panel relative to a multi face RSO either the face number or an axis aligned ray (point) can be used. If e.g. the statement wizard is used to build up the panel and an RSO face is picked via the graphical display the direct face number is added to the panel definition. In the panel statement it shows as a clause of the form NO=<number>. However if the RSO is modified it may be that the faces are renumbered and all the panels located by the RSO may get the wrong face number reference giving unpredictable results when regenerating. The other option to select a face within an RSO is to give a coordinate pair in the global coordinate system, either (X,Y) or (X,Z) or (Y,Z). These coordinate pairs will geometrically describe a ray in space. If this ray intersects an RSO face, that face will be used to define the panel plane. Using a ray to select a face is more stable than a direct face number as it is insensitive to face renumbering. From AVEVA Marine 12.1 the system will automatically update the panel definition provided the panel plane is defined via an RSO face number on a multi face RSO. When storing the panel a ray definition will be created and added to the panel definition. The direct face number will be kept as information, but the ray will take precedence. At storing, if the face number is out of date it will be updated from the ray. Single face RSOs are not affected by this development. If the ray hits multiple RSO faces, the direct RSO number is kept as the primary definition.
Benefits
Panels with location defined by multi face RSOs will be insensitive to RSO face renumbering.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
113
User Bulletin
14.11
Description
A new way to define seams has been introduced. Seams can now be defined as an intersection between an RSO and a surface. A seam is defined by using the interactive function for creating seams. Select Surface/Surface type, indicate the intersecting RSO.
Benefits
Enables seams to be defined as an intersection between surface and RSO.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
114
User Bulletin
Benefits
Consistency when modelling.
Compatibility Constraints
Panels created, before this release, with the COR keyword referencing RSOs and Surfaces might change when recreated with this release.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Hull Design and Structural Design.
115
User Bulletin
14.13
Description
Object of type CSURF can now be deleted from database. In the administration dialog, Register Surfaces, a new button, Delete, have been added. Selected surface will be deleted. Note: It is not possible to delete a surface which have objects associated with it, e g the surface have been used when creating curved hull objects.
Benefits
Improved administration of surfaces.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Structural Design
116
User Bulletin
14.14
Description
A new function, Recreate All, has been added to right-click menu in the Block Edit dialogue. When activated, all blocks are recreated using the definition data stored with the blocks.
Benefits
Enables all blocks to be recreated in one operation.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Space Management
117
User Bulletin
14.15
Description
A right click menu showing the block edit function has been added when right clicking block geometry in a drawing. The following menu is displayed and the block edit or the recreate function can be selected to operate on the indicated block:
Benefits
Enables block modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management
118
User Bulletin
14.16
Description
The functions handling jumbo panels have been either removed or modified to handle any kind of planar panel. The functionality of the removed functions is covered by more recent concepts like modelling panels on RSOs and the use of Design Panels. The term jumbo panel is removed from dialogs and messages and the data type (object code 1) interval previously associated with them (800 899) is reserved for future use.
Benefits
Obsolete functions removed from the system.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
119
User Bulletin
14.17
Description
A new top level element FEMWLD for FEM related items has been introduced. The FEM world can contain idealised blocks (HIBLO), idealised plane (HIPAN) and curved panels (HICPAN), FE models (FEMODL) and FE images (FEMIMG).
Idealised plane panels are now drawn in the 3D canvas according to the applied idealisation settings (no thickness, stiffeners as lines):
It is also possible to draw FE images in the 3D canvas for inspection purposes (example contains shell and beam image):
120
User Bulletin
Benefits
All FEM related items can be found in one place.
Compatibility Constraints
Before running new idealisations in 12.1 a FEMWLD element needs to be created in a design database. It is recommended to store all FEM related objects in a separate database. Idealised models and FE models from AM 12.0 are not upgraded to AM 12.1. All FEM related objects are deleted from the project under the upgrading process.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design
121
User Bulletin
14.18
Description
FEM Additions
Analysis | Idealise Model, Idealisation Settings: The idealisation option *ignore if prof. height smaller than has been added to filter stiffeners, pillars, flanges and swages by their profile height. The idealisation option ignore if prof. area smaller than has been added to filter stiffeners, pillars and flanges by their profile area. Analysis | Create FE Model: All options to create images for investigation of FE models have been moved to the idealised blocks context menu. Only the options to create model images are left in the dialogue. Now two separate images are created for beam and truss elements.
The check box Unwarp shell elements has been added. Previously unwarping was done unconditionally. That makes it possible to create the FE model in steps applying one option after another or in different orders. Unwarping can then be done in a separate step at the end of the process.
Benefits
More flexible creation of idealised and FE models.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design
122
User Bulletin
14.19
Description
FEM Improvements
Handling of knuckled panels: Knuckled main panels are now part of the idealised model. Before, idealised panels had been created from the subpanels without creating a knuckled main panel. But then references to main panels where no longer correct which has been solved now. This means that a knuckled panel in the original model will be represented as a knuckled panel also in the result from the XML Hull Steel Export as opposed to before when it was represented by the individual subpanels exported as ordinary panels. Symmetry issues of idealised subpanels have been solved. Using a limiting box for idealisation: Now the idealisation process uses the common Block Division facility for plane panels. Temporary copies of the original panels are no longer necessary.
Benefits
Quality improved. Redundancies removed.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design
123
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
124
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
Benefits
You are able to create hole in Brackets
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Detailed Design
125
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
In Nesting the labelled texts have previously been defined as free texts and for texts containing production information there has not been any information to which part a labelled text belongs. This has now been improved so the missing part reference has been added for all production related labelled texts. This will mean that all texts belonging to a certain nested part will be deleted when the part is deleted, and transformed when the part is transformed.
Benefits
Simplifies
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Detailed Design Mar.dll
126
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
The parts menu in plate nesting can now display either the object name or the part name of the listed plate parts. A new nesting default parameter, PARTS_MENU_NAME, controls which name to display. By default, the object name is displayed. In the part name control settings, the module named PARTMENU_NEST2AX controls the configuration of the part name to be displayed in the parts menu.
Benefits
End users have the ability to configure which plate part names are displayed in the parts menu.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Plate Nesting
127
User Bulletin
Separate Handling of Auto Bevel for Stiffener End Web and Flange
Description
Today bevels can be defined automatically at a stiffener end by defining a bevel set in the bevel default file and then specifying that the set is to be valid for stiffener end in the bevel set file. The bevel is then automatically defined for both flange and web. It is possible to prevent auto bevel for the stiffener end by giving the key word NABE in the stiffener statement. It is now possible to prevent bevel for the web or flange separately. Two new keywords have been added NABF and NABW for the stiffener statement, deactivating auto bevel for stiffener end flange or web respectively.
Benefits
Makes it possible individually control the use of automatically defined bevelling for the web and flange at a stiffener end.
Compatibility Constraints
None, the keyword NABE remains and has the same meaning as before.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
128
User Bulletin
Default behaviour.
Behaviour when SBH_DEFAULT_BEVEL is defined (as a tight bevel code of type 10)
Benefits
Old designs are still presented with correct chamfer information.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
129
User Bulletin
Benefits
Unified automatic bevel setting for all profiles.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
130
User Bulletin
The upper and lower material curves of a plate edge are calculated from the plate thickness of the bounding plate, i.e. the e-measure of the current bevel. This means that the upper material curve ends according to the point D in the upper view in the figure above. This is also the position of the so called bump contour. However, since the chamfer defined by the variants is cut (or grinded) off after the normal end cutting, the nested plate parts might be positioned to close to each other. A more correct way to calculate the upper and lower material curve is to take the current plate thickness and the current variant into consideration when calculating the curves. This means that the upper material curve will be positioned according to the point D in the lower sketch in the figure above. The environment variable SBH_ADJUST_FOR_BEVEL_VARIANT can now be used to switch to the new way of calculating the material contours. By giving the variable the value YES, the new method will be used. In any other case, the old method is still applied.
Benefits
This development enables the user to control the size of bump contours of plates when variants are involved, avoiding potential problems with plates being nested too close too each other.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Plane Parts Generation
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
131
User Bulletin
The figure above is showing a plane view with two longitudinals, one with the material pointing upwards (the red one), one pointing downwards (the black one). In this example, the Automatic Bevel box in the Profile section of the Shell Stiffener has been given the value No. The intersection point of the mould plane of the Shell Stiffener and the hull curve in the panel plane is the same. In the plane view two different panels have been defined. Each of them containing a stiffener abutting one of the longitudinals and a cutout for the same longitudinal. The figure below shows two other longitudinals where the value Yes has been given in the Automatic Bevel box.
Here the automatic bevel defined in the Shell Stiffener is considered. This means that the intersection point of the mould plane of the Shell Stiffener and the hull curve in the panel plane will be modified to accept tight connection at the trace of the Shell Stiffener. When modelling plane panels, components (e.g. stiffeners, cutouts) referring such a Shell Stiffener, will be adjusted to meet this modification. When creating profile parts of these Shell Stiffeners, there are no problems with the profile size.
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
132
User Bulletin
When creating plate parts of the Shell Stiffeners, via a control file defined by the logical name SBH_PROF_TO_PLDB, there are no problems with the profile size of the web plate when the inclination angle, seen from the mould edge of the Shell Stiffener, is positive, i.e. for the lower profile in the figure above. However, if the connection angle, when seen from the mould edge of the Shell Stiffener, is negative, the current solution in the system will result in a too big profile part. The first step when creating the plate part of the web of the profile is to build up the geometry in the profile plane. The upper part of the web plate is positioned at a distance, equal to the web height, away from the trace part. Next step is to calculate the dotori angles along the trace curve of the plate and to create a guiding contour. In this step the plate part is made wider and wider. There is no problem with the material size because the plate part is cut from a bigger plate, but the final web plate part will be too big and the position of the flanges in the figure above will coincide, except for the web thickness. This means that e.g. an abutting stiffener will be to wide and a cutout maybe to small. Since the described process for converting profile parts to plate parts has been the same for a long time, some customers may have found their own workarounds to meet this problem. Therefore this functionality is now enhanced to give the customer a possibility to have the profiles positioned as shown in the first figure. By setting the Environment Variable SBH_CHECK_PROF_TRACE to any arbitrary value, further checks will be done. If the profile to be examined fulfils the criteria to be converted to plate part according to the rules given in the file assigned to SBH_PROF_TO_PLDB, calculations of connecting components like stiffeners, brackets and cutouts will be performed according to the first figure. Inclined plane panel stiffeners will be examined and treated in the same way as described for the shell stiffeners. Another way, already in the system, to control the position of inclined profiles is via the Environment Variable SBH_PROFPT_ADJUST. However, automatic bevel selection via SBH_BEVEL_SETS will always be the first choice.
Benefits
Enables the user to control the position of inclined profiles, curved as well as planar.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Structural Design Hull Detail Design
133
User Bulletin
Benefits
This development means that views will be more accurately drawn and production output such as profile sketches and weight and centre of gravity calculations will be more accurate.
Compatibility Constraints
For a project first created in an earlier AVEVA Marine release, plate thickness options should be setup in inithull before further modelling work is done. Shell profiles must be regenerated before plate thickness is considered. Planar panels must be regenerated if thickness settings for surfaces differ compared to before (i.e. thickness should be considered for some surfaces but not for others).
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design AVEVA Marine Production Programs
134
User Bulletin
15.10
Description
There is as an option in detail view stiffener which makes it possible to define the view looking from the top if the stiffener has a flange. The function has now been adjusted to always look at the chosen profile from above the flange.
Benefits
The function always displays the stiffener the same way
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Planar Hull.
135
User Bulletin
15.11
Description
When built profiles parts are manufactured, the lengths of the web and flange parts are, by default, calculated to satisfy a manufacturing process where parts are first bent and then welded together. By setting the new ip WELD_BEFORE_BEND in the curved panel parts generation ip-file cpanparts.ip, the lengths will be calculated to fit a manufacturing process where web and flange parts are first welded together and then bent.
Benefits
Support for a manufacturing process where built profile parts are first welded together and then bent.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs.
136
User Bulletin
15.12
Description
It will now be possible to choose if the approximate weight of profiles should be presented in tons or kilograms in profile sketches. This is accomplished by setting the new keyword WEIGHT_UNIT in the restriction file identified by the logical variable SBH_SKETCH_RESTRICT. Possible settings are WEIGHT_UNIT=KG and WEIGHT_UNIT=TON, where the latter setting is default.
Benefits
More possibilities to customise output data.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs
137
User Bulletin
15.13
Description
The generic files of type 2AXIS and 3AXIS generated in Plate Nesting and Plate Interface, can now be viewed graphically using the new function GenFile Viewer in the function Hull Tools > Part Checking.
Benefits
The viewer is an easy and fast function for visually controlling the data in the generic files. All geometric data and production information texts can be displayed with different colours and line types for different kinds of geometry (burning with bevel, burning without bevel, marking etc). The colours and line types are user-controlled and defined in the Nesting default file.
Compatibility Constraints
None
138
User Bulletin
Affected Programs
139
User Bulletin
15.14
Description
When a hull text is to be projected on a planar panel or surface, the orientation in space of the hull text in space before projection is defined by several fields in the dialog. One of these is Looking, which replaces Looking from in previous versions. This means that the opposite value compared to earlier versions should be set to get the same result. For example, a Looking value of PS is equivalent to the previous Looking from value of SB.
Benefits
This change aligns the way looking direction is defined with that of other functions, e.g. for creating symbolic hull views.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design
140
User Bulletin
15.15
Description
When creating plane panel parts via the Plane Part Generation (ppanparts) functionality, the user has the possibility to set a default parameter value, MARKGAP, that controls the distance marking lines will be cut off at the outer contour of the plates. If a marking line ends at (or crosses or is close to) a hole, no check on any marking gap has been done so far. However, there is one exception. Marking lines defined via the MARKING statement in the Hull Modelling will be cut off at holes using the parameter MARKGAP. Because of possible plate damage when burner cutter crosses a marking line, the possibility to reduce other type of marking lines have been implemented. Three new default parameters have been entered into the ppanparts function. The names of the parameters are: REDUCE_MARKGAP_OF_STI_AT_HOLES, REDUCE_MARKGAP_OF_PLANE_AT_HOLES, REDUCE_MARKGAP_OF_PANEL_AT_HOLES, By giving REDUCE_MARKGAP_OF_STI_AT_HOLES, marking lines of the mould lines of stiffeners (default parameter STI must be given) will be checked for and reduced if the conditions mentioned above is fulfilled. By giving REDUCE_MARKGAP_OF_PLANE_AT_HOLES, marking lines of the reference planes (default parameter REFPLANE must be given) defined in Hull Modelling will be checked for and reduced if the conditions mentioned above are fulfilled. By giving REDUCE_MARKGAP_OF_PANEL_AT_HOLES, marking lines of abutting plane panels (default parameter PAN must be given) will be checked for and reduced if the conditions mentioned above are fulfilled.
Benefits
Enables the user to control the extension of marking lines around holes.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Sf416d.exe
141
User Bulletin
15.16
Description
When assembling built profiles there is a need for marking the flange and the web parts so that they may be correctly aligned to each other. This may now be done by setting the new keyword BUILT_FLA_SHAPE in the GSD default file. BUILT_FLA_SHAPE may be assigned three different values giving different options for the marking of the flange part. BUILT_FLA_SHAPE=THICKNESS will mark the flange with two parallel lines indicating the web thickness. This is the default option. BUILT_FLA_SHAPE=HOOK will mark the flange with a hook. BUILT_FLA_SHAPE=HOOK_THICKNESS will result in a marking which is a combination of the thickness and hook marking, where a line and the hook together indicate the web thickness. The generic files created by the Plate Interface and the Profile Sketch and List programs will contain the new marking types FACE_PLATE_ALIGNMENT.
Benefits
Increased accuracy when assembling built profile parts.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs.
142
User Bulletin
15.17
Description
If REFPLANE is defined in the ppanparts.ip then reference plane markings will be added to plate and profile parts when running Plane Panel Parts Generation. Profile parts will however only be marked on the moulded side. By defining REFPLANE, BOTH_SIDES, in ppanparts.ip profile parts will be marked on both sides of the profile web.
Benefits
Increased marking possibilities.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs.
143
User Bulletin
15.18
Description
It will now be possible to nest profile parts on raw profiles without creating rest profiles. To accomplish this do the following two steps: Define a raw profile with type and dimensions the same as the profile part that should be nested. Define the length as zero. Insert the new keyword NEST_WITHOUT_REST=YES in the general section of the profile restriction file, as defined by SBH_PROF_RESTRICT. Nesting will now be performed as if the length was the maximum length for the profile type. When nesting is completed the length will be set to the exact length needed, so that no rest part will be created.
Benefits
Flexibility.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Profile Nesting.
144
User Bulletin
15.19
Description
The following additions/changes have been made for the Nesting/PLCM defaults:
SYMB_HEIGHT_EXCESS
DISPLAY_EXCESS_SYMBOL
Code for displaying the excess symbol in the burning sketch: 0 = No display 1 = Display
The method used for presenting labelled position numbers: None = label posno as given Partname = label posno via partname control
CVBA_SKETCH_ANGLE
The code for the cvba angle display in the burning sketch: Along = End angle in burning direction The maximum of the start and end angles The minimum of the start and end angles The average of the start and end angles
AUX_VALID_START_POS
AUX_VALID_END_POS
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
145
User Bulletin
EDIT_PRODUCTION_TEXTS
Code for editing production texts in burning sketch using Right-Click: No = Editing not possible Yes = Editing possible
DRAW_RAW_PLATE_CORN
Code for drawing the raw plate corners in the burning sketch: No = Do not draw Yes = Draw
MOVE_START_CONFIRM_OPPSITE
Code for confirmation when a marking start is moved to a marking line valid only on the opposite side: No = No confirmation Yes = Confirmation
MARK_AUTO_OPPOSITE
CUTSEQ_MIN_AREA
Minimum area of plate for which cutting sequence information are added to the sketch.
ALL_STARTS_TYPE
The type of starts to be treated when the start sequence is added in the burning sketch: All starts All burning starts
ALL_STARTS_COLOUR
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
146
User Bulletin
The colour for the start sequence information in the burning sketch.
ALL_STARTS_HEIGHT
The text height for the start sequence in the burning sketch.
AUTONEST_ASSEMBLY_LEVEL
AUTONEST_CUSTNAME_CTRL Customised part name control: = No = Yes Do not use customised part name Use customised part name
AUTONEST_PART_SELECTION
The minimum area in mm2 for the parts to be nested large parts first. If < 0, the Parts are not nested by area.
AUTONEST_ROTATION_CTRL
Rotation control: = No = Yes No control, any rotation angle can be used Only rotation angles which are a multiple of 90 degrees are used
AUTONEST_STOP_MULTIPLE
AUTONEST_STOP_SINGLE
Benefits
Improved configuration possibilities.
Compatibility Constraints
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
147
User Bulletin
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Plate Nesting
148
User Bulletin
15.20
Description
In the Nesting Plug-In Interface, additional parameters have been added to some of the interface modules. The new parameters have been defined as Nesting Defaults.
Benefits
The new parameters will make it easier to control any external pattern generator.
Compatibility Constraints
The new parameters must be added in all applications using the Plug-In Interface.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design
149
User Bulletin
Benefits
This change means an improved structure of stored data, and is beneficial for projects using Global.
Compatibility Constraints
Projects created in an earlier AVEVA Marine release needs to be upgraded before continued use with AVEVA Marine 12.1. The upgrade will change the storing of selected objects as described above, as well as reorganise the MANU contents (described in another release note).
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs
150
User Bulletin
15.22
Description
In AVEVA Marine 12.0 the manufacturing data base (MANU) reflected the design and for each design block (BLOCK) the corresponding block (MBLOCK) was automatically created when the production parts where created. Below each MBLOCK, MPANEL elements were created and the production parts were stored below the MPANEL element. The production part elements are MPLATE for planar and curved plates, MPROF for planar and curved profiles and MBPRO for built profiles. In AVEVA Marine 12.1, the MBLOCK and MPANEL elements are obsolete and the production parts are stored in manufacturing package elements MANPKG. These elements contain a filter element (MPKGFT) as well as one or more manufacturing package folders (MPKGFL). The rules defined in the MPKGFT elements determine in which manufacturing package the production parts will be stored. Each folder within a manufacturing package has a rule which makes it possible to e.g. store different types of plate parts in different folders.
Examples of rules are: MATCHWILD ( ATTRIB NAMN, ER5*) ATTRIB TYPE EQ MPLATE ATTRIB TYPECD EQ 91
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
151
User Bulletin
MATCHWILD ( ATTRIB QUATXT OF FIRST MPLRWI, A*) ATTRIB NAMN OF OWNER INSET( ER2, TEST) TRUE
The last rule can be used in a last folder to ensure that there always is a folder to put the production part in. This folder should normally be empty.
Benefits
Easier to use Easier to find information Easier to distribute
Compatibility Constraints
Old projects must be upgraded to 12.1 using the Upgrade tool in the new ManuConfig addin.
152
User Bulletin
15.23
Description
Hull production programs running in batch can create receipt sketches which are given automatically generated names. With this release a new set-up tool is introduced for a uniform customisable naming of production sketches. Users may now define how the sketch names should be put together by a set of rules. The naming rules are stored in a file referenced by the logical variable SBH_DWGNAME_RULES. Naming rules are defined individually for a number of applications. Each rule consists of a keyword identifying the application, followed by a number of attributes defining how the name is built up. The naming rule attributes are applied in the order they are given. Only rule attributes valid for the application may be given. First rule attributes are interpreted and the resulting values for each attribute are concatenated to form a sketch name. The rules are of mainly three types: 5. Names (Current object name, part names, block name and computer name). 6. Numbers (Next global sequence number for the application, job numbers and counters local for the application) 7. Other (Free text, page number)
Benefits
Naming of production sketches may be customised in a uniform way.
Compatibility Constraints
Old techniques for generating automatic sequence numbers for the Parts List and WCOG applications are not valid any more. The keyword NAME_METHOD in the profile restriction file may not be used anymore and should be removed.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs.
153
User Bulletin
15.24
Description
A large number of different reports and sketches are created by production programs. To be able to easily view documents valid for a specific production part, production programs will now create links from parts to relevant reports and sketches. The user will be able to view related documents in the Linked Documents dialog in Hull Design. This is done by the following steps: 1. Bring up the Linked Documents dialog and mark Follow CE (current element). 2. Indicate a production part in the Manufacturing Explorer and related reports and drawings for the indicated part will appear in the Linked Documents dialog. The reports and drawings may then be opened by right-clicking on the displayed link.
Benefits
Reports and sketches related to a specific production part may be easily viewed.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Production Programs.
154
User Bulletin
15.25
Description
Handling of names is slightly changed for shell plates and stiffeners in DESI databases and curved plate parts in MANU databases. It is no longer possible to have shell plates and stiffeners automatically renamed when adding them to a curved panel. This option (controlled by the environment variable SBH_CPAN_RENAME_PARTS) was a legacy from much older versions of the system and might cause problems if used wrongly. Shell plates and stiffeners will now always keep their initial name even after being added to a curved panel. Secondly, it is possible to control how curved plate parts are named in MANU by use of the above mentioned variable. In earlier versions, after parts splitting, the names of curved plate parts belonging to a CL panel have ended in SP even for PS/SB specific or symmetric plates. It is now possible to control the plate part names in such cases, optionally having the names reflecting the actual plate symmetries. The old naming for a panel BLOCK1-2SP with one CL-plate and one symmetrical plate (both PS and SB) was:
BLOCK1-2SP-1SP BLOCK1-2SP-3P BLOCK1-2SP-4S To use the new naming rules for plates belonging to a CL panel, set the environment variable SBH_CPAN_RENAME_PARTS to CL.
Benefits
Project administration becomes easier due to increased consistency in naming of shell plates and shell stiffeners as well as production parts. The plates and stiffeners will keep the names as given by the user even after they have been added to a curved panel. The naming of curved plate parts after parts splitting will reflect the individual storing.
Compatibility Constraints
The new naming should not be mixed with the old one in an on-going project.
155
User Bulletin
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design AVEVA Marine Production Programs
156
User Bulletin
15.26 Parts
Description
When a panel (planar or curved) is removed from the model, any corresponding production parts are automatically removed. If this, e.g. due to a restricted database access, cannot be done, the result will be dangling plate and profile parts which should not be manufactured. A PML function has been developed to clean up the database and take care of this situation. The function searches for elements of type MPLATE, MPROF and MBPRO and removes all those for which a corresponding panel does not exist. The function, hullDeleteUnrefMANUParts, can be found in the installation directory, under PMLLIB\hulldesign\functions.
Benefits
The risk of manufacturing unnecessary parts (and thus increasing production cost) is reduced. The function does not need any parameters when called and is quite easy to use. All parts to be removed will be found automatically, which is more efficient than searching for them manually.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
None.
157
User Bulletin
Benefits
No need for the user to remember the names of cases and objects
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design
158
User Bulletin
Benefits
There will be less confusion regarding element names for non-symmetric objects, and there will for certain always be an element with the object name as given by the user. This solution is more intuitive and customised development may be simpler as well. Still functionality using the Hurefl attribute, e.g. weld detection, will work properly.
Compatibility Constraints
Objects generated in AVEVA Marine 12.0 that are valid on one side but with the geometry on the other must be recreated before the new rules for element name and Hurefl fully apply. Note in particular that this applies to SB specific curved panels, which internally have their geometry reflected to PS. The objects are recreated via the Recreate functions in the Planar Hull and Curved Hull menus, respectively.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design
159
User Bulletin
15.29
Description
FRP Additions
Laminate can be given not only for planar plates and stiffeners, but also for flanges. The old term GRP (Glass fibre Reinforced Plastics) has been replaced by the more general term FRP (Fibre Reinforced Plastics). As a consequence, two attributes in the TIL input file when setting up FRP has been renamed. PERCENT_OF_GLASS is now PERCENT_OF_FIBER and GLASS_WEIGHT has been renamed to FABRIC_WEIGHT.
Benefits
This development means better support for production with laminate technique.
Compatibility Constraints
Old TIL input files for FRP settings must be modified, adapting them to the renamed attributes.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Detail Design AVEVA Marine Production Programs
160
User Bulletin
15.30
Description
In the Tribon M series there is an option to convert Tribon 5 Curved Hull Input data for Seamgen, Profgen and Cpangen. This option existed only so that users could more easy migrate from Tribon 5 into Tribon Mx version. The way of creating data in Tribon 5 format does not exist anymore and is not described anywhere in the documentation. This option to convert old data files into newer XML format will in AVEVA Marine 12.1 be deprecated and finally removed in AVEVA Marine 12.2.
161
User Bulletin
Benefits
The result of the weld calculation is more accurate
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Weld Planning
162
User Bulletin
Benefits
The result of the weld calculation is more accurate
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
AVEVA Marine Weld Planning
163
User Bulletin
Benefits
Very useful for design reuse between ships. The design is copied from one ship to another, and adapted to the second ship. The model is re-generated and adapted to the design context of the second ship. Support for different naming conventions by fully customisable name substitution rules. Maintains the references within the model as well as between drawings and models by reference adaptation at import to the second ship. Drawings keep their associations and are updated at import. GUI for interactive usage inside Hull Design / Outfitting Design / Marine Drafting. Commands supporting all available functions. Provides high level customisation through trigger functions. Sisterships can be synchronized by customer written automation scripts executed at regular intervals.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design, Outfitting Design, Marine Drafting
164
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
Benefits
Possible to make plain and condensed assembly parts lists reduced by unnecessary information. This is of particularly interest for parts lists presented as tables in drawings with limited area.
Compatibility Constraints
Some PML functions stored in %PMLLIB%\assembly\userfunctions have changed their required arguments. The PML functions located in the subdirectory userfunctions are meant for users to customise. If such customisation has been made, or if additional customised PML functions are added, a survey of the functional arguments is required. This is valid only for PML functions used by the parts list handling, i.e. following files are changed as described below:
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User Bulletin
If you have your own variants of the files above or added your own functions, you need to make sure that the first argument earlier passed as DBREF now is of the type ASSYPART.
Old style
New style
define function !!assyPtype(!assyPart is ASSYPART, !asitem is DBREF) is STRING -- get the DBREF from ASSYPART !elemRefe = !assyPart.partRef()
Affected Programs
Assembly Auto Drawing Production functionality (Assembly ADP, located in \PMLLIB\assembly\) hosted by the Marine Drafting and Outfitting Draft modules.
166
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
The Assembly Reports submenu is moved from the Utilities menu of Outfitting into the context menu of Assembly Planning. Through this the functions are available from the modules hosting the Assembly Planning addin and not only from Outfitting. The functions are adjusted to act on selections made in the Assembly Planning GUI instead of CE.
Benefits
A more proper an intuitive placement of assembly planning related functions.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design, Outfitting, Assembly Planning
167
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
A new AssemblySelection PMLNET object is introduced to enable PML developed functionality to act on selections made in the Assembly Planning GUI. Selections made in the assembly tree and list views are exposed to PML through this new object. The object also provides an event mechanism to expose when a selection in Assembly Planning has changed.
Benefits
Enables for PML developed functionality to operate on elements currently selected in Assembly Planning GUI.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design, Outfitting, Assembly Planning Aveva.Marine.AssemblyPlanning.Utilities.dll (new)
168
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
The Assembly Planning addin has now got its own dedicated UIC file. The purpose is in first hand to enable for users to append customised functions to the Assembly Planning context menu.
Benefits
Assembly Planning earlier shared UIC information with its hosting module which not was possible when hosted by Outfitting module with new UIC file.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design, Outfitting, Assembly Planning
169
User Bulletin
Benefits
Can use curved hull panels as base panel for assembly orientation.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Assembly Planning
170
User Bulletin
Benefits
Remove invalid assembly references.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Assembly Planning
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
171
User Bulletin
If you want to handle the new drawing type in your project you need to assign two new logical names in your marine project setup file (D065<proj>.sdb):
SB_ASSADP_PDB SB_ASSADP_PDB_PADD
User Bulletin
This is for the system to recognize the type. This defines the name of the DEPT and then REGI where you want Marine Drafting to find your Assembly ADP drawings.
Benefits
To make a distinction between general assembly drawings and drawings generated by Assembly ADP.
Compatibility Constraints
Assembly Drawings created in earlier versions will still have the old drawing type (Assembly Drawing) and will thus not be listed as an Assembly ADP Drawing but as an Assembly Drawing.
Affected Programs
Assembly Planning
173
User Bulletin
Benefits
Extended possibilities to make element selections for e.g. drag & drop operations.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Outfitting Design Assembly Planning
174
User Bulletin
Limitations:
This will only work for drawings that are of the new drawing type Assembly ADP drawing. Assembly ADP drawing generated in previous program versions will not be handled since they are of another type. The utility doing the label and bounding box calculations is a part of the Assembly ADP application. Therefore this function will only work in Marine Drafting, not in Hull Design.
175
User Bulletin
18.10
Description
The ASMBLY element has been given a POSition attribute. The attribute is not yet used in any specific functionality but added for future purposes and to facilitate for some general (draft) functionality.
Benefits
None.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Assembly Planning
176
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
KEEP_SESSION_FILES=YES KEEP_SESSION_FILES=NO
Keep old .sdb files Remove old .sdb files (except .sdb files belonging to stamped sessions).
There is a support incident about this issue which has been marked as solved in 12.1.SP2, 41493 (KEEP_SESSION_FILES does not work.).
Benefits
Interpreting the value correctly makes the system more consistent.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
177
User Bulletin
19.2 SZ021
Description
*12.1.SP2*
The batch program SZ021 used to import a DXF file to a drawing is no longer supported and will be removed in next release. The recommended way to import DXF files in batch is to write a C# (or PML) program using the Marine .NET API. We are in the process of creating a small example to be made available on our support site.
Benefits
SZ021 only imports DXF files. Using the Marine .NET API it will be possible to import (and export) all supported formats.
Compatibility Constraints
Not applicable.
Affected Programs
sz021
178
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
In Marine Drafting 12.1 SP2 it is possible to capture also invisible geometry in the Restrict function (Edit/Delete/By Area). Note that with "invisible" we here mean both geometry that are marked as invisible and geometries that are not shown because its layer is hidden (via View/Layer). A new Drafting Default keyword ALLOW_RESTRICT_INVISIBLE_GEOM has been introduced for this purpose. Keyword: ALLOW_RESTRICT_INVISIBLE_GEOM
Explanation: Controls if invisible elements should be treated in the Delete-By-Area function or not.
Legal values: "No" "Yes" Do not treat invisible elements in the Delete-By-Area function Treat invisible elements in the Delete-By-Area function
It is also possible to change this condition while inside the Delete-By-Area function. For this purpose the OPTION button has been enabled in the multiple choice dialog in which the user selects the Restrict condition: "Keep inside" or "Keep outside". Clicking the OPTIONS button here swaps the "treat invisible geometry" condition (from "invisibles ignored" to "invisibles captured" and vice versa).
Benefits
Improved productivity in the Restrict function.
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
179
User Bulletin
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
180
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
In Marine Drafting it has been possible to delete system components of a certain kind one by one, or all in drawing. In Marine Drafting 12.1 SP2, the user can also delete all system components of a certain kind within a specified subpicture (view or subview). System components of following kind are treated: Dimensioning Label Note Position Number Hatching Markup Cloud When entering the Edit/Delete/<system component> function, press ALL and then OPTIONS to delete all system components within a specified subpicture. Now You can indicate the subpicture from which to delete all system components.
Benefits
Improved productivity in the delete function.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
181
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
In Marine Drafting 12.1 SP2, it is possible for the user to create multi-line text in the following kind of dimensionings: Linear 2D and 3D Radius Diameter Angle 2D and 3D Curved Axis Parallel Distance To Plane Leader/Box. The marker for new-line separator is "#/" (hash slash). Example for Linear dimensioning:
yields..
182
User Bulletin
Benefits
Improved productivity in dimensioning functions.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
183
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
It is possible to open a marine drawing sheet by using the right click menu of Draft Explorer and select the Open Sheet menu item.
Benefits
Quicker way to open a certain drawing if it is displayed in the draft explorer tree.
Compatibility Constraints
Not applicable.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
184
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
A TrueType font called Marine System with the same appearance as the TBSystemFonts has been introduced in 12.1 SP2. This font contains the entire set of glyphs from all TBSystemFonts (0-7), i.e. the English, Cyrillic, German and Scandinavian characters.
Benefits
TrueType fonts are more general and fit in better with the database and other parts of the system.
Compatibility Constraints
Please note that in order to use the Marine System font in Marine Drafting or in Hull Design, it first needs to be registered in the project using the Admin module, just like any other TrueType font.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
185
User Bulletin
*12.1.SP2*
New shortcut keys have been added to the Insert Text form in Marine Drafting 12.1.SP2, for easier access to the previously entered texts. When the text box has focus, pressing ALT + Up (or ALT + Down) will move focus to the history combo box containing the previously entered texts and scroll the combo box list one step up or down.
When the combo box has focus, the drop down list could be displayed by pressing the ALT + Down keys again. To cycle through the history combo box items while keeping focus to the text box, press CONTROL + Up (or Control + Down). As before, following standard Windows behaviour, focus can be moved with the TAB key (SHIFT + TAB to move focus backwards), and the combo box can also get focus by using the mouse.
Benefits
The new shortcuts make it possible to move focus to the history combo box with fewer keyboard hits / mouse clicks.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
186
User Bulletin
Hull Design Curved Modelling Hull Design Planar Modelling Hull Design Structural Design Hull Design Space Management Marine Drafting
Please note that the menu function previously called Create has now been renamed to Section... to unify the function names in this menu.
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User Bulletin
The Planar Hull/View menu in Planar Modelling and Structural Design. The Curved Hull/View menu in Curved Modelling and Structural Design. The view handling buttons in the Model Selection dialog (Insert/Model).
Benefits
All symbolic view functionality is available in one single place making it easier to find these functions. All symbolic views are also available from Marine Drafting making it possible to use Marine Drafting for more types of drawings.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
188
User Bulletin
19.10
Description
Using a default variable INITIAL_DRAWING it is now possible to define what Marine Drafting and Hull Design should do at start-up. The following possibilities exist:
Action Do nothing (same as Hull Drafting 12.0). Open a new drawing named UNTITLED<n> where <n> is selected so that UNTITLED<n> is non-existing. Open the most recently used drawing during last session. Show the New Drawing dialog. Show the Open Drawing dialog.
LAST
ASK_NEW ASK_OPEN
Benefit
Most functions in Marine Drafting require an open drawing so the first thing a user does is to either create or open a drawing. This new default variable will allow users to start working directly when Marine Drafting has started.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
189
User Bulletin
19.11
Description
Hull Drafting has been renamed to Marine Drafting. This name change affects the following:
Benefits
Previous name was in many cases misleading and made customers confused when it came to which Drafting module to use. Using the Marine Drafting name strengthens our recommendation to use Marine Drafting for both hull and outfitting users.
Compatibility Constraints
Please note that in order to use Marine Drafting 12.1 with a project, the module definition in the project must be modified. This will be done using the upgrade script for 12.1. There is also a macro PDMSUI\mdra\admin\hdra2mdra.mac that can be used from the Admin module to change the module definition. It is important to note that any customisation done by customers that checks the module name might have to be modified to work properly.
Affected Programs
Marine Drafting
190
User Bulletin
19.12
Description
Marine Drafting can export a drawing to the following formats (File/Export): DXF HPGL HPGL/2 IGES SDB SVG TIFF with LZW compression The following formats have been removed: CGM TIFF with PackBits compression.
Benefits
Supporting both HPGL and HPGL/2 will make it easier for customer to interact with different 3rdparty products. TIFF with LZW compression offers better compression.
Compatibility Constraints
The CGM format is no longer supported.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
191
User Bulletin
19.13
Description
Navigate To
The context menu available in the 2D canvas of Marine Drafting/Hull Design has been extended with a set of new Navigate to functions:
The functions are useful to quickly find out what a selected graphical entity represents. The functions will identify the closest entity in the drawing and navigate to the corresponding element in one of the explorers: Draft Explorer, Design Explorer or the Marine Drawing Explorer. You will only see the effect of the function if the corresponding explorer is currently opened.
Benefits
It will make it easier to get information about a graphical entity in a drawing.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
192
User Bulletin
19.14
Description
General Note
The General Note function is extended by multiple-lines feature and a new Options dialog.
Benefits
More user friendly way of creating general notes.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
193
User Bulletin
19.15
Description
Choose Projection
It is also displayed during drag & drop from an Explorer tree when choosing to drop an element into a new view, or by choosing the ToolsModel ViewChoose Projection menu function.
Benefits
This re-designed dialog provides a more modern and attractive user experience. The choose projection step during the Insert/Model process is now removed if the user wants to use the already selected view projection.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
194
User Bulletin
19.16
Description
Fill Styles
The Outfitting draft Fill Style concept has been implemented in Marine Drafting, making it possible to add any combination of hatch patterns to contours in the drawing. A Fill Style can be systemdefined or user-defined, and contains the definition of an arbitrary number of hatch patterns. Compared to the existing Hatch Pattern functionality, the Fill Style concept is associative and can combine any number of Hatch Patterns. Also Solid Fill is available. The Fill Style can be applied to any contour in the drawing, closed or possible to close. It is also possible to apply the fill style on a general area defined by multiple contours. In both cases, the fill style will be persisted in PADD. The Fill Style can be selected and applied to contours in two ways: MB right-click on a contour to define, or modify the fill style applied on that contour. Select the Modify/Fill Style function to select a Fill style to apply to given contours. The dialog for selecting Fill Styles looks like below:
Benefits
Possibility to use the Outfitting Draft-defined Fill Styles in Marine Drafting, including association.
Compatibility Constraints
The new attributes added to HPATTErns (see Outfitting Draft) might not be handled in Marine Drafting. Note that the old Hatch Pattern concept will be deprecated in a future release.
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
195
User Bulletin
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
196
User Bulletin
19.17
Description
Symbol Files
The files holding the different symbol fonts have been changed from binary to ASCII format and renamed from d012syxxx.sbd to d012syxxx.port. The reason for this is that these files now will be easier to maintain and also somewhat more readable for the human eye (even though updating such a file still should be done with specific Drafting functionality).
Benefits
It will be easier for both provider and customer to maintain the new format.
Compatibility Constraints
The system-defined symbol font files will be delivered in the new ASCII format. However, please note that any symbol font files modified or created by the customer at site must be converted to the new ASCII format before it can be used. This is done by running the conversion utility sb022 that is part of 12.0 or older releases. Note also that the utility programs sb022 (convert from binary to ASCII format) and sb023 (convert from ASCII to binary format) have been withdrawn in this release. If needed, the 12.0 or older releases can be used.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
197
User Bulletin
19.18
Description
Dynamic Highlighting
During the creation/definition/indication of lines, arcs and contours in Marine Drafting, the resulting entity will now be dynamically highlighted as the cursor moves over the drawing. For example, when creating an arc segment with three points, the resulting segment is highlighted dynamically when third point is about to be defined. Dynamic highlighting is implemented during the definition of Line segments: all definition modes Arc segments: all definition modes except Point, radius and Tangent
PolyLine segments: all definition modes Ellipses: Circumscribed Rectangle and Major & Minor Axis and in the following functionality: Modify/Stretch Node Modify/Stretch Elbow Insert Rectangle/Square with a fillet radius Insert/Staircase
Benefits
Improved UI during geometry definition: resulting entity is pre-highlighted
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
198
User Bulletin
19.19
Description
The UI for defining a point on arc periphery has been improved. Instead of first indicating the arc and then keying in the angle, the Combo Box in the Geometry toolbar is now used to give the angle. Moreover, by selecting the Indicate alternative in the Combo Box the point on the arc is defined as the periphery point closest to the arc indication. Periphery points close to one of the four cardinal directions will snap to the corresponding quarter points (0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees).
Benefits
Easy way of defining arc periphery points and in particular the quarter points.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
199
User Bulletin
19.20 Length
Description
When creating a Polyline, a new way of defining a segment has been implemented, namely Line by Direction and Length. It works in the same way as Line by two Points except that the length of the resulting line is given in the Combo Box in the Geometry toolbar.
Benefits
This implements a convenient way of creating a line with a given direction and length.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
200
User Bulletin
19.21
Description
When giving an offset during point definition, it is now possible to key in simple arithmetic expressions in the 2D Offset input dialog. For example, the following input is valid: 0.02*300 + pi N.
Benefits
Simple arithmetic accepted in the offset input dialog.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
201
User Bulletin
Benefits
This will improve productivity. Instead of invoking the Modify/Chain function as post-action, the chaining is performed automatically as new contours are created.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
202
User Bulletin
19.23
Description
Dimensioning UI Improvements
A Reset button has been implemented in all dimension dialogs . Clicking it will reset the dimension text to its system default value (e.g. #DIM() for linear dimensioning). When positioning the result of a linear dimensioning (2D, 3D or Axis-parallel), the complete graphics (except witness lines) will be highlighted instead of just the dimension lines. When positioning the result of a linear dimensioning (2D, 3D or Axis-parallel), it is now possible to change the dimensioning parameters (text height etc) without having to re-define all measure points. Instead of pressing Cancel and enter the Advanced function in the dimension dialog, just click Options and do the parameter changes without losing the given measure points.
Benefits
This will improve productivity in dimensioning functions.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
203
User Bulletin
19.24
Description
During dragging, the highlight colour will be the same independently of the background colour (like steady highlighting). TrueType texts will now be dragged with full display.
Benefits
This will improve graphic feedback.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
204
User Bulletin
Keyword
Benefits
This will improve productivity. The system remembers user modifications of Plane Reference Text.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
205
User Bulletin
19.26
Description
Benefits
Make it possible to undo last created entity without having to exit current function and explicitly delete the entity.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
206
User Bulletin
19.27
Description
In 12.1 release of Marine Drafting, persistence to PADD has been further implemented. Creation and modification of contours will now be persisted in most situations, like: All Insert functions, except Spline and Fillet Modify/Transform and Copy All Modify/Trim functions (To Entity, By Length, Gap, Cutout) All Modify/Stretch functions (Node, Elbow, By Polygon) Modify/Chain and Dechain Modify/Fill Style Tools/Subpicture/Regroup and Split However, any persistence of contours must be explicit enabled by the user, by setting the environment variable TB_ENABLE_PERSIST_CONTOUR to Yes
Benefits
More drawing information persisted in PADD.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
207
User Bulletin
19.28
Description
The attributes Bold, Underline and StrikeOut of texts using legacy system fonts will now be displayed properly.
Benefits
This will improve graphic feedback.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
208
User Bulletin
19.29
Description
The enabling and checking of menu items and toolbar buttons has now been implemented and will reflect the current context and state.
Benefits
This will improve productivity.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
209
User Bulletin
19.30
Description
Unicode
Better support for Unicode (i.e. non-latin characters such as Korean, Chinese and Japanese) has been added to Marine Drafting. Unicode characters may be used in the following areas: Drawing names Values of Draftings default variables Dimension annotations Model names (except Hull) MarAPI (nb. Limited or no support for Unicode in Hull functions)
Benefits
Supporting Unicode e.g. provides functionality to make annotations in the users native language.
Compatibility Constraints
There is limited Unicode support among the Hull Design specific functions.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
210
User Bulletin
19.31
Description
An additional option has been added to the function Symbolic View/Planar Hull View/Modify to change the restriction of an existing symbolic view. The restriction could be an existing contour, a contour created interactively or an infinite line (the user is asked to choose the side of the line were the geometry is to be kept. There is also an option to make a new view as the restricted view. Note that this restriction is an addition to the restriction possible in the view/create function with limitation in the principal axis. The second tab Limits contains the limits.
It is possible to take away the restriction made in View/modify by removing the tick for the restrict button.
Benefits
Enables the view to be restricted in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
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User Bulletin
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
212
User Bulletin
19.32
Description
Inspect Drawing
In some cases, text will not be displayed properly on drawings migrated from Tribon M3 to AVEVA Hull & Outfitting 12. One reason could be that the codepage used to encode multibyte text has been changed to UTF-8 in AVEVA Hull & Outfitting 12. The Inspect Drawing function has been extended with an option to correct such texts. This new function displays a dialog box presenting a list containing all texts within the current drawing, and the user can choose which texts to convert.
Benefits
Make it possible to correct texts with the wrong codepage.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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19.33
Description
Draw Assemblies
There are new ways to insert an assembly into the drawing. The first one is in the Insert model dialog which has been updated with a new line for assemblies:
In the name field you can give the name of an assembly object optionally with wild cards. In the Block/Zone/Wld/Env/Asm you can give a name of an assembly or assembly world element. If given, the search will be limited to assemblies below this element. If this field is left empty the whole MDB is searched. The second possibility to add an assembly to the drawing is to use drag&drop from the design explorer: you select an assembly in the design explorer drag it and drop it in a view in the current drawing. (The drag&drop is a new feature in this release, please see a separate release note for more documentation.) Another improvement is that the assembly is always shown with the correct number of parts. One effect of this improvement is that the appearance of hull models may be different from what it was in previous releases regarding line styles, colours, p-lines etc. The appearance of the hull models will now be controlled by the representation rule set defined for the view. This is valid for all view types (Wireline, Wireline Hidden Line, Modelled Wireline, Local Hidden Line, Global Hidden Line and Universal Hidden Line).
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Benefits
It is easy to add assemblies to the drawing. The assemblies are always drawn with correct number of parts.
Compatibility Constraints
The appearance of hull models may be different from what it was in previous releases regarding line styles, colours, p-lines etc.
Affected Programs
Hull Design
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User Bulletin
19.34
Description
An RSO is given a default colour related to the type of RSO. The following colours are used:
RSO Type Compartment limit General Inner Structure Block Limit General Limit Backdrop
Colour Blue Steel blue Navy Blue Slate blue Light blue
The colour settings are valid both when an RSO is drawn in drawings and when drawn in the 3D canvas.
Benefits
Easier identification of RSOs.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
All programs with graphical presentation of RSOs
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19.35
Description
Input Model has been enhanced to allow users to easier select and insert RSOs into a drawing. RSO selection can now be filtered on type. Wanted type can be selected from a drop-down list with the following values:
The values in the drop down list corresponds to Any type (no filtering) Compartment Limit General Inner structure Block Limit General Limit Backdrop RSO selection can now also be made on envelope. All RSOs belonging to a given envelope are selected. It is no longer necessary to specify the _RSO_ prefix when keying in the name of an RSO in the input field.
Benefits
Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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19.36
Description
Curved panels presented using the function Input model now displays holes defined to be marked with a dashed line type.
Benefits
The model display reflects the design more correctly.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.37
Description
The Base Line ruler is always located at zero height in the ship. But there are other constructions/ships where it would benefit if this ruler could be located at another height. To be able to control this, a new default keyword, BASE_LINE_POSITION, has been added. By assigning a height to this keyword, the base line in the project can be set to another default position. If not given, the height zero will be applied. Affected functions are: Dimension 3D Distance to Plane Leader 4 BL Dimension 3D Distance to Plane Box 4 BL Annotate Position Ruler Base Line
Benefits
Makes it possible to have different Base line and take automatic measure from that.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.38
Description
Overlays
The ability to use overlays on a drawing has been added to Marine Drafting. Overlays may take the form of external plot files (.plt), or may be database elements. An overlay sheet can be placed anywhere on the drawing sheet, and can be of any size. Any number of overlay sheets may be used on a drawing sheet.
Benefits
Overlays have been made available to Marine Drafting and Hull Design.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.39
Description
In order to give Marine Drafting users better control of how to protect the contents in the drawing form view, the Drafting keyword ALLOW_TEXT_MODIFICATION_IN_FORM_RULE has been replaced by the keyword ALLOW_MODIFICATION_IN_FORM_VIEW.
Keyword: ALLOW_MODIFICATION_IN_FORM_VIEW System default value: "No" Explanation: User can modify protection flag for contents in the drawing form view. Legal values: "No" : "OnlyRuleBasedText" : "Yes" : Whole form view is protected from modification Texts defined by rules can be modified Contents of whole form view can be modified
Benefits
Better control of how to protect the contents in the drawing form view.
Compatibility Constraints
The old keyword ALLOW_TEXT_MODIFICATION_IN_FORM_RULE has been removed.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.40
Description
Open Drawing
Lookup of drawings using the Open Drawing dialog can be slow in projects wi th a large number of drawings. This functionality has been improved using a type index. This means that from this release it is often preferable to have the Search all departments option checked. The initial value of this option is controlled via the Marine Drafting default keyword SEARCH_ALL_DEPTS. It is also advisable to give one or more initial characters before a wild card since it speeds up the search significantly. Please note that if the search string starts with a wild card and Search all departments is not checked, the performance will be as in previous release.
Benefits
Lookup drawing view name and type in the Open Drawing dialog is much faster.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.41
Description
It is possible to drag and drop model items onto the 2D Canvas. The result of a successful dragdrop operation matches that of an Insert Model using the Insert Model dialog. It is possible to drag items to create new views, insert into a specific view or insert into all views. The new functionality includes standard left mouse button drag drop, right mouse button drag drop and other sources such as dragging items from other gadgets than the explorer, e.g. the Search Result and My Data.
Benefits
Easy ways to insert Model to the 2D canvas.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.42
Description
All hull symbolic views can now be created and modified from the user-interface of Marine Drafting 12.1. The corresponding Marine .NET APIs have therefore been implemented into the AVEVA.Marine.Drafting namespace as well. The following Marine .NET APIs have been implemented in the AVEVA.Marine.Drafting namespace. Please note that some APIs have been renamed to reflect changes in menus. The changes are marked with bold. Please also note that MarDrafting.Recreate is used to recreate all kinds of hull views.
Old (still available, marked as obsolete) Aveva.Marine.Design MarChm.ViewBodyPlanNew MarChm.ViewCurvedPanelNew MarChm.ViewDevPlaNew MarChm.ViewShellXNew MarChm.ViewShProfNew
MarChm.ViewModify MarChm.ViewRecreate
MarDrafting.ViewCurvedModify MarDrafting.ViewRecreate
MarHullPan.ViewDetailNew
MarDrafting.ViewDetailNew
MarHullPan.ViewSymbolicModify MarHullPan.ViewSymbolicRecreate
MarDrafting.ViewSectionModify MarDrafting.ViewRecreate
MarHullPan.MAR_SEAM
MarHullPan.MAR_SEAM_PML
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MarHullPan.MAR_STIFFENER MarHullPan.MAR_STIFFENER_PML
MarDrafting.MAR_STIFFENER MarDrafting.MAR_STIFFENER_PML
It is strongly recommended that you change your customisation files (C#, PML) to use the APIs from AVEVA.Marine.Drafting as soon as possible.
Benefits
A Marine Drafting 12.1 license is sufficient to be able to create hull views using the Marine .NET API.
Compatibility Constraints
The APIs have been marked as obsolete in the AVEVA.Marine.Design namespace. They will continue to be available in this namespace in 12.1 but they will be removed in a future release. When using the APIs from the AVEVA.Marine.Design namespace, you will get a warning when building a C# solution.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.43
Description
A number of default variables used in earlier releases of Drafting, but not in Hull Drafting 12.0/Marine Drafting 12.1, have been removed to avoid unnecessary confusion. The obsolete default variables that have been removed are listed below. Tribon M3 Outfitting has been replaced by AVEVA Outfitting so the following default variables are no longer valid: FLOW_UNIT_SYSTEM IMPEDANCE_UNIT_SYSTEM INDUCTANCE_UNIT_SYSTEM LUMINANCE_UNIT_SYSTEM PDI_STRUCTURE_VRML PDI_TRANS_STRUCTURE PRESSURE_DROP_UNIT_SYSTEM STRUCT_COMP_CODE_DET STRUCT_COMP_CODE_DRAW STRUCT_COMP_VOLUME_COLOUR STRUCT_KEEP_INSERT_OBJ STRUCT_KEEP_STAND_REF STRUCT_MODULES_IN_HULL STRUCT_MODULES_IN_OUTF' TEMPERATURE_UNIT_SYSTEM VELOCITY_UNIT_SYSTEM The volume concept in Tribon M3 has been replaced by AVEVA Outfitting so the following default variables are no longer valid: INCL_COMP_VOLUME_EVENT_POINTS_IN_EQUIP INITIAL_VOLUME_DB PLACVOL_NAME_CODE The database in Tribon M3 has been replaced by Dabacon so the following default variables are no longer valid: AUTO_CLEAN_WORKSPACE BACKUP_ACT BACKUP_TIME The control point concept in Tribon M3 has been removed so the following default variable is no longer valid: DIM_CONTROLPOINT_MID_TOL
Benefits
Avoid confusion by not showing obsolete default variables in the Format/Defaults dialog.
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Compatibility Constraints
Not applicable.
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
19.44
Description
TBSystemFonts
It is a known issue that the old legacy fonts do not function very well in AVEVA Marine 12. These fonts are: TBSystemFont0 TBSystemFont1 TBSystemFont2 TBSystemFont3 TBSystemFont4 TBSystemFont5 TBSystemFont6 TBSystemFont7 TBISOFont101 TBISOFont105 The issue is that these fonts cannot be used for text elements stored in the PADD database. This is for example all texts created with the Insert\Text function in Marine Drafting. TBSystemFonts will in this case be replaced with a default true type font. In 12.1 we have introduced a way to map a TBSystemFont with any true type font available in the project. The mapping is primarily intended to be used when migrating drawings from M3 to 12. The font mapping is setup in a file with a simple format, where each TBSystemFont can be associated with a true type font (separated by a blank or a TAB). The name of the file is assigned to the environment variable TB_SYSTEMFONT_MAP. This is a sample file: TBISOFont101 TBISOFont105 TBSystemFont0 TBSystemFont1 TBSystemFont2 TBSystemFont3 TBSystemFont4 TBSystemFont5 TBSystemFont6 TBSystemFont7 Arial Unicode MS Lucida Sans Arial Unicode MS Times New Roman Times New Roman Times New Roman Courier New Courier New Lucida Sans Times New Roman
The font mapping will affect the text font when: migrating a drawing with the SY013 migration utility importing a drawing with the File\Import\SDB utility importing a drawing with the Copy Assistant utility.
Benefits
TBSystemFonts can be replaced with any true type font available in the project, not only the default font.
Compatibility Constraints
Copyright 1974 to current year. AVEVA Solutions Ltd.
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None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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No change of functionality. Modification is persisted.as before. To be more specific, the caption text has been changed slightly.
Presentation
Text Properties
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Functionality has been improved: Here the user can toggle between updating on component level (whole dimensioning) and part level (individual texts in it). To toggle, just press the Option button when the system asks the user to indicate the dimensioning (text) to modify. Modifications both on component and part level will be persisted. The following properties can be modified: Font Size Aspect Slant Colour
Text Value
Functionality has been improved: Here the user can toggle between updating on component level (whole dimensioning) and part level (individual texts in it). To toggle, just press the Option button when the system asks the user to indicate the dimensioning (text) to modify. Modifications both on component and part level will be persisted.
Functionality has been improved and renamed (from Transform Text): Here the user can move individual texts within an arbitrary linear dimensioning. The changed position of the measure text will be persisted.
Flip arrow
In case the Drafting default keyword DENY_UPDATE_OF_NON_PERSISTED_GEOM is set to Yes, the same part-level functionality that is offered within the Modify/Dimension function can be also be invoked by clicking the right mouse button (RMB) on a text in a linear dimensioning and selecting one of the submenus:
RMB/Move (or Modify/Move/Text) Same functionality as Modify/Dimension/Move Dimension Text Note the whole dimension line will not be moved (as in 12.0), but only the indicated text within the dimensioning
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Benefits
Improved productivity in dimensioning modifying functions.
Compatibility Constraints
None
Affected Programs
Hull Design Marine Drafting
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User Bulletin
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User Bulletin
The system line widths of THIN, MEDIUM, and THICK are now configurable in ADMIN using the new line-style hierarchy in the system database. By default, they have been changed to standard values from the ISO 128 standard, which specifies line widths of: 0.18, 0.25, 0.35, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.4, & 2.0 mm. The values chosen for THIN, MEDIUM and THICK are: 0.25, 0.35 and 0.7 mm, rather than the former 0.22, 0.5, & 0.7 mm. The Minimum pen line width, formerly set by a gadget on the Plotting Options form, no longer appears. This is a parameter of the Plot command and is no longer required as the user has much better control of the widths. A very low value will be treated as the minimum width allowed for the format specified PDF, DWG, etc. These may vary or have some special meaning. Note: the line width resolution of PDF output is currently controlled by a reference printer, which is either the users default printer (if there is one) or the users screen resolution. If the resolution of the said printer is 600dpi, it will not be sufficient to show the difference in width of the example lines on A0. One way to prevent this problem from occurring is to set a default printer with a higher resolution, say 1200 dpi.
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29.6 0
Dimension Direction
Create new Angular Dimension element Use cursor to pick P-lines defining the first and second Dimension Directions. Use cursor to pick a Sheet position through which the Dimension Arc will pass.
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For full details, please refer to the DRAFT User Guide, section 12.6 Angular Dimensions, which has been extensively revised.
20.10
These enhancements are focused on speeding up Extrusions and Panels by improving the handling of their vertices. Vertex (VERT) & Panel Vertex (PAVE) elements have 10 p-points, mostly for dimensioning purposes. Each p-point number has a particular functional position: P0 P1 P2 P3 P4, P6 P5, P7 P8 P9 Origin of Vertex Bottom panel face in line with panel vertex Midway through panel in line with panel vertex Top panel face in line with panel vertex Bottom face tangent points (for filleted radius at vertex) Top face tangent points (for filleted radius at vertex) Bottom face fillet centre Top face fillet centre.
There are two changes to improve performance: calculate all the p-point positions in one go when drawing them in Draft omit P5 to P9 when the fillet radius is zero, as they are coincident with the first four
20.11
Drawing Gridlines
Plant Design grids (GRIDSYstem and GRIDAXis elements) may now be added to IDLists, but may not be the sole member of the IDList. They are drawn using the Centreline Style/Colour; their GRIDLNs are considered to be of infinite length and so are extended to the VIEW boundary. AUTO commands ignore these elements when calculating the VSCA, THPOS, and SIZE attributes of a VIEW. For details, please refer to the DRAFT User Guide, section 4.2, 4.3 and 12.9.
20.12
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.
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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, e.g. W12250 N7890 U3120 #POSE Easting coordinate only, e.g. E12250, W9675 #POSN, #POSU, #POSX, #POSY, #POSZ are also provided. Note that 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.
20.13
Significant improvements have been made to the export of DXF, DWG and DGN format files from Draft, using the configurable drivers (Draft_XXX_LI). Recommended AutoCAD versions are 2007-2010, as shown in section 2.9.1. The DXF version used is now AutoCAD 2006, so it cannot be supported in earlier releases. Recommended MicroStation format is now v8. Additional limitations may apply for earlier releases. For full details of configuration, please refer to the Draft User Manual.
20.14
Drawing export to recent releases of AutoCAD and MicroStation should now cope with all supported languages for which the computer is set up. Full support is not possible for AutoCAD releases before 2007 or for MicroStation DGN v7 format. As noted elsewhere (see section 4.1.3), it is recommended that Latin filenames are used.
20.15
These changes should result in a much more usable drawing and smaller file sizes. The main improvements for the 3 formats are: User defined Line-styles: defined with PATDEF and PATREP but not PATNAM Fill Styles: export in native format hatch entities for all system defined styles 1-30: this includes the new ones (see section 20.1) The following limitations apply: Draft's intelligent blanking primitives are not exported User-defined line styles with Glyphs and line pictures are not supported Only built-in line patterns are supported at present for layer definitions, not the full range of configurable line patterns
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20.16
Improvements also include: Symbols and Logos are exported as Nested Blocks; differentially scaled symbols are supported. Overlays and Design Elements are exported as Nested Symbols. Ellipse is exported as an entity (AcDbEllipse) Layers can be defined and exported new switches control their use; for example rules can create new layers, set their colour, assign elements to layers by type. However, colour bylayer is not used for objects in the DXF/DWG file. Text Alignment has been improved
20.17
Improvements also include: Symbols, Backing Sheets, Frame and Logos are exported as cells; differentially scaled symbols are supported. Cells are exported with Tag data attached. The following limitations apply: Although user-defined glyphs and line pictures are ignored, it is possible to specify a MicroStation custom line-style for a given DRAFT pen number. Hatching (fill) patterns from HPATTERN19 to HPATTERN30 use a common shared cell definition. For these: Colours, Line weight and Line style will not be set. Dimensions are not exported as MicroStation dimensions. However, they may be grouped.
20.18
This add-on application has been completely overhauled for Hull & Outfitting 12.1. It can now be used for drawing detailed drawings, complete with parts lists, of both HVAC and Cable trays. It is fully configurable and produces a fully annotated Isometric-style drawing with: Dimensioned and labelled Spool Material Take-Off Table Location Plan of the Spool in the Main Keyplan of location to nearest Grid Line Revision table Total Weight and Centre of Gravity Drawing output is in PDF format, with Material Take-off to MS Excel. In addition, there is a dedicated Toolbar, Edit tools and a Print Tool for Multiple drawings. Please note that this new release will not work with earlier versions of Hull & Outfitting and that many areas are significantly different, including the following; HVAC Catalogue upgrades Draft Library elements for True-Type Fonts The appropriate changes have been made to the sample data supplied with Hull & Outfitting.
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For full details, please refer to the updated Isometric ADP user documentation: Installation Guide User Guide Administration Guide
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Please contact your local AVEVA representative to get a copy of the sa021 utility. Please note that this is a Tribon program and must be copied to and executed in the Tribon bin directory, for example C:\Tribon\M3\bin.
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!!Integrator.ValidateLinks()
Note: This method should be used only when all of the schematic and design databases, holding elements that have been linked, are current on the MDB.
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Manage Links is also available with the new Compare/Update Utility. For More Information, please refer to the Integrator User Guide sections 4.7.16, 5.2 and 5.3.
Top level Rule Groups now have a source type which is the type of element for which they will be applied (in place of the condition setting type of source). For More Information, please refer to the Integrator User Guide section 6.5.5.
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-- File: compare macro for user guide.pmlmac -- Initialise Integrator !!integratorInit() -- Collect schematic equipment and pipelines that appear on this drawing !scgroup = |/Piping_Diagrams| !sctypes = |SCEQUI SCPLIN| !diagExp = |name of diaref eq '/A1-51-2003'| !sccoll = object COLLECTION() !sccoll.scope(!scgroup.dbref()) !sccoll.types(!sctypes.split()) !sccoll.filter(object expression(!diagExp)) -- Integrator compare method needs array of strings !comlist = ARRAY() do !element values !sccoll.results() !comlist.append(!element.ref.string()) enddo -- Set report direct to file and do compare !!integrator.setreportvisible(false) !!integrator.setreportpath('c:\mac\compareReport.xml') if (!comlist.size() gt 0) then !!integrator.compare(!comlist) handle any write !!error.text elsehandle none -- Write out the compare summary !!integratorSupportHandler.printSummary() -- View the report unless running in non graphics mode if (not istty) then !file = object FILE('c:\mac\compareReport.xml') if (!file.exists()) then !!integrator.openreport() endif endif endhandle endif
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A new option has been introduced for label shapes they can now be flipped automatically, depending on the flow direction of the pipeline.
This can be used for example in KKS, to show flow direction as a flag, pointing in the flow direction.
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*12.1.SP2*
The capability of copying and pasting diagrams data between diagrams has been improved substantially. In this release it is possible to copy any shape within a single diagrams and paste it into another diagram, together with the entire database structure and all its attributes. Copying can be done between diagrams in a single project, but also between different projects and instances of AVEVA Diagrams.
When copying between projects it is possible to copy either according to the group structure in the source project, which is then recreated in the destination project, or to paste the copied objects according to the session defaults in the destination project. When copying branches belonging to pipelines already existing in the destination project, a choice is given whether to create the branches in existing pipelines or to create new pipelines for the copied data.
Benefits
Allows for reuse of data within a project or between projects.
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Note: For this function fully to work with the data created by the Diagrams application, it requires that SVG files are created for the relevant sessions. This is affected by the Keep session files and Create SVG on Save Work settings in Diagrams Options, as well as the possible use of the Release Diagram to 3D button.
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It is now possible to use Instrument Relationship Shapes to connect Offline instruments or Actuators to any valid process item. The connection point will be created automatically on the shape if connection is possible, so the user will not have to create any additional ones beforehand. However, connection points on in-line items that were designed for in-line flow connections cannot be used for instrumentation connections.
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This shows the same annotation without using the .withunit keyword:
Affected Programs
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AVEVA Diagrams
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It is also possible to publish several diagrams using the Batch Job function, and also to publish the diagrams while releasing the Diagrams data to 3D.
Affected Programs
AVEVA Diagrams
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Line jumps style allows the user to specify the style of jump if the line is the one which should break. It also can be selected from a list:
The new settings together allow the user to specify the behaviour of crossing lines depending on defined conditions. If the settings are applied properly by rule, the result is visible on the drawing and also appropriate values are shown for particular shapes on the tab in the Visio Format>Behaviour dialog.
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Add line jumps the setting allows to specify the behaviour of the line when crossing another line shape. It can be selected from a list of standard values:
Line jumps style allows to specify the style of jump if the line is the one which should break. It also can be selected from a list:
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The new settings together allow specifying behaviour of crossing lines depending on defined conditions. If the settings are applied properly by rule, the result is visible on the drawing and also appropriate values are shown for particular shapes on the tab in the Visio Format->Behaviour dialog:
Benefits
Auto Formatting Rules functionality covers user needs in a better way.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Diagrams
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Benefits
Enables the user to better control shape annotations in the Schematic Model Viewer.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
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Diagrams
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23.13
Description
Split-Merge functions for SCBRAN now available in Diagrams. Join To join two branches please select two valid connectors and execute the Join <LineType> Branch option from toolbars or menus:
If join will not be possible the system will notify the user in the System Message log. Split To split branches use the Branch splitter symbol which works in the same way as Line splitter.
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Benefits
The possibility to join/split branches in simple way without using workarounds.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Diagrams
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23.14 VALV
Description
It is now possible to use INST as a GTYP on SCVALV elements instead of VALV, VTWA or VFWA gtypes. To achieve this, the master shape must have the Classify as Instrument (GTYPE=INST) option checked on the Edit/Import master dialog.
When this option is checked in the master item, all SCVALVs that will be created from this master will have GTYPE set to INST. Changing existing items 1. Changes on opened diagram It is possible to change existing SCVALV gtyp from VALV, VTWA or VFWA to INST using the shape context menu option Replace Symbol.
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If your current item has a GTYP different to INST and you replace this shape with a master that have the Classify as Instrument option checked, then after shape replace, the system will change GTYP from the existing one to INST and give a warning message in the System Message Log. Of course this can work the opposite way around. The system is able to change INST GTYP to VALV, VTWA or VFWA. 2. Batch changes In case you have many diagrams and you want to update all items on all drawings you can use the Update symbols according to master shapes option from the Batch Job update:
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Before you can use this option you have to modify the masters that were used to create valves by checking/unchecking the Classify as Instrument check box. After that, you need to select it using the dialog below:
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In case the system will change GTYP during this operation, a warning message will be displayed in the batch job log. Specification search during batch job: If GTYP has been changed and existing item has valid SPRE attribute set then system will try to find the new specification. The search algorithm is presented below:
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SCVALVE Item
NO
YES
NO
Check in diagrams settings if specification should be used. and Check if SPRE type is SPCO
YES
NO
YES
Find the element with TYPE question and start searching downstream looking for new SPCO. The following criteria is considered during search: The current SPCO does not depends on GTYP. Do nothing o o For PPBO, TYPE and STYP questions the answer is taken from SCVALVE directly. For other questions, the default answer will be used (in case if there is only one possible item to choice then this item will be taken). In case if above fails then system will try find the answer for current question from existing SPEC Question-Answer path.
If no items fit to the answer then system put message in log that SPCO can not be found. Otherwise system will continue search until it find correct SPCO. If SPCO is found then the system warn the user about the SPRE change.
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23.15
Description
Previously after Upgrade Drawing was executed either automatically on open or manually from the Tools menu it was not possible to cancel the operation. However, it was possible to close the drawing before the upgrade was completed and this caused an exception. Now a progress bar is shown during Upgrade Drawing and the operation can be safely cancelled:
Also, appropriate messages are added to the message log on operations start and cancel/finish:
Additionally, when Upgrade Drawing is called manually from the Tools menu, a status window appears after the operation is completed:
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In case the user opens a drawing that is not updated to the current product version and the Upgrade drawing on Open option is set to false, the following warning appears in the message log:
If the Upgrade drawing on Open is set to true, but for some reason the drawing cannot be opened automatically, an appropriate error message is added to the message log:
Benefits
The Upgrade Drawing functionality works better and does not cause any errors.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Diagrams
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23.16
Description
New ways to update linked objects in a diagram. Use Edit->Links dialog When a drawing that contains linked objects is active then the Links option is active in the Edit menu. This option is hidden when a drawing has no linked objects.
Use Update Diagrams in batch job. (File->Batch Job) This option allows the user to update linked objects in many drawings in one go.
Benefits
Allows users to update and manage linked objects.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Diagrams
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23.17 Style
Description
It is possible to determine a connector re-route style for newly created lines. For HVAC, Pipe and Instrument line types a special option called Reroute has been added. This option allows the settings Never reroute or Use shape settings for newly created connector lines. By default Never reroute is selected. In case the Use shape settings is selected then Visio decides which setting will be used.
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Benefits
Newly created ducts or tubes can have routing style set to Never Reroute by default.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
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23.18
Description
To be able to set default values for all existing items that have been created from particular equipment masters it is necessary to edit the equipment master and set the default value for the new UDA. Then running the Batch Job with Update attribute presentation settings selected. The master that contains the modified data must be selected.
Before starting the batch update it is necessary that Allow individual shape settings to override default settings is checked for items that needs to be updated.
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If this setting is not checked, the default value of the new UDA will be taken from Session Defaults.
If the system changes the database attribute, there will be detailed information in the batch job log. Please note that the system will not set attribute value for items where a UDA was already defined in shape data. If refresh is executed before the update then refresh will add any missing UDA to shape data with a default value. Then the system detects it and will not set a default value to database.
Benefits
The possibility to update existing items about newly created attributes values using batch job.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Diagrams
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23.19
Auto hide text by text fit This option will hide the text on the connector in the case the tallest leg of this connector will be shorter than the text that is currently displayed on it. If this happens the system will notify this in the System Message Log.
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Both options will work when the connector size is changed. This means that text on connectors will be visible after you modify above options and accept changes. To make it work the connector size must be changed. To enable text that has become invisible because of these options, the Show Text option in the Shape Context menu must be ticked.
Benefits
There is a possibility to hide text on connectors because of the connector leg length.
Compatibility Constraints
None.
Affected Programs
Diagrams
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23.20
A number of further improvements have also been made to Diagrams for this release: Area Shapes DB representation: A new Database Element Type (SCAREA) to represent Area Shapes has been introduced. This allows data to be stored in the database related with Area Shapes, allowing them, for instance, to represent rooms with related attributes and properties. Consistency Check Improvements: The Consistency Check function now detects further issues that may exist with the objects on the diagram, such as bad references and inconsistent use of fluid between connected pipelines. Auto Formatting Rules Improvements: The Format to Assign tab in the Rule Details window now includes more options for format type; a number of UI enhancements have also been made to the Auto Formatting Rules windows. Diagram and Page References: Pseudo attributes that return references to the diagram(s) and page(s) on which objects are shown have now been introduced for further types of objects, for instance inline valves & fittings. This may help integration with other data sources such as Instrumentation. Fixed Shape Text and Label position: For tube & branch labels on Visio connectors, when the option 'Use Control Handle' is set and the text of a line is positioned using this, the position will be kept when the line is split by inserting a component. For all 2D shapes, there is now a new Move label with 2D shapes setting in the Annotations section in Diagrams Options. This allows the user to have labels with a fixed position, for instance Equipment Data Block labels that will not move when the equipment item itself is being moved.
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24.1 Tags
The new Tags module provides an easy-to-use and powerful user interface for engineering users, allowing them to work on Engineering Lists & Schedules and related data. Some of the more prominent features and functions of the Tags module are as follows: Easy-to-use User Interface: Familiar Microsoft Office 2010-like UI. See pictures overleaf. List Editing: Grid-based editing of list data in the new ENGI database. List views can be set up Project Wide by administrators. It is also possible for regular users to create and use their own specialized layouts. This includes grouping/filtering and bulk editing capabilities. Multi-discipline concurrent engineering: By using the new Distributed Attributes and Database Views mechanisms, it is possible to allow true parallel work between different disciplines, even on the same object. Navigation: In addition to the list editing, it is also possible to navigate the engineering or system hierarchy to find and edit individual items. Data Management functions: A number of management functions such as Status Control, Change Highlighting, Attribute History and Extracts are available to manage the lifecycles of engineering objects. Change Highlighting: It is possible to highlight and report on changes made by different users and disciplines. This also includes highlighting of changes made in diagrams. Diagram viewer: A built-in diagram viewer allows users to view and navigate P&IDs and other schematics. Compare & Update: Engineering data can be compared and updated against a number of other AVEVA sources, such as Schematics, 3D, AVEVA Instrumentation etc. (see Compare/Update). It is also possible to compare individual items of the same kind against each other to find differences. Excel Import/Export: Engineering data can be imported from external sources and exported to external applications by using Excel Import/Export utilities. AVEVA NET Integration: Engineering data can be exported to AVEVA NET Reports: Project-quality formatted reports can be created direct from the Dabacon databases. As Engineering is based on the same platform as the 3D and Schematics tools, it is very easy to combine data from these sources into common reports.
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For full details of this important new module, please see the AVEVA Tags User Guide.
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Allocating users to the TAGSADMIN team allows superusers or department managers to perform certain admin tasks in Tags / engineering, without them having to be free users.
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For More Information, please refer to the new Compare/Update User Guide.
*12.1.SP2*
Compare/Update in Tags has been improved to allow Engineering Data to be both source and target for comparison. This allows one list of engineering objects to be compared against another. A new configuration wizard will be delivered in a future service pack to fully support this capability. In the meantime this capability can be provided only with specialist customisation.
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Selecting it gives the user a form to specify the offset and then pick the relevant feature:
Primitives owned by the following additional element types are affected: STRU, SUBS, VOLM, SVOLM, PTRA, AREADE
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The Distance tab moves an element a distance in a given direction. The Through tab moves an element in a given direction until it reaches a point relative to a plane perpendicular to the direction of movement through another point. The Clearance tab moves an element in a given direction so that its obstruction volume or a Ppoint is a given clearance from another element. The clearance is measured in the same direction as the direction of movement.
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The Towards tab moves an element a given distance in a direction specified in terms of another element. For details, please refer to the Design Common Functionality User Guide.
Users can explore sessions containing an added element by selecting DB Changes or DB Differences from the Control menu, and selecting Session in the Changes Since radio button set.
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where the <comparison> syntax is similar to that following the SINCE keyword in the DIFFERENCE and OUTPUT CHANGES commands:
-->-+- <date/time> -+-----------------------. | | | | |
|- LATEST ------| | |
|- extno ---+ | |
- extname -+ |
If the BEFORE option is used, the elements will be reverted to the state they had before the specified session. Examples: REVERT HIER /EQUIP AT LATEST reverts the element hierarchy rooted at /EQUIP to the latest saved session. REVERT HIER /EQUIP BEFORE LATEST reverts the hierarchy rooted at /EQUIP to the state it had before the latest saved session. REVERT ELE /E1301 AT 20:16 26 / 3 / 2010 reverts the single element /E1301 to the state it had on the given time and date REVERT HIER /PIPES AT STAMP /StampMilestone7 reverts the hierarchy rooted at /PIPES to the state it had at the named stamp REVERT HIER CE AT EXTRACT reverts the hierarchy rooted at the current element to its state in the parent extract The Revert command ensures that every element creation, include, reorder and deletion, and every attribute change is allowed before proceeding. If any of these tests fail, for example due to legality checks, read-only databases or DACs, then the entire revert operation is cancelled and the following error is generated. (43,615) Cannot Revert elements. No changes have been made.
In this case a series of warning messages is written to the console indicating the causes of the error, for example:
DAC prevents deletion of element /DELETE_UDET_B DAC prevents creation of element =15752/1363
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Built on element
Element locks do not prevent a Revert operation if those elements were unlocked in the previous state. Note that this command is not directly related to the REVERT <database name> command available in Admin. This command allows an entire database to be reverted to the state it had at a previous session.
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The Model Changes Add-in has two vertically split panes. The top split contains a Design Explorer; the lower split contains a tabbed pane and controls, as shown below:
Model Changes Add-in tabs and controls The tabbed pane condenses the following displays (see over): Model Timeline: every session for every Design database in the current MDB, ordered chronologically. Stamps: details of every stamp that records session numbers for all of the Design databases in the MDB. Element History: details of every database session in which the selected (current) element has changed. Key: static tree control with images, colour and text explaining annotation of changes in the Explorer.
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Explorer Annotations Key pane The Element History and Key panes are for information only; the Model Timeline and Stamps panes allow selection of a session or stamp upon which to base the display of changes in the Explorer pane, and optional highlighting of changes in the 3D view. Once a session or stamp is selected, changes can be highlighted by clicking the Refresh button at the bottom left of the Add-in (see above). Two modes of change reporting are supported, according to the current selection in the drop-down list in the bottom right of the Add-in: Only Changes At... shows only the changes that were made when the highlighted session was created. This may have been a Savework or as the result of an extract operation, such as a flush or refresh, as indicated by the Reason column in the Model Timeline table. Note that highlighting in the Explorer pane and in the 3D view is always with reference to the current state of the model; it is possible that no changes from a previous session will be visible, for example if all changes were made to elements that have since been deleted. All Changes Since... shows all changes that have been made in all databases in the MDB between, but not including, the selected session or stamp, and the current state of the model. This does include any unsaved changes. Note that for large models this change analysis can take some time. When the Refresh button is clicked and the change analysis operation is complete the explorer tree is updated with annotations which highlight the changed elements in detail. An example is shown overleaf: The annotations are as described in the Key pane; in this example, we can see that: The World element and SITE element /ATEST are not themselves changed but have changed descendants. This helps navigation to the changed parts of the element hierarchy; ZONE element /ZONEEQUIP_FROM_A has member list changes only. Since no new or reordered elements are displayed, it can be inferred that all child elements have been removed; CONE element /CHANGETYPE_UDET_CONE_A has been modified (its type has been changed); EQUI element /MOVE5_A_VESS1 has been moved from the child list of /ZONEEQUIP_FROM_A into the child list of /ZONEEQUIP_TO_A; EQUI element /CREATE_A_VESS1 has been created under ZONE element /ZONE1.EQUIP, thereby changing its member list.
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Annotated Explorer
Clicking the highlight checkbox at the bottom middle of the Add-in (see Model Changes Add-in tabs and controls picture above) has an immediate effect on all 3D graphical views if changes are currently displayed in the explorer tree. Any changed elements that have graphical representation and are in the drawlist for any active view are highlighted in colour. This uses the same customisable colour used by the Highlight element function available via right -click menu in the standard Design Explorer Add-in. Unchecking the checkbox returns the graphical display to normal colouring. All panes of the Model Changes Add-in are updated and Explorer annotations and 3D graphical highlighting are reset in the following circumstances: further element changes Savework, Getwork, and Refresh User or MDB switch Following any of these operations, the Refresh button must be clicked again in order to update the change highlighting.
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26.2 Piping
26.2.1 Sloping piping
The data structure for piping includes two new concepts for better handling of slopes or falls: An adaptive or wobbly P-point that can accommodate a specified range of angles this is achieved by introducing a tolerance attribute OFFTOL on all types of P-point (in Paragon). A PDIR pseudo-attribute defines the actual direction, which must be within the tolerance of the nominal direction A Slope element or SLOELE, in a Slope table or SLOTAB, that can be referenced by the SLOREF of a SPEC, PIPE or BRANCH to specify default, minimum and maximum slope The introduction of these new concepts has no effect on existing Cats & Specs or models. The new features are used in Quick Pipe Routing and also for sloping existing orthogonal piping. The Paragon GUI has been extended to cover Slope Tables. The pipe creation form has an additional option for selecting from a list of slopes and the modify pipe form has the same option for setting branch values. The older pipe and branch modification forms have also been changed to include new options for slopes. Note: If the SLOREF attribute is set at pipe level, it is automatically inherited by new branches.
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The Model editor has been extensively revised to handle elbows (as well as bends) and the new Ppoint options, as well as adding slope options to the menus. A new form can assist in applying a slope to an existing pipe, including all the branches within it. To display it, navigate to an existing pipe and select Modify>Pipe Slope... For full details, please refer to the Piping User Guide.
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This enables you to search for bent pipe pieces, filter them, and then create a report.
26.3 Structures
26.3.1 Steelwork Connectivity Upgrade
The user interface for connecting structural elements has been improved in various places to use event-driven graphics (EDG) interaction. In addition, several operations now also work on GENSEC elements including curved members and UNDO is now available for some functions.
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In particular, a Connect Ends? check box has been added to the form for creating Curved Section GENSEC elements. This check box allows the user to specify whether they wish to connect the ends if a suitable start or end point is selected.
Minor changes apply to creation of straight and curved members, connection and disconnection and several operations related to joints. For details, please refer to the Structural User Guide. When regenerating the support, e.g. by selecting a new template with a different steelwork section specification, or creating by dimensions, pads will be regenerated if pads already exist before the regeneration process if triggered. If the size of the steelwork sections is not modified then the same pad will be used. If the steelwork section is modified then the pad size will be modified.
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Merged holes are individual holes merged together into a single hole. To merge holes, click Pick holes; the user is prompted to pick a Managed Hole fitting to be combined into a single merged hole. Note: A minimum of two holes must be picked.
Click Merge Holes, the software creates a merged hole containing the selected penetrations.
26.4.4 Utilities
All panels within the volume of the selected pipe or HVAC can be added to the 3D view. To do this, from the Utilities part of the Managed Hole Utility window, click Add Structure. To view all pipe or HVAC elements within the volume of the selected structural panels, from the Utilities part of the Managed Hole Utility window, click Add Pipe/HVAC. To generate and define a report on selected holes, click Hole Report. The report can then be printed or exported to Excel.
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Report Headings may be specified: Discipline Specify holes for all disciplines or a single one specified using the drop-down menu Specify holes at any Status or at a single Status option using the drop-down menu Select all holes or only those that pass or fail the validation tests Note: any option other than Not Checked may significantly slow down report generation as all the validation tests will be run for every selected hole Invalid Include hole associations that have any bad references, invalid references or invalid data Select holes in panels Refreshes the Hole Report according to the element and filtering options selected Note: It is necessary to select Headings required on the report before clicking on Apply Filter because heading data is collected when filters are applied. Report Headings Select headings required on the report from three categories: information about the hole, information about the penetrated item and information about the penetrating item Displays Managed Hole Report window
Status Valid
Preview
You can use grid column functions to sort and filter columns before printing or exporting the report. Select Print Preview to view the report or select Export to Excel to export it. Right click the Hole Associations list to display the following pop-up menu: Navigate to the Association, the penetrated or the penetrating item (single selection 300
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only) Add to 3D view Remove from 3D view Focus on Hole Adds the selected holes and associated items Removes the selected holes and associated items Zooms the 3D view to centre on the selected hole and zoom in. Clipping is applied if it is enabled (single selection only). Exports the report grid to Excel Shows a standard grid print preview for the report grid
Property specifying the diameter of the hole required for the component (a REAL DISTANCE expression returning the hole diameter.) The property is used if: 1. It is associated with a piping or HVAC component that clashes with the panel at the penetration. For example, this property may specify the outside diameter of a COUP element that represents a penetration sleeve. It is associated with a FLAN component that is adjacent to a penetration clash with pipe implied tube. This allows for a flange clearance hole to be created.
2.
If the AHDI property is applied, the Clearance value is ignored. If the AHDI property is not applied, (Pipe OD + Clearance) is used to calculate the hole size. AHX Property specifying the X dimension of a rectangular hole required for the component (a REAL DISTANCE expression.) If the AHX property is applied, the Clearance value is ignored If the AHX property is not applied, (Component width + Clearance) is used to calculate the hole size AHY As for AHX, but specifies the Y or height dimension of the hole.
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Select the element, specify the filter criteria and structural elements, then select Apply Filter. The selected hole associations will be displayed in the Hole Associations table. If some of the hole associations fail, navigate to the hole and use hole management to modify the penetration, then select Apply Filter from the Hole Association Manager window. To add elements to be managed, select Add Current Element. To remove the automatically created penetrations, select Reset, then Refresh.
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Displaying Holes
The Hole Association Manager window can also be used to display selected holes in the 3D view.
Clipped Hole View The Focus on Hole option can be used to zoom in on a selected hole and remove all other elements from the 3D view. Make sure that the clipping and capping options are selected on the active 3D view. From the Hole Associations table, right click to select a single hole and activate a popup menu. Select Focus on Hole; this zooms to the selected hole and clips the surrounding background. To return to the normal view, de-select the clipping and capping options or select a different view. Show Tags To show tags and a box surrounding a selection of holes in the associations list, check the Show Tags box. Translucent Penetrated To emphasise the penetrated items selected in the associations list, check the Translucent Penetrated box.
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The CHOOSE form is displayed showing the couplings available from the piping specification. Select the required component and click the OK button. Note: In the sample MAS project, an example of a pipe penetration component can be found in category /MACB2OR.
The Hole Management Definition form is displayed. If a suitably configured piping component is selected, it can be placed on either side of the penetrated plate an additional Flip Side button appears on the form.
Click on the Flip Side button to place the piping component on the other side of the penetrated plate.
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This creates a new element in a Library in the application data world (APPLDW) the library item is an APPLDA element in an APPDAR. A similar form is used to modify these items. Libraries, Areas and Items are modified or deleted from a pop-up menu on the same form:
For full details, please refer to the Design Common Functionality User Guide manual.
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When the form is first shown, the current element is selected in the Check field. Users can change this as they wish by typing any Design name or syntax such as ZONE. The element to be checked is always named in this text box. The options available are: Check Check the named element for Clashes Check CE Show the name of the current element and check it for Clashes
The Clashes are displayed in a grid, with the usual facilities for filtering, grouping etc:
The whole grid can be printed or saved to file by the RH popup menu options: Print Preview Save to Excel
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It is necessary to scroll the grid to the right to see all the information about the clash such as Position
There are also columns for the primary element that clashes or obstructs; any column can be dragged in the grid to group rows, for example:
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The example groups all clashes per branch and then clashes against the same obstruction. This is a common useful grouping so there is an option to set the default presentation.
Other options on this panel are covered by the standard DESCLASH defaults. In addition to the DESCLASH options there are various other presentation defaults such as the View background colour and options to display aid constructs to in the 3D view.
By default each clash is displayed in a clipped view; the clip box size can resized by direct input or a slider bar above the view or clipping can be switched off.
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When checking for clashes, the default obstruction is All; this mean that the element is checked for clashes against everything in the MDB. In practice, it is perhaps more realistic to check for clashes against specific obstructions. This is specified in the Obstruction/Exclusions panel:
There are several options to help the user add to these lists:
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Current Element Pick Element Current Selection Current List All Remove removes any selected elements and Clear clears the entire list. The application allows a limits volume to be set so that only clashes within these limits are reported. If all values are zero then there are in effect no limits to the clash check. This can be reset using the Clear button. The volume box can displayed using the Display option:
To set limits the Position can be directly input or set using the options: Current Element Picked Elements Defined by 2 Picks Current Selection Current List The 3D view has all the expected functionality of a standard 3D view and can be Printed and Saved to file by setting focus to the view and selecting from the View > Print Graphics and Copy Image options.
26.7.1 Reports
If a text report of the clashes is required this can be done by ticking the Export report to file toggle on the Report panel. The report will be written to file each time a Check is performed
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*12.1.SP2*
To copy a cable, select Create > Copy > Cable Elements from the main menu bar to display the Copy Cable window.
*12.1.SP2*
The form allows the user to select an existing tray and create volumes with dimensions extracted from the tray members. The user can select the zone for creation of the new elements and set some cableway branch attributes using the same form.
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A new Modify pad size button on the Modify Section form enables the user to change the dimensions of an existing pad. In Paragon, the default value for the Automatic Pads option can be set On or Off in the MDS Admin Data form, under the top bar menu Modify > MDS Application Defaults
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A new upgrade tool allows the MDS administrator to update existing standards or add new ones. This is useful for users upgrading from a previous version of a project or continuing work on a project that uses a copy of a previous versions MDS/APPDEFAULTS database. The Check MDS Application Defaults tool is a new feature in the Utilities menu of the Paragon module and is available to administrators who belong to team CATADMIN. For details, please see the Multi-Discipline Supports Administrator Guide.
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26.10
There are several developments in Hull & Outfitting Isodraft version 12.1. For details, please refer to the updated User and Reference Manuals.
26.10.1
Isometrics may now be produced in PDF, Image or EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile) format. This is achieved through an extension of the FILE command, for example:
26.10.2
TrueType Fonts
TrueType fonts, as defined in Admin, may now be used on isometrics. The user can select the font type for all the text on the isometric (including material description) by font number, e.g. TTFONT 5. Examples: TTFONT TTFONT TTFONT TTFONT TTFONT OFF ON 5 6 NONE TrueType fonts are not used Selected TrueType font is used Times New Roman font as defined in Admin Arial font as defined in Admin TrueType fonts are not defined
TrueType fonts may also be selected from the Options form see above. Note: True type fonts may only be used when isometric output files are to be produced in DXF, PDF, Image or EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile) format.
26.10.3
Large Coordinates
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ISODRAFT can now handle coordinates larger than other limits in Hull & Outfitting and show them on the isometrics. Its limit is now 2,147,483,647,000 mm (approximately 2 million km). It can also display large coordinates, such as those encountered when using coordinates related to a GPS datum, on the iso.
26.10.4
New commands and options on the Annotation Options GUI allow the user to specify format, units and precision for coordinates on the iso:
COFORMAT
Selects the format for the coordinates output on isometrics: USER ENU XYZ SHIP NUMBERS User-Defined using Alternative Texts (as before) E, N, U format X, Y, Z coordinates Ship Reference system Purely numeric
COUNITS
Selects units for the coordinates: Command MM CM METRE FINCH USFINCH DECINCH INCH USINCH Units millimetres centimetres metres feet and inches feet and inches (US style) decimal inches fractional inches fractional inches (US style) Example 6263.48 626.348cm 6.26348m 206.19/32 20-6 19/32 246.59 246.19/32 246 19/32
CODECP
Selects the precision (number of decimal places) for DECINCH (Imperial decimal) coordinates: 0 1 precision to nearest inch precision to nearest 1/10 inch
COIMPP
Selects the precision for Imperial fractional coordinates: FINCH USFINCH INCH USINCH (feet and inches) (feet and inches - US style) (fractional inches) (fractional inches - US style)
26.10.5
This enables isometrics to be drawn of the PSPOOL elements stored in PIPEs under a PSLIST. This is an alternative, used by pipe fabrication checking, to the SPOOL elements in the SPOOLER database.
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26.10.6
The text shown with the North arrow may be changed by means of the Alternative Text ATEXT(202). The default is N; If the User changes ATEXT(202) to LP, the symbol will appear as:
26.10.7
This new user-definable symbol (SKEY CPCF) represents a Penetrating watertight piece modelled using a COUP element see section 26.5. This is in addition to the similar user-definable SKEY CPWP used for a Penetrating piece. For details, please see the ISODRAFT Reference Manual section 3.27 Symbol Key Reference Index.
26.10.8
Isodraft loads the current units setting when the user enters the module but has its own units for defining bore and distance on Isometrics; these are built into the individual Isodraft options files. There is no change are to the way that bore and distance units are output but changes have been made to define the units required for some additional items. Previous versions of Isodraft output units for Weight, Pressure and Temperature; these will be interpreted in current units and converted to the correct output value. For example Pressure is stored in Pascals but the user may require the equivalent in bar on the iso. To ensure this, the options file needs to contain the required output settings. This is done by adding a block of code for setting units at the end of the options file. Each time an Iso is created, the options file is run as a macro so appending the correct units settings to this will ensure that Isodraft enter the detailing process with the correct units settings loaded. The process of modifying the option file will automatically append the current units so each option file can potentially redefine the current units. The standard option setting process is to select Options>Modify from the main Isodraft menu bar to show the Modify Options form. After selecting an options file to modify, pick Dimensioning Options. A new button (Other Unit Settings) on this form shows the Current Session Units form as in Design:
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The units settings can be reset using this form and need to be activated using the Set Unit button. Clicking OK on the options form will save the current units setting into the current options file. Once an options file has its own units settings, these will be loaded before generating isos or modifying the file. Notes: Until an options file has been modified, the units displayed in the Current Session Units form will be the current Design session units as on entry to Isodraft. When an options file has been loaded, the units defined in the options file become current. Existing Options files will have no unit definitions until they have been edited and saved. Isodraft does not currently perform any units conversion for UDAs. Isodraft will output them in database units.
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26.11
26.11.1
Future Considerations
Access platforms, Stairs and Ladders (ASL)
The new application for Access platforms, Stairs and Ladders (ASL), released in 12.0, is being improved to provide an excellent tool for stairs (single flight in the first release), ladders and handrailing. The functionality to create platforms with the application is being removed and platforms will be created using standard Beams & Columns and Panels & Plates functionality, possibly in conjunction with the Standard Model Library utility. The new application will, therefore, be known as Stairs, Ladders and Handrailing (SLH). Until the new application is released the 12.0 ASL application is kept in the product as is . The old Access platforms, Stairs and Ladders application (from Hull and Outfitting 11.6) is still available, though it will be removed at a future release. It is available, hidden, at Hull and Outfitting 12 and can be reactivated by a simple edit to the PML file PDMSUI/des/addins/access. This file is all commented out; activate all the code lines after the header and ensure that the application is shown on the menu:
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Bindings o o Determine the low level protocol used, BasicHTTP (textual, unsecured), wsHTTP (textual, secured) or TCP (binary, faster, but cannot be validated) Determines which ports to use for connections
Encoding o Tied in with the binding, this determines how the message will be sent: text (slow), binary (fast) or Message Transmission Optimisation Mechanism (MTOM) which will send what it can in text, but will send binary data as binary (a combination of the previous two)
Authentication o At the server side, the message is verified to be from a known source; at the client side, the message is sent to a known receiver. Messages can authenticate against a Windows account or via a certificate.
Message Validation o Ensure that messages meet a known format by comparing against a Schema
Full details are provided in the Global WCF Configuration Guide. Other Global manuals have also been updated for 12.1.
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The Global WCF interface name has changed from that in 12.0.SP6. This affects the Global WCF client and server Configuration files. The purpose of this is to force an interface change between 12.0.SP6 and 12.1 as the databases are not compatible. The name has changed from the unversioned name used in 12.0.SP6. This is reflected in the endpoint definition within the configuration files GlobalWcfClient.config and admindWCF.exe.config. The Endpoint has changed from: /GlobalWcfServiceLib/GlobalWcfService to: /GlobalWcfServiceLib/GlobalWcfService_11_1_201011 As a result the WSDL file is now renamed from: aveva.globalservice.wsdl to: aveva.globalservice.11.1.2010.11.wsdl The service contract is now:IGlobalWcfService_11_1_201011 The Endpoint has changed from: /GlobalWcfServiceLib/GlobalWcfService to: /GlobalWcfServiceLib/GlobalWcfService_11_1_201011 The sample configuration files provided with Global 12.1 contain the new versioned names; however if you wish to carry the 12.0.SP6 WCF configuration files forward to 12.1 you will need to change the references above in both the GlobalWcfClient.config and admindWCF.exe.config configuration files.
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Model settings can be altered by the Model View form as well as by the Model Settings form. In addition to changing the catalogue parameters, the Model View from may change other parameters based on a categorys data set. For example, if the data set includes properties that define design parameters, those design parameters in the model settings are set to the default property values from the data set. If the Only Update Catalogue Parameters box is checked, the Model View form will not update any model settings except those for catalogue parameters.
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Details of the changes are given in the Catalogue & Specifications User Guide.
When modifying specifications, some non-piping specifications cannot be altered by the form. Attempting to modify such a specification will put the form into read only mode as described above. This form allows you to access various tasks which administer all aspects of a new Specification. The current version is primarily intended for use with piping specifications and may not always be suitable for other specifications.
*12.1.SP2*
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Unicode Filenames
The use of ASCII (Basic Latin) filenames is recommended for two reasons: compatibility with other systems and various specific issues which have yet to be resolved. This applies to some of the systems to which PDMS is interfaced, and even to some of the interfaces where Hull & Outfitting makes use of third party software such as output of DXF and DGN. PML Publisher does not currently fully support Unicode filenames.
Limitations
AVEVA recommends that changes to Database Views (DBVWs) are not made whilst users are live in the system. Changes to ATTCOL attributes in Lexicon may otherwise cause Tags to crash.
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Default Drawing files and Stencils are not propagated to location project on creating the new location. REMOTE CHECK will fail to run Standalone DICE if the daemon is installed in a folder which contains spaces, partly due to the semi-colon delimiter. Global WCF cannot process database filenames with large DB numbers unless these are named using FINO. This is a range error in the validation in the Global WCF Config file. Administrators can correct it by modifying admindWCF.exe.config: FileNumber UpperBound should be 250000 inclusive. Please see Pivotal Knowledge Base article 3736.
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The field list explorer will not display Unicode characters unless the respective language pack is installed. The user can specify Arial Unicode font for reporting to display multi-byte characters in the report, PDF, excel, etc. without installing the respective language pack.
This occurs only with a large number of columns, so the report cannot accommodate them within the visible area.
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*12.1.SP2*
Corrections have been made for a number of defects, as reported by customers in support incidents. Particular attention has been paid to some of the newer areas of the system, such as Schematics and Cable Design. The most significant improvements are listed under their respective areas in this document. Late changes and those made after the initial release will be listed on the appropriate release letters. 12.1.SP2 also includes the corrections made in 12.0.SP6.31 and 12.1.1.1, with a few exceptions. In general, Schematic 3D Integrator includes those in 12.0.SP6.30, with the exceptions listed below. These and the defect fixes from 12.0.SP6.31 will be supplied in a future fix release: P-40710: SCTUB shown yellow with differences on routing components message but no differences reported P-41424: Not matched SCFITT(TEE) gets green icon P-41743 (SI 39870): Branch TREF not set on Integrator build P-41825: Integrator should not output messages about return refs from off page connectors P-41851 (SI 40064): Build Several SCPLINs on Integrator cause error P-41855 (SI 40064): Integrator "View diagram" form's preview check box should be off by default
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