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AVEVA Hull+Outfitting User Bulletin 12.1

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2. More complex dynamic selections are possible for example ALL PIPE WHERE BORE GT 80 ALL BRAN MEMBERS WHERE SPREF EQ MYSPEC for SITE SITE There is a performance overhead in evaluating more complex selection expressions Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 28 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 5 7 Database Performance A number of enhancements have been made to the performance of the Dabacon database Those noted here are the most visible to users 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 amp 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 anda 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 amp Outfitting 12 1 it may now be set to between 20 Mbytes and 1 Gbyte Default Buffer Size The default
3. is used to suspend unit conversions on input and output for attributes of the nominated dimension that is Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 19 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e No conversion from the stored value will be made on output e No unit qualifying strings will be appended to output values e Input values with no qualifying unit strings will be stored without conversion in the database e f 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 amp Outfitting The system also supports UNITS NUMERIC DISTANCE for completeness When a fundamental dimension s 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 Weights and Masses In the past Hull amp Outfitting has not distinguished between weight and mass this has now changed Densities mass volume are in Kg per cu metre and the weight of objects derived from this is in Kof
4. amp Actuator Attribute Label Prompt Visible Visible in Item List Read Onl A z Area shape NAME Name i Branch AttributeDefin Text CQ Cable ACTTYP ActT ype i 4 t AREA Area eo i an pice DESC Description a4 quipmen a DIAREF Diarefarray rE ent DISTAG Distag GP UDET for schematic engi ECRFA Ecifarray GF UDET for schematic pumi FUNC Function A Fitting INPRTR Inprtref xl lt IKKI KI KI KI KI KI KI KT EUKU I4 v gt Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 246 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin If this setting is not checked the default value of the new UDA will be taken from Session Defaults Default groups Default system Default attributes Enabled v New VAluel i 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 For More Information See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Utilities Batch Job Batch Update Affected Programs Diagrams Cop
5. The following APIs have been renamed to reflect changes in menus Old still available marked as obsolete New Aveva Marine Drafting Aveva Marine Drafting MarDrafting ElementlsSymbolicView MarDrafting ElementlsSectionView MarDrafting ViewSymbolicNew MarDrafting ViewSectionNew MarDrafting ViewSymbolicModelTra MarDrafting ViewSectionModelTra 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 For More Information See User Guide Customisation NET Customisation Hull and Marine Drafting Net API Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 201 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 35 Removing Default Variables 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 t
6. savework 394 savework 396 Initial pending Current unsaved session 2 Design WORL Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key nly Changes At Cah v Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd Default session comment Dito v 263 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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
7. Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 88 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 7 Hole Annotation Enhancement Description The possibility to annotate holes in symbolic views has been extended with more customisation possibilities The following 3 default values have been added to the Hull Modelling default file HOLE_ANNOTATE_SIGN The sign in the dimension string between the dimensions e g the X in HO200X500 Default value is X HOLE_ANNOTATE_USE_TYPE If set the text in the hole type will be omitted e g HO200X500 will be 200X500 The value is unset by default HOLE_AN_MIN_TEXT_HEIGHT The minimum text height for the hole annotation Default value is 2 0 Benefits Enables the user to control the annotate hole note better Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Planar Modelling Default File of Planar Modelling Picture Derivation Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 89 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 8 Hull Qualities in CATA 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 t
8. e UKEYs now include database number to avoid duplicates e Performance of finding database elements index by type e Module Definitions new TAGS module and renamed Marine Drafting module e Character handling Unicode representation for names text etc e HULL FEM Data Model e Compressed HULL Objects e New Index on Hull Object Type e Start Value for Name Sequence e Assembly POS Attribute e 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 2 3 Database Version Control The upgrade version number is used to verify that the versions of the database and the software that accesses them are compatible During application start up databases are checked against the software access may be restricted according to the following table Database Upgrade Version Future e g 12 2 Max Open Mode 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
9. 15 1 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Planar Modelling Design Language of Hull Modelling Stiffener Statement Stiffeners Except Connection Stiffeners Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 119 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 2 Bevel Chamfer Option Description Previously when no bevel was set for a seam or boundary the system to some extent assumed a bevel type 10 square butt welding The benefit here was tha
10. Affected Programs None Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 97 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 12 2 Surface Manager Compare Surfaces Surface manager has a function which can compare surfaces in Tribon M3SP6 and AVEVA Marine 12 1 To create the input from Tribon M3SP6 there is a program sj708 that intersects a surface and writes a text file with sample points that can be read by Surface Manager compare function To get the program sj708 please contact regional support representatives Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 98 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 13 AVEVA Space Management Description Space Management is a new application that can be used to create and manage an automatic subdivision of a ship into spaces Space Management can also be used for analysis planning monitoring and follow up on space arrangements generated for different purposes such as e SOLAS classification of compartments e Design Zones e Compartmentation and stability assessment e Sub contractors subdivision e Production Planning e Painting areas e Fire Noise Thermal insulation plans e Etc Space arrangements can be reused in all other modelling disciplines and as the design evolves spaces can be interrogated regarding all objects within each space Space Management requires a specific license Benefits Key features are e Anew tool for simulations estimations and decisions de risking d
11. Library Environment vy New Library Library Area Vehicles vi New Area Library tem Liquid Gas Tanker w New Item dd to Standard Model Library Item zone v Cony T Create Standard Model Library Item Name iSkidType4B S faa APPLDA Liq_Gas_Tanker zi ZONE Liq_Gas_Tanker 2 ONE STDMODELITEM LIQ_GAS_TANKER Description it A STRU TANK_SUPP_B_B E A STRU TANK_SUPP_A_B E3 A STRU TANK_SUPP_B_A ERA STRU TANK_SUPP_A_A EeP EQUI TANK SP EQUI TANK_TOP_PLATES rs EQUI TANK_PLATE_STRAPS STRU T amp NK_TOP_PLATFORM STRU UNDERFRAME A STRU WAGONPIPES Purpose Standard Model Library Skid Structure Type AB n16w26d Parallel Model 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 C Toggle Name Description Library Environment m Modify Library Library Area Vehicles Delete Library Library Item Liquid Gas Tanker For full details please refer to the Design Common Functionality User Guide manual 26 7 Clash Utility enhancements The Clash utility uses a new form which shows all the options it uses a grid gadget for filtering and grouping and a 3D view of the clash with aid graphics Simple clipping navigation reporting and printing are also availa
12. 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 4 2 3 Upgrading to use new Units To take advantage of the new functions attributes need to be set to the correct dimension This has been done for the standard attributes Customers will need it to do it for their UDAs and catalogue and design parameters and properties Any data imported to a Schematic database using Schematic Model Manager will need to have the 12 1 upgrade applied It is not necessary to change all dimensions at the same time For example Lengths are already handled correctly It is expected that angles are stored in Degrees so they will also be handled correctly but users will have to identify which UDAs are angles and set their UUNIT to ANGL This will be done for a project the administrator also needs to determine how to handle each of the dimensions used for other attributes volumes densities pressures etc It is possible to continue as before for any by using the NUMERIC option For details please refer to the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual The process for each will be If all quantities have been stored in the new Database Units e Set the UUNIT for any UDAs e Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted e Any
13. Route re i Process Ar Seq No Line Size mm Orig P amp ID From STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER IA1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER IA1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER IA1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 gt 13 33 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 g STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 26 67 STABILIZER 11 51 2003 STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 Bin check Not Controlled STABILIZER JA1 51 2003 STABILIZER Ricans Bhpproved Working Unclassified STABILIZER 1A1 51 2003 POUT BSSPSGGHDHDHSSPEBAAFPHHDFSSGSGETD Tags AVEVA Engineering Project SAMJARE TETA Home Data Management View Admin Man Pora n lie amp Cut la New Ie SelectAll SK Clear Filters Ba Copy a Edit ff Vertical View F Reset Cell Feedback Explore z DEN efresh 8 Project Valve Lis JERO att parte X Delete ft Auto Size Columns g Quick Report i Aaaa G E Lists and Schedules Clipboard Grid Actions Find Operation Connection Pressure 2 Medium 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 Gas 300LB RF ANSI B16 5 Gas 300 RF ANSI B16 5 Gas ANSI B16 5 Gas ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5
14. 29 1 1 General Issues Internet Explorer 9 AVEVA does not recommend the use of Internet Explorer 9 In particular it has a fault associated with the use of the CHM online help files when they reference external files such as PDF It is anticipated that a hotfix will be made available by Microsoft during October 2011 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 amp 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 29 1 2AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator Some errors can appear using Integrator if there is no configuration file local to the project The Integrator Link function can raise an Internal Integrator Error and edits in the Project Configuration Explorer may not be displayed correctly The Compare and Build functions are unaffected and if one of these has been run in the session then the Link function will also work The workaround is to copy the file ProjectConfiguration xml from the installed 12 1 folde
15. Auto hide text by text fit True Auto hide text by text fit Hide text when curent shape text length is longer than longest leg in connector Cancel 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 Refresh Show Text Linebreaks Using Control Handle Resize Refit Benefits There is a possibility to hide text on connectors because of the connector leg length Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 249 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 18 Miscellaneous Minor Improvements A number of further improvements have also been made to Diagrams for this release Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 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 wi
16. Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 43 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Database Distribution Database Distribution Name Type DB Number Location Description HUB CAM lt DB gt ADMIN ASLCONFIG DESI 7596 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt ADMIN PADD PADD 7203 PROJECTHUB unset cDB gt ADMINREFDATA DESI 7207 PROJECTHUB Junset lt DB gt ASSOCIASSOC DESI 7598 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt CATSICATA CATA 7161 IPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt CATS DESI DESI 7160 PROJECTHUB unset cDB CATSIPADD Papp 7162 JPROWECTHUB unset cDB gt DEMO DES DESI 7130 PROVECTHUB unset o f lt DB gt EQUI DESI DESI 7145 JPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt EQUIVEQUITMPL DESI 7015 PROJECTHUB unset JcDB gt EQUUPADD PADD 7146 PROJECTHUB unset Je i f come HANGER DES DES 7110 PROJECTHUB Junset PC lt DB gt HANGER PADD PADD 7111 PROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt HVAC DESI DESI 7120 IPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt HVAC PADD PADD 7121 IPROJECTHUB unset lt DB gt MASTERJASLCATA CATA 7010 0 0 unset S lt DB gt MASTER ASSOCDEFN DESI 7027 00 unset a lt DB gt MASTERICABLECATA CATA 7021 00 unset lt DB gt MASTER CABLEPROP PROP 7026 0 0 unset s lt DB gt MASTER CABLETMPL DESI 7022 00 unset lt DB gt MASTERIDICT DICT 7006 0 0 unset E lt DB gt MASTER EQUICATA CATA 7014 00 unset lt DB gt MASTERIHVACCATA CATA 7002 00 unset s lt DB gt MASTER M
17. 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Operator s Instructions Format Geometry mode Polyline Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 176 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 13 Simple Arithmetic in 2D Offset Input 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 177 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 14 Automatic Chaining of New Contours to Existing Ones Description When creating a new contour this will optionally be chained to existing contours in the drawing This options is controlled by a new Drafting default key
18. It can also display large coordinates such as those encountered when using coordinates related to a GPS datum on the iso 26 10 4 Additional Coordinate Formats 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 User Defined using Alternative Texts as before Format User ENU E N U format XYZ X Y Z coordinates SHIP Ship Reference system NUMBERS Purely numeric COUNITS Selects units for the coordinates Command Units Example MM millimetres 6263 48 CM centimetres 626 348cm METRE metres 6 26348m FINCH feet and inches 20 6 19 32 USFINCH feet and inches US style 20 6 19 32 DECINCH decimal inches 246 59 INCH fractional inches 246 19 32 USINCH fractional inches US style 246 19 32 CODECP Selects the precision number of decimal places for DECINCH Imperial decimal coordinates 0 precision to nearest inch pr ma F o ecimal places nc 1 1 precision to nearest 1 10 inch 5 COIMPP Selects the precision for Imperial fractional coordinates FINCH feet and inches Fractional Precision 1 16 w USFINCH feet and inches US style INCH fractional inches USINCH fractional inches US style 26 10 5 Drawing Pipe Spool This enables isometrics to be drawn of the PSPOOL elements stored in PIPEs under a PSLIST This is
19. Resource Files Polyline Menu Shortcut None vend teal me tedText amp Settings Menu prone TooltipTitle Alnsert Menu Active Customization File Hull General cs Ef e is lt gt x lt b Benefits Remove invalid assembly references Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Assembly Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 157 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 18 3 New Drawing Type for Assembly ADP Drawings There is a new drawing type in 12 1 Assembly ADP drawing dedicated for drawings created by the Assembly Automatic Document Production application You can see that there is a new drawing type in the open save drawing dialogues Open Drawing None Hull planar part drawing Hull curved part drawing subpict Hull pane line individual sketch Assembly ADP drawing i 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 lt proj gt sdb n B_ASSADP PDB SB_ASSADP_PDB Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 158 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin SB_ASSADP_PDB_ PADD lt name_of dept gt lt name_of regi gt 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
20. e Transport Layer o Apply security to either the connection ideal for connected networks or individual messages ideal when sending messages over the internet e Bindings o Determine the low level protocol used BasicHTTP textual unsecured wsHTTP textual secured or TCP binary faster but cannot be validated o Determines which ports to use for connections e Encryption o WCF provides many encryption algorithms to protect data en route e 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 e 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 e 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 27 2 Global Claim Commands Global Claim to an extract commands issued from Hull amp Outfitting now pass only if ALL claims succeed This is a change as in previous versions where the Claim command would pass even when some claims had failed The Running Global Projects manual h
21. os Mi j 4 i OM eh RN W 4 iy 7 i 4 i i i ty i 5 ih i 4 a j i i o LY i os fe H H g 7 hi x io 4 Ki 4 4 f ffs 77 if i My 4 is i Re a i f y i i i ys i SW lay K Properties Unit system World x Colour Layer 0 ok cancel Cop 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 171 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Operator s Instructions Modify Fill Style Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 172 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 9 Symbol Files Description 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 provi
22. 3 Configuration 3 1 Operating Environment Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 is supported on Windows XP Service Pack 3 32 bit and Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit versions Projects are usually installed on a server both Windows Server 2003 amp 2008 R2 are supported 3 2 PC Hardware Configuration A minimum of 4 GB of memory is recommended for this release especially when installed on Windows 7 Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 will operate with less but system performance will be compromised A screen resolution of at least 1280x1024 is recommended though most users now use either two such screens or a wide screen 1920x1200 display For details please refer to the Systems Requirements Manual 3 3 Microsoft Windows Desktop Hull amp 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 amp 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 and Vista In particular this makes it important to ensure that files that need to be written are accessible by users without Administrator privileges 3 3 1 Microsoft I
23. 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Setup Customisation and Standards Alignment Marking Marks for Assembly GSD GSD Customising Control of GSD s via a Default File Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 133 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 14 Mark Reference Plane on Both Sides of Profiles 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
24. Benefits Ensures compliance with the statutory regulations Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide nitial Design Hydrostatics Major Tasks Regulations Oil Fuel Outflow Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 76 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 17 Inclining Experiment Description 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 77 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 18 Probabilistic Stability to SOLAS 2009 Rules 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 multi zone 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 regu
25. Bisting A10 v Name ano Free hand Projection Options Direction Interpolation Limits Sections eee None i im Waterlines C Buttocks Benefits The parallel surface limit can be automatically set for curves which has a Cline as source Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted her Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 62 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 5 Lines Curve Highlighting Description An enhancement to the highlighting of the current curve has been implemented in the curve grid The currently selected curve from the Curve tree view is now highlighted in the curves grid Selecting a curve in a graphical view will also scroll into view and highlight the corresponding curve in the curve grid ee coreene veie conraonis peirers T soaps 2 Fo Fma 7 T PMB Forward Fitted 7 Knuckle Tran Fitted 8 Buttock 18 Fitted 9 Buttock 1 Fitted gt Curves A Data Points A Control Points A Colol lt QKA KIKI lis Benefits It is more apparent which curve is currently selected Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 63 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 6 Lines Locking and Fitting to a Plane Description Curves can now be fitted and loc
26. Code for confirmation when a marking start is moved to a marking line valid only on the opposite side No Noconfirmation Yes Confirmation MARK_AUTO_OPPOSITE This default is now valid also in PLCM 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 137 AVEVA Marine 12 1 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 The assembly level for the parts Ignored if zero AUTONEST_CUSTNAME_CTRL Customised part name control No Do not use customised part name Yes Use customised part name AUTONEST_PART_SELECTION The minimum area in mm2 for the parts to be nested large parts first If lt O the Parts are not nested by area AUTONEST_ROTATION_CTRL Rotation control No No control any rotation angle can be used Yes Only rotation angles which are a multiple of 90 degrees are used AUTONEST_STOP_MULTIPLE The time limit in milliseconds for a multiple nest AUTONEST_STOP_SINGLE The time limit in milliseconds for a single nest Benefits Improved configuration possibilities Compatibility Constr
27. For example UNITS MM DISTANCE UNITS POUND MASS The leading UNITS keyword is optional for MM INCH and FINCH DISTANCE but is required for all new options in the commands listed below The command and functionality of BORE units remains unchanged Some units are case sensitive to adhere more closely to SI conventions strict adherence is not always possible due to syntax conflicts This allow a distinction to be made between units such as s econds and S iemens hours and Henrys tonnes and Teslas This does not apply to Imperial units IN or in FT or ft are all valid or to some metric units such as MM which have been supported in previous releases Units that are case sensitive are m s g t K h Pa N V A F Sv d J W C S H T W P G i e metre second gram tonne Kelvin hour pascal Newton volt ampere farad sievert day joule watt coulomb Siemens henry tesla watt poise gforce SI prefixes are also case sensitive for example m means milli and M mega except in their full form e g MILLI and MEGA are both accepted The table overleaf shows the new units of measure and the options available as well as the old ones BORE DIST SQDI CUDI It gives their name or description recognised by the system the assigned hash code the database storage units and the supported standard units for the quantity For example attributes of length have a hash code of DIST are stored in mm and other standard
28. In addition several operations now also work on GENSEC elements including curved members and UNDO is now available for some functions Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 271 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 Curved Section Create Methods rrPoereee V Connect Ends Radius 1000 00 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 26 4 Hole Management enhancements The Hole Management Utility which creates and manages penetrations in panels has been improved by the addition of additional catalogue properties in the Pipework catalogue and HVAC penetration components The utility is available only in the Pipework and HVAC Designer applications
29. Manager and Tags modules using a new Diagram Change Highlighting add in This add in enables the database changes between two database sessions to be viewed using the AVEVA SVG Viewer to highlight the changes in colour It also provides a summary of the changes in the list below the two viewer screens It can be accessed from the context menu of the Schematic Explorer Fitter Electrical v B Schematic WORL iH SCGROU SAMPLE CABLDIA Instruments 4 SCGROU SAMPLE CABLDIA Diagrams Scdiagrams E FS SCGROU SAMPLE H Scpiines H S SCGROU SAMPLI New S i g s 2 Q Q QA usersetings BO A1 51 2003 Page 1 3 H FOS ___ amp lH Boo Target Session Db 7612 Session 932 Date 2011 08 29 User henrik hultin _ Base Session Db 7612 Session 929 Date 2011 08 29 User henrikchultin Element REF kal Element Name Element Type Compare Result Modified Attributes Ca 4 23996 6082 ASB V 02 SCVALV New Element p 23996 6084 SCTUBING 4 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 1 SCTUBING New Element 4 23996 6088 ASB V 03 SCVALV New Element 4 23996 6090 SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 3 SCTUBING New Element J p 23996 6092 ASB R 32 SCFITTING New Element 7 SCTUBING 12 of
30. and Refresh e User or MDB switch Following any of these operations the Refresh button must be clicked again in order to update the change highlighting Former DB Changes Dialog The functions of the Query gt DB Changes dialog in earlier versions of Hull amp Outfitting are still available via Utilities gt DB Listing This dialog is very similar the only difference being the initial mode setting This mode can be changed using the Control menu on the DB Listing dialog as shown below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 265 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin DB Listing eg Add Query Clear Output v DB Listing DB Changes Screen DB Differences Overwrite Append Output gt DMSUSER DBOutput ba Elements 25 4 Enhanced attribute export to Review The Export Attribute form accessed from the Utilities menu now allows the user various options to specify the element s to be exported and to pick the export file name from standard file browser Export Attribute File Export Elements ce EQUIP O Database Database elements Elements O DrawList C Export unset attributes Apply 25 5 Weight and Centre of Gravity CofG form The Within Area option has been removed from this form Utilities gt Mass Properties gt Weight and Centre of Gravity as it depends on the INSIDE OUTSIDE qualifier which is not supported for these mass properties 25 6 DRAFT Explorer The DRAFT Explorer
31. units have been derived from the length units Other physical quantities have been handled as purely numeric and have had no conversions applied to them Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 extends these facilities to a much wider range of measures and includes built in definitions and conversion factors for a wide variety of units of measure with standardised storage and efficient conversion These extensions are needed to provide for the much wider range of data now being handled particularly for plant engineering and schematic data These data now include Distance Bore Area Volume Angle Weight Temperature Density Pressure Force Voltage Current Impedance and many others Please note that this does mean that the behaviour of some real attributes is different users PML applications that check or manipulate these values will need to be reviewed Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 55 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 10 Extract Claims in Hull Applications Description Hull object locking claiming and releasing in extracts has been improved When working in extracts it is no longer a requirement to make explicit extract claims of hull objects before making modifications to them l e when modifying a hull object e g a planar panel in an extract the application will implicitly try to claim the object to the extract Benefits Hull user does not need to make explicit extract claims Compatibility cons
32. 12 1 User Bulletin Serialization Please note that serialized settings of the user interface configuration are now saved in the following location on Windows XP C Documents and Settings lt username gt Local Settings Application Data Aveva and on Windows 7 C users lt username gt Appdata Local AVEVA 3 3 2 Microsoft Office amp Fonts AVEVA Marine 12 1 is supported with Office 2007 and Office 2010 The use of the 32 bit version of Office including Visio is recommended on both 32 and 64 bit Windows as issues have been encountered with the 64 bit version Excel Interoperability Import of data into a grid control requires an optional component from Microsoft Office This is not supplied with Hull amp Outfitting but is an installation option for Microsoft Office Please ensure that NET Programmability Support under Advanced customization 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 Screen Font for GUI The Hull amp Outfitting user interface version 11 6 onwards requires the use of the Arial Unicode MS font which is supplied with Microsoft Office version 2000 onwards and is usually installed automatically when using Windows XP or later For further information please refer to http office microsoft com enus help HP052558401033 aspx If t
33. 135 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 16 New Nesting Default Parameters Description The following additions changes have been made for the Nesting PLCM defaults SYMB_HEIGHT_EXCESS Symbol height for excess text in burning sketch DISPLAY_EXCESS_SYMBOL Code for displaying the excess symbol in the burning sketch 0 No display 1 Display MULTIPLE_NEST_NCOL Nesting only The number of nests in each column for multiple nest LABEL_AUTO_POSNO_METHOD PLCM only 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 Maximum The maximum of the start and end angles Minimum The minimum of the start and end angles Average The average of the start and end angles AUX_VALID_START_POS Text presented for auxiliary functions valid in the starting position AUX_VALID_END_POS Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 136 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Text presented for auxiliary functions valid in the ending position 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
34. 21 1 Preparing Databanks for Import into Hull and Outfitting 12 1 22 AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator 22 1 22 2 22 3 22 4 22 5 New Integrator Object Method Electrical Connections Whole Diagram Compare Selector Rules Improved Links Administration Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 202 204 206 209 209 209 209 209 210 210 210 210 211 211 212 212 212 212 213 213 213 213 214 214 216 216 217 217 217 217 217 218 vii AVEVA Marine 12 1 22 6 Configuration Rules Extensions 22 7 Example Macro 23 AVEVA Diagrams 23 1 Diagram Change Highlighting 23 2 Connection between Instrument and Process Items 23 3 Automatic Upgrade of Options Settings Files 23 4 Admin Settings vs User Settings 23 5 Handling of Units in Annotations 23 6 Publish Diagrams Data to AVEVA NET 23 7 Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority 23 8 Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic Model Viewer 23 9 Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority 23 10 Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic Model Viewer 23 11 Split Merge for SCBRAN 23 12 Setting SCVALV GTYP to INST rather than VALV 23 13 Changes to Upgrade Drawing Functionality 23 14 Linked Files Update 23 15 Possibility to Determine Connector Re route Style 23 16 Default Value of the Stencil in Batch Job 23 17 Auto Hide Option for Shape Text for Short Connectors 23 18 Miscellaneous Minor Improvement
35. C General 10 tems Mdsysf Nulref lsodraft 1 item Mass Properties 5 items Operating Parameters 2 items Positional 2 items Specification 3 items Surface Treatment 2 items TestDescrpt MDSSref MDSComment H amp amp Gal Attributes displayed in a list Attributes displayed by Category 6 7 Auto naming Utility Enhancement This utility has been enhanced to allow the formulation of a name to use an IFTRUE statement which is a PML1 facility For example if you wish to make up a name based on attributes of a PIPE you can use the following PML2 autonaming rule ce fluref namn amp amp ce pspec namn amp amp ce ispec namn amp amp 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 amp amp iftrue badref pspec unset namn of pspe amp amp iftrue badref ispe unset namn of ispe amp amp index Please note that the whole Format must be PML 1 concatenated with the amp It is not possible to mix PML1 and PML2 functions The result of this rule can be seen below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 34 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Naming Rules Data Input Key Pip
36. Chapter 4 Catalogue Requirements are given in Section 4 2 13 Project Configuration for Hole Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 277 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 26 5 1 Creation of Penetration Normally a penetration ATTA element is created on the pipe to mark the location of a penetration It is possible to put a pipe component representing a sleeve or penetration seal at the penetration if the piping catalogue is suitably configured Pipe penetration components are modelled as COUP elements When a penetration component is required select From Pipe Spec in the Specification pull down and select Marker Type COUP Specification From Pipe Spec v Marker Type COUP v 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 CHOOSE COUP Setting SPRE Current bore 0 00 From Spec SP DRO7C Connections are OFF PBOR1 STYP SHOP Component Description 150 00 MACB200 TRUE PENETRATING WATERTIGHT BLKHD amp DECK PIECE 1 0254 ST37 0 160 00 MACB201 TRUE PENETRATION SLEEVE STRAIGHT THROUGH 1 0254 ST37 0 150 00 MACB202 TRUE PENETRATION SLEEVE HALF HALF 1 0254 T37 0 150 00 MACB2OR TRUE PENETRATING WATERTIGHT BLKHD amp DECK PIECE SLOPING 1 0254 ST37 0 The Hole Management Definition
37. Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 195 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 30 Overlays Description 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 For More Information See User Guide Outfitting Draft Underlays and Overlays Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 196 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 31 Protection of the Drawing Form View 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 Whole form view is protected from modification OnlyRuleBasedText Tex
38. Disabling a specific dimension in this way means that no advantage will be gained from the introduction of that dimension Previous versions of Schematic Model Manager had special units support for Angle Area Pressure Temperature Volume and Weight values that could be included in the 15015926 format import file Units UDAs were provided as mandatory UDAs and were attributes on each Diagram element SCDIAG The chosen units for these dimensioned quantities could be set in the Project Options form in Schematic Model Manager In 12 1 the new units capabilities mean that the special units support in Schematic Model Manager is no longer required Data imported in 12 1 will be stored in the appropriate units consistent with the data read from the 1SO15926 import file The upgrade process for projects moving to 12 1 includes a part upgrade for Schematic Model Manager dimensioned data Please note that the CATA database elements MSET MTYP ATLI USEC and UDEF are no longer used they will be removed from the database in due course 2 9 2 Units in Hull and Drafting In AVEVA Marine Hull and Marine Drafting applications the set up for Units differs from the Units setup in Outfitting Presentation format for Units in Hull and Drafting can be set to SI or Imperial SI units are default The format for SI and Imperial respectively can be further controlled by a set of environment variables and default variables For details on the Units usage in Hull
39. Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 198 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 33 Drag and Drop to the 2D Canvas Description It is possible to drag and drop model items onto the 2D Canvas The result of a successful drag drop 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Model Viewing and General Drafting Common Functions and Routines Drag and Drop to the 2D Canvas Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 199 AVEVA Marine 12 1 19 34 Description User Bulletin Marine NET API hull views 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 th
40. Issues 29 1 Outstanding Faults and Issues 29 1 1 General Issues 29 1 2 AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator 29 1 3 AVEVA Global 29 1 4 New Reporting Add in Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 290 292 292 293 293 293 293 294 295 295 295 295 296 296 297 297 297 297 297 298 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Revision History Date Description September 201 1 Initial release of 12 1 28 9 2011 Updated 29 9 2011 Added information about ASL moved Piping Isometrics to Outfitting Design 04 10 2011 Added section 1 3 1 Projects in Folders with Embedded Spaces Added section 29 1 3 New Reporting Add in 05 10 2011 Added section 29 1 3 AVEVA Global 18 10 2011 Added reference to Upgrade documentation in chapter 2 release note 9 1 ha been updated with a last bullet point Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd xi AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd xii AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 1 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 1 1 About AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12 1 AVEVA Hull and Outfitti
41. Lexicon User Guide 5 5 3 Handling of Duplicated Names of UDAs and UDETs UDA keys now take into account database number to remove the possibility of conflicts between UDA names in different databases In previous versions this could occur when merging data from different projects or MDBs A new command in Lexicon allows a user to reallocate existing UKEY values to the new format for UDAs and UDETs They can operate on either a selection of UDAs and UDETs or all in the current MDB The old keys are stored in the attribute OLDKEY for reference Admin commands allow update of project data to use the new keys For details please refer to the Lexicon and Admin Command Reference Manuals 5 5 4 Top Level Element Creation in Specific Database It is now simpler to ensure that top level elements are created in a specific database a DB keyword and name can be added to the NEW command NEW element_type element_name DB database_name where element_name is also optional database_name is a full database name i e team database For example this command will create a new SITE named MYSITE in the MYTEAM MYDB database NEW SITE MYSITE DB MYTEAM MYDB 5 6 Dynamic Groups A PML41 collection expression evaluated whenever the group is used may now be used to define a selection fora GPSET The SCOSEL attribute is used to store this selection for example SCOSEL ALL EQUI FROM CLAIMLIST
42. Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 86 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 5 Blocks and Panels from Tree View Description Like some other functions within Hull Design the Panel Scope of a Selection can now also be defined by picking blocks or panels via a tree view dialog in addition to the existing picking from the picture Benefits Tree view available for picking blocks and panel for the Panel Scope Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 87 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 6 Set up of a Project to Use Free Naming Description Today the environment variable SBH_FREE_SEAMPROF_NAMES is used to control if a project is set in free naming mode or not From now on this has to be set using the InitHull application 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design
43. Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 166 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 4 Drawing Export Formats Description Marine Drafting can export a drawing to the following formats File Export e DXF e HPGL e HPGL 2 e IGES e SDB e SVG e TIFF with LZW compression The following formats have been removed e CGM e TIFF with PackBits compression Benefits Supporting both HPGL and HPGL 2 will make it easier for customer to interact with different 3rd party products TIFF with LZW compression offers better compression Compatibility Constraints The CGM format is no longer supported For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Operator s Instructions File Export Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 167 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 5 Navigate To Description The context menu available in the 2D canvas of Marine Drafting Hull Design has been extended with a set of new Navigate to functions in Design Explorer in Draft Explorer in Drawing Explorer 5088 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 on
44. Model process is now removed if the user wants to use the already selected view projection Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 170 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 8 Fill Styles Description 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 system defined 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 e MB right click on a contour to define or modify the fill style applied on that contour e 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 Fill Style Select fill style i a ie if i a i i Wi M ATLA an
45. 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 11 AVEVA Hull General Functionality 11 1 11 2 11 3 11 4 11 5 11 6 11 7 11 8 11 9 11 10 11 11 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 12 AVEVA Surface Manager 12 1 12 2 Surface Manager Replacing Surface Server Surface Manager Compare Surfaces 13 AVEVA Space Management 14 AVEVA Hull Structural Design 14 1 14 2 14 3 14 4 New Options when Creating Envelopes RSO Change Envelope RSO Recreate RSO Rename Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 62 63 64 65 66 68 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 93 95 96 97 98 99 100 100 101 102 103 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 5 Naming of Multiply Copied RSOs 104 14 6 Pick Option Added in RSO Keyin 105 14 7 Pick Option Added in RSO Edit 106 14 8 Right Click Menu on RSO 107 14 9 Stab
46. PDIS mm 1 MagFieldIintensity MFIN A m MagFluxDensity MFXD tesla MagneticFlux MGFX weber Mass MASS kilogram gram tonne pound oz longTon shortTon cwt MassFlow MFLO kg s Momentum MOME N s Permeability PMBT H m Permittivity PMTT F m Power POWE kilowatt hp watt Pressure PRES pascal RadiationDose RDOS sievert radd rem gray Radioactivity RADY bequerel curie Resistivity REST ohm m RotationalStiffness STFR N m rad SpecHeatCapacity SHCP N K SpecificEnergy SENG J kg Speed SPEE m s Stiffness STIF N m Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 18 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Name of Dimension HashCode Database other specific units comment Word units SurfaceDensity PSQD mm 2 Temperature TEMP degCelsius degF K degRankine TemperatureGradient TPDI degC mm ThermalConductivity TCON W m K ThermalResistance TRES K W Time TIME second min hr day month week year Torque TORQ N m UnitMass UMAS kg mm ViscosityDynamic VISC s Pa Volume CUDI mm3 litre ImpGallon USGallon bbl Mbbl MMbbl VolumetricFlow VFLO m3 s None NONE numerical real attribute WORD WORD used to assign parameter dimensions etc Parameter UNIPAR used for parameter attributes 4 2 2 Other UNITS Commands Three additional forms of the UNITS command for the Fundamental dimensions i e those settable are supported UNITS DEFAULT UNITS NUMERIC UNITS MKS and UNITS FPS an
47. SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 2 SCTUBING New Element gt ez FITTING 1 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANC 3 SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 3 SCTUBING Deleted Element 23996 6072 SCTUBING 1 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 ASB B 4 SCTUBING Deleted Element 23996 6074 SCFITTING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 1 SCFITTING Deleted Element p 23996 6076 SCTUBING 4 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 ASB B 1 SCTUBING Deleted Element 23996 6078 ASB V 02 SCVALV Deleted Element 23996 6080 SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGMENT 1 of SCBRANCH 100 B 1 A3B B 4 SCTUBING Deleted Element 23996 2385 C1101 SCEQUIPMENT Modified Element FUNC a 23996 4580 C1101 N4 SCNOZZLE Modified Element CATR p 23996 4755 P1502A SCEQUIPMENT Modified Element DESC Ready A1 51 2003 Pagel Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 220 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 For more information Only noted here Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 221 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 2 Connection between Instrument and Proces
48. SY013 migration utility e importing a drawing with the File lmport SDB utility e 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 204 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 205 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 37 Persisting of part level modifications in Linear Dimensions Description In Marine Drafting 12 1 it is now possible for the user to get certain part level modifications in linear dimension persisted in Dabacon Modification on part level means e g changing the size position value colour etc on individual measure texts in a linear dimension The Modify Dimension sub functionality has changed slightly Modify Dimension Move Dimension Line No change of functionality Modification is persisted as before To be more specific the caption text has been changed slightly Slant Witness Line No change of functionality Modification is persisted as before Presentation No change of functionality Modification is persisted as before Text Properties Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 206 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Fun
49. Save Support Info button will bring up a save file dialog and allow the user to save the extended information za 190d Parallel Eye Rotate a gt z ARTI Command Window 47 15 CP Syntax error X SH Sacode In ine 1 of Macro c pdms macro1 mac lw rubbish Called from line 1 of Macro c pdms macro2 mac Cox Save Support Info Sm c pdms macro1 mac 6 9 Infragistics Toolkit Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 uses an updated Infragistics Netadvantage toolkit version 10 3 for its GUI The filenames of the Infragistics DLLs no longer include the version number which will make future upgrades easier Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 36 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 7 Administration 7 1 GUI Improvements A number of features have been added to the GUI to improve its ease of use and make it more consistent with other modules For example Import from Excel Data for Admin elements such as users teams etc may now be imported reliably from Excel This has resulted in three changes in behaviour e Access Control Assistant ACA is no longer hidden during Import and Rollback operations e The Export and Import logging dialog no longer has a Cancel button it is also less responsive to Window operations such as move or resize while export or import operations are in progress e The Export and Import logging dialog OK button has been renamed Dismiss For details please ref
50. Solutions Ltd 203 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 36 TBSystemFonts Description It is a known issue that the old legacy fonts do not function very well in AVEVA Marine 12 These fonts are e TBSystemFontO e TBSystemFontt1 e TBSystemFont2 e TBSystemFont3 e TBSystemFont4 e TBSystemFont5 e TBSystemFont6 e TBSystemFont7 e TBISOFont101 e 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 Arial Unicode MS TBISOFont105 Lucida Sans TBSystemFont0 Arial Unicode MS TBSystemFontl Times New Roman TBSystemFont2 Times New Roman TBSystemFont3 Times New Roman TBSystemFont4 Courier New TBSystemFont5 Courier New TBSystemFont6 Lucida Sans TBSystemFont7 Times New Roman The font mapping will affect the text font when e migrating a drawing with the
51. 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Assembly Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 159 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 18 4 Multiple Select Description A very useful method for user to populate the assembly structure by design parts is provided by the drag amp drop facilities However collection elements from Design Explorer only allow single element selection With the EditElements addin now available in the Hull and Outfitting Design modules multiple element selection is enabled e g for collecting elements to assembly This addin is enabled in Hull and Outfitting Design only for the purpose to facilitate multiple select Additionally the addin exposes a general function to an edit element such as create and delete Please note that although the addin is called Edit Elements it must never be used to edit any elements in Hull In Hull it is useful for listing members making selections etc Benefits Extended possibilities to make element selections for e g drag amp drop operations Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affec
52. 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 32 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin The Save amp 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 6 3 Grid Control A number of enhancements have been made to the grid control These include an enhanced column setup form a new filter on the row filter an autofit function and an ability to copy a set of grid cells and paste them into another document In addition Drag and Drop may be used in the grid for some operations The Grid Control has also been enhanced to support multi element and distributed attribute editing using Database Views 6 4 Toolbar Popup Menu The popup context menu displayed from the Toolbar area has a new entry Lock the Toolbars This enables users to lock the position of the toolbars to prevent accidental change of layout 6 5 PML Collections A PML Collection with unlimited scope now collects data from the entire database in other words an empty scope now me
53. always available From selected curve When available selecting this option will switch the view to an oblique view with a local coordinate system defined by the plane of the selected curve The title bar will change to reflect the curve on which the view is based and the axes it is defined by Specified axes Create local coordinate axes Origin Desired U Desired V Desired W 0 0 707107 0 707107 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 For More Information Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 68 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 69 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 10 Corrugated RSOs Description Corrugated bulkheads with stools created in Surface amp C
54. and Outfitting 12 1 Test Projects The table below shows details about the sample project supplied and where to find the test data Project MDB Description MAR ALL_NO_MDS MDB for Project Setup with ALL databases except MDS ALL_WITH_MDS MDB for Project Setup with ALL databases including MDS ASSYPLANNING For Assembly Planning Hull and Outfit Users CABLEAFT For Outfit Aft Cable User CABLETRAYAFT For Outfit Aft Cabletray User CURVEDHULL For Curved Hull User DBPROMPT For creating required db elements from DB Prompt EQUIPAFT For Outfit Aft Equipment User HADMIN For Hull Admin User HULLNESTING For Hull Nesting User HVACAFT For Outfit Aft HVAC User INITDES For Initial Design User LAYOUTAFT For Outfit Aft Layout User MDSAFT For Outfit Aft MDS User OUTSTEELAFT For Aft Outfit Steel User PIPEAFT For Outfit Aft Piping User PLANARHULL For Planar Hull User PROJADMIN For Project Admin User SCHEMATICS For Schematics User STRUCDESIGN For Structural Design User WELDPLANNING For Weld Planning User MAS Catalogue The MDB s can be accessed by the system FREE user SYSTEM XXXXXxX 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 foun
55. and allocated to this location Database Distribution Database Distribution Name DB Number Filename lt DB gt SAMPLE PADD 7201 SAMO00 sam7 201 _0001 lt DB gt SAMPLE PPROJCATA 7600 S4M000 sam7600_0001 lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDESI SAMO00 sam 7200_0002 lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDESIGN I SAMO00 sam001 5_0002 lt DB gt X SAMPLE SXDRAFT SAMO00 sam001 4_0002 lt DB gt X SAMPLE XDRAFTM SAMO00 sam0016_0002 lt DB gt X SAMPLE XMANTEST SAMO00 sam0004_0002 lt DB gt X SAMPLEDXDRAFT SAMO00 sam001 4_0003 lt DB gt X SAMPLEDOXDRAFT SAMO000 sam0014_0005 lt DB gt X SAMPLEDOXXDRAFT SA4MO000 sam001 4_0004 lt DB gt X SAMPLE YDESIGN SAMO000 sam0015_0003 lt DB gt X SAMPLESYDRAFT SAMO00 sam001 4_0006 lt DB gt STAT DESI SAMO00 sam0013_0001 lt DB gt STAT DICT SAMO00 sam001 2_0001 Make selected databases primary at Name Location Id Connection Administered By Description lt LOC gt Hub SAMCENTRAL HUB On Adm LOCAL SAM central hub lt LOC gt EDSAT EDD On Adm HUB Ed satelite lt LOC gt MARTIN MAW On Uninitialised Adm LOCAL Martin satellite lt LOC gt OFFCENTRE OFF Off Adm LOCAL Offline location lt LOC gt SAMLAPTOP LAP On Adm HUB Sample satellite on laptop Change Primary 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
56. application defaults databases these changes will not be immediately available because they need to be added to the database 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 version s 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 287 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 26 10 Outfitting Piping Isometrics There are several developments in Hull amp Outfitting Isodraft version 12 1 For details please refer to the updated User and Reference Manuals 26 10 1 New Output File Formats Including PDF 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 FILE PDF filename These formats may also be selected from the Options form Administrative Options Comments Basic Metric Isodraft options file Plots Directory Local Filename PDMSUSER piot C Use Drawing name Plots E Single plot file v Paper length mm oe P
57. 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 For More Information See User Guide Diagrams Utilities Batch Job Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 240 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 13 Changes to Upgrade Drawing Functionality 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 Upgrade Drawing Processing shapes on drawing D_RO2CO09 123 mn Cea Also appropriate messages are added to the message log on operations start and cancel finish Message Shape Connection DB element Page Time Upgrade document D_RO2CO9 completed 426 shape s processed 201 updated 0 failed 11 42 51 Upgrade document D_RO2C03 starting 11 42 03 Message Shape Connection DB
58. 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
59. customer appware managing unit conversion or display can be removed or replaced by standard functions If all quantities have been stored in the same unit which is not the new Database Unit e Set the UUNIT for any UDAs e Output a datal file with the dimensions being set to numeric e g UNITS NUMERIC TEMPERATURE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 20 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e Read the datal file back in with the current units set appropriately so that unqualified values are assumed to be in those units UNITS DEGF TEMPERATURE o Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted o 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 e Set the UUNIT for any UDAs e Set the dimensions to numeric e g UNITS NUMERIC TEMPERATURI GI e Output a file with the attribute values with the value from the unit UDA appended e Check the format of the value plus unit conforms to new input format rules e f necessary edit the file with a text editor or script to achieve this e Read the file back in e Set current units as preferred e g UNITS DEGF TEMPERATURE e Any UDAs used to store the Unit values are no longer required and can be deleted e Any customer appware m
60. element Page Time Upgrade document D_RO2C09 stoppet 225 shape s processed 85 updated 0 failed 11 41 14 Upgrade document D_F02C09 starting 11 40 40 Additionally when Upgrade Drawing is called manually from the Tools menu a status window appears after the operation is completed Upgrade Drawing Upgrade document D_RO2C09 completed 426 shapes processed 201 updated 0 failed To store changes please save the drawing or was stopped by the user Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 241 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Upgrade Drawing Upgrade document D_RO02C09 stopped 225 shape s processed 85 updated 0 failed To store changes please save the drawing 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 Message AS Document D_RO2CO09 needs upgrading to current version Please call Tools gt Upgrade gt Upgrade drawing to make sure all functionality is available 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 Message x Unable to upgrade read only document D_RO2CO9 Benefits The Upgrade Drawing functionality works better and does not cause any errors Compatibility Constr
61. find information e Easier to distribute Compatibility Constraints Old projects must be upgraded to 12 1 using the Upgrade tool in the new ManuConfig addin For More Information Further details of the upgrading of old projects are given in the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 143 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 20 Automatic Naming of Production Sketches 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 n
62. 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 Positioning X Offset lo Y Offset 0 Rotation o v Click on the Flip Side button to place the piping component on the other side of the penetrated plate Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 278 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin The symbol for this component is represented on an isometric drawing as 2 ear Centre Flange FITTINGS 2 PENETRATING WATERTIGHT BLKHD amp DECK 6 DRO7C MA 2 IECE SLOPING 1 0254 ST37 0 26 6 Standard Model Library This new function an early version of which was included in the Marine Outfitting Update 12 0 SP6 10 allows the user to capture multi discipline design elements store them in a library for re use and then create any number of instances of them at any position in the model as required It is accessed from a new Standard Model Library Manager form accessed from the Utilities menu and uses a Create Standard Model Library Item form these vary somewhat dependent on whether a user is a library manager or a general user The first form to appear is the Manager form which can be used to browse the library and add items to it Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 279 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Fi Toggle Name Description
63. have a _R suffix Currently only planar panels can be symmetric and have their geometry defined on SB The Hurefl attribute will strictly answer the question Is the current element in its reflected position relative to where the geometry is defined This implies two things e Evenanon symmetric element may have a Hurefl value of True e The Hurefl value True False and the element name with or without _R suffix will not always match 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 150 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 26 FRP Additions Description Lamina
64. 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 Plates are shown with plate thickness annotated DRAW Plates are shown with hatch patterns representing the plate thickness NOT SET Plates are shown with plate thickness information hidden default Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 91 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin SHX_SHOW_POSNO_ when given plates are shown with position number annotated NOT SET Plates are shown with position number hidden default SHX_SHOW_MATQ when given plates are shown with material quality annotated NOT SET Plates are shown with material quality hidden default Benefits Visual overview of plate thicknesses in shell expansion view Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Refer to User Guide Hull Detailed Design Curved Modelling Interactive Functions Curved Hull Menu Curved Panel Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 92 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 10 New Dialog when Setting Functional Descriptions Description The dialog for the function Hull Tools gt Functional Description has been changed The following dial
65. may now be made accessible in Design this is only useful if the Draft databases are also made accessible in Admin 25 7 AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface It is now possible to export to a single STEP file by specifying a file name instead of a directory name e g Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 266 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin export file c project a345 pipel stp Naming of exported items is unique within this file Note It is still not possible to create a multi level assembly hierarchy in a single STEP file Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 267 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 26 AVEVA Outfitting Design Applications 26 1 Equipment The Create gt Equipment form has been redesigned with several enhancements e Equipment may be positioned using graphical picking e Attributes are input directly using the creation form rather than a sub form e UNDO is available e The form is resizable For details please refer to the Equioment User Guide Section 4 Name P1204B Position East w 12345 00mm North 1280 00mm oO up Y 4354 00mm o wrt Attributes Description COMBI FLEX DN150 DN125 Function PUMP Paint Specification Inspection Schedule Design Code 26 2 Piping 26 2 1 Sloping piping The data structure for piping includes two new concepts for better handling of slopes or falls e An a
66. n of The n is its numbered position in the list of its owner only counting elements of the same type Some types of elements are possibly better identified by the value of an attribute than by its position among its equal type of siblings For some marine hull type of elements this is just the case The name of an unnamed element is normally presented in the format HSTIFF 3 of HPANEL ER2 LP32_2 While it onwards instead will be presented in the format HSTIFF idsp 6003 of HPANEL ER2 LP32_2 The value 6003 is provided by the TBID attribute for the HSTIFF element Hull elements witha 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 For More Information Refer to Design Reference Manual How to Use the Syntax Graphs Standard Syntax Graphs Design Element Identity lt gid gt and User Guide Hull in Dabacon General Identification of Unnamed Elements Affected Programs This is a core change that affects all programs exploring hull data Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 50 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 5 New Storage Model for Hull Objects Description The underlying Hull objects i e OBJHD are stored in a more efficient way in the database Benefits Performance in term
67. of the search results grid see example below E OWNER 100 B 1 3 items A 100 841 814 A 00 B 1 82 _ amp 00 84 83 E OWNER 100 B 2 2 tems A 00 B 2 51 M00 B 2 82 E OWNER 100 B 8 2 items 00 B 8 B1 100 B 8 B2 OWNER 100 C 12 3 items E OWNER 400 C 13 1 item E OWNER 100 C 15 3 items E OWNER 100 C 16 3 items Use of Summary in Calculated Fields Where a summary field is used in a report the results of this summary cannot be used in a calculated field This has been identified as a future enhancement A workaround is available Use of the Results of one Calculated Field in Another Calculated Field It is not possible to use one calculated field in another calculated field This has been identified as a future enhancement A workaround is available Not Possible to Hide Group Header Only In the report designer hiding a group header via the Group and Sort window also hides the group footer However hiding the group footer still leaves the group header visible Workaround To hide only the group header assign the height as 0 to group header PageRange Property Ignored when the ExportMode Property is set to SingleFile DevExpress recommends that the ExportMode should be set to any other value to resolve this issue Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 299 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin AVEVA Net Gateway Unicode Characters The field l
68. profile parts will be marked on both sides of the profile web Benefits Increased marking possibilities Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Manufacturing of Plane Panel Parts Set up of Program Set up of the IP file Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 134 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 15 Nest Profiles without Rest 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 e Define a raw profile with type and dimensions the same as the profile part that should be nested Define the length as zero e 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Setup and Customisation Setup for Production The Restriction File Keywords in the General Section of the Restriction File Affected Programs Profile Nesting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd
69. refer to the Schematic Model Manager User Guide for full details of this process 24 2 3Change Highlighting in Diagram Changes in Diagrams may now be highlighted in Diagrams Schematic Model Manager and Tags using a new Diagram Change Highlighting add in Please see section in Diagrams chapter Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 254 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 24 3 Tag Compare Update The new Compare Update add in application can integrate data between Design Schematic and Engineering databases as well as data from AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Electrical It enables populations of tagged objects such as equipment and line lists to be compared updated and linked between the data sources Compare Update supersedes the AVEVA Instrumentation Data Update application and is available in several Design Engineer modules Design Tags Paragon Schematic Model Manager and Diagrams v A LogOff Instruments Accept all SY Filters amp Refresh Update Database E Options x 2 TagNo Matched Matched Against Number of Changes J Changed Attributes Attributes to be Updated Attribute Details For More Information please refer to the new Compare Update User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 255 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 25 AVEVA Outfitting Module 25 1 Model Editor 25 1 1 Offset From Feature option This new option has been added to the po
70. report or select Export to Excel to export it Right click the Hole Associations list to display the following pop up menu Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Navigate to the Association the penetrated or the penetrating item single selection only Add to 3D view Adds the selected holes and associated items Remove from 3D view Removes the selected holes and associated items Focus on Hole Zooms the 3D view to centre on the selected hole and zoom in Clipping is applied if it is enabled single selection only Export list to Excel Exports the report grid to Excel Print list Shows a standard grid print preview for the report grid 26 4 5Configuration of Hole Management Data Additional hole size properties on piping and HVAC components are used to control automatic hole dimensions If these properties are not provided the system uses hole management default sizes e g OD for pipe holes Hole Management Design and Catalogue data configuration is as described in the Design Common Functionality User Guide with the addition of new data set properties on selected piping components The following properties are used to control automatic hole sizes Property Name Description DKEY AHDI Property specifying the diameter of the hole required for the component a REAL DISTANCE expression returning the hole diameter The property is used i
71. sorting allocation etc 7 5 TAGS Module Definition The new TAGS module has been added to the product modules defined by modmac mac and therefore available for use Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 45 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 8 Introduction to New Functionality 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 46 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 AVEVA General Functionality 9 1 Performance Improvements in AVEVA Marine Description A number of improvements have been made to speed of functions and usability AVEVA Marine e In start up of AVEVA Marine the loading of DII s have been improved to take less time Many of the Addins will be loaded but they are only notifying the main process that they exists Data load by an Addin will take place when needed e New indexes are introduced in the database to speed up searching of different Marine objects such as panels profiles plate and profile parts nesting s For example List Drawings Auto scale of drawing Create Symbolic View Recreate Symbolic View Input Model Schema run Automatic Creation of Planar Parts PPanparts Automatic Creation of Curved Parts CPanparts Open Nest Part Menu
72. the copied RSOs are named XXX10 XXX11 XXX12 XXXn If name XXX10 10 is given as target name and multiple copies are requested then the copied RSOs are named XXX10 XXX20 XXX30 XXXn Benefits More accurate naming can be defined Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Copy Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 104 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 6 Pick Option Added in RSO Keyin Description An option to pick limiting RSOs has been added in the function RSO KeyIn The dialogue is presented with new command buttons which will hide the dialogue and ask the user to pick an RSO in the current drawing The command buttons are enabled when the function RSO Keyln is activated from the RSO menu or when right clicking a RSO but disabled when the function is activated from the RSO Property function Benefits Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Properties and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Properties Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space M
73. the drop down menu Valid 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 Panels Select holes in panels Apply Filter 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 Select headings required on the report from three categories information about the Headings hole information about the penetrated item and information about the penetrating item Preview Displays Managed Hole Report window The Managed Hole Report window displays the specified report etka Amera ome o Ameng Grech time ahpa hte Se ee ER Enie fi faz sewo OMe Sewon C C CE Co a a Bal Pic temreced RIESE hime Diino Win ES Bo eR enenoia fi nwz coo nwgn reo D E a ae ER ERLENDA 12 OME z emoja AS PURE OUR PCI Teo 108 o QZ S m rwooi ae menon reo a a PED a C C CC GA CACA a aan S A C enemn fers a ia a a HERS wean omy You can use grid column functions to sort and filter columns before printing or exporting the report Select Print Preview to view the
74. 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 mad 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 DAC prevents modification of attribute Built on element MODIFY B VESS1 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 259 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 lt database nam
75. to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 182 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 19 Persisting Contours to PADD 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 e All Insert functions except Spline and Fillet e Modify Transform and Copy e All Modify Trim functions To Entity By Length Gap Cutout e All Modify Stretch functions Node Elbow By Polygon e Modify Chain and Dechain e Modify Fill Style e 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 183 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 20 Text Font Attributes 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 184 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 21 Dimmin
76. to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 38 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 e User defined Database Views for reports ad hoc working etc e Project defined Database Views shared via Global e Application defined Database Views for specialist applications The Editor is currently available in the LEXICON and TAGS modules under Display gt Database Views Editor View Definition Set E3 Open CP Close 3H New gt Delete fa Save User Views 3 Views Database Types Filter a x Views View Sets Name Description Element Types 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 don t have to define them to m
77. tort including negligence or otherwise arising in connection with the performance of the AVEVA software shall be limited to 100 of the licence fees paid in the year in which the user s claim is brought 1 6 Clauses 1 1 to 1 5 shall apply to the fullest extent permissible at law 1 7 In the event of any conflict between the above clauses and the analogous clauses in the software licence under which the AVEVA software was purchased the clauses in the software licence shall take precedence Copyright Copyright and all other intellectual property rights in this manual and the associated software and every part of it including source code object code any data contained in it the manual and any other documentation supplied with it belongs to or is validly licensed by AVEVA Solutions Limited or its subsidiaries All rights are reserved to AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries The information contained in this document is commercially sensitive and shall not be copied reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Limited Where such permission is granted it expressly requires that this copyright notice and the above disclaimer is prominently displayed at the beginning of every copy that is made The manual and associated documentation may not be adapted reproduced or copied in any material or electronic form without the prior written permission of AVEVA Soluti
78. upgrade process containing descriptions and locations of the participant files and any problems that might have occurred is available in the Diagrams Message Log Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 223 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 4 Admin Settings vs User Settings It is now possible for customers to define and set up which settings should be Admin Settings and which settings should be possible for regular users to change The administrative set has the same format as the current version of diagrams options store but is located at a location which is write protected for the user but read write for administrators When an option in the administrative set has a ro value of the access attribute access ro this option s value will overwrite the value set in the user s options store and the option will be disabled greyed out in the Diagrams Options dialogue Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 224 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 5 Handling of Units in Annotations With the release of AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12 1 some changes and enhancements have been made to the handling of Units In AVEVA Diagrams changes have been made to accommodate the new functionality and to allow presentation of values with or without units in shape text and annotations Some attributes with numeric values are now dimensioned and have associated units For example attribute PRESS of ele
79. will notify the user in the System Message log e Split To split branches use the Branch splitter symbol which works in the same way as Line splitter Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 234 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Import Shape Wizard step 1 of 5 Type and Name of Shape Import selected shape as Element types Se Equipment items hein Pipeline elements splitter Pipe components Instrumentation HVAC line elements HVAC components Cable elements Annotation Off page connectors Line splitter Line splitter J Flow direction symbol Area shape E Ee Ee Shape name Cancel Benefits The possibility to join split branches in simple way without using workarounds Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 235 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 12 Setting SCVALV GTYP to INST rather than 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 Edit Master Wizard step 1 of 4 Type and Name of Shape Import selected shape as Element types pa pa Equipment items 2 way valve udet Pipeline elements valve 5 Pipe compo
80. 0 1 bill hous 02 03 2010 0 _bill hous 02 03 2010 0 bill hous 02 03 2010 0 bill hous 02 03 2010 0 bill hous savew lt m gt Model Timeline Stamps Elen 4 gt Refresh C highlight s At v 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 Timeline Stamps Element History Key C highlight v Only Changes At 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 262 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Fiter v User Bulletin Design WORL amp SITE ATEST H Q ZONE ZONE1 CIVILS mA ZONE ZONES STEFL AL Time User Reason DB Type 19 03 1998 10 48 06 lbr savework Design 07 01 1999 14 13 34 lbr savework Design 07 01 1999 14 13 34 lbr savework Design 14 07 1999 11 58 45 pm savework Design 14 07 1999 11 58 45 pm s
81. 03 There are 2 databases that are not upgraded to current version They are opened as read only 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 amp Outfitting 12 0 project to 12 1 This is initiated from Admin using the following commands in the Command Pane or TTY mode lock dbupgrade project to latest unlock This procedure may also be used with Global projects if some additional precautions are taken A brief summary is given below further details are given in the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Earlier projects should first be upgraded to Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 Schematic Model Manager has its own units handling at Hull and Outfitting 12 0 It also has its own upgrade mechanism which is separately documented the software will advise if it is necessary to run this Units Upgrade Required It is recomended that you run the Schematic Model Manager Units Upgrade Please see the documentation for more information C Don t show this again 2 2 Upgrade Framework Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 amp Outfitting that are covered by this process are
82. 15392 1 0834 15392 0836 15392 0838 Reference Data Mass Properties gt Pipework Pipe Splitting Pipe Assemblies Pipe Isometric Pipe Spool Bending machine sim for P1 P S01 Bending machine sim for P1 P 02 Bending machine sim for P1 P S03 Bending machine sim for P1 P S04 Bending machine sim for P1 P S05 Bending machine sim for P1 P S06 Bending machine sim for P1 P S07 Bending machine sim for P1 P S08 Bending machine sim for P1 P S09 Bending machine simfor P1 PS10 Bending machine sim for P1 P S11 Bending machine sim for P1 P S12 Bending machine sim for P1 P 513 Bending machine sim for P1 P 514 Bending machine sim for P1 P S15 Bending machine sim for P1 P 516 Bending machine sim for P1 P 517 Bending machine sim for P1 P 518 Bending machine sim for P1 P519 Bending machine sim for P1 P S520 Bending machine sim for P1 P 521 Bending machine sim for P1 P 22 Bending machine sim for P1 P 23 Bending machine sim for P1 P S24 Bending machine sim for P1 P 525 Walid TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE Bending Machine Unset BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE
83. 2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 BENDING_MACHINE2 System Isometric Report Options Show Pipe System Save in File Production Checks CAAVEVA plar PDMS1 2 0 SP5 pdmsuser fab Machine NC Report txt Fabrication Machine Manager Bending Machine NC Output Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd Create Report AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Reference Data Reference Data Reference Data Mass Properties b Mass Properties gt Mass Properties b Pipework Pipework Pipework Pipe Splitting Pipe Splitting Pipe Splitting Pipe Assemblies Pipe Assemblies Pipe Assemblies Pipe Isometric Pipe Isometric Pipe Isometric System Isometric System Isometric System Isometric Show Pipe System Show Pipe System Show Pipe System Production Checks Production Checks Production Checks Fabrication Machine Manager Fabrication Machine Manager Fabrication Machine Manager Pipe Router Pipe Router Pipe Router Pipe Penetration gt Pipe Penetration gt Pipe Penetration gt This enables you to search for bent pipe pieces filter them and then create a report 26 2 4Improved production checks The Pipe Production Checks can now use a user defined pipe stock length as well as the bending
84. A Solutions Ltd 180 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 17 Plane Reference Text in Distance To Plane Dimensioning Description In the Distance To Plane dimensioning when principal plane is Centre Line Base Line or Aft Perpendicular modifications of the Plane Reference Text will be remembered and saved in the Drafting default system For this purpose three new default keywords have been introduced Keyword System Default DIM_DTP_BASELINE_REF_TEXT from BL DIM_DTP_CENTRELINE_REF_TEXT off CL DIM_DTP_AFTPERPENDICULAR_REF_TEXT from AP Benefits This will improve productivity The system remembers user modifications of Plane Reference Text Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Appendices Drafting Default File Keywords Dimensioning Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 181 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 18 Delete Last Entity Description The Edit Delete Last Entity functionality has been re introduced Benefits Make it possible to undo last created entity without having to exit current function and explicitly delete the entity Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Operator s Instructions Edit Delete Last entity Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974
85. A Solutions Ltd 213 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e Ellipse is exported as an entity AcDbEllipse e 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 e Text Alignment has been improved 20 17 Configurable DGN Export Improvements also include e 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 e 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 e 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 e Dimensions are not exported as MicroStation dimensions However they may be grouped 20 18 AVEVA Isometric ADP This add on application has been completely overhauled for Hull amp 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 e Dimensioned and labelled Spool e Material Take Off Table e Location Plan of the Spool in the Main e Keyplan of location
86. ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 ANSI B16 5 For full details of this important new module please see the AVEVA Tags User Guide 24 1 1 Admin Tab The Tags module includes a new concept for administration There is an Admin tab in the ribbon bar which is only available for users that are e Free users Like SYSTEM Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 252 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e Members of the TAGSADMIN team 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 24 1 2Tag Deletion In the new Tags module data for a single tag can be distributed over multiple databases to allow for different disciplines possibly operating in different locations For any tag the data for each discipline is stored on a separate object but presented as if on a single object It is thus possible to delete a tag but not have access to delete all of the distributed data and this can result in orphan objects remaining The Delete Tag Orphans pmimac macro available from AVEVA Support Knowledge Base can be run in the Tags module to find and delete orphan objects Please note that all relevant databases should be current before
87. AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 10 Generic File Viewer 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 gt 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 uP ER2 25 2 TOP 44P PS 12 00 4 SP 34 5P 33 5P 32 SP 31 Compatibility Constraints None Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 129 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Planar Modelling Interactive Planar Hull Modelling Functions Hull Tools Part Checking Affected Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 130 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 11 Looking Field Changed for Hull Mark Projection 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 replac
88. Bulletin 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 25 3 Change highlighting and reversion This development provides improvements in the management of change including that resulting from the use of extracts These changes fall into four categories e Enhanced sessions user interface to show the reason for each database session e Command syntax to revert an element or hierarchy of elements to a previous state e Improved Extract Data Control dialog to highlight extract changes e Model Changes Add in to explore and highlight general changes to the model There is a separate Comparison add in see section 24 2 3 available from the Schematic Explorer context menu This can show changes related to diagram elements between two database sessions or stamps and can use the SVG Viewer to highlight the changes in colour 25 3 1Enhanced User Interface for Sessions Forms that display details of a database session now also include the reason for that the session For example the database session form accessed from Utilities gt DB Listing shows it thus DB Differences Destination Fie O Screen New File Ooverwite Append Filename PDMSUSER DBOutput txt Elements HTEST Differences since OSavework OTimeDate Session O Extract Stamp Date HH MM DD Mon Year Session N
89. CES v E Detail e ___EMtabel Tasks DIAREF Schematic Pipes a Edit Text Text label1 Data Binding NewDataSet DIAREF Schema i Sss DIAREF Schematic Bed A atic H DPREN schon DTAREF Schematic Ppes EE DTMPMA Schematic E DTMPMI Schematic FLUR Schematic Pipes EE FUNC Schematic Pipes E INPRTR Schematic E ISPE Schematic Pipes 3E LNTP Schematic Pipes iab NAME Schematic Pi 7 Format String v ReportFooter one band per report por one band per report D Angle Anchor Vertically Formatting Rules v j PageFooter one band per page Cl Auto width Can Grow Cl Can Shrink C Multiline Word Wrap Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 298 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Quick Reporting Handling of Grouping Where grouping is applied in the search results grid the group layout result will not be maintained when a quick report is generated This is because e This would lead to an inconsistency with quick reporting functionality in Instrumentation e Different layouts need to be maintained for use in the reporting tool for grouped and non grouped quick reports Note To enable group sorting right click on the search results grid column heading selecting Enable Group Sorting and then dragging the column heading of the attribute you wish to group by into the group area
90. CVALV with SCSTYP PTFE LINED will generate Choose with STYP PTFE LINED Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 217 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 22 5 Improved Links Administration Integrator no longer automatically creates a Link World Project administrators are recommended to create a separate Design Reference database to hold links and then use the new Manage Links dialogue available from the Integrator gt Settings menu This can be used to create and manage Link Worlds in the appropriate database including consolidating links from separate databases Manage Links DER File Edit Database Description fh DB CTBHTESTAINTDESI Primary fa DB CTBHTEST DESI Primary DB CTBHTEST REFDESI Primary Reference Database Contains Links ia DB CTBHTEST STAVIRG Primary fm DB CTBHTEST ASSOCIATIONS Primary ba DB CTBECOPY TEMPLATE Primary fa DB CTBCOPY ASLTMPL Primary fa DB CTBCOPY EQUITMPL Primary ha DB MASTER ASSOCDEFN ReadOnly Primary ba DB MASTER CABLETMPL ReadOnly Primary 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 22 6 Configuration Rules Extensions Integrator s Project Configuration Explorer is now shared with the Compare Update Utility and so can hold rules for comparing elements between design schematic and engineering databases A Rule Set holds all t
91. DMS DXF Output C Output PDF V Output Colour Mode BW v V View Ono Fie por Shool Minimum Line Width mm j Z Compress PRINT C Output Colour Mode COLOURPLUS w Fit Drawing to Paper No Fit v Minimum Line Width mm Printer Settings Aways show Dialog v IMAGE Output Colour Mode COLOURPLUS v Format PNG Minimum Line Width mm Reduction Factor EMF Output Colour Mode COLOURPLUS Minimum Line Width mm True Type Fonts UZ use Tre Type Fonts Font v 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 OFF TrueType fonts are not used TTFONT ON Selected TrueType font is used TTFONT 5 Times New Roman font as defined in Admin TTFONT 6 Arial font as defined in Admin TTFONT NONE 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 288 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin ISODRAFT can now handle coordinates larger than other limits in Hull amp Outfitting and show them on the isometrics Its limit is now 2 147 483 647 000 mm approximately 2 million km
92. DSDICT DICT 7323 00 unset a SortBy Name m Fiter Refresh Make selected databases primary at Name Location Id Connection Administered By Description lt LOC gt Hub PROJECTHUB HUB On Adm LOCAL unset lt LOC gt Cambridge CAM On Adm LOCAL unset Change Primary Location 7 3 3 Creation of an Event without Times The Update event form will now allow the creation of an event without times to run scripts at the remote location To do this create an update event at the current location with the Frequency text box left blank and the Transfer Scripts text boxes filled in When an update occurs between A and B the scripts will be run at B The arguments will be reversed B A For details please refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide Section 4 12 Creating Update Events wrt Transfer Scripts 7 3 4 Remote File Details in Admin When querying remote file details at different locations to compare them the results for the different queries are available Each press of the Apply button appends the results to the list on the right of the form This means you can choose different locations and see the information for selected databases together in the list Press the Clear button to empty the results list Results can be stored in a file by pressing the Save Report button which will display a file browser for you to save the results into a text file For details please refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide Satellite Commands filter
93. Data Organisation 5 5 1 Database Views 5 5 2 Distributed Attributes 5 5 3 Handling of Duplicated Names of UDAs and UDETs 5 5 4 Top Level Element Creation in Specific Database 5 6 Dynamic Groups 5 7 Database Performance 5 7 1 Specifying the Buffer Size 5 7 2 Dabacon Index Tables 5 8 Units of Measure 5 9 Unicode Storage of Name and Text Attributes 5 10 DRAFT Line style World Hierarchy 5 11 Extract Control Include Flush Capability User Interface 6 1 Eniry to System 6 2 Save and Restore Views 6 3 Grid Control Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 15 16 16 16 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 23 23 24 24 25 25 25 25 26 26 26 27 27 27 27 28 28 28 29 29 30 30 30 30 30 32 32 32 33 AVEVA Marine 12 1 6 4 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 8 Toolbar Popup Menu PML Collections Attribute Display Editing and Validation Auto naming Utility Enhancement Additional Debug Information about PML Applications 6 8 1 Help About 6 8 2 PML Alert 6 9 Infragistics Toolkit 7 Administration 7 1 GUI Improvements 7 2 Lexicon 7 2 1 New Lexicon Graphical View 7 2 2 UDA Lists of Values 7 2 3 Database Views 7 2 4 General 7 3 Admin GUI Changes for Global 7 3 1 Global Support for Linked Documents 7 3 2 Database Distribution Form 7 3 3 Creation of an Event without Times 7 3 4 Remote File Details in Admin 7 3 5 Enhanced User Interface for Sessions 7 4 7 5 Engineering ENGI Database
94. ELE Offline transfer is not supported Linked documents propagation does not guarantee consistency between files at different locations In particular e Linked documents functionality is primarily intended for files which are part of the data model such as PDF Plotfiles and certain Marine files e 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 e 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 e It is possible to reference Linked documents for other data types of documents such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets e 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 e 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 e Nodocuments are deleted when a database is de allocated For this reason ALLOCATE will always overwrite any pre existing files e There is a strong likelihood that orphan linked documents will be left behind after databases have been merged backtracked de allocated or de
95. EVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 21 AVEVA Marine Migration 21 1 Preparing Databanks for Import into Hull and Outfitting 12 1 The ability to read native Tribon indexed databanks has been removed from AVEVA Marine Before using the migration program to migrate a Tribon project to AVEVA Marine the Tribon databanks need to be upgraded to a neutral format Tribon Model Index There is a Tribon M3 program called sa021 exe for this purpose sa021 sourcedb lt dbname gt sourcedir lt dir gt targetdir lt dir gt Example Convert the databanks in a native Tribon M3 project to Tribon Model Index databanks sa021 sourcedir c m3projects testproj targetdir c tmi This will convert all databanks in the directory given by sourcedir to Tribon Model Index databanks and store them in the directory given by the targetdir option 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 216 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 22 AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator Integrator has been extensively updated since its first release at 12 0 some of the developments noted below were first introduced in the Schematics Update Release at 12 0 SP6 8 22 1 New Integrator Object Method Integrator link information stored on C
96. Engineer modules Design Diagrams and Schematic Model Manager When working in an extract database issuing flushing or dropping an element that has a referencing Integrator link will automatically include the link object The new reference array attribute INCFLU include flush returns any Integrator or Status link elements that reference the current element Flushing issuing or dropping an element with referencing link objects will act on those link objects even if the element itself is not claimed or modified The Extract Control form will display an R label on such elements Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 30 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Extract Data Control DER Get All Changes From parent extract only O From all extract ancestors Update CE Extract Claimlists User Claimlists Elements H SITE ELECTRICAL_MODEL F HM ZONE SWITCHGEAR EQUI ELECEQUIP_101 EQUI ELECEQUIP_102 EQUI ELECEQUIP_103 EQUI ELECEQUIP_104 R EQUI ELECEQUIP_107 R EQUI ELECEQUIP_108 EM EQUI ELECEQUIP_1084 F Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 31 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 6 User Interface 6 1 Entry to System Entry to the system has been changed to allow direct entry to any module without the need to go via Monitor The login form is presented with the appropriate splash screen Desktop and Start menu shortcuts are provided for the popular options A new checkbo
97. G Ea APPLDW2 Ba FEMWLD FEMWLD NA Ba FEMIMG _FGBH NA fy FEMIMG _FGSH NA a HIBLO M 4 NA Bo HIPAN I1_DBLOCKI DECK13900 NA Bg HIBLO H_R Ea FEMODL H_FEM BLOCK PBLOCKS BLOCK PBLOCK BLOCK PBLOCKB Idealised plane panels are now drawn in the 3D canvas according to the applied idealisation settings no thickness stiffeners as lines CSreeer DEU AQL EPDE H 2 YY36X 39Z Parallel Model Zoomrect It is also possible to draw FE images in the 3D canvas for inspection purposes example contains shell and beam image Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 115 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Q 2H Orpi g Pe BEM M Y36X 39Z Parallel Model Zoomrect 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Finite Element Model Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 116 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 17 FEM Additions De
98. Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 to 12 1 can do this or Hull amp Outfitting can be left to use its default values The AVEVA sample projects are provided with this hierarchy and new projects will also be created with it present Full details are given in the various Draft User Manuals and the Administrator User Guide 20 4 System Defined Line Styles Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 209 AVEVA Marine 12 1 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 amp 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 amp 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 user s default printer if there is one or the user s screen resolution If the resolution of the said printer is 600
99. IGJHII J KIL IMN OIP IQIRIS IT UIV IWXIY IZ 10 1 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 53 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 8 Improved Local Language Unicode Encoding A major internal change at Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 is that the system uses the Unicode standard for text storage and manipulation rather than the various specific and somewhat proprietary methods that are used in Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 and earlier releases This standard covers all common world languages and special characters and will make it much easier to provide support for additional character sets in the future It makes text handling more robust and makes it much easier to relax some of the previous restrictions particularly to the use of Asian 16 bit character sets For example these may now be viewed in the 3D views Inputs and outputs may be in Unicode or local standards Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 54 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 9 Units of Measure Extended Range of Conversions Hull amp Outfitting has always provided conversions for distance and pipe bore measurements to cater for the use of both Metric and Imperial English units This has allowed users to work with feet and inch input amp output but with database storage always in millimetres Area and volume
100. MANU database in the current MDB Similarly it is now possible to create or rename an element in any Schematic SCHE Design DESI or Production MANU database to have the same name as any element in any Engineering ENGI database in the current MDB 5 5 Flexibility of Data Organisation 5 5 1 Database Views Database views provide a way to consolidate data from elements and attributes distributed across databases in an MDB These views are set up by an administrator using the Database Views Editor and stored in the Lexicon DICT database in a Database View World DBVWWL D Users database views may also be saved a local settings file The Editor is currently available in the Lexicon and Tags modules under Display gt Database Views Editor A Database View uses a table to define a view of the data which may be derived from a single or multiple elements There is a row in the Database View table for each element of a particular type that meets the criteria defined by filters These filters use the same concept as the search grid If the criteria cannot be expressed using attribute filters it is also possible to define an expression for evaluation A row is present in the table only if all the filter criteria are met This is a very powerful technique which can be used to derive data structures for a variety of purposes including the new reporting function The Excel Import Export functions also work with Database Views which
101. MARINE AVEVA Hull amp Outfitting Release 12 1 User Bulletin www aveva com Disclaimer 1 1 AVEVA does not warrant that the use of the AVEVA software will be uninterrupted error free or free from viruses 1 2 AVEVA shall not be liable for loss of profits loss of business depletion of goodwill and or similar losses loss of anticipated savings loss of goods loss of contract loss of use loss or corruption of data or information any special indirect consequential or pure economic loss costs damages charges or expenses which may be suffered by the user including any loss suffered by the user resulting from the inaccuracy or invalidity of any data created by the AVEVA software irrespective of whether such losses are suffered directly or indirectly or arise in contract tort including negligence or otherwise 1 3 AVEVA shall have no liability in contract tort including negligence or otherwise arising in connection with the performance of the AVEVA software where the faulty performance of the AVEVA software results from a user s modification of the AVEVA software User s rights to modify the AVEVA software are strictly limited to those set out in the Customisation Manual 1 4 AVEVA shall not be liable for any breach or infringement of a third party s intellectual property rights where such breach results from a user s modification of the AVEVA software or associated documentation 1 5 AVEVA s total liability in contract
102. MMY1_A J er EQ 8 amp NE ZONE1 CIVILS NE ZONE1 STEELW D E R PIPEC R Zo zo m 1 HOO a tO Reason DB Type DB Name Sessio Comment 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design CTBATEST DESI Default session comment 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design CTBCOPY ASLTMPL Default session comment 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design CTBCOPY TEMPLATE Default session comment 01 04 2010 16 31 44 gordon smith savework Design CTBATEST DESI Initial 01 04 2010 16 32 06 gordon smith savework Design CTBATEST DESI Changes Model Timeline Stamps Bement History Key C highlight All Changes Since x 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 e further element changes e Savework Getwork
103. PERTIES databases e Hull amp Outfitting users can read amp write 3D databases those who need to access Schematic or Engineering data also need a Schematic 3D Integrator license The decision to work in Integrated mode is taken when a user enters Hull amp Outfitting and applies to the whole session e Diagrams users can read amp write SCHEMATICS databases they can read but not write 3D databases Diagrams users can also read but not write the new ENGINEERING database see below e Engineering users can read amp write both Schematic and Engineering data they can also read but not write 3D data Existing users of Diagrams Schematic Model Manager and Schematic 3D Integrator will require an updated license file 5 3 Increase in Number of Databases A larger number of databases can now be used in a project the new limit is 250 000 New database numbers from 250 001 to 255 000 are reserved for AVEVA use as well as those from 7 001 to 8 000 It is now easier to avoid database number conflicts when databases are shared between projects These conflicts may be avoided by creating DBRange elements to define the range of database numbers available for use in each of the projects The database numbers may be between 10 000 and 250 000 these numbers may also be used explicitly in a project that does not use DBRanges A DBRange may be created in Admin under the STAT element in the SYSTEM or GLOBAL database and defines the sta
104. 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 e 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 e ZONE element ZONEEQUIP_FROM_A has member list changes only Since no new or re ordered elements are displayed it can be inferred that all child elements have been removed e CONE element CHANGETYPE UDET CONE A has been modified its type has been changed e EQUI element MOVE5 A VESS1 has been moved from the child list of ZONEEQUIP_FROM_A into the child list of ZONEEQUIP_TO_A e EQUI element CREATE A VESS1 has been created under ZONE element ZONE1 EQUIP thereby changing its member list Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 264 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin D E UI EQUIPDU
105. TAGS Module Definition 8 Introduction to New Functionality 9 AVEVA General Functionality 9 1 9 2 9 3 9 4 9 5 9 6 9 7 9 8 9 9 9 10 9 11 Performance Improvements in AVEVA Marine SetStart Method of NameSeq Object BLOCK Creation in Specific Database Stable Identification of Un named Hull Elements New Storage Model for Hull ObjectsDescription Hull Specific Design Explorer Configuration Limited Unicode Support in Hull Design Improved Local Language Unicode Encoding Units of Measure Extended Range of Conversions Extract Claims in Hull Applications Documentation 10 AVEVA Initial Design 10 1 10 2 10 3 Lines New Grid in PACE Lines Individual Tuft Size in Views in PACE Lines Macro Editor in PACE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 33 33 33 34 35 35 35 36 37 37 37 37 38 38 39 40 40 42 44 44 45 45 45 46 47 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 58 60 61 AVEVA Marine 12 1 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 10 10 10 11 10 12 10 13 10 14 10 15 10 16 10 17 10 18 10 19 10 20 10 21 10 22 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
106. Text Value 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 RMB Properties Same functionality as Modify Dimension Text Properties Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 207 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Benefits Improved productivity in dimensioning modifying functions Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 208 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 20 AVEVA Outfitting Draft A number of improvements have been made to Outfitting DRAFT and its associated applications 20 1 Extended Hatch Patterns This development has three components e An additional 12 system defined Fill Styles or patterns bringing the total to 30 These cover patterns such as brickwork and concrete and are shown in Fig 8 6 of the updated DRAFT User Guide e Creation of user defined Fill Styles has been enhanced to allow the use of non solid line styles Two new attributes have been added to HPATTErns see below These provide values for new Wigwam parameters As a result users can create very complicated patterns e The existing GUI allowing users to pick the system defined Fill Styles has been extended to include the 12 new ones Th
107. Tools Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hull Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 94 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 11 Increased Number of Surfaces 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Marine Planar and Curved Hull Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 95 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 12 AVEVA Surface Manager Description Surface Manager is a new module that allows transfer import export of surfaces from to external systems by the use of neutral standards It also offers tools for the assessment of the quality of the imported surface and if needed can repair selected defects detected in the surface coming from 3 party Surface Manager requires a specific license Benefits Key features are e Import surfaces into AVEVA Marine projects e Graphically displays the layout of the surface e Finds problem areas and shows them graphically e f possible optimises the surface by removing problem areas e Extract curves for use
108. YMLNK elements consists of references to schematic and 3D elements It is possible during project execution for these references to become invalid when elements are deleted A method is provided to clean up CYMLNK elements with invalid references 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 22 2 Electrical Connections When building an equipment with a template Integrator will try to match schematic electrical connections to 3D electrical connections within the template It already does this for nozzles which are matched on BORE but for ELCONNs it now tries to match on CATREF Details are included in the updated ntegrator User Guide Section 5 4 1 Building Equipment 22 3 Whole Diagram Compare The Comparison Options form has been extended with new options The Whole Diagram Compare options allow you to set which main types will be included in the report for a Compare Diagram operation Comparison Options a C Report unpositioned elements o Compare Pipelines and Pipes without their member hierarchies Whole Diagram Compare Lines Equipment HVAC Cable Offline Instruments 22 4 Selector Rules Quotes are no longer required in selector rules for long STYPs as Integrator will automatically include quotes for text selectors For example a rule with SCSTYP OF source operating on an S
109. _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 For More Information See also User Guide Hull Model Concept Run Mode Control Control on Application Level Reference Point of Profile Section Affected Programs Hull Structural Design Hull Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 124 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 6 Compensation for Shell Plate Thickness Description For each shell profile an additional trace is calculated considering the actual surface of shell plates over which the profile extends This may be important in areas of heavy curvature along the profile trace if the profile and shell plates are located on the same side of the moulded surface and in particular in areas with thick plates In Inithull it is possible to specify per surface whether to compensate for shell plate thickness This setting is done separately for planar panels and shell profiles 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 regenerate
110. a Vaid Cinna u Penstroted Rem Glock a Penetrating Rem f x Transient Penetrated Eemerts to manage Add Orreri Bemert 24171874 Reret Refresh 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 26 5 Penetration with Piping Component This new pipe penetration function enables a component such as a watertight bulkhead seal modelled as a COUP to be positioned on either side of the plate being penetrated It can cope with cases where the penetrating pipe is not orthogonal to the plate The component can be shown on pipe sketches and isometrics Isodraft has been modified to add a new SKEY CPCF and a penetration seal symbol Please see section 26 10 7 Full details are given in the Common Functionality User Guide
111. a schematic might show a pump its name and its major connections and perhaps a little more The engineering database will include electrical data for the motor loading calculations etc process data the process conditions mechanical data etc These data may be owned and controlled by several different discipline engineers This database will make it easy to produce lists of equipment and other tagged items Using a separate database makes it simpler for the schematics and the engineering data to be compiled in parallel and later checked for consistency 5 1 2 Design Reference Database This is a restricted Design database used mainly for IS S l ry wale administrative purposes it cannot include any SITE emails Dax or HULL data Its main use is for storing information Database about Systems and Areas for use in Engineering and ADMIN Schematics applications It is therefore useful for arina Team users who are licensed only for 2D applications Name Description H H lt TEAM gt ADMIN unset It is created by setting a flag on the database when it ee ASLADMIN FIT is created this is the only way to create it and the flag lt TEAM gt CTBATEST unset cannot be removed at a later date lt TEAM gt CTBCOPY unset lt TEAM gt CTBFTEST unset Points to note about Design Reference databases STEAM CTOHIEST unset lt TEAM gt CTBITEST unset lt TEAM gt CTBKTEST unset lt TEAM gt CTBSTEST unset e Engineering or Schema
112. aints Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 138 AVEVA Marine 12 1 None For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Nesting Hull Plate Nesting Initialisations for Nesting Defaults Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Plate Nesting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 139 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 17 Nesting Plug in Interface 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Nesting Hull Plate Nesting Nesting Plug In Plug In Interface and Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Nesting Hull Plate Nesting Initialisations for Nesting Defaults Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 140 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 18 Storing Changes after Running Production Programs Description The production programs are not updating any data in design databases DESI anymore Furthermore some objects previously stored in manufacturing databases MANU are
113. aints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 242 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 14 Linked Files Update Description New ways to update linked objects in a diagram e Use Edit gt 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 File Edit View Insert Format To Undo Ctrl Z Redo Ctrl W Repeat Ctrl che 8 Paste Paste Special 0 Norr e tal aa 335 Copy Drawing is a Filter Select All Select by Type GA Find Ctrl F Replace Go to e Use Update Diagrams in batch job File gt 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 243 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 15 Style Possibility to Determine Connector Re route 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 setting
114. ake 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 e New menu on the menu bar e Explorer right click menu now consistent with other modules e Edit Members on the Explorer menu e New element types which have changed the contents of the Explorer Current Element editor and ElementT ype editor Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 39 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 7 3 Admin GUI Changes for Global 7 3 1 Global Support for Linked Documents Global has been extended to include support for linked documents by propagating any document marked as propagating between two locations By default the propagation of Linked documents is disabled To enable the propagation of Linked Documents switch on the Propagate Link Documents setting under the Project menu in Admin Admin AVEVA PDMS Admin elements A Admin Display Query Settings Utilities Project Data Remote Window Help a i CE ADMIN Information s Access Control Assistant 7 f Elen its Font Families System Explorer 4 x Global TrueType fonts Filer r z Fiter T Module Definitions System WORL Replicate Expunge TEET NT A
115. all Valve Butter Valve Globe Valve be be 5S By Directional Valve AngledValve BallValve Globe Directional Angled Valve Valve GTYP_INST Angled Asimetric Directional Dk By GTYP_I Angled s5 simetri lt amp Masters to update C Add all DK GTYP_INS T 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 239 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin SCVALVE Item Check if Item contains valid SPRE Item has no SPCO set before Do nothing NO A Check in diagrams settings if specification should be used and Check if SPRE type is SPCO Give a warning that current SPRE might be not valid No Check if any SELE or SPEC YES element asks about TYPE 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 o For PPBO TYPE and STYP questions the answer is taken from SCVALVE Do nothing directly o For other questions the default answer will
116. allation options and procedure and the hardware and software requirements please refer to the Marine Software Installation Guide and Minimum System Requirements Marine 1 3 1 Projects in Folders with Embedded Spaces Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin AVEVA Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 will not fully support projects with spaces in their pathnames Work is in hand to remove these limitations but no definite release date is yet set 1 4 Licensing AVEVA Hull and Outfitting Software Upgrading to Flexman 5 is a pre requisite for AVEVA 12 series software It may also be worth stressing that customers do not need to wait for AVEVA 12 but can upgrade at any stage using an existing license file Flexman 5 is compatible with previous software releases from VANTAGE Marine 11 6 and onwards All AVEVA 12 series software requires access to a licensing file provided by the Flexman 5 application and loaded by the install wizard The license file can be stored on a networked server with client access a networked workstation with client access or on the workstation on which the AVEVA 12 series software is currently loaded The reason for storing the license file on a server or shared workstation is that it allows maximum user flexibility while minimising the number of licenses that must be leased Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 1 5 AVEVA Hull
117. an alternative used by pipe fabrication checking to the SPOOL elements in the SPOOLER database Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 289 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 26 10 6 North Arrow Text 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 lol x m Select Atext Drawing Area X 26 10 7 Pipe Penetration Seal Symbol 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 SODRAFT Reference Manual section 3 27 Symbol Key Reference Index 26 10 8 Setting Units in Options files Isodraft loads the current units setting when the user enters the module but has its own units for defining bore and distance on lsometrics 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 lsodraft 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 us
118. anagement Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 105 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 7 Pick Option Added in RSO Edit Description An option to pick limiting RSOs has been added in the function RSO Edit The dialogue is presented with new command buttons which will hide the dialogue and ask the user to pick an RSO in the current drawing The command buttons are enabled when the function RSO Edit is activated from the RSO menu or when right clicking a RSO but disabled when the function is activated from the RSO Property function Benefits Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Properties and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Properties Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 106 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 8 Right Click Menu on RSO Description A right click menu with RSO functions has been added when right clicking RSO geometry in a drawing The following menu is displayed and functions can be selected to operate on the indicated RSO RSO KeylIn RSO Edit RSO Copy RSO Move RSO Rename RSO Recreate RSO Property RSO Generate Panel Benefi
119. anaging 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 e For the short term set the dimensions to NUMERIC e Plan to move to more rigorous use of units probably employing a combination of the techniques above 4 2 4 Units set up for Hull and Drafting In AVEVA Marine Hull and Marine Drafting applications the set up for Units differs from the Units setup in Outfitting Presentation format for Units in Hull and Drafting can be set to SI or Imperial SI units are default The format for SI and Imperial respectively can be further controlled by a set of environment variables and default variables For details on the Units usage in Hull and Drafting please see the following chapters in the AVEVA Marine User Documentation 1 Hull Basic Features and Concepts gt Basic Features gt Imperial Units Syntax Description 2 Marine Drafting gt Drafting gt User Guide gt Appendices gt Drafting default file keywords gt Unit codes 3 Marine Drafting gt Drafting gt User Guide gt Appendices gt Drafting default file keywords gt Unit system 4 Hull Initial Design gt Lines User s Guide gt Technical reference gt Conventions gt Units Unit Controlled Dimensions in Hull and Drafting The dimensions that can be unit con
120. and Drafting please see the following chapters in the AVEVA Marine User Documentation 1 Hull Basic Features and Concepts gt Basic Features gt Imperial Units Syntax Description 2 Marine Drafting gt Drafting gt User Guide gt Appendices gt Drafting default file keywords gt Unit codes 3 Marine Drafting gt Drafting gt User Guide gt Appendices gt Drafting default file keywords gt Unit system 4 Hull Initial Design gt Lines User s Guide gt Technical reference gt Conventions gt Units Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 10 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Unit Controlled Dimensions in Hull and Drafting The dimensions that can be unit controlled in Hull and Marine Drafting are shown in the table below Core units are independent of the Unit settings and are the same for Hull and Outfitting data Dimension Core unit Coordinate mm Linear measure mm Area mm Volume mm Weight kg Density kg mm Angle degree Presentation Format for Units in Marine Applications Within Hull and Marine Drafting specific application functions values will be presented according to the Hull Drafting settings Attributes in Hull Initial Design are presented according to Initial Design settings Within general functions available in Hull Design or Marine Drafting e g Reporter Attribute addin or Query attribute command values will be pres
121. and accessed from the Hole Management Utilities toolbar To start the application click the Hole Management Utility icon on the toolbar to display the Managed Hole Utility window The main utility form is divided into 4 sections for the creation merging modification of holes and utilities For further details please refer to chapter 4 Multi Disciplinary Penetration and Hole Management of the Design Common Functionality guide 26 4 1 Create Holes In the Clearance field specify the clearance to apply to the penetrating item This is not applied if the software detects a clash with a pipework or HVAC component that has hole size properties Note The clearance can be controlled by the component that passes through the panel if the penetrating component has a Property AHDI for circular or AHX AHY for noncircular in which case these property values will control the clearance For more information refer to Configuration Hole Management Data Click Auto penetrate CE to automatically create holes in panels in a selected structure The clash analysis can take a few minutes a progress message and bar will be displayed Once the analysis has taken place the Hole Association Manager window is displayed with the details of the newly created virtual holes Note The Hole Association Manager window is not displayed if no virtual holes are created If more than 30 virtual holes have been created there will be a confirmation message to dis
122. ans ALL rather than NONE This means that the collection operation will take much longer so it may be worth checking any PML functions to ensure that this is what is required 6 6 Attribute Display Editing and Validation A new Attributes Utility replaces the previous Query Attributes and Attributes forms it combines the functions of both and also enables attributes to be edited if access rights permit Attributes that are not editable are shown with a grey background feedback is given for inappropriate attribute values The form displays the attributes of the current database element either in a list or by category see pictures below The form allows the user to edit attributes where appropriate and is available in all modules It replaces the old PML Query Attributes form and the old C Attributes form The popup menu provides various new functions such as an ability to set the current element to a reference attribute value The details vary between modules and are documented in the appropriate manuals WRT Element gt Track CE Categorised Alphabetical Expand Nodes Collapse Nodes Modify Category Filters Manage Category Filters DisplayUDAs Display Pseudo Attributes Columns gt Settings b Export to Excel Print Preview Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 33 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Track CE Track CE Attribute el Yis Nand Zis U Design 1 item omer E i Focus 1 fem
123. 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 SYNCHR lt dbname gt LINKDOC FORCI GI Note There is no UI to support this command On allocation of a new database the propagation of all link relevant documents will be forced to the remote location Recover will force the propagation of all relevant linked documents in the direction of the recover Therefore if recovering a database back to the primary location then the linked documents will also be recovered back to the primary location Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 41 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 D
124. are of particular importance in the integration of engineering schematic and design data 5 5 2 Distributed Attributes Distributed attributes enable the definition of objects that have groups of attributes distributed across databases currently restricted to the DESIgn and new ENGIneering database types This enables a number of new possibilities e Improved concurrency o Several users may work in parallel on an object using different sets of data o Simultaneous multi discipline updates on the same object are possible o Claims may be smaller only claiming the relevant portions of an object e Distribution of an object s attributes across hierarchies and databases o Easier distribution using Global Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 0 A AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin o Reduced need for Global extracts e Simplified access control o It may be sufficient to use database ownership by teams e Data may be included or excluded by database e 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
125. as been updated with further details 27 3 Global WCF Service Name Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 293 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 GLlobalWcfClient config and admindWCF exe config The Endpoint has changed from GlobalWcfServiceLib GlobalWcfService to GlobalWcfServiceLib GlobalWcfService 11 1 201011 As aresult 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 GLlobalWcfClient config and admindWCF exe config configuration files 27 4 ADUUID Attribute Length This attribute provides a UUID Universal Unique Identifier for the Global
126. at 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 New Aveva Marine Drafting MarChm ViewBodyPlanNew MarDrafting ViewBodyPlanNew MarChm ViewCurvedPanelNew MarDrafting ViewCurvedPanelNew MarChm ViewDevPlaNew MarDrafting ViewDevPlaNew MarChm ViewShellXNew MarDrafting ViewShellXNew MarChm ViewShProfNew MarDrafting ViewShProfNew MarChm ViewModify MarDrafting ViewCurvedModify MarChm ViewRecreate MarDrafting ViewRecreate MarHullPan ViewDetailNew MarDrafting ViewDetailNew MarHullPan ViewSymbolicModify MarDrafting ViewSectionModify MarHullPan ViewSymbolicRecreate MarDrafting ViewRecreate MarHullPan MAR_BRACKET MarDrafting MAR_BRACKET MarHullPan MAR_BRACKET_PML MarDrafting MAR_BRACKET_PML MarHullPan MAR_FLANGE MarDrafting MAR_FLANGE MarHullPan MAR_FLANGE_PML MarDrafting MAR_FLANGE_PML MarHullPan MAR SEAM MarDrafting MAR_SEAM MarHullPan MAR_SEAM_PML MarDrafting MAR_SEAM_PML Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 200 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin MarHullPan MAR_STIFFENER MarDrafting MAR_STIFFENER MarHullPan MAR_STIFFENER_PML MarDrafting MAR_STIFFENER_PML
127. ational Characters Unicode New databases created at Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 will by default use the Unicode character set for textual attributes and names see section 5 1 However no upgrade is required for older databases they will be handled according to the project character set as defined in Admin PROJECT CHARSET or PROJECT MBCHARSET commands They will also be converted according to this setting if they are reconfigured so it is important that it is set correctly In cases where an extended range of characters is needed Reconfigure may be used to convert a legacy database to a Unicode encoded database In the following example legacy DICT databases used to hold UDA and UDET names are reconfigured to be Unicode encoded using Admin 12 1 FROM DB MASTER DICT O FILE c DICT1 c DICT2 CFCOPY ALL ECONFIG SESSIONS HAH 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 e canbe opened for read access in both Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 and earlier versions e canbe opened for write access in both Hull amp Out
128. avework Design 04 07 2000 14 19 12 pm savework Design 04 07 2000 14 19 12 pm savework Design 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley savework Design 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley savework Design 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley savework Design 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley savework Design 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design 02 03 2010 08 41 36 bill housley savework Design Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key Drath Model Timeline pane Fiter ie DB Name CTBATEST DESI CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBATEST DESI CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBATEST DESI CTBCOPY TEMPLATE CTBCOPY ASLTMPL CTBCOPY EQUITMPL Create Initial elements Create Initial elements Create Initial elements Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment Default session comment S Design WORL ZONE ZONEEQUIP_FROM_C H Q ZONEZONEEQUIP_TO_C L m ZONE ZONFDIPE C Element History for ATEST Time User 01 03 2010 13 44 47 bill housley 01 04 2010 16 14 49 gordon smith pending current Model Timeline Stamps Element History Key Cah Element History pane rer OT
129. ay need to check these They are explained in more detail in the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Several of the reference manuals have been updated to reflect these changes including Catalogue and Specifications Reference Manual Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 16 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 4 2 1 Supported Dimensions and Units In previous versions of Hull amp Outfitting all dimensioned quantities other than distances or bores were output in units stored in the database irrespective of the current units For example all masses were assumed to be Kg There is a new set of commands to complement and extend the existing units functions These commands control the units of supported dimensions and their dependent quantities e g density and pressure For masses the command UNITS may be followed by KG MASS GRAM MASS POUND MASS TONNE MASS or TON SHORT LONG MASS New DISTANCE options are also provided FOOT DIST and METRE DIST to output and return values in these common units The command which sets the distance units is MM INCH FINCH DISTANCE The new commands use the keyword UNITS to define the units to use for the various dimension types
130. base 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 tyoe 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs None Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 148 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 24 Enhancement in Dialogue for Automatic Position Number Definition Description The automatic definition of position numbers is controlled by an Autopos control object with different cases for position number definition It may be relevant to have more than one Autopos object e g when defining both with and without the option to treat symmetrical parts equally The dialog for Automatic Position Number Definition has been enhanced to present all available Autopos control objects in a drop
131. bject type code element type UDET or UDA value 5 8 Units of Measure This enhancement enables Outfitting to store attribute data in standard units and perform conversions as appropriate The system handles this automatically dependent on the units and also stores appropriate information with parameterised attributes to enable them to be handled A new dynamic UNIPAR attribute has been added to all catalogue elements with PARA attributes namely SCOM SPRF JOIN and FITT and to all design elements with DESP attributes It is a hidden VISI FALSE integer array attribute that may not be listed or queried and holds the set of WORD unit values corresponding to the dimensions of the values in a sibling PARA or DESP attribute 5 9 Unicode Storage of Name and Text Attributes Marine Outfitting and Marine Drafting code will handle Unicode strings Administrators may have chosen to convert all DBs which do not contain Hull data to Unicode as part of their upgrade process or may decide for each DB whether and when to upgrade manually and perform this upgrade using Reconfigure as in the example above 5 10 DRAFT Line style World Hierarchy System line style widths are now stored in the system database for consistency throughout a project and are initially set to ISO defaults Thin 0 25mm Medium 0 35mm Thick 0 70mm See also 5 11 Extract Control Include Flush Capability Enhancements have been made to Extract Control in the Design
132. ble Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 280 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Clashes Check PIPES Clipping Check CE Clip Box 2000 00 Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Navigate Clash Item v Drag a column header here to group by that column No Clash Type Clash item Obstructer a Clashed a Xx YH ZHCHOH 15392 5 15392 5 15392 5 153925 15392 5 TUBIB v 15392 5 TUBB 15392 5 TUBIB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBIB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBIB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBIB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBVB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBIB 15392 5 15392 9 TUBIP 15392 5 15392 7 TUBIS 15392 5 15392 7 TUBIF w31s24d Parallel Model Rotate 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 e Check Check the named element for Clashes e Check CE Show the name of the current element and check it for Clashes The Clashes a
133. bstruction Exclusions panel Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Obstructions number name STEEL fHEATING VENTS IClVIL Current Element Exclusions number name 1 HANGERS SUPPORTS Current Element There are several options to help the user add to these lists Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 284 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e Current Element e Pick Element e Current Selection e Current List e 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 Clashes Check PIPES Clipping Check CE Clip Box Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Check for Clashes within set Limits only 1000 50 ee 3851 50 Le pe Clash To Limit 1093 00 19000 00 17260 50 24375 40 Display Sere DOH AeA S33w24d Parallel Model Rotate To set limits the Position can be directly input or set using the options e Current Element e Picked Elements e Defined by 2 Picks
134. buffer for modules in a new project is now Monitor 20 MBytes Admin Specon Propcon Isodraft 200 Mbytes Lexicon DARs Toolbox Design Draft Paragon Spooler 500 Mbytes Diagrams Schematic Model Manager Tags 5 7 1 Specifying the Buffer Size The Dabacon buffer may be set in Admin for each module or by use of an environment variable for all modules Buffer Setting for Each Module in a Project The setting for each program module is usually performed using the modmac mac file during project setup At a later date the ED MOD command may be used to change its value for one or more modules The value may be specified in Mbytes or integers 256000 integers means the same as 1 MByte For example ED MOD DESIGN 12800000 is the same as ED MOD DESIGN 50 Mbytes Buffer Setting Per User The Dabacon value may be set for a particular user by setting the environment variable PDMSBUF before running Hull amp Outfitting This sets the buffer size in Megabytes for use by all Hull amp Outfitting modules it will be ignored if its value is greater than 1000 For example set PDMSBUF 500 sets it to 500 MByte Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 29 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Querying the Amount of Unused Buffer This may be queried using the command Q DABACON AVAIL 5 7 2 Dabacon Index Tables The use of Dabacon index tables has been extended to speed up selection by Hull o
135. cks can all be done using standard EDG position picks Note that many of the functions provided by these menu commands can also be achieved by using the Model Editor and Pipe Route Editor 25 2 1Summary of Move Drag Move and Plane Move options The Move commands enable the user to move the Current Element CE in a given direction CE can be moved by a given distance in that direction or it can be moved to a position relative to another element or relative to a plane through a given position For piping and equipment the Drag command moves a piping item together with other components equipment and nozzles connected to it which form a constrained network The new form appears with four tabs Element to Move CE v101 Distance Through Clearance Towards Parameters Origin Origin Distance 0 00mm Direction D WRT 100 B 1 B3 Target Relative To No target 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 P point is a given clearance from another element The clearance is measured in the same direction as the direction of movement Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 257 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User
136. 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 telement values sccoll results comlist append element ref string enddo Set report direct to file and do compare integrator setreportvisible false lintegrator setreportpath c mac compareReport xml if comlist size gt 0 then lintegrator compare comlist handle any write error text elsehandle none Write out the compare summary lintegratorSupportHandler 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 219 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 AVEVA Diagrams 23 1 Diagram Change Highlighting Changes to schematic diagrams can now be highlighted in the Diagrams Schematic Model
137. ction 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 For More Information See also User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Manufacturing of Plane Panel Parts Plane Panel Part Set up of Program Set up of the IP File Affected Programs Sf416d exe Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 132 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 13 GSD Marking of Built Profiles 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
138. ctionality 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 e Font e Size e Aspect e Slant e 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 Move Dimension Text 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 No change of functionality Modification is not persisted as before 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 Edit or Edit Text same functionality as Modify Dimension
139. d Endcut Setting up User Defined Endcuts Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 3 Split of Hull Notes and Posno Description The identification of a Hull Note and Position number has been split in the way that a Hull Note is recognized as a note and not as a position number Benefits Possibility to handle all the Hull Notes without disturbing the position numbers in e g delete notes all Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 85 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 4 Enhanced Selection Filtering Description The OR syntax can now be used when defining filters in the Selection Tool In the general Selection Tool different kind of filters are used to extract the model items both when defining the scope of plane panels and the groups within these panels The filters can be used both for selecting blocks or panels with wildcards and by using the scheme syntax to select panels or groups The wildcard characters and represents any single character and any number of characters respectively But certain selections could not be made e g a selection of both stiffeners and flanges was not possible because making a filter accepting sti
140. d UNITS CGS 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 UNITS DEFAULT dimension DERIVED Units The command UNITS DERIVED dimension is valid for compound dimensions such as volume density and pressure It sets the current units for that dimension to be determined by the current units of its primary dimensions most often mass and distance Volumes areas densities temperature gradients and numeric densities can all be set to Derived units Only volumes can be set to specific units 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 UNITS NUM ERIC dimension
141. d 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 For More Information Refer to User Guide Hull Model Concept Run Mode Control Control on Application Level Compensation for Thickness of Shell Plates Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 125 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 7 Top View of Stiffener Improved 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 For more information Only noted here Affected Programs Planar Hull Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 126 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 8 Weld Built Profiles before Bending 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 cpan
142. d for the Marine MAR project at the projects installation location top level MARProjectDescription pdf and MASProjectDescription pdf Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 2 Upgrading from Previous Releases Please note that the full Upgrade documentation is available from the User Documentation index page Read Me First Upgrade 12 0 to 12 1 2 1 Upgrade Overview A number of the enhancements made at Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 require an upgrade to the database Each of these individual changes is referred to as a Part Upgrade In general each of these has been designed to be optional from a customer perspective in that the 12 1 software can work with a database that has not been upgraded and the software will degrade gracefully that is the software will continue to work although some new functions may not be available This means that it is possible for customers to continue to work with Foreign DBs which may be shared with 12 0 or earlier projects and which have not been upgraded included in their projects An example would be a Corporate Catalogue DB used for 12 0 and multiple projects Databases which have not been upgraded will however be read only The following warning will appear when opening an MDB from a project that has not been upgraded waring xl There are databases with an upgrade number that does not correspond to the upgrade number of this software 120101
143. daemon It is a string of hexadecimal values for example 92e 2714e 0a85 42b0 9d6a 100905aeffc0 Global will not work if this attribute does not contain a valid UUID While reviewing all text attributes for Unicode this one has been shortened to 40 characters the former length of 120 characters is far longer than the maximum possible value Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 294 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 28 AVEVA Catalogue amp Specifications A number of improvements have been made to the PARAGON module The most significant are listed below 28 1 Model Settings The Model Settings form has been updated The most significant change is to allow the alteration of catalogue parameters only Model Settings Pipe Settings Parameter Settings Temperature 100000 0000 Catalogue Parameters Bore 150 0mm Pressure 0 0000 Insu Unset Design Component Settings Design Angle 90 0000 Design Height 100 0mm Design Radius 225 0mm Update Catalogue Parameters 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 category s 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 Ca
144. daptive 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 e 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 amp 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 268 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin The Model editor has been extensively revised to handle elbows as well as bends and the new P point 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 selec
145. ded 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 189 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 25 Draw Assemblies Description 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 Model Selection View All x Projection Collected Models So far 0 Selection Criteria Type i Name Block Zone Wid Env Asm C Plane Panel Curved Panel C Shell Profile C Plate C Template C Outfitting C Hull Curve O Rso C Surface C Hulimark C Block C Space C Compartment Filter on C Compartment Contents OF a C Use Box List jfiter 1 vent In the name field you can give the name of an assembly object optionally with wild cards In the Block Zone WId 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
146. der 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 173 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 10 Dynamic Highlighting Description 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 e Line segments all definition modes e Arcsegments all definition modes except Point radius and Tangent e PolyLine segments all definition modes e Ellipses Circumscribed Rectangle and Major amp M
147. down list The cases available in the highlighted control object are presented in a list When switching to another Autopos Control Object by selecting it on the drop down the user must click the Update button to list the relevant cases for the selection Benefits No need for the user to remember the names of cases and objects Compatibility Constraints None For more information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Automatic Position Number Setting Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 149 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 25 Reflection in Hull Element Names and Hurefl Attribute Description Slightly changed naming rules apply for hull elements created in the Design database by Planar and Curved Hull e For any non symmetric object there will be only one element The name of this element will be equal to the object name as given by the user or in some cases automatically by the system e For a symmetric object there will be two elements One of these will be named as the object and one will have a name composed by the object name and a_R suffix R meaning reflected e For a symmetric object with the geometry defined on PS the PS element will have the shorter name and the SB element will have a_R suffix e For a symmetric object with the geometry defined on SB the SB element will have the shorter name and the PS element will
148. dpi it will not be sufficient to show the difference in width of the example lines on AO One way to prevent this problem from occurring is to set a default printer with a higher resolution say 1200 dpi 20 5 User Defined Line Styles User defined line styles will no longer be converted to a multiple of 0 2mm Instead the precise width in mm specified by the user will be transferred directly to the export format 20 6 Minimum Line Width The MINLW parameter is configurable by the user in the DRAFT UI and via the DRAFT PLOT command it was used to change the value of both THIN and the minimum user defined line style width It applied only to the hardcopy exports PDF EMF etc and did not affect DXF or AVEVA PLOT files It is no longer required as the line styles are now precisely defined It has been withdrawn from the UI and the PDMSU dflts plotter_user_defaults file where its default value was defined Its use with the PLOT command is deprecated its value is ignored and a warning given if it is used Note that this means that the user no longer has a way to artificially thicken thin lines on a drawing during export This was introduced at 12 0 and was a side effect of allowing the user to determine the value of THIN line styles 20 7 Plotting User Interface 20 7 1DRAFT Plotting Options Form The plot utility form accessed from Utilities gt Plot CE gt Plotters no longer has the Minimum Line width fields at top left C
149. e Automatic update events if required Recommended but not essential Expunge all users in the system at the local location Pi Qe Sty ee Flush data from Working extracts these will not be considered in Global projects they should be deleted Check project using DICE Integrity Checker If DICE reveals issues address them then re run DICE NDA Administrator may want to unlock project while DICE issues are being addressed but will need to exclude all users and Lock project again before final DICE check 8 After clean DICE check 9 Back up project at all locations 10 Temporarily relocate all non Foreign DBs to their master s Primary location 11 Check for No Transient Databases 12 Upgrade the project at each location 13 Optionally Merge Sessions 14 Optionally Reconfigure for Unicode 15 DICE check project 16 Relocate extracts back to their original locations 17 Perform non framework upgrades if applicable 18 Unlock the project 2 6 1 Locking the Project The project as a whole cannot be locked only individual locations however it is possible to lock all online locations from the HUB through Global To do this run the following command from the HUB LOCK AT lt location gt 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 QUERY LOCK AT lt location gt 2 7 Extract Hiera
150. e Current Selection e 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 gt 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 285 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Export report to file Options Position Listing s List O world O Site off eee Type Check Duplicate BRAN EQUI First O Second Both FRMW HANG PIPE Levels di REST Clashes Clearances Touches SBFR SITE STRU SUBE SUBS ZONE Report format Header Main Body Fi Numbering Fi Obstruction C Primary C Reference Summary Report to file File name APDMSUSER My Report txt Other Changes to the Application e The old Clasher settings forms from Settings gt Clasher have been removed e The old Clasher form is removed but the Menu Utilities Clashes is still the same 26 8 Cable Design A number of enhancements have been made Of particular note is a new Manual Route Cable task that allows the user manually to create or modify a cable s route between its start and end refere
151. e Selected forms have changed behaviour to remember more information for example Planar Hull Statement Wizard e Boundary to remember last used point mode e Stiffener to remember type connection and endcut codes e Flange to remember type connection and endcut codes e The reading of large objects from the database over a high latency network has been improved Work in this important area is on going Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 47 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 2 SetStart Method of NameSeq Object Description The NameSeg object that can be used to make user defined name sequences working with data in an NSEQ database has been extended with new methods Earlier the SetStart method made a name sequence to start over from a specified value Now it is possible to store a specific start value for a sequence by the SetStart method which no longer restarts a sequence By a new ReStart method a name sequence can be restarted from the stored initial value Name sequences with wraparound will automatically restart by the initial value when required 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Curved Hull Design and any customisation using NSEQ dbs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions L
152. e function can be selected to operate on the indicated block Block Edit Block Recreate Benefits Enables block modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 113 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 15 Jumbo Panels Removed 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 114 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 16 FEM World for idealised and FE Models 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 FEMIM
153. e gt command available in Admin This command allows an entire database to be reverted to the state it had at a previous session 25 3 3Change Highlighting via Extract Data Control The Extract Control dialog has been enhanced to highlight outstanding changes in a child extract in the graphical view It can also highlight changes introduced to a child extract by a refresh operation The highlighting is controlled and customised within a Change Highlighting framebox shown below When the Outstanding in Extract checkbox is selected all changed elements in the child extract that have not yet been flushed or issued to the parent are highlighted if they appear in the current graphical view The Colour button allows selection of the change highlight colour using the standard colour palette The highlighting is cleared when the dialog is closed or when a subsequent extract operation is performed using the dialog In the latter case the checkbox becomes unselected When the Introduced by Get All Changes checkbox is selected all elements that are changed by the next Get All Changes action or Flush or Issue actions if these include Get All Changes are highlighted if they appear in the current graphical view The same highlighting colour is used as for outstanding changes The highlighting is cleared when the dialog is closed or if the Outstanding in Extract checkbox is selected In the latter case the Introduced by Ge
154. e icon SCEQUIPMENT CustomSelector pump Equip_Pump png Browse to see details TYPE Browse to see details True UNIQUE_ID Browse to see details True 4PMLLIBZ icons S chematicModelViewer Browse to see details True UNIQUE_ID Browse to see details True Benefits Enables the user to better control shape annotations in the Schematic Model Viewer Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Apply See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Schematic Model Viewer Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 233 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 11 Split Merge for SCBRAN Description Split Merge functions for SCBRAN now available in Diagrams e Join To join two branches please select two valid connectors and execute the Join lt LineType gt Branch option from toolbars or menus ETEEN gt AG A P amp ID Object Data Shape Wil Create Pipeline of Join Pipe Lines Join Pipe Branches Instrumentation gt H AC Object Data Shape P Create HVAC line al Join HVAC Lines Refit Ctrl F6 Resize Ctrl F5 Refit Ctrl F6 Resize Ctrl F5 Reverse Direction ESG SpecSearch Set SCSTYP Reverse Direction Off Page Connector Nozzle Specification If join will not be possible the system
155. e names Scan Level Rule Name All pi Element Rules Description Format rue badref fluref unset namn of fluref amp amp iftrue badref pspec unset namn of pspz Indices Data Display Key Pipe names Hole Manager Associations All pipe Hole Management SubFixing Name PIPE Hole Management Fixing Names Equipment Zones Name HVAC Zones Name gt iftrue badrefMuref unset namn of HVAC Spool Name ices 00 Pipe names Piping Zones Name Test unset 43B unset 1 Cuse Rule The FLUREF and ISPE have not been set but the PSPE is set to A3B so the resultant name is unset A3B unset 1 6 8 Additional Debug Information about PML Applications 6 8 1 Help About A new button has been added to the Help About gt Additional Information dialog with a new option to scan all Application Appware files to check if they have been changed Additional Information File Version DAB2_19_Ox_ntoptUNI 7 7 0 1 GW5A10 SP 3bintel_nt FL5A5 7E3 Client Win32 5 2 0 FLEXNet 308 il rodib 1b Forms library 12 1 0 0001 Interaction manager 12 1 0 0001 DRUID WinFormsDruid 1 0 SGL 12 1 1 0 Attribute Data File Mon 20 Dec 2010 lt Ce 6 8 2 PML Alert Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 35 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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
156. e to group by that column Total tems 22 A gt 10499 00 2188 00 100 B 2 61 F1 Clashed x Y a zZz Clash a Obstruction A gt PLANT FLR 15392 9274 16392 9311 16392 9256 0 15392 9265 A PADANA A 6411 00 10657 00 2093 00 100 B 2 B1 F1 PLANT FLR o 6303 00 10653 00 1373 00 100 B 2 B1 F1 PLANT FLR 1216 00 100 6 2 B1 F1 PLANT FLR F1 PLANT FLR 8933 00 80 B 7 B1 16392 6519 6 93 0 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 Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Navigate Clash Item Gat EP onaran ash litem a Obstructer a Clashed xoa Ay Ay Ay Ay 100 C 12 B2 1 item 100 C 13 B1 2 items Clash 50 B 9 B1 2 items Clash 50 B 9 B3 1 item Clash 80 4 11 B1 4 items Clash 80 B 14 B1 1 item Clash 80 B 7 B1 1 item Total tems 22 ie a Ae Zz a Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 282 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 Clashes l Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Reset System Defaults Tolerances Clash colours Touch Gap Ma
157. e visually superimposed on the existing orthogonal and oblique views They can therefore be changed graphically or edited by changing the values in the Data Point grid Ordinary 9 0000 50 7008 Cline Lxknuck i 7 Ordinary 10 5000 53 8875 0 0000 3 Cline Lxknuck 2 Ordinary 13 5000 59 4602 0 0000 4 Cline Lxknuck 3 m Ordinary 22 0000 71 5827 0 0000 The angle curves can be created by function Curve Create Angle Curve and the angle coordinates are put by means of the dialog box Create Angle Curve View Section Waterline Buttock Parent Curve Ei es Tangent Taft Tpmba Knuckle Tpmbf pak Method Automatic Manual O File Benefits The angle curves can more easily be changed in PACE Compatibility Constraints None Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 66 AVEVA Marine 12 1 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 67 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 9 Lines User Local View Description An oblique local view based either on a locked curve or on a user specified coordinate system can be created The view context menu in an oblique view contains the items Local specified axes and Local from selected curve The second option is available when a curve locked in an arbitrary plane is selected The first option is
158. ed automatic bevel setting for all profiles Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See also User Guide Hull Detailed Design Setup and Customisation Bevel Excess and Weld Bevel Handling in AVEVA Marine Customer Set up of Bevel Standards Automatic Bevel Definition Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 121 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 4 Position of Upper and Lower Cutting Curve Description GO Q Z BCD 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 ca
159. eelwork Connectivity Upgrade 271 26 4 Hole Management enhancements 272 26 4 1 Create Holes 272 26 4 2 Merge Holes 272 26 4 3 Modify and Delete Holes 273 26 4 4 Utilities 273 26 4 5 Configuration of Hole Management Data 275 26 4 6 Hole Association Manager 275 26 5 Penetration with Piping Component 277 26 5 1 Creation of Penetration 278 26 6 Standard Model Library 279 26 7 Clash Utility enhancements 280 26 7 1 Reports 285 26 8 Cable Design 286 26 9 Multi Discipline Supports 286 26 9 1 Cable Tray Supports 286 26 9 2 Automatic generation of pads 287 26 9 3 Updating client project defaults 287 26 10 Outfitting Piping Isometrics 288 26 10 1 New Output File Formats Including PDF 288 26 10 2 TrueType Fonts 288 26 10 3 Large Coordinates 288 26 10 4 Additional Coordinate Formats 289 26 10 5 Drawing Pipe Spool 289 26 10 6 North Arrow Text 290 26 10 7 Pipe Penetration Seal Symbol 290 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 26 10 8 Setting Units in Options files 26 11 Future Considerations 26 11 1 Access platforms Stairs and Ladders ASL 27 AVEVA Global 27 1 27 2 27 3 27 4 Global WCF Global Claim Commands Global WCF Service Name ADUUID Attribute Length 28 AVEVA Catalogue amp Specifications 28 1 28 2 28 3 28 4 28 5 Model Settings Parameterised Detail Text Copy Button for Structural Catalogue Creation of Structural Specs Raw Plates in CATA 29 Known
160. element Hull amp 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 e POS full 3D position e g W12250 N7890 U3120 e POSE Easting coordinate only e g E12250 W9675 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 212 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 e 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 e 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 Export to CAD Formats Significant improvements have been made to the export of DXF DWG and DGN format files from Draft using the configurable drivers Draft_XXX_Ll 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 Micr
161. embers For More Information please refer to the Status Control User Guide sections 5 1 5 2 8 1 and 8 3 4 5 Report generation 4 5 1 New Reporting Add in Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 includes a new Reporting add in based on the reporting tool Xtrareports from DevExpress This can produce sophisticated formatted reports in a wide variety of formats and can also send the results to AVEVA NET via the Gateway It is available in Design Paragon Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 23 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 Reporting gt Standard Reporting gt Run Report Designer Export Publish To AVEVA Net Configuration Reference Data A new PML Reporting API is documented in the Software Customization Reference Manual 4 5 2 Classic Reporting The PML based reporting tool now known as Standard Reporting is still available as before Reporting gt _ Standard Reporting Reports Export Quick Reports Reference Data The reportin
162. ented according to the Outfitting Units system Within common marine applications such as Space Management and Assembly Planning all attributes will be presented according to the Outfitting Units system Within Outfitting specific functions presentation of hull attributes will follow the Outfitting Units system Input Format for Units in Marine Applications In Hull and Marine Drafting applications the input format can be SI or Imperial independent of the Units settings Units in Marine Upgrade and Migration No upgrade or unit conversion from AVEVA Marine 12 0 to 12 1 is required for Units in Hull and Drafting since core units have not been changed The unit settings including the default settings for Hull and Marine Drafting are the same in AVEVA Marine 12 1 as in AVEVA Marine 12 0 and in Tribon M3 2 10 Schematics Functions Projects that are upgraded from Hull and Outfitting 12 0 or earlier need a suitable module definition in order to use the new Engineering functions in the new Tags product see above The data will need some reconfiguring Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 11 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e Integrator links world CYMWRL has been moved to Reference database e Shape upgrades in Diagrams automatic when opening a diagram in write mode Systems moved to Reference Design database Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 12 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin
163. er 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 gt 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 Dimensioning Options Units Input units Bore finches Output units Imperial lengths inch lt 2ft diameters v Tolerances _ Offset 000 1 32in Inch Other Unit Settings P Dimensions Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 290 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Current Session Unit User Bulletin S Unit Distance Units z F Bore in Mass cut Pressure PSI Temperature degF Force lbf Energy BTU Power kW Angle degree Time second Inch gt Feet amp Inches lt Feet USER Feet amp Inches Fractions eg 0 0 0 0 USER Fe
164. er to the Admin User Guide For full details of the various different types of view please refer to the Lexicon User Guide 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 side by 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 37 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Lexicon AVEVA PDMS Lexicon Display Edit New Help Schematic Model Manager i LocalSettings oy Oa ete a x a UWRL VALVTAGUDAS fa UGRO VALVCHAR_UDA Name EquipmentDesign Status fa UDAACTUATOR Desc
165. ere both cases have the same number of bytes 4 1 2 Textual File Handling By default all sequential text files read by Hull amp Outfitting will be expected to be in UTF 8 format with a Byte Order Mark BOM present to identify them Similarly by default all sequential text files written by Hull amp Outfitting will be in Unicode UTF 8 format with a BOM present A simple command line transcoder is also supplied this may be used in some applications to convert files to a different encoding 4 1 3 Filenames and PML The Hull amp Outfitting command processor supports Unicode characters All PML string variables support Unicode values You can use Unicode characters in PML variable names PML object form and gadget names PML method and function names It is recommended that PML language files should either be UTF 8 format with a BOM present or else strictly ASCII basic Latin format AVEVA application appware files are mostly ASCII at present Filenames and directory names can also contain foreign Unicode characters but may cause problems in other systems so it is recommended to keep to ASCII names This applies to some of the systems to which Hull amp Outfitting is interfaced and even to some of the interfaces where the system makes use of third party software such as output of DXF and DGN PML Publisher does Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 15 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin not currently fully support U
166. es 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 For More Information Refer to User Guide Hull Detailed Design Miscellaneous Functions Hull Marks Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 131 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 12 Control of Marking Gap at Holes 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 fun
167. esign of more complex ships e Better productivity for GA activities and drawings e Better cost follow up by getting early and precise estimates of e g insulation material or painting areas e Increased production efficiency by optimisation of block structure Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Space Management Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 99 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 AVEVA Hull Structural Design 14 1 New Options when Creating Envelopes Description The function Envelope has been updated with an option to define an envelope as an axis parallel box in space The dialogue has changed as shown below Envelopes Envelopes Boundaries Limits _ENY_BOX MAR _ENY_MAR1 CYL CYL2 _RSO_1DECK _RSO_2DECK _RSO_3SDECK _RSO_4DECK _RSO_5SDECK _RSO_BRSO1 _RSO_BRSO2 BEN PRENA lt I I gt s gt sl Optional Point in Envelope Generate from Box Box from GP Min Point Max Point 5000 32000 0 182300 32000 28000 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 direct
168. et amp Inches Fraction eg O00ft 00 00 00in Current ampere Impedance ohm Save Restore Project Defaults Voltage volt Example 4 2 11 16 Set Distance Unit User Sts 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 e 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 291 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 26 11 Future Considerations 26 11 1 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
169. etail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 109 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 11 COR Keyword when Referencing RSOs and Surfaces Description The result of using the COR keyword has been harmonised for panel RSO and Surface references They now all work in the way planar panels have worked before 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hull Design and Structural Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 110 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 12 Delete Surface Object from Design Database 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 Register Surfaces Name i Type Source Design TTPHULLC Main Hull Lines ttpe Shell Hu Project Shell Hu Project Deck Hu Project Shell Project Shell L Project Shell L Project Shell L Project CY Shell L Project 0 BLO Shell urface RSO_090513 11 CLN Shell Surface test CI N3 Shell Surface test j
170. ewly created ducts or tubes can have routing style set to Never Reroute by default Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Refer to User Guide Diagrams Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams Adding Parts to a Branch Dropping and Connecting Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 16 Default Value of the Stencil in Batch Job 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 Update Diagrams Options C Update symbols according to master shapes C Update symbols according to catalogue information C Update annotation formats lt Update attribute presentation settings C Ignore stencil settings C Refresh shapes Select master shapes to use for update 1 selected Load log Update 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 Diagrams Options a Defaults Attribute Presentation Referenced attributes Allow individual shape settings to override default settings I
171. f 1 Itis 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 2 Itis 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 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 26 4 6Hole Association Manager The Hole Association Manager window is used to manage the tasks associated with holes The Hole Association Filter is used to select hole association s and structural elements to be displayed Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 275 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Hole Association Manager Hole Association Filter Current Element Discipline HVAC v Status Al List of elements v Claimed Al User Bulletin All Managed Holes x Valid al v Display X Outfit
172. ffeners will exclude flanges and vice versa Likewise selecting only the blocks AB123 and AB124 but not the other blocks with names starting with AB12 was not possible This can now be done using the vertical bar character as the OR operator The two alternative patterns must be surrounded by parentheses having the OR operator between them E g in the example above with the two blocks the expression AB123 AB124 will only accept panels belonging to these two blocks Note that no blanks are added around operator and parenthesis AB1 FR AB2 FR will accept panels with a name containing the letters FR and starting in AB1 or AB2 To select stiffeners and flanges with a material grade equal to A23 the expression can be STI FLA QUA A23 The parenthesis are necessary to define the two alternate patterns separating the OR clause from the common part of the filter If the parentheses are left out they are added at the beginning and the end of the filter which may give unexpected results E g if the parentheses where left out in the example above only the flanges would match as the stiffener pattern will only be the three characters STI which doesn t match any statement 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA
173. first segment only Auto hide text by leg length Auto hide text by text fit Auto hide text by leg length or empty to disable this option scplin namn ppbof1 CENTER 0 TOP 0 HM Black Arial Bpt False False 10mm True Hide text when longest leg length in connector is shorter than default size Set 0 e 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 248 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation User Bulletin Sy General options System configuration Settings stored in drawing Annotation settings Pipe Dimensioning Instrumentation Dimensioning HVAC Dimensioning Dialogues Catalogue search settings Auto formatting rules options Sy Element options gt Pipeline options Valve options Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options a E Shape text options Text Offset longitudinal reference Offset longitudinal Offset perpendicular reference Offset perpendicular Text colour Font Show Text on first segment only Annotations for first segment only Auto hide text by leg length scplin namn ppbof1 CENTER 0 TOP 0 E Black Arial 6pt False False 10mm
174. fitting 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 e require that the project settings are correct so that characters can be interpreted correctly Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e canbe reconfigured to a Unicode encoded database Unicode Encoded Databases e cannot be opened for read or write access in versions of Hull amp Outfitting prior to 12 1 e can store the full range of Unicode characters available in Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 2 9 Units of Measure 2 9 1 Units in Outfitting Distance and bore units are handled in much the same way as before and should need no conversion Other attributes will now be converted to and stored in appropriate units Where a database has stored all quantities of a dimension in the appropriate unit the new functions can be used without upgrade Attributes other than distances and bores have the UNIT field set for the first time in previous versions of Hull amp Outfitting they were until now stored as values with no specified unit other than by use and convention they could change from application to application and project to project This approach is not compatible with automated conversion so the storage units must be defined For compatibility it is possible to set the units to NUMERIC which will disable Units conversion for that physical dimension
175. for the language s you want to use Arial Unicode MS has most but other TrueType fonts typically have a subset In this case foreign and mixed language strings will work correctly You can of course use fonts specific to a given language for Unicode characters in that language even if the font name itself is in a foreign character set It is recommended that you avoid using Hull amp Outfitting Wigwam fonts if possible It is not in general possible to have mixed language strings if you use them They are more complicated to setup and work more like 12 0 so are limited compared with TrueType The following restrictions some of which were documented in previous versions of the Hull amp Outfitting Installation Guide apply 4 2 Units of Measure The inclusion of a much wider range of units means that most real attributes now have a default unit usually in SI units for storage and input output User can also set a default unit which must be of an appropriate type for input and output Input via the command line or GUI also allows the user to specify an alternative unit This does mean some unavoidable changes to the command line so user applications using real attributes will need to be reviewed There are also minor changes to many of the user interface forms The new functions can also be accessed by the NET Units interface as detailed in the NET Customization manual Customers who have written or adapted PML applications m
176. for Transactions The Transactions form display can now be filtered so that only Global commands are listed Global commands are defined as those that take place via the Global daemon i e not locally For example an Extract claim made when an owning extract database is NOT at the same location For details please refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd v Clear Selection 44 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 7 3 5 Enhanced User Interface for Sessions Forms that display details of a database session now also include the reason for that the session In particular the DB sessions form available from Query gt Project gt DB Sessions shows it thus DB Sessions Database List 3 R a Display Previous Sessions 15 m T ADMIN ASLCONFIG ADMININSEQ Search Date 31 March v 20 v ADMIN PADD a ADMIN UPADD lt 7 ADMIN XPADD Session Number 395 ES CTBATEST DESI bil houstey CTBATEST ISOD CTBATEST PADD 1 Date 8 41 2 Mar 2010 it Reason savework CTBCOPY EQUITMPL CTBCOPY TEMPLATE Comment Default session comment CTBCOPY UCATALOG 7 4 Engineering ENGI Database The Engineering database type has been added to the list for database creation Note that the top level database element for Engineering databases is SATWLD It has also been added to the module definitions modmac mac and as appropriate in the other admin and global forms for selection
177. g 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 For More Information Please see the Hull Design documentation Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 164 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 2 Default Action at Start up 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 Value of INITIAL_DRAWING Action NONE Do nothing same as Hull Drafting 12 0 NEW Open a new drawing named UNTITLED lt n gt where lt n gt is selected so that UNTITLED lt n gt is non existing LAST Open the most recently used drawing during last session ASK_NEW Show the New Drawing dialog ASK_OPEN Show the Open Drawing dialog 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Appendices Drafting Defau
178. g amp Checking of Menu Items 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 185 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 22 Unicode Description 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 e Drawing names e Values of Drafting s default variables e Dimension annotations e Model names except Hull e MarAPI nb Limited or no support for Unicode in Hull functions Benefits Supporting Unicode e g provides functionality to make annotations in the user s native language Compatibility Constraints There is limited Unicode support among the Hull Design specific functions For More Information Please see the Marine Drafting documentation Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 186 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 23 Restriction of Symbolic Views Description An additional option has been added to the function Symbolic View Planar Hull View Modify to change the restriction of an existing s
179. g functions are largely unchanged however there are some changes due to the implementation of more units handling The effect is that e 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 e 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 4 6 GML Performance There are further improvements to the Geometric Modelling software used in Hull amp Outfitting aimed particularly at speeding up the drawing of data imported using the new Mechanical Equipment Interface Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 24 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 5 Database changes 5 1 New Database types 5 1 1 Engineering Database The new ENGI database holds engineering data that does not normally appear on the schematics drawings It therefore holds more detailed information necessary to fully specify the engineering equipment in a plant For example
180. g 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 e BLOCK1 2SP 1SP e BLOCK1 2SP 3SP e BLOCK1 2SP 4SP The new naming will be e BLOCK1 2SP 1SP e BLOCK1 2SP 3P e 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 For More Information Refer to User Guide Hull Model Concept About Naming Specific Name Rules Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 146 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 147 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 23 Function to Find and Remove Dangling MANU 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 data
181. gitudinals where the value Yes has been given in the Automatic Bevel box stiffener attaching longitudinal 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 123 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin When creating profile parts of these Shell Stiffeners there are no problems with the profile size 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
182. h generation of seams and shell profiles from the interactive application the information needed to recreate any deleted seams and shell profiles with the same number as they had in the interactive application session will be sent to the batch process Benefits The name sequence database is better utilised and thus less numbers will be used Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 83 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 2 Multiple Negatives when Designing User Defined End Cut Description The current implementation of user defined end cuts has been restricted to only one negative extrusion and to cut angles less or equal to 90 degrees This has now been improved allowing any number of negative extrusions defined in any plane e g one negative extrusion used to define the end cut for the web and another one defining the flange end cut Furthermore extensions of the profile is supported allowing also cut angles greater than 90 degrees Benefits The improvement makes it possible to define any type of complex end cuts Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Setup Customisation and Standards Profiles in AVEVA Marine Profile Endcuts in AVEVA Marine Customer Set up of Endcut Standard User Define
183. hat have been removed are listed below Tribon M3 Outfitting has been replaced by AVEVA Outfitting so the following default variables are no longer valid e FLOW_UNIT_SYSTEM e IMPEDANCE_UNIT_SYSTEM e INDUCTANCE_UNIT_SYSTEM e LUMINANCE_UNIT_SYSTEM e PDI_LSTRUCTURE_VRML e PDI_LTRANS_STRUCTURE e PRESSURE_DROP_UNIT_SYSTEM e STRUCT_COMP_CODE_DET e STRUCT_COMP_CODE_DRAW e STRUCT_COMP_VOLUME_COLOUR e STRUCT_KEEP_INSERT_OBJ e STRUCT_KEEP_STAND_REF e STRUCT_MODULES_IN_HULL e STRUCT_MODULES_IN_OUTF e TEMPERATURE_UNIT_SYSTEM e VELOCITY_UNIT_SYSTEM The volume concept in Tribon M3 has been replaced by AVEVA Outfitting so the following default variables are no longer valid e INCL_COMP_VOLUME_EVENT_POINTS_IN_EQUIP e INITIAL_VOLUME_DB e PLACVOL_NAME_CODE The database in Tribon M3 has been replaced by Dabacon so the following default variables are no longer valid e AUTO_CLEAN_ WORKSPACE e BACKUP_ACT e BACKUP_TIME The control point concept in Tribon M3 has been removed so the following default variable is no longer valid e DIM_CONTROLPOINT_MID_TOL Benefits Avoid confusion by not showing obsolete default variables in the Format Defaults dialog Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 202 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Compatibility Constraints Not applicable For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA
184. he Model Changes Add in is activated and de activated via menu option Query gt DB Changes This replaces the previous DB Changes option though this function is still available via Utilities gt DB Listing see below The Add in is shown in its default layout below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 261 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Fiter _ Hangers amp Supports v B Design wort amp SITE ATEST 8 ZONE ZONE1 CMILS ZONE ZONE1 STEELW H Q ZONE ZONE1 EQUIP ZONE ZONE1 PIPES Hf DRAW SYSTEM ISO A DATU DATUMIGRID SR PIPE PIPE1 TEXT 1 GEG 2 2 opm e eeee gt SEM M FILT PIPEWFII I GASKS Be VALV PAD13 I GASKE User Bulletin amp Design wWoORL H Q SITE ATEST H Q SITE LEX SITE H Q SITE TAPTEST 8 SITE NETWORKS TPWL Penetration_Ten TPWL Concrete_Temp TPWL ROOM DESIGN SITE Steel_Template_ TPWL As _Template_W TPWL Walls amp Floors_Te APPLDW Sample_Pipe TPWL Equipment Applit TPWL STD EQUIPMEN TPWL ADVIEQUIPMEN 2 o oo 2 o oo eo SEE eeoeee Dx VALV PIPE1 V GASK7 i VFWAPIPE1A I GASKS E A BRAN PIPE1 2 E PIPE PIPE2 8 PIPE PIPES HR PIPE PIPES E PIPE PIPES Time 19 03 1998 1 07 01 1999 1 07 01 1999 1 14 07 1999 1 14 07 1999 1 04 07 2000 1 04 07 2000 1 01 03 2010 1 bill hous 01 03 2010 1 _bill hous 01 03 2010 1 _bill hous 01 03 201
185. he Rule Groups for a particular pairing of database types For example the sample configuration has a default Rule Set for comparing Design database content against Schematic database content You can add Rule Sets for other combinations of database types e g schematic and engineering for use with Compare Update Integrator Project Configuration Explorer C Mac projects bas1 21 basdflts DEAR Fie Edit Insert Project Defaults Assign Action lt Dictionaries Spec Queries Compare Colours e3 B Rule Set Default Schematic Design RuleSet Assignee target O O Bl Aue Set Sample Engineeing Devgn Rues Value E fa PIPELINE Engineering pipeline rules Build Action 95 Re ned BEA matchaskeyattribute ES Mismatch Severit waming Ba Assign Action CCLASS Jie NEL Ba Assign Action DUTY Attribute Name CCLASS Ba Assign Action PSPE Attribute Value NUMBER of source MionatchRepot SSSSC 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 218 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 22 7 Example Macro Some users may prefer to use a macro to run the comparison The example macro below compares all schematic equipment and pipelines that appear on a particular diagram File
186. he environment variable SBH_QUALITY_LIST Benefits This change is beneficial for projects using Global Compatibility Constraints The qualities must be defined on cata For More Information Further details are given in the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hull Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 90 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 9 Shellx with Plate Scantlings Position Numbers and Material Quality Hull Deng Curved Modelling AVEVA Marine Project MIP SAE Munn viewport A Pile Edit View Insert Format Zap Tools Dimension Annotate Modify Symbolic View Curved Mull Hull Tools Window Help I tdi n yis pA p pL pope pag 0S gO jite jioso 2 es es 2 S a F w v 4b win lt Sr gt AZ 4 Ss oo za ie Re rere ee OF cate poston ty Indicate postion T auy Choose function w A xAm AAQAQH8eS GAVIA Oo O BYyokwo Fs NNmmWlmt_________ ror 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 gt Curved Hull View gt Properties and picking a shell expansion view The user will get the possibility to display or hide the plate information Furthermore
187. he installers use standard Microsoft Installer MSI technology which facilitates silent installations through standard MSI means They are usually triggered by use of a setup exe file There are fewer separate installers each corresponding to an AVEVA release on the DVD The Hull amp Ouitfitting Marine installer now includes options to install many of the associated products although for various reasons some products still use a separate installer Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin i AVEVA Marine Setup Custom Setup Select the way you want features to be installed Click the icons in the tree below to change the way features will be installed a Gy AVEVA Marine Suite AVEVA Marine 12 1 Suite 9 Hull and Outfitting _X Marine Models S X Global Client _X Global WCF Client _X_ Area Based ADP _X_ gt Multi Discipline Sup x Schematic 3D Integrator _X ExPLANT A This feature requires 2270KB on _X ExPLANT your hard drive It has 2 of 2 amp Initial Design subfeatures selected The subfeatures require 1469MB on lt T l your hard drive Location C AVEVA Marine OH12 1 1 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 insta
188. his font is not installed some of the text in the user interface may become illegible The layout of some GUI forms may also be adversely affected if the screen font size is not set to the smallest size which is usually default This setting is accessed from the Control Panel and is referred to as Normal in Windows XP or Smaller 100 in Windows 7 3 4 Graphics Cards Due to the rapidly changing availability of hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics cards an up to date list of supported cards is not included in the documentation released with Hull amp Outfitting The AVEVA Product Support website accessible from http Awww aveva com IT Configuration section contains a list of tested and supported graphics cards 3 5 Environment Variables Hull amp Outfitting and some of the other products rely on the use of environment variables for various aspects of configuration notably the location of folders for project databases and user workspace Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 14 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 4 General System Changes 4 1 Unicode Character Handling Earlier versions of Hull amp Outfitting handled textual data such as element names textual attributes and file names in a manner specific to the various supported character sets used in supported languages This applied to most of the input output and storage This has now changed all textual information in Hull amp Outfitt
189. however versions earlier than 12 1 do not make this check so cannot detect a database upgraded to 12 1 or later 2 4 Part Upgrades Outside the Framework These are independent of other non framework upgrades in other words non framework upgrades can be applied in any order However it will not be possible to backtrack to pre upgrade sessions 2 5 Global Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Each database must be entirely in either an upgraded or non upgraded state for Hull amp 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 2 6 The Upgrade Process The upgrade process will be undertaken by System Administrators responsible for the project at all locations When upgrading multiple projects many System Administrators will need to co ordinate The upgrade process will upgrade one project at a time Customers will need to give careful consideration to the order of upgrade for the various projects The projects will need to be locked for the duration of the upgrade with all Users out of the system The upgrade process will be Ensure all users have exited from project Lock project at all locations upgrade will check for this see below Disabl
190. ht 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 237 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Batch Job Database tree Search Selection He WORL Grey_Water_Transter E ES SCGROU Project_Stencils bei ar niin on S ES SCGROU Fiping Diagrams ub_Dil_system_Diag CEA SCDIAG Hydraulic_Oil MEA SCDIAG Grey_Water_Transfer_Diagram MEA SCDIAG Fuel_Oil_System_Diagram MEA SCDIAG Lub_Oil_System_Diagram CIE SCDIAG Fire H P_S W _Service_System CEA SCDIAG Multilabels CEA SCDIAG Diagram2 Cc SCGROU HVAC Diagrams Update Diagrams Options Update symbols according to master shapes C Update symbols according to catalogue information C Update annotation formats C Update attribute presentation settings C Ignore stencil settings Publish Update Diagrams C Refresh shapes Select master shapes to use for update 1 selected 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 238 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Select Masters to update Stencils Masters Piston or Plunger Valve Reduced Hose Valve Diaphragm Piston or Disc or Butterfly Valve Bore Vlave Valve Plung Needle Valve Gate Valve x xX Dx Kd Plug_Valve Disc or Needle Gate Valve Plug_Valve B
191. if the hole is Requested the user will be prompted to confirm the deletion If the hole is Approved deletion is not permitted 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 Managed hole reports The Hole Association Filter enables the user to specify which Managed Holes to list in the Report Report contains 44 managed holes Report Headings Hole Penetrated Current Holes associated with the discipline Block Element currently selected element only staus B Holes associated with elements in E vata E Thickness E Hote Type F Hole Size Postion Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Selection the current graphical selection All Managed Holes in the MDB Holes Report Headings may be specified Discipline Specify holes for all disciplines or a single one specified using the drop down menu Status Specify holes at any Status or at a single Status option using
192. in Hull Design e Extracts surfaces from existing AVEVA Marine projects e Exports surfaces to file e Possible to select only part of a surface to export e Mirror surfaces in the centre line plane e Supports the most commonly spread formats IGES SAT DML STEP AP203 Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide AVEVA Surface Manager Tools and Functions Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hull Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 96 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 12 1 Surface Manager Replacing Surface Server Description For a long time the only way of using an external surface with Aveva Marine has been through the surface server This has limited the type of operations performed on the surface and control of the quality fit for purpose of the surface Starting with AVEVA Marine 12 1 all surfaces have to be released into the database and the surface server will not be used To help with this when working with surfaces created by non Aveva software there is a new application the AVEVA Surface Manager It can import surfaces in IGES SAT STEP and dml formats It also has a number of features for checking and repairing the surface 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 For More Information See User Guide AVEVA Surface Manager
193. ince core units have not been changed The unit settings including the default settings for Hull and Marine Drafting are the same in AVEVA Marine 12 1 as in AVEVA Marine 12 0 and in Tribon M3 4 3 Enhanced Password Protection Password protection was made more rigorous at Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 SP5 Additional checks have been at this release introduced to trap potential error conditions A confirmation dialog as shown below warns if a user is created with no password Confirm No password has been specified new user 7 will not be able to login Continue with creation Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 22 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 Password is not valid for user USERA Please enter and confirm corect password 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 whether the password is correct for the specified user Example lu object USER MYUSER if u ConfirmID SESAME then 4 4 Status Control A number of small impr
194. ing is represented as Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world s writing systems Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 109 000 characters covering 93 scripts For more details please see http en wikipedia org wiki Unicode Unicode can be implemented using different character encodings The Hull amp Outfitting Internal Format for string data is Unicode UTF 8 format This can handle all seven character sets supported in previous versions and potentially many more 4 1 1 Restrictions Hull amp 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 amp Outfitting currently handles the following correctly e Left to Right languages and therefore not for example Arabic and Hebrew e Pre composed characters for example the single character a but not the combiners a gt a e Upper and lower casing of characters wh
195. inor Axis and in the following functionality e Modify Stretch Node e Modify Stretch Elbow e Insert Rectangle Square with a fillet radius e Insert Staircase Benefits Improved UI during geometry definition resulting entity is pre highlighted Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 174 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 11 Arc Quarter Points 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Operator s Instructions Format Geometry mode 2D points Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 175 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 12 New Definition of Line Segment Direction Length
196. ion of AVEVA Diagrams has new functionality to publish Diagrams data to AVEVA NET Publishing can be done on individual pages in a diagram This will make the diagram and the schematics data on the diagram available in AVEVA NET samme cece i Conaeen Sans eae SG Diagrams n E eeeeeeeeeeceeeeeececeeeeees i hli h h Ey SCDIAG A Highlight Changes H Stencils Sy Open ciam rn Sy Open read only H Instrumentation E3 SCGROU HVAC_I Connected Diagrams SCGROU Cable_0 Set Release Status Equipments 0 Publish to AVEVA Net H Diagrams Attributes gt SCGROU Project Na gt DA SCrmDn ll Orniart Publish to AVEVA NET Select pages to export from drawing A1 51 2003 H Page 1 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 For More Information See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Utilities Publishing Data to AVEVA NET Affected Programs AVEVA Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 227 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 7 Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority Support for line jumps has been introduced in the Auto Formatting Rules feature Two new format types have been added on the Format to Assign tab in the Auto Formatting Rule Details window e Add line jumps allows the user to specify the behaviour of the line when crossing another li
197. ions 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 100 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 2 RSO Change Envelope Description A new function RSO Change Envelope has been added which allows the user to move RSOs from one envelope to another When moved the RSO is recreated in the target envelope The following dialog is presented when the function is activated E Change RSO Envelope Select Envelope Select Target Envelope BOX a MARI v Select RSOs Existing RSOs RSOs to be moved BRSO1 BRSO2 BRSOA PN 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 For More Information See User Guide Hul
198. is meant the provision of 12 new icon files In addition hatch and fill patterns are now exported to DXF as the appropriate entities rather than lines 20 2 Line Styles User defined LineStyle amp FillStyle elements have a system generated Style Number that should be unique within the MDB These attribute values are automatically created upon element creation However if a DRAFT database containing a Style World STYLWL is added to an MDB that already has a STYLWL it is possible for duplication of numbers to occur At Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 it is the later of the duplicates in database order within the MDB that has precedence when a Style of a given number is used This is opposite to the case of duplicate names where it has always been the first that has precedence At Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 this has been changed to ensure consistency of behaviour between duplicate styles and names When an MDB contains Styles with duplicate Style Numbers it is the first in database order within the MDB that will be used when that Style Number is used to draw graphical elements 20 3 Line Widths Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 has been enhanced to allow accurate line widths to be output in all output formats The definitions of the system line styles are held in the System database and set up in the Admin module using Line style Width Definition elements LSWIDDEFINITION in a new Line style World Element LINESTYLEWORLD The upgrade from
199. isio Format gt Behaviour dialog Behavior Behavior Double Click Connector Placement Line routing Preview Style Page Default Direction Reroute On Crossover Appearance Page Default Always to other Gap Benefits Auto Formatting Rules functionality covers user needs in a better way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Working with Diagrams Auto Formatting Rules Affected Programs Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 231 AVEVA Marine 12 1 23 10 Model Viewer Description It is now possible to individually control the shape annotations for the element types in the Schematic Model Viewer The following settings can now be made using the options dialog in the Schematic Model Viewer Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic e Display criteria for selection of shapes e Display text e Icon png file e Stencil shape Options General Settings Types Schematic Model Settings EFA B SCENGINE CustomSelector DisplayT ext Symbol Use icon B SCPUMP Browse to see details 0WNER n NAME Browse to see details True E CustomSelector Browse to see details E Description Icon E Shape Shape name Stencil name DisplayT ext Symbol Use icon BranchingPomt DisplayT ext Symbol Use icon Defauk Path Symbol Use icon E OpenEnd DisplayT ext Symbol Us
200. ist 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 Reporting Default Values in Cells When a value is not found the error text Error is given In the UDA definition there is a default value defined which should be in the report Workaround This workaround removes Error from the report field and replaces it with empty string e Select the cell label or control in report designer e Add the script for before print select new when creating script for the first time e Change the text from Error to desired string as below private void label8 BeforePrint object sender System Drawing Printing PrintEventArgs e if label8 Text Error i label8 Text i Reporting Document Fails to Attach to the Mail This occurs for PDF files only when you have a Unicode character in the filename it does the save but doesn t send it to Outlook The workaround is to attach to email or right click the file to send it manually Quick Report exception thrown Doing a quick report and then using the HTML VIEW tab throws an exception A Exception of type DevExpress XtraPrinting Native WordFormatterException was thrown This occurs only with a large number of columns so the report cannot accommodate them wi
201. jor clash items Oo brightred Overlap Obstruction items BB tomato Clearance View Background white Clash options Clashes Ignored Within Touches are included v CO PIPE Cstru Clashes within branch are included v C BRAN Osuss Connections are included v CI PTRA CO FRMw C Clash midpoint position CI HaNG CI S6FR CREST SCTN Presentation Deau GENSEC CWBRAN PLTFRM Clash Obstruction Aid Clash Position Aid V CPANEL Oste V HPANEL Ozone 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 Clash ltem TEE 15392 5666 Obstruction BOX 15392 9266 r Clash Position E 11602 N 9949 U 6546 WRT 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 283 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Clipping Clip Box e38n24d 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 900 00 Parallel User Bulletin against specific obstructions This is specified in the O
202. ked to arbitrary planes Curves lying in the principal planes for example boundary curves are already locked and fitted and as such the items below are not applicable For both locking and fitting specification of the plane for the curve can be done in two ways either using automatically determined points or manually via selected points Fit to plane settings Fit tolerance oo din _ Use percentages Enforce limit Benefits Easier fairing and manipulation of planar curves not lying in a principal plane Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 64 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 7 Lines Curve Interrogation Description Coordinates and angles at X Y Z values can be examined for a curve The function is activated by the right mouse button and values are shown on the output window Curve Query Section 13 5 Benefits Coordinates can be derived for inserting a point into a curve Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 65 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 8 Lines Angle Curve Creation Editing Description It is now possible to create and manipulate angle curves in PACE The angle curves can be set active as other curves and ar
203. l Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Project Menu Envelope and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Functions in the Project Menu Envelope Affected Programs Structural Design Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 101 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 3 RSO Recreate Description A new function RSO Recreate has been added which recreates the geometry of the RSO based on the current definition of limiting objects and the envelope The function is activated from the RSO menu when right clicking a RSO or as a right click menu option in the function RSO Property When the function is activated from the RSO menu the user is asked to pick an RSO in the drawing By using the Option button the user can select all RSOs within a view on the drawing When the function is activated within the function RSO Property the user can select to recreate the indicated RSO or all RSOs When the function is activated by right clicking the geometry of an RSO the indicated RSO is recreated Benefits Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structu
204. l panel is deleted the assembly reference is kept as an invalid reference and is denoted as lt Missing gt in assembly planning To extend this general follow up mechanism with more assembly specific code would slow down the system as it is acting generally for all delete operations As a solution an assembly planning specific core command is created that top down from the assembly selected will remove all references to parts no longer existing This core command is at delivery not available from the Assembly Planning context sensitive menu but can be added through the ordinary customize function l e you can add your Clean invalid part references function and connect the command AVEVA Marine AssemblyPlanning Clean to it The reason why it not is added from start is that it is a quite powerful command and should be used with caution and is better configured per user Customize Command Control Type ApplicationContext Import Menu Arguments Collection 2 Active Customization File Format E Menu Caption CleanReferences 4 Command Bars ms I Category Menubar Gemmniry Mode a Command AVEVA Marine AssemblyPlanning Clean SE Context Menus 20_Points Menu DisplayStyle Default FindOutputContextMenu Hull General 3D_Points Menu Icon C No Image or resource id specified AssemblyPlanningContextMenu Hull Gene Arc E Menu KeyTip CleanReferences Hull General Conic Menu None Ribbon Line Menu Name CleanReferences
205. lars Openings and Deck Edge Points and Other Data Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 81 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 22 ABS Towing Criteria 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs maridcalc Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 82 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 11 AVEVA Hull General Functionality 11 1 Reuse of Seam and Profile Numbers Description When using the option of free naming for seams and shell profiles the same number will be given to objects with the same name within one session l e creating seam seam_at_fr32 results in the seam getting the number 123 If the seam is deleted and then a new seam is created with the same name in the same session the new seam will get number 123 If the seam seam_at_fr32 is deleted and then the application is restarted and a new seam with the same name seam_at_fr32 is created then it will not get the same number The same is relevant for shell profiles as well When starting batc
206. lations Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide nitial Design Hydrostatics Major Tasks Probabilistic Stability Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 78 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 19 Damage Case Summary Table 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 For More Information See User Guide nitial Design Hydrostatics Operator s Instructions Calculations Stability Calculations Damage Scenarios Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 79 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 20 MODU Wind Heeling Moments 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 Crite
207. lculating 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 For More Information See also User Guide Hull Detailed Design Setup and Customisation Bevel Excess and Weld Bevel Handling in AVEVA Marine End User Handling of Bevelling Bevel and Extraction of Parts Affected Programs Hull Design Plane Parts Generation Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 122 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 5 Position Control of Shell Profile and Plane Panel Stiffener Description stiffener attaching longitudinal 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 lon
208. le Multi Face RSO Reference 108 14 10 Seam from RSO 109 14 11 COR Keyword when Referencing RSOs and Surfaces 110 14 12 Delete Surface Object from Design Database 111 14 13 Block Recreate All 112 14 14 Right Click Menu on Blocks 113 14 15 Jumbo Panels Removed 114 14 16 FEM World for Idealised and FE Models 115 14 17 FEM Additions 117 14 18 FEM Improvements 118 15 AVEVA Hull Detailed Design 119 15 1 Separate Handling of Auto Bevel for Stiffener End Web and Flange 119 15 2 Bevel Chamfer Option 120 15 3 Bevel for Shell Stiffener Ends 121 15 4 Position of Upper and Lower Cutting Curve 122 15 5 Position Control of Shell Profile and Plane Panel Stiffener 123 15 6 Compensation for Shell Plate Thickness 125 15 7 Top View of Stiffener Improved 126 15 8 Weld Built Profiles before Bending 127 15 9 Weight Unit in Profile Sketches 128 15 10 Generic File Viewer 129 15 11 Looking Field Changed for Hull Mark Projection 131 15 12 Control of Marking Gap at Holes 132 15 13 GSD Marking of Built Profiles 133 15 14 Mark Reference Plane on Both Sides of Profiles 134 15 15 Nest Profiles without Rest 135 15 16 New Nesting Default Parameters 136 15 17 Nesting Plug in Interface 140 15 18 Storing Changes after Running Production Programs 141 15 19 New MANU Data Model 142 15 20 Automatic Naming of Production Sketches 144 15 21 Find Documents Related to Production Parts 145 15 22 Naming of Curved Plates and Stiffeners 146 15 23 Function to Find and Remove Dangling MANU Pa
209. leted 7 3 2 Database Distribution Form This new form helps visualise where databases are allocated and which location databases are primary This form provides additional functionality to change the primary location of a series of databases It is available from the Data menu in Admin Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 42 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Admin AVEVA PDMS Admin elements A Admin Display Query Settings Utilities Project Data Help Remote Window access Controlassistant i CE Change Management sy w a j System Explorer meee iic Inter DB Macros fimin elements Fiter Fiter C Extract Database Control Pa E System WORL E 8 Gil Database Allocation gt 4 ba DatabaseDistribution 7 Update Name lt TEAM gt ADMIN sss i lt TEAM gt ASLADMIF d Recover gt lt TEAM gt ASSOC a lt TEAM gt AVEVANE S TEAM DEMO lt TEAM gt CABLE fy TEAM HANGER lt TEAM gt CATADMII fga TEAM HVAC lt TFAM gt CATS The Data Distribution form lists all Databases in the project and maps it against a matrix of locations This uses the common symbols of a indicates the database is primary at this location x7 indicates the database is allocated to this location but is primary elsewhere P indicates the database is in transit from this location under a pending transaction a indicates the database is foreign
210. ller 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 For full details of the inst
211. lt File Keywords Miscellaneous Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 19 3 New Module Name Description Hull Drafting has been renamed to Marine Drafting This name change affects the following User Bulletin Old name New name Hull Drafting Marine Drafting PDMSUl hdra PDMSUl mdra PMLLIB hulldrafting PMLLIB marinedrafting PMLLIB hulldrafting nDraPickElement pmlfne PMLLIB marinedrafting mDraPickElement pmifne PMLLIB hulldrafting apphdramain pmlfrm PMLLIB marinedrafting appmdramain pmlfrm marhdra exe mardra exe 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Affected Programs
212. ly noted here Affected Programs Assembly Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 162 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 AVEVA Marine Drafting 19 1 Symbolic View Menu Description All functionality handling symbolic views has been moved to a new top menu Symbolic View The Symbolic View menu is available in the following applications e Hull Design Curved Modelling e Hull Design Planar Modelling e Hull Design Structural Design e Hull Design Space Management e Marine Drafting Project Symbolic View AutoDP Window Help PlanarHull View Section Curved Hull View gt Detail Recreate Edit Modify Select Properties Please note that the menu function previously called Create has now been renamed to Section to unify the function names in this menu Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 163 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin hte stil Project Symbolic View AutoDP Window Help Planar Hull View gt f Shell Expansion Bodyplan DevelopedPlate Shell Stiffener Curved Panel Recreate Modify Select Properties This means that the following has been removed e The Planar Hull View menu in Planar Modelling and Structural Design e The Curved Hull View menu in Curved Modelling and Structural Design e The view handling buttons in the Model Selection dialo
213. ly 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 168 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 6 General Note Description The General Note function is extended by multiple lines feature and a new Options dialog Start symbol End symbol F Multiple lines Benefits More user friendly way of creating general notes Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 169 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 7 Choose Projection Description The Choose Projection dialog has been re designed It can be displayed by clicking on the Projection button in the Insert gt Model dialog Collected Models So far 312 Block Zone Wid It is also displayed during drag amp drop from an Explorer tree when choosing to drop an element into a new view or by choosing the Tools gt Model View gt Choose Projection menu function Benefits This re designed dialog provides a more modern and attractive user experience The choose projection step during the Insert
214. machine maximum material length MML The Pipe Stock Length is set up in the Pipe Data Table type PDAELE using Paragon the data elements of that table now have a field PStLen for pipe stock length It may be queried using q PStLen on a pipe data table element New Pseudo attributes enable the pipe stock length of a particular implied tube to be queried q ATST for Arrive Tube Stock Length or q LTST for Leave Tube Stock Length The production checks perform two tests on each pipe piece e Compare the pipe piece length with the stock length for that tube spec If the piece is longer the test will fail regardless of bending requirements e Compare the pipe piece length with the maximum pipe length for the bending machine assigned to this branch or pipe If it exceeds the machine defined value the test will fail These two tests will be performed in the order above and in addition to any other tests such as wall thickness corrosion etc The user will be notified of the success or the reason for the failure 26 2 5Material search for Pipe Bending Machine setup A Search button has been added to allow the user to search for the appropriate material from all SMTE in catalogue or SOLI in the Property database with Filters if required 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
215. ment of type SCPLIN currently has a dimension of type pressure and can have units of pressure psi bar etc All attributes that are dimensioned have current session units If the current session unit for the dimension of pressure is psi and the value of the attribute PRESS is 23psi one can use scplin press to use the value of the attribute in annotation this will produce the value of the attribute in the current units 23 If the units are desired the withunit keyword can be used scplin press withunit will give the result in the annotation text as 23psi The following screenshot shows annotation where the withunit keyword is used 1J1 12 Shape Data PIPELINE 232 x Name SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGM Text scplin bore ActType SCTUB Area 0 Arrive 1 Borearray Crfarray v This shows the same annotation without using the withunit keyword 12in Shape Data PIPELINE 232 x Name SCTUBING 2 of SCSEGM Text scplin bore withunit gt ActType SCTUB Area 0 Arrive 1 Borearray Crfarray v For More Information See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Appendices Attribute Presentation Notation Affected Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 225 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin AVEVA Diagrams Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 226 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 6 Publish Diagrams Data to AVEVA NET Description This vers
216. n Previously Diagrams did not provide functionality to configure automatic line jumps with priorities depending on attributes To capture the requirement support for line jumps has been introduced in the Auto Formatting Rules feature Two new format types have been added on the Format to Assign tab in the Auto Formatting Rule Details window Name new rule Description _______ Shape Selection Criteria Format to Assign Rule Options Format type Value Fill colour Fill pattern Fill pattern colour Fill transparency Layer Text font Text size Text colour Text style Text transparency Add line jumps Aiwaystoothe Line jumps style Gap v C Clear auto formatting e 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 Add line jumps come to other e 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Line jumps style 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 V
217. nces For details please refer to the Cable Design User Guide 26 9 Multi Discipline Supports 26 9 1 Cable Tray Supports MDS can now support the new cable tray CTRAY elements as used in the Cable Design application A CTSUPP element is used instead of an ATTA Old piping BRAN cable trays and CTRAY cable trays can be supported by the same cable tray support using the Add Rack function as usual Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 286 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 26 9 2 Automatic generation of pads There is a new application default to turn the auto generation of pads on or off the default is on If the setting is on pads are created when using a cursor based creation method CURSOR or CLEARANCE with a PANEL or HPLATE element identified The section type is checked and a suitably shaped pad chosen appropriate to the section type For example triangular shapes are used for angle and square rectangular for flat bar 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 gt MDS Application Defaults 26 9 3 Updating client project defaults From time to time new or updated component standards will become available in the MDS catalogue Where users are maintaining their own
218. ne shape It can be selected from a list of standard values Add line jumps Always to other v As page specifies Never Always om to other e 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 Line jumps style 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 gt Behaviour dialog For More Information See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Working with Diagrams Auto Formatting Rules Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 228 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 8 Improved Shape Annotation in Schematic Model Viewer It is now possible to individually control the shape annotations for the element types in the Schematic Model Viewer The following settings can now be made using the options dialog in the Schematic Model Viewer e Display criteria for selection of shapes e Display text e icon png file e Stencil shape For More Information See User Guide Schematics Diagrams Schematic Model Viewer Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 229 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 9 Automatic Line Breaks Depending on Line Priority Descriptio
219. nents Valve 2 way valve 3 way valve 4 way valve Instrument Fitting Pipe destination Instrumentation HVAC line elements HVAC components Cable elements Shape name GTYP_INST C Directional component Classify as Instrument GTYPE INST When this option is checked in the master item all SCVALV s 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 236 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 32314 1313 A150 GA 59 50 Refresh ve Show Text Linebrea Loop Reference Set Instrument Set Release Status Replace symbol from Catalogue 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 Copyrig
220. ng 12 1 is a major update from AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12 0 many of the associated products have also been enhanced 1 2 About this Bulletin This manual gives an overview of changes since the previous major release Hull and Outfitting 12 0 It is aimed primarily at users upgrading from that release those upgrading from earlier releases should also read the Hull and Outfitting 12 0 User Bulletin preferably the edition issued with Service Pack 6 This bulletin also covers many of the associated products supplied on the same DVD R These products fall into 3 families Engineer Design and Manage and these groupings within the Marine portfolio are reflected in this document Those aspects that are common between most of the products are generally covered in the first part of the document 1 3 Software Distribution and Installation AVEVA Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 is supplied on a DVD R which self installs using standard Microsoft installation procedures The full software suite is usually loaded onto individual PCs running Windows with the license server and file loaded onto a networked Windows server Please note that Hull and Outfitting 12 1 onwards requires Flexman 5 and an appropriate license it will not work with Flexman 3 or 4 For further details of Flexman License Server releases please see http support aveva com services products flex index asp and http support aveva com services products flex flex_releases asp T
221. nicode filenames AVEVA has also encountered problems using files with non ASCII names in some development tools 4 1 4 Using Forms and Menus The default system font used by Forms and Menus F amp M is Arial Unicode MS which contains a large number of the world s alphabets Internally F amp M uses Unicode but can only display the characters accessible in its current system font You will be able to copy and paste Unicode characters from and to textual fields of F amp M gadgets This includes entering characters into the Hull amp Outfitting command window 4 1 5 Using TTY Mode You can enter Unicode characters in Teletype TTY mode but the Console Window can only display the characters which exist in its currently selected font Console fonts tend to be quite restrictive so you need to select a suitable one In the UK you will probably be restricted to Lucida Console or Consolas which will display European characters but not Asian characters etc 4 1 6 Graphical Output In general Hull amp Outfitting graphical output 2D and 3D allows only the use of the TrueType fonts set up in the Admin module This will allow you to display Unicode characters which are known to those fonts By default you get font 5 Arial Unicode MS which gives a large range of character sets Restrictions using Draft and Isodraft 2D Views For TrueType fonts the TrueType font selected must have the correct character set s present
222. not stored at all Bracket panels have until now been split and stored as plate parts in MANU The brackets pointing at that bracket panel have been stored without geometry but with a reference to the bracket panel plate part From now on the information stored in the bracket panel plate part is copied into the bracket plate part and the bracket panel plate part will no longer be stored Sub panel plate parts have until now been split and stored as plate parts in MANU Since the main panel plate parts are either referring to a single sub plate or to two or more sub plates and the main panel plate parts are built up by these parts there is no need to have the sub panel parts stored in MANU When creating bending templates for a curved plate previously the sight plane and sight line plane were stored in the plate in DESI This information will from now on be stored in the plate templates in MANU When creating plate jigs for curved panels previously the calculated assembly plane and some additional information about the orientation of the plate jigs were stored in the curved panel in DESI From now on this information is stored in the plate jigs in MANU When creating jig pillars for curved panels previously the jig pillar was stored in DESI The jig pillar contains information similar to that stored in the plate jigs From now on the jig pillars are stored in MANU and the orientation information is no longer copied to the curved panel Benefi
223. nternet Explorer Internet Explorer is required for the on line help system version 7 or 8 is recommended as version 9 does not currently work correctly Hull amp Outfitting 12 1 requires Microsofts NET Framework 3 5 which is supplied on the DVD and installed if required It should be noted that installation of version 3 5 brings with it several of the earlier versions on which it depends The updated version of NET used for Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 SP6 onwards may prevent NET add ins running if deployed on a network This will not usually cause an issue as AVEVA recommends a local installation on each machine but might cause problems for customers running their own add ins NET security can cause issues when running Hull amp Outfitting across the network where the add in assemblies reside on a different machine to the NET runtime The default security level for the local intranet is not set to Full Trust which means that programs may not be able to access resources on the local machine To overcome this the intranet security may be set to Full Trust though this means that any NET assembly may run Alternatively Full Trust may be given to a specified group of strongly named assemblies Trust levels may be set using the Microsoft Code Access Security Policy tool caspol For details please see http msdn microsoft com en us library cb6t8dtz v VS 90 aspx Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 13 AVEVA Marine
224. o includes highlighting of changes made in diagrams e Diagram viewer A built in diagram viewer allows users to view and navigate P amp IDs and other schematics e Compare amp 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 e Excel Import Export Engineering data can be imported from external sources and exported to external applications by using Excel Import Export utilities e AVEVA NET Integration Engineering data can be exported to AVEVA NET e 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 251 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Tags AVEVA Engineering Project SAM Data Management View Admin z i x Sao Jz Promote History ER a fey a R Flush Excel Import Demote G Statistics ies i ROS Issue a 38 Excel Export 7 Approved 75 A i P Highlight History Claim Refresh State Publish to Compare Edit Ux Remove 3 z G Drop AVEVANET Update Link AVEVA Integration Import Export Status Control Status Actions Changes
225. oStation 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 Support for Unicode Text 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 Improved Drawing Feature Export These changes should result in a much more usable drawing and smaller file sizes The main improvements for the 3 formats are e User defined Line styles defined with PATDEF and PATREP but not PATNAM e 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 e Draft s intelligent blanking primitives are not exported e User defined line styles with Glyphs and line pictures are not supported e Only built in line patterns are supported at present for layer definitions not the full range of configurable line patterns 20 16 Configurable DXF amp DWG Export Improvements also include e Symbols and Logos are exported as Nested Blocks differentially scaled symbols are supported e Overlays and Design Elements are exported as Nested Symbols Copyright 1974 to current year AVEV
226. og is now presented when activating the function E Select Functional Description Select Interval Stiffener Show User Defined Select Functional Description C Show System Defined Functional Descriptions 300 Interior_cutouts holes in TB 301 Carling Or Key in Functional Code 301 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 It s 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 it s necessary to apply the changes to get the update confirmed Benefits Easier update of functional descriptions Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 93 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Planar Modelling Interactive Planar Hull Modelling Functions Hull
227. olours are used RSO Type Colour Compartment limit Blue General Inner Structure Steel blue Block Limit Navy Blue General Limit Slate blue Backdrop 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 For More Information See User Guide Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu Affected Programs All programs with graphical presentation of RSOs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 192 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 27 RSO Enhancements in Insert Model 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 e Any type no filtering e Compartment Limit e General Inner structure e Block Limit e General Limit e 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 For More Information See User G
228. ompartment using the Corrugation or Stool tab in the Internal Surfaces dialog now has an extended representation which closes the design loop between Surface amp Compartment and Structural Design for these RSOs As previous a parametrically defined bulkhead will be stored in the model but along side 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 amp Compartment releasing them to design further editing with Structural Design tools and updating Surface amp Compartment with the changes via the Use Design function Benefits Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Geometry Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 70 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 11 Compartment Export Import in XML Format 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 functionali
229. on element FROM DIR IDPL TO DIR Use cursor to pick P lines defining the first and IDPL second Dimension Directions DPOS Use cursor to pick a Sheet position through which the Dimension Arc will pass For full details please refer to the DRAFT User Guide section 12 6 Angular Dimensions which has been extensively revised Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 211 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 20 9 Enhanced P line Picking There is now an option for P lines to behave in a similar fashion to P points when creating annotation If enabled on a View P lines appear as the mouse passes over them so that they can be picked They can of course also be made part of the SCTN s permanently visible representation when required on the drawing The number of P lines drawn thus can be limited by use of their PVIF attribute as for P points Performance for Update Design when drawing sections with a large number of P lines will therefore be improved by making suitable adjustments to the catalogue Pseudo attributes PLVIFlag and PLVISibility equivalent to the PPVIF and PPVIS attributes are also available The behaviour for picking is as previous versions when the new option is OFF For full details please refer to the DRAFT User Guide 20 10 Improved Performance of Extrusions These enhancements are focused on speeding up Extrusions and Panels by improving the handling of their vertices Vertex VERT amp Panel Ver
230. ons Limited Subject to the user s rights as set out in the customisation manuals to amend PML software files contained in the PDMSUI and PDMSLIB folders and any configuration files the user may not reverse engineer decompile copy or adapt the software Neither the whole nor part of the software described in this publication may be incorporated into any third party software product machine or system without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Limited save as permitted by law Any such unauthorised action is strictly prohibited and may give rise to civil liabilities and criminal prosecution The AVEVA software described in this guide is to be installed and operated strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of the respective software licences and in accordance with the relevant User Documentation Unauthorised or unlicensed use of the software is strictly prohibited Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries All rights reserved AVEVA shall not be liable for any breach or infringement of a third party s intellectual property rights where such breach results from a user s modification of the AVEVA software or associated documentation AVEVA Solutions Limited High Cross Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 OHB United Kingdom Trademark AVEVA and Tribon are registered trademarks of AVEVA Solutions Limited or its subsidiaries Unauthorised use of the AVEVA or Tribon trademarks is strictly f
231. ontains 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 29 1 4New Reporting Add in This new feature has a number of known limitations at this release which will be improved in future releases These include e Improving performance while running reports in batch mode e Background colour not exported in RTF format e Watermark fails to display in the report e No Copy Cut Paste available in table modifications e Changing the Zoom in the Report designer causes Report to crash with Exception error message which you cannot close making it hard to close Tags as Report Designer keeps screen focus Some other limitations may be worked around as follows Drag and Drop of DBView Array Fields to Report Designer This does not work at present as an alternative you can use an Array field in a report and place a control which can be bound to a field on the report By setting the Data Binding property of the control it can be bound to an array field In the example below a Label has been placed in the Detail section of a report for binding to the array field DIAREF ARRAY OF DIAGRAM REFEREN
232. opyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 210 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Plotting Options Colour correction mode Standard Colour Pius O Greyscale O Black amp White Select one of the available options to print the PDMS plot file System command string PDF fies pdf 20 7 2DXF General Options The Polyline width factor and Character encoding DXF General fields have been removed from the DRAFT DXF General form which is accessed from Utilities gt Configurable DXF output gt Modify gt General General Settings View Number Prefix C Z Coordinates Primitive Thickness or in Draft administration mode Scale Factor Settings gt DXF configuration settings gt General 20 8 Enhanced Angular Dimensions Angular Dimensions ADIMs no longer need to have Dimension Direction their origin defined if it can be deduced from the vectors defined by their first two dimension points Typically these are directions defined by P lines but they can also be defined by P points y Dimension Direction For example the figure shows an Angular Dimension with its origin defined implicitly by the intersection of the two Dimension directions which are P lines of SCTNs This Angular Dimension could be created by typing Dimension Origin the following commands starting at Layer level Byintersgotion NEW ADIM Create new Angular Dimensi
233. or options Annotation styles group 01 E Default options Colour Released to 3D Colour Linked to 3D Colour Description Instrument line Properties Dialog Custom Instrument line Properties Dialog Allow multiple Instrument loops references Flow direction symbal s stencil Flow direction symbol Reroute Shape text options Reroute GS SteelBlue GB BlueViolet EA Violet True True False Never reroute alll Select connector reroute style for newly created lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 Diagrams Options o Defaults Attribute Presentation User Bulletin Offline instrument options Instrumentation line options Actuator options Instrument relationship shape op Equipment options Sub equipment Nozzle options Electrical connection options Cable options Multi cable options Off page connector incoming of Off page connector outgoing op gt HVAC line options HVAC fitting options Area shape options Annotation styles group 01 E Default options Colour Released to 3D Colour Linked to 3D Colour HVAC line Properties Dialog Custom HVAC line Properties Dialog Description Flow direction symbol s stencil Flow direction symbol SY YellowGreen GS LimeGreen E violet True True Reroute Never reroute Shape text options Reroute Select connector reroute style for newly created lines Benefits N
234. orbidden AVEVA product software names are trademarks or registered trademarks of AVEVA Solutions Limited or its subsidiaries registered in the UK Europe and other countries worldwide 3 Party Software The copyright trademark rights or other intellectual property rights in any other product or software its name or logo belongs to its respective owner The following 3 party software is included in some of the AVEVA products described in this document e Teigha for dgn files 2007 2010 by Open Design Alliance All rights reserved e Teigha for dwg files 2003 2010 by Open Design Alliance All rights reserved Microsoft Office Fluent user interface Fluent is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation and the Fluent user interface is licensed from Microsoft Corporation The Microsoft Office User Interface is subject to protection under U S and international intellectual property laws and is used by AVEVA Solutions Limited under license from Microsoft AVEVA Marine 12 1 Contents AVEVA Hull amp Outfitting Release 12 1 User Bulletin 1 Introduction 1 1 About AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12 1 1 2 About this Bulletin 1 3 Software Distribution and Installation 1 3 1 Projects in Folders with Embedded Spaces 1 4 Licensing AVEVA Hull and Outfitting Software 1 5 AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12 1 Test Projects 2 Upgrading from Previous Releases 2 1 Upgrade Overview 2 2 Upgrade Framework 2 3 Database Version Control 2 4 Part Upgrades O
235. ovements which affect all constructor modules have been made to Status Control New pseudo attributes STVMOD and STVUSE have been added to return the status last modification date and user PML2 qualified attribute queries are now available for status data for example statusDefinitions 1 DesignStatus statusValues ce attribute STVVAL statusDefinitions A new command STM COMMENT has been added to set the status comment without modifying the status value The Status Change Event Methods now take an array of objects as their first argument where previously this was a single element reference in a string The StatusProjectHandler pml object has been modified accordingly and comments show where customised code can be placed Customised code in the StatusProjectHandler pml object must be updated into the new version Code for a single object can generally be inserted in the do loops where indicated by comments The StatusData pmi object has also been updated to better handle arrays of objects It has additional members to hold arrays of data The previously provided single object members have been maintained and hold the values of the first elements of each equivalent array at the end of each operation so previously defined calling code will generally work as before Code using the StatusData pml object will generally continue to work but must be tested and reviewed to see if it can be made more efficient by using the array m
236. parts 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Automatic Generation of Curved Parts Release of Curved Parts for Production Set Up of Program Default File Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 127 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 9 Weight Unit in Profile Sketches 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Profile Manufacturing Production Output Profiles Automatic Generation of Profile Sketches Creating Profile Sketches Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 128
237. platforms will be created using standard Beams amp Columns and Panels amp 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 PomMsur 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 292 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 27 AVEVA Global 27 1 Global WCF This option was introduced with Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 SP6 6 to improve the security of all Global communications It is an alternative to the use of RPC which has been used in previous versions of Global It provides an interface to the Windows Communication Foundation WCF as an alternative to Remote Procedure Calls RPC for network communications As a result Global can now exploit the security configurations provided by WCF which is enabled and configured by modifying values in XML configuration files The following security benefits are now available
238. play the Hole Association Manager window To create holes individually click Create Hole The user will be prompted to pick a panel pipe or HVAC branch that penetrates the selected panel The creation of the hole is identical to the automatic hole creation 26 4 2Merge Holes Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 272 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 gt Click Merge Holes the software creates a merged hole containing the selected penetrations 26 4 3Modify and Delete Holes Created holes can be modified managed or deleted To modify a created hole click Modify CE The Hole Modification window is displayed modify the created hole as required the Free Hole Boundary Editor can also be started from this window To manage created holes from the Hole Association Manager window select Managed Selected Holes the Hole Management Definition window is displayed Use this window to add single or merged hole penetrations define the hole type penetrating clearance hole shape parameters positioning and an option for the hole to revert to the catalogues specifications To delete a created hole the user is prompted to pick a hole If the hole has no status it is deleted
239. played link Benefits Reports and sketches related to a specific production part may be easily viewed Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Refer to User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Production Program Interface Hull Production Program Interface Links to Documents from Related Production Parts Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 145 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 22 Naming of Curved Plates and Stiffeners 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 reflectin
240. precated and finally removed in AVEVA Marine 12 2 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 152 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 16 AVEVA Hull Weld Planning 16 1 Weld Calculation Curved Panels Description The calculation of welds on curved panels with holes crossing seams is now excluding the part of the plate boundary that represents the hole Benefits The result of the weld calculation is more accurate Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Weld Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 16 2 Weld Calculation Shell Profiles Description The calculation of welds on shell profiles with notches is now excluding the part where the notch is defined Benefits The result of the weld calculation is more accurate Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Weld Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 154 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 17 AVEVA Design Reuse Description Design Reuse is a tool to simplify the work required to copy design data between projects and thereby reuse design work Design data that is copied is re generated and adapted to the design context of the target project Copying design data follows an export import scenario with an intermediate storage in a Tran
241. pup menu for the following Model Editor modes Model Editor Equipment Editing Quick Pipe Routing and Pipe Component Modification Enter Value Align with Feature Offset From Feature Snap to Point Move Handle Cancel Selecting it gives the user a form to specify the offset and then pick the relevant feature rThrough Ppoint ote 500mm Ofset 25 1 2Structural primitives Primitives owned by structural elements can now be edited in a similar way to Equipment Editing with a right click on the selected item Edit Members of SUBSTRUCTURE Select De Select All De Select Current Hide Remove from 3D View Zoom To Walk To Cancel Primitives owned by the following additional element types are affected STRU SUBS VOLM SVOLM PTRA AREADE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 256 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 25 2 Move Drag Move and Plane Move Commands The Piping Equipment HVAC and old cable tray application now have new positioning menus Structural move commands are unchanged The new forms provide a WRT gadget to allow direction to be specified in terms of a local co ordinate system In addition UNDO has been implemented for all move operations i e when the Apply button is clicked All picks are now EDG picks replacing the old ID style picking This allows most of the pick functions to be replaced by a single EDG pick i e screen P point graphics and element pi
242. r AVEVA Solutions Ltd 73 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 14 Sea Water Density 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 74 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 15 Multiple Lightship Weights 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 75 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 16 Oil Outflow Description 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
243. r to the folder lt proj gt dflts ModelManagement where lt proj gt dflts is the folder defined in the appropriate environment variable e g samdflts The same result can be achieved by a free user starting up Integrator then clicking on Integrator gt Display gt Project Configuration Explorer then saving the file 29 1 3 AVEVA Global Global 12 1 does not fully support projects with spaces in their pathnames Work is in hand to remove this limitation but no definite release date is yet set The daemon will work when installed in C Program Files but there is a known issue see below RPC Daemon cannot detect if a WCF daemon is already running for current location of the project PDMS reports 1 504 Unexpected error contacting Daemon check versions match when missing global client dlls Element claims can be lost for distributed extracts if an issue fails This can lead to the error message has been deleted in a later session The new Database Distribution allows a collection of DBs to be relocated to another location If the HUB daemon is down the form will hang until all relocation commands have timed out Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 297 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 c
244. ral Design and Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 102 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 4RSO Rename Description A new function RSO Rename has been added which renames a RSO updates all panels located in the renamed RSO and updates all other RSOs that are topologically dependent of the renamed RSO All other topological dependences are currently not updated e g hull panels using the RSO as boundary limit needs to be manually updated The function is activated from the RSO menu when right clicking a RSO or as a right click menu option in the function RSO Property Benefits Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu RSO Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Space Management AVEVA Marine Structural Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 103 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 5 Naming of Multiply Copied RSOs Description The naming of multiply copied RSOs is improved in the following way If name XXX is given as target name and multiple copies are requested then the copied RSOs are named XXX XXX1 XXX2 XXXn If name XXX10 is given as target name and multiple copies are requested then
245. rchies It should not be necessary to change the extract hierarchy nor to consolidate data within extract hierarchies Therefore the System Administrator should not need to FLUSH ISSUE DROP data Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 2 7 1 Working Extracts The upgrade process will need to ensure that all data is up to date at the HUB where pre scan data checks will need to be made Working Extracts cannot be propagated as they are specific toa single location As a result all data MUST be flushed and claims released from the Working Extract into its parent This is only true for working extracts all other extracts do not need to be flushed or have their claims released as they will be available at the HUB 2 7 2 Offline Locations Global supports Offline locations therefore we cannot assume that the Hub has a Global connection to that location Offline locations do not support distributed Extracts but can support stand alone extract families It will not be possible to co ordinate the upgrade from another location if Offline locations are used Offline locations are relatively independent and can be treated as such 2 8 Intern
246. re displayed in a grid with the usual facilities for filtering grouping etc Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report Drag a column header here to group by that column Clash Item a Obstructer Clashed A A gt A gt A A gt CLASH 15392 5442 Qube 15392 6762 TUBIBOX CLASH 15392 5444 16392 5762 ELBO BOX CLASH 15392 5444 Qube 15392 6762 TUBIBOX EE CLASH 15392 5445 15392 6762 ELBO BOX 5 fhs CLASH 15392 5445 tube 15392 6762 TUBI BOX 6 HH CLASH 15392 5506 ube 15392 6519 TUBI PANE CLASH 15392 5512 15392 5513 FLAN FTUB a HH CLASH 15392 5519 15392 5563 tube TEE TUBI s HH CLASH 15392 5666 16392 5557 FLAN FTUB 10 HH CLASH 15392 5666 tube 15392 9266 TUBIBOX CLASH 15392 5666 tube 15392 9267 TUBVBOX CLASH 15392 5666 tube 15392 9280 TUBIBOX CLASH 15392 5666 tube 16392 9312 TUBIBOX CLASH 15392 5666 tube 15392 9257 TUBLBOX CLASH 15392 5666 Qube 15392 9270 TUBIBOX APARNA Total tems 22 The whole grid can be printed or saved to file by the RH popup menu options Print Preview Save to Excel Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 281 AVEVA Marine 12 1 It is necessary to scroll the grid to the right to see all the information about the clash such as Position Clashes 22 Obstructions Exclusions Limits Options Report User Bulletin Drag a column header her
247. reate SITE finest Access Mose Update I Controles I 20 Reference Only I Protected j 3af Jlf DB Number Sem System unae Fie Number sytem Sysiem Primary Loc Proecmue Datanase f 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 lt pathname gt The file specified by lt pathname gt 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
248. ria file Benefits Allows stability assessment for MODU s Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide nitial Design Hydrostatics Major Tasks Rig Wind Heeling Moments in Initial Design Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 80 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 21 Connected Compartments Description 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 For More Information See User Guide nitial Design Hydrostatics Screen Based Reference Guide Dialogs in Detail General Particu
249. ription Equipment Design Status w in UDAFUNC E Status details m UDAMATERIAL Initial status WorkPending Ba UVALID 1 E Valid values Esa UVALID 2 Controllable element t EQUIPMENT ka UVALID 3 E Other fa UDADN Large icon 2 fa Small icon UGRO VALVTAG_UDA UGRO VALVSAFE_UDA UGRO VALVCOND_UDA UDAENVIRCOND UDAFUNCTIME cmc BPE ae a ee EEE fa UDATMAX fa UDASELTYPE Be OSXWLD 1 fsa UDETWL TagUdets S fya UDETGR SAITEMS a UDET VALVTAG fg UDETGR ValveTaoxatts fsa UDET VALVCHAR fra UDET VALVSAFE fm UDET VALVCOND E UWRL TEST_UDAS UWRL ATWRL UWRL CADC KVNIDICT UWRL CADC KVN DESCAT UWRL CADC HVAC UWRL UWRL PMGSchematicUdas STAWLD Statuses a Bm STAVAL WorkPending fra STAVAL WorkSuspended fa STAVAL WorkStarted Ba STAVAL Rework Ba STAVAL WorkCompleted fa STAVAL Preliminary fa STAVAL Approved fa STAVAL Released a PEPEE EEE 7 2 2 UDA Lists of Values User Defined Attributes UDAs and User System Defined Attributes USDAs can have a list of valid values for text attributes or a list of valid ranges for numeric attributes These lists are checked when setting the UDA to prevent the use of values outside the valid range A new logical attribute on UDA and USDA elements determines whether the valid values or ranges if such exist are optional The default behaviour remains that the restrictions remain non optional If however this attribute is
250. rt DBRBEG and end DBREND of a range of numbers There is a new UNIQUE option for the CREATE DB command to allow the user to create the next database in the defined range for the project a new pseudo attribute NXTDBU gives the next database number within the range For full details please refer to the Administrator User Guide and Command Reference Manual 5 3 1 Admin GUI To create a DB Range a menu in the Settings pull down takes the user to a new form to set values for a DB Range If no range already exists this will create an unnamed DB Range and populate it Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 26 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 project s range see picture in section 5 1 2 5 4 Duplicate Names In general AVEVA Marine products prevent the use of duplicate names within the current MDB However it may be desirable for Engineering or Schematics elements to use the same name as the 3D elements in the Design database Hull amp Outfitting 12 0 allowed name duplication between the DESI and the SCHE databases It is now possible to create or rename an element in an Engineering ENGI database to have the same name as any element in any Schematic SCHE Design DESI or Marine Production
251. rts 148 15 24 Enhancement in Dialogue for Automatic Position Number Definition 149 15 25 Reflection in Hull Element Names and Hurefl Attribute 150 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 26 FRP Additions 15 27 Tribon 5 Curved Hull Input Data 16 AVEVA Hull Weld Planning 16 1 Weld Calculation Curved Panels 16 2 Weld Calculation Shell Profiles 17 AVEVA Design Reuse 18 AVEVA Assembly Planning 18 1 Curved Hull Panel as Base Panel for Assembly Orientation 18 2 Clean Up Assembly References 18 3 New Drawing Type for Assembly ADP Drawings 18 4 Multiple Select 18 5 Change Projection of an Assembly ADP Drawing View 18 6 POS attribute available for ASMBLY Elements 19 AVEVA Marine Drafting 19 1 Symbolic View Menu 19 2 Default Action at Start up 19 3 New Module Name 19 4 Drawing Export Formats 19 5 Navigate To 19 6 General Note 19 7 Choose Projection 19 8 Fill Styles 19 9 Symbol Files 19 10 Dynamic Highlighting 19 11 Arc Quarter Points 19 12 New Definition of Line Segment Direction Length 19 13 Simple Arithmetic in 2D Offset Input 19 14 Automatic Chaining of New Contours to Existing Ones 19 15 Dimensioning UI Improvements 19 16 Improved Dragging Technique 19 17 Plane Reference Text in Distance To Plane Dimensioning 19 18 Delete Last Entity 19 19 Persisting Contours to PADD 19 20 Text Font Attributes 19 21 Dimming amp Checking of Menu Items 19 22 Unicode 19 23 Restriction of Symbolic Vie
252. running this macro it contains a warning It maintains a log of its results including any errors where it is unable to delete an object It may need to be run at different locations to tidy up periodically Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 253 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 24 2 Schematic Model Manager 24 2 1 Use of units Schematic Model Manager now uses the new units capabilities rather than its former specific units functions This means that imported data is automatically converted to the appropriate units chosen for the project In the Project Options dialogue the Units tab has been removed The specific Units UDAs have been removed from the default file and will no longer be populated on import Users can choose to use them but will need to set them up as required The Attribute Type is no longer needed in the Attribute Mapping file so has been removed from the Attribute Mapping UI 24 2 2Units upgrade Schematic data imported prior to 12 1 must be upgraded A check is performed automatically on entry to Schematic Model Manager and the user will be warned if an upgrade is required The upgrade process must be carefully considered by project administrators as it can affect multiple projects and locations Firstly schematic data is scanned to identify changes required Secondly UDA definitions are updated for the appropriate units Thirdly the changes identified are applied to the schematic data Please
253. s 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 Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation a Element options gt Pipeline options Valve options Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options Offline instrument options Instrumentation line options Actuator options Instrument relationship shape opl Equipment options Sub equipment Nozzle options Electrical connection options Cable options Multi cable options i E Annotation styles group 01 E Default options Colour Released to 3D Colour Linked to 3D Colour Pipeline Properties Dialog Custom Pipeline Properties Dialog Description Flow direction symbol s stencil Flow direction symbol Reroute Reroute HB Blue GB BlueViolet EA Violet True True Never reroute Select connector reroute style for newly created lines Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation Annotation settings Pipe Dimensioning Instrumentation Dimensioning H AC Dimensioning Dialogues Catalogue search settings Auto formatting rules options S amp Element options Pipeline options Valve options Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options Offline instrument options gt Instrumentation line options Actuat
254. s to Show Spec Atts and Show CAT Atts The Create menus in Steel Work and Equipment have had the Specification menu restored moving the Specification World entry down to a submenu next to Create Specification The Modify menus have had the Specification entry restored i Create Modify Delete Window Help Copy ed Catalogue Section L Category gt Specification World Selection Table Part gt Text Draft Symbol Set Properties 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 28 5 Raw Plates in CATA The raw plate definition has been moved from the manufacturing database MANU to the catalogue CATA in the Catalogue World The raw plate elements are defined in Paragon using the PML script HullDefineRawPlates Input to the script is the file which previously was used to create the raw plates in MANU This change is beneficial for projects using Global Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 296 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 29 Known Issues 29 1 Outstanding Faults and Issues
255. s 24 AVEVA Engineering 24 1 Tags 24 1 1 Admin Tab 24 1 2 Tag Deletion 24 2 Schematic Model Manager 24 2 1 Use of units 24 2 2 Units upgrade 24 2 3 Change Highlighting in Diagram 24 3 Tag Compare Update 25 AVEVA Outfitting Module 25 1 Model Editor 25 1 1 Offset From Feature option 25 1 2 Structural primitives 25 2 Move Drag Move and Plane Move Commands 25 2 1 Summary of Move Drag Move and Plane Move options 25 3 Change highlighting and reversion 25 3 1 Enhanced User Interface for Sessions 25 3 2 Revert Elements Command 25 3 3 Change Highlighting via Extract Data Control Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 218 219 220 220 222 223 224 225 227 228 229 230 232 234 236 241 243 244 246 248 250 251 251 252 253 254 254 254 254 255 256 256 256 256 257 257 258 258 259 260 viii AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 25 3 4 Change Highlighting via Model Changes Add in 261 25 4 Enhanced attribute export to Review 266 25 5 Weight and Centre of Gravity CofG form 266 25 6 DRAFT Explorer 266 25 7 AVEVA Mechanical Equipment Interface 266 26 AVEVA Outfitting Design Applications 268 26 1 Equipment 268 26 2 Piping 268 26 2 1 Sloping piping 268 26 2 2 Direct setting of Insulation Thickness amp Material 269 26 2 3 Bending Machine NC Output 269 26 2 4 Improved production checks 271 26 2 5 Material search for Pipe Bending Machine setup 271 26 3 Structures 271 26 3 1 St
256. s Items Offline instrument Offline instrument A A 10 Ai 2 ie S D ID lo IJ E 5 3 if 5 E l 4 1O z t Y Process Line Valve Valve Process Line 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 Offline instrument A Offline instrument B Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 222 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 3 Automatic Upgrade of Options Settings Files The Diagrams Options files DiagramsDefaultSettings xml and DiagramsAttributePresentation xml are now automatically upgraded from previous versions so that existing project settings can be preserved in the upgrade process while also gaining access to new settings and options introduced in the latest version The process of upgrade relies on a proper placement of the file containing the options values from an older version of diagrams The proper place for the file is described in detail in the Diagrams User Guide in the Diagrams gt Getting Started gt Application Settings gt Diagrams Options section The upgrade is fully automatic and executes upon application start A report of the
257. s 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 For More Information See the upgrade documentation for details on how to optionally convert object into new storage model Affected Programs HullDesign HullDrafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 51 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 6 Hull Specific Design Explorer Configuration Description The Design Explorer is configured to expose an additional name for hull part nodes Beside the name derived from the FLNM attribute hull parts are presented by a second name derived from the PARNAM attribute If the environment variable MARINE_DESIGN_EXPLORER_PLAIN is assigned any value the additional name presentation is switched off Benefits None Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Outfitting Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 52 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 7 Limited Unicode Support in Hull Design Description Even if a project is in Unicode mode the same restrictions on allowed characters in the names of objects created using Hull Design still apply l e only uppercase letters A Z digits and the special characters hyphen full stop underscore _ and plus can be used B ICIDIE IF
258. scription 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 block s 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 W FE Model Select the model to create the FEM for The FE Model will be stored with the block M Recreate FE Model IV Divide shell elements Max no of points E Angle deviation j5 Min length factor 10 4 IV Combine shell elements Maz length factor o3 M Connect FE Model Dist tolerance 0 5 MV Benois ition steps smaller than fo V Unwarp shell elements lement Images Angle Image Free Edge Image Line Image Point Image Dump Delete FE Model images stored as objects I Shell element image Beam element image Cancel 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
259. set TRUE and the UDA or USDA definition is re compiled it will be possible to override the restriction and set the attribute to a value outside the valid range To support this a new method has been added to PML2 Attribute object and NET public interface The new method LIMITSVALIDOPTIONAL ELEMENTTYPE complements the existing LIMITS ELEMENTTYPE and VALIDVALUES ELEMENTTYPE methods The NET database interface class for attributes Aveva Pdms Database DbAttribute has a new method to determine whether the valid values or range is optional for a particular element type public abstract bool IsAllowedOptional DbElementType type 7 2 3 Database Views A Database View defines a table for viewing manipulating data in the database these data may be derived from a single element or multiple elements There is a row in the Database View table for each element that has a particular element type and meets the criteria defined by attribute filters These Filters are similar in concept to those in the search grid In addition if element match criteria cannot be expressed using attribute filters it is possible to define an expression for evaluation For example a Database View could be derived from all Equipment elements in the current MDB with a description of Vessel The user also specifies the required columns each can be a Copyright 1974
260. sfer Set The functionality provided is accessible through the command line and through a graphical user interface Design Reuse is made as a so called addin and is hosted by the Hull Design Outfitting Design and Marine Drafting modules Design Reuse requires a specific license Benefits e 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 e Support for different naming conventions by fully customizable name substitution rules e Maintains the references within the model as well as between drawings and models by reference adaptation at import to the second ship e Drawings keep their associations and are updated at import e GUI for interactive usage inside Hull Design Outfitting Design Marine Drafting e Commands supporting all available functions e Provides high level customization through trigger functions e Sisterships can be synchronized by customer written automation scripts executed at regular intervals Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Design Reuse Affected Programs Hull Design Outfitting Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 155 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 18 AVEVA Assembly Planning 18 1 Curved Hull Panel as Base Panel for Assembly Orientation Description Through the a
261. ssembly properties dialog when the predefined orientation is set to Specific Panel it is now possible to select curved panel from the enumeration list of hull panels The orientation of the selected curved hull panel is calculated and assigned as the orientation of the assembly The method to calculate the orientation of a curved hull panel utilizes a plane derived from the corner points provided by the seam limits the same method as used by the Jigs calculations Benefits Can use curved hull panels as base panel for assembly orientation Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Refer to User Guide Assembly Planning Graphical User Interface Context Sensitive Menu Functions Properties Affected Programs Assembly Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 156 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 18 2 Clean Up Assembly References Description Any type of element deleted is captured for an assembly specific evaluation to see if the element is referenced from any assembly node and if so then the reference is deleted too However this follow up mechanism works only when it is the precise element specified for deletion that also is referenced from an assembly l e it is not working if the element deleted holds a substructure into which assembly references are made E g if a hull plate is assembled the assembly reference will be deleted if the plate is specifically deleted But if the hul
262. t All Changes checkbox becomes unselected There is a subtlety to the Flush and Issue actions available in this dialog these operations include an extract refresh by default The exception is in a Global project where the parent extract is not primary In this case a refresh is not included in the operation In order to clarify whether a refresh will occur as part of a Flush or Issue action an indication has been added to the dialog as shown below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 260 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Extract Data Control Get All Changes From parent extract only From all extract ancestors Update CE Extract Claimiists User Claimists Element ts aJ WORL SITE SYMBOLOGY SITE TPWL Default_TPWL SITE HS ADMIN SITE HTEST SITE HM_ irtual_Holes GPWL Project _GPWL TPWL Penetration_Template_Word TPWL Concrete_Template_Worid v Change Highlighting M Outstanding in Extract Introduced by Get All Changes Extract DB Operations Scope Element Hierarchy O Single Element Flush and Issue will not include Get All Changes action Flush Issue Drop will act on all changes made by all users in extract databases in this MDB l Flush L Issue Drop 25 3 4Change Highlighting via Model Changes Add in A new Add in has been introduced to provide a general mechanism for exploring change and highlighting changed elements in the 3D graphical view T
263. t Modify gt Pipe Slope For full details please refer to the Piping User Guide 26 2 2Direct setting of Insulation Thickness amp Material This allows the piping designer to choose piping insulation of a given thickness and material rather than setting the temperature and spec for automatic selection New sample insulation specifications are provided as a basis on which users can base company and or project insulation specifications 26 2 3Bending Machine NC Output A new option Bending Machine NC Output in the Utilities Menu allows users to save a file which contains the bending details of a specified list of pipe pieces To use this the current element must be a Site Zone Pipe Pipe Spool List PSLIST Pipe Spool PSPOOL Pipe Piece List PPLIST or a Pipe Piece PPIECE Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 269 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Find Bent Pipe Pieces in User Bulletin Bending machine simfor P1 Fitter the Pipe Pieces using Pipe Piece name All or part Bore Range Bending Machine All v Search Results 25 found Name of Pipe Piece 15392 1 0766 163920792 15392 0794 16392 0796 15392 0798 15392 10800 15392 0802 16392 0804 16392 0806 153921 0808 15392 10810 15392 10812 15392 10814 163920816 15392 0818 15392M 0820 15392 10822 153921 0824 1539211 0826 15392 0828 16392 10830 15392 10832
264. t chamfer was taken in to consideration when such an edge was included in an abutting boundary When the option 99 was introduced to the CHAMFER_ADJUST default keyword this faulty way of handling edges without any bevel was removed This has caused problems when reusing old designs since the behaviour now is different In order to get this default behaviour back in older designs an environment variable SBH_DEFAULT_BEVEL has been introduced and should preferably be set to a tight butt bevel type that is defined in the bevel control object Behaviour when SBH_DEFAULT_BEVEL is defined as a tight bevel code of type 10 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 120 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 3 Bevel for Shell Stiffener Ends Description The handling of automatic definition of bevel for shell stiffener ends has been harmonised with the corresponding functionality for planar panel profiles Therefore it is no longer controlled by the environment variable SBH_PROF_TIGHT but by settings in the file as defined by the environment variable SBH_BEVEL_SETS Benefits Unifi
265. talogue Parameters box is checked the Model View form will not update any model settings except those for catalogue parameters 28 2 Parameterised Detail Text The GUI will now accept Text Expressions in Detail Text fields these must be entered as valid string expressions beginning with and ending with y If the expression is not specified in this way the Detail Text field will be treated as a simple string For details please see section 4 1 15 Detail and Material Text in the Catalogues and Specifications User Guide 28 3 Copy Button for Structural Catalogue New Copy buttons have been added to the forms for creating structural geometry components and Plines These make it easy for the user to copy an existing element and then modify the expressions rather than start from scratch This approach is similar to that used for the Data Sets Details of the changes are given in the Catalogue amp Specifications User Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 295 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 28 4 Creation of Structural Specs In the Specification list form available from menu Display gt Specifications there is now a button Display Spec Pressing this button brings up the Specification form as before except that the form opens in Read Only mode In this state the form UI changes slightly the title includes Read Only and changes the wording of two link buttons from Edit Spec Atts and Edit CAT Att
266. td 48 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 3 BLOCK Creation in Specific Database Description There is a new PML function available for creating BLOCKs in specific databases HullNewBlock blkName is STRING dbName is STRING is DBREF The parameter bikName is the name of the new block and it is mandatory The parameter dbName is the name of the new block and it is optional needs to be passed as space i e The function returns the DBREF to the newly created BLOCK element if successful Otherwise an error message is issued and the function result is undefined Example blk HullNewBlock MYBLOCK MYTEAM MYDB That statement will create a new block MYBLOCK in the database MYTEAM MYDB blk HullNewBlock MYBLOCK MYHBLWLD That statement will create a new block MYBLOCK under the existing HBLWLD MYHBLWLD Benefits The new PML function makes it possible to create Hull Blocks without using DBPrompt Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull in Dabacon Marine Project Setup Getting Started Create Initial Data Structures Affected Programs Hull Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 49 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 4 Stable Identification of Un named Hull Elements Description When the name of an unnamed element is displayed it is composed by its type and member position TYPE
267. te 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 For More Information Refer to User Guide Hull Detailed Design Setup Customisation and Standards Fibre Reinforced Plastics Option FRP Definition of the FRP Object Laminate Plate Statement Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Detail Design AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 151 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 27 Tribon 5 Curved Hull Input Data 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 de
268. ted Programs Hull Outfitting Design Assembly Planning Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 160 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 18 5 Change Projection of an Assembly ADP Drawing View There are some improvements when using the Marine Drafting function Tools gt Model view gt Change Projection in an Assembly ADP drawing Before there was a problem that labels and bounding box were not updated to fit the new projection This is now taken care of If the drawing is of type Assembly ADP Drawing then the user will be asked if he wants to regenerate the labels and bounding box 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 161 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 18 6 POS attribute available for ASMBLY Elements 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 For More Information On
269. termine 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 1 4 Manu package Manu package filter oe Manu package folder Manu package folder Manu package folder t Manu package folder R ee T E ee ee ee t Manu package folder Manu package Manu package filter t Manu package folder Manu package Examples of rules are e MATCHWILD ATTRIB NAMN ER5 e ATTRIB TYPE EQ MPLATE e ATTRIB TYPECD EQ 91 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 142 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin e MATCHWILD ATTRIB QUATXT OF FIRST MPLRWI A ATTRIB NAMN OF OWNER INSET ER2 TEST e 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 5 fm MANPKG ALL Em MANPKG CA1 Em MANPKG CA2 Em MANPKG CA3 Em MANPKG CA4 Em MANPKG CA5 fm MANPKG CAS fa MANPKG ER1 Em MPKGFT ER1Filter1 f MPKGFL ER1Profiles MPROF ER1 CP1 S1P S fya MPKGFL ER1PlateParts Ea MPKGFL ER1Brackets Em MPKGFL ER1BendingTemplates Ba MPKGFL ER1DevelopedPlates J MPLATE ER1 CP1 1S J MPLATE ER1 CP1 1P Ba MPKGFL ER1PlanarPlates Em MPKGFL ER10ther Ba MANPKG ER2 0 ae ew oH Benefits e Easier to use e Easier to
270. tes User Guide Plate Manufacturing User Guide _ Profile Manufacturing User Guide Production Program Interface User Guide 3 Hull Miscellaneous Functions User Guide E Hull Options User Guide ac PPM for Outfit Steel User Guide It should be noted that the PDF manuals are no longer supplied separately but may be obtained from the on line help by clicking XE Printable version on entry to any manual Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 57 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 AVEVA Initial Design 10 1 Lines New Grid in PACE Description To improve the usability of the grid used in PACE the way the grid is displayed has changed from a graph paper like grid to a less intrusive intersection point based grid The rulers have been made more distinct and locked to the sides of the viewport The coordinate axis are also displayed Orthogonal View Stern Benefits A less intrusive grid and more distinct rulers make it easier to work when geometry and grid coincide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 58 AVEVA Marine 12 1 Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 59 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 2 Lines Individual Tuft Size in Views in PACE Description It is now possible to have different size of tufts in indi
271. tex PAVE elements have 10 p points mostly for dimensioning purposes Each p point number has a particular functional position PO Origin of Vertex Pl Bottom panel face in line with panel vertex P2 Midway through panel in line with panel vertex P3 Top panel face in line with panel vertex P4 P6 Bottom face tangent points for filleted radius at vertex P5 P7 Top face tangent points for filleted radius at vertex P8 Bottom face fillet centre P9 Top face fillet centre There are two changes to improve performance e calculate all the p point positions in one go when drawing them in Draft e 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 Intelligent Text Handling Enhancement Draft allows all Design and Catalogue database attributes and pseudo attributes to be used in the annotation of drawings It is also possible to use attributes of related elements for example SITE gives the name of site owning the referenced
272. th 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 Ul 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 amp fittings This may help integration with other data sources such as Instrumentation Fixed Shape Text and Label position For tube amp 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 250 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 24 AVEVA Engineering A new AVEVA Engineering product has been introduced with the release of AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine 12 1 This new product includes a new Tags module as well as a new ENGIneering Dabacon database type designed and optimi
273. the process Benefits More flexible creation of idealised and FE models Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Finite Element Model Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 117 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 18 FEM Improvements Description 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 118 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 AVEVA Hull Detailed Design
274. thin the visible area Large length Reports fail to export at certain formats A 509 page report exports as PDF CSV and TEXT but fails for all other formats If you run the Excel XLS export it warns you and says use XLSX but fails on doing so It can export to the CSV version that can then be loaded into Excel Even if you select single page versions of the image export it fails Reporting output differs for different Excel formats Exporting the output from Reporting the data exported differs between XLS and XLSX The XLSX format creates VALUE errors in the cells that are PDMS REFs in the DBViews whereas the XLS format creates the data correctly This issue arises because export to XLSX format considers the data in Value object mode by default The workaround is to use the Text export mode please see below Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 300 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin XLSX Export Options Export mode Single file Page range Sheet name Sheet Text export mode yaiue Show grid lines Value Text Export hyperlinks Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 301 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin This page left blank intentionally Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 302 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin AVEVA Solutions Ltd High Cross Madingley Rd Cambridge CB3 OHB UK Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 303
275. tics users can use them e They cannot be the default DB in an MDB e They cannot include SITEs this also prevents the creation of elements below SITEs e They can include Schematic 3D link elements making link information available in Schematics products when their users do not have access to normal DESI databases ee Moire all C Controlled 2D Reference Only Database Type Design v C Protected Area Number System E DB Number System System Unique File Number System Primary Loc PROJECTHUB Propagate Database Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 25 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 5 2 Access to Databases The complete list of database types apart from system types is now e Administrative DICTIONARY NSEQUENCE e Parts catalogue and material properties CATALOGUE PROPERTIES e 3D Design and Drafting DESIGN amp DESIGN Reference DRAFT PADD ISODRAFT e Schematics and Engineering DESIGN Reference SCHEMATIC ENGINEERING In addition MANUFACTURING and NSEQUENCE database types are primarily used by the Marine products Access to the various types of database depends on the product and module being used as well as a user s access as determined by his team membership and any Data Access Controls in use In summary e All AVEVA Plant products have full read write access to the administrative and catalogue data in the DICTIONARY CATALOGUE NSEQUENCE and PRO
276. ting Panels V Hull Plates Hole Associations O invatia Apply fiter Drag a column header here to group by th Association HM ASSOC D007 DUCT IHM ASSOC 0008 DUCT Discipline 2 Status Valid Claimed 2 Penetrated Item a Block Penetra HM 4SS0C 0009 DUCT IHM ASSOC 0010 DUCT YES dudHVACPenPanel1 fudHVACPen YES dudHVACPenPanelt fudHVACPen YES yes judHVACPenPanelt I judHVACPen JHM ASSOC 0012 DUCT JHM 4SSOC 0013 DUCT rmassocomn fouer ressona e E Total tems 8 C Show Tags Manage Selected Holes Add Current Element YES dudHVACPenPanelt dudHV ACPen YES dudHVACPenPanelt fudHVACPen Elements to manage JudHVA amp CPenPanelt Reset 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 276 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Displaying Holes The Hole Association Manager window can also be used to display selected holes in the 3D view Association G Decking a Staus
277. 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Detail Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 108 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 10 Seam from RSO 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine D
278. to nearest Grid Line e Revision table e 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 amp Outfitting and that many areas are significantly different including the following e HVAC Catalogue upgrades e Draft Library elements for True Type Fonts The appropriate changes have been made to the sample data supplied with Hull amp Outfitting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 214 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Edit Isometrics Search Edit Tools Loo ky Keyplan PA P onset a7 G M Re status Unchecked w All Drwgs lt Layer Y L Drawings Dimn Overall Snap Off HTESTHVAC Drawing POWER_CWAYOO2 Drawing CWAY Gaps Drawing POWER_CwWAYO01 Drawing My_CWAY001 Drawing Ey XDF Sheet 3 of 7 Sheet 4 of 7 Sheet 5 of 7 Sheet 6 of 7 Sheet 7 of 7 e m we g HVAC ISOMETRIC ese rs HTESTHVAC a uae ITER O rr SS EE For full details please refer to the updated Isometric ADP user documentation e Installation Guide e User Guide e Administration Guide Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 215 AV
279. traints None For more information Only noted here Affected programs Hull Design applications Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 56 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 9 11 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 e Anew 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual e Manuals for new functions and products Design Reuse Space Management Surface Manager Report Designer Tags Isometric ADP e Major update for Lexicon manual e Anew 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 lt F1 gt as usual AVEVA Marine gt Design Basic Features amp Concepts gt 1 Engineer Outfitting Detailed Design Manage Administration Model Concept Hull initialisation User Guide Read Me First Assembly Planning In Dabacon Planar Modelling User Guide Factory Automation Space Management Curved Modelling User Guide Marine Migration Surface Manager Automatic Generation of Curved Parts User Guide Marine Customisation Structural Design Automatic Position Number Setting User Guide Weld Planning w Nesting User Guide Legacy Applications _ Hull Standards Post Processors User Guide Manufacturing of Plane Panel Parts User Guide Curved Pla
280. trolled in Hull and Marine Drafting are shown in the table below Core units are independent of the Unit settings and are the same for Hull and Outfitting data Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 21 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Dimension Core unit Coordinate mm Linear measure mm Area mm Volume mm Weight kg Density kg mm Angle degree Presentation Format for Units in Marine Applications Within Hull and Marine Drafting specific application functions values will be presented according to the Hull Drafting settings Attributes in Hull Initial Design are presented according to Initial Design settings Within general functions available in Hull Design or Marine Drafting e g Reporter Attribute addin or Query attribute command values will be presented according to the Outfitting Units system Within common marine applications such as Space Management and Assembly Planning all attributes will be presented according to the Outfitting Units system Within Outfitting specific functions presentation of hull attributes will follow the Outfitting Units system Input Format for Units in Marine Applications In Hull and Marine Drafting applications the input format can be SI or Imperial independent of the Units settings Units in Marine Upgrade and Migration No upgrade or unit conversion from AVEVA Marine 12 0 to 12 1 is required for Units in Hull and Drafting s
281. ts Enables RSO modelling to be made in a more flexible way Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Right Click Contexts Menus and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Right Click Contexts Menus Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design and Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 107 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 9 Stable Multi Face RSO Reference 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 lt number gt 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
282. ts 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 For More Information Further details of the upgrading of old projects are given in the 12 0 to 12 1 Upgrade manual Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 141 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 19 New MANU Data Model Description In AVEVA Marine 12 0 the manufacturing data base MANU reflected the design and for each design block BLOCK the corresponding block MBLOCKk 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 de
283. ts defined by rules can be modified Yes 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Appendices Drafting Default File Keywords Miscellaneous Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 197 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 32 Open Drawing Description Lookup of drawings using the Open Drawing dialog can be slow in projects with 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine
284. tton 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 179 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 16 Improved Dragging Technique 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEV
285. ty in the File Export and File Import functions Benefits Open format for describing compartments Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the XML Menu Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Geometry Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 71 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 12 Release of Weights to Calc 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Surface amp Compartment Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 72 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 13 Axis Setting Reflected in Dialogs 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Hydrostatics AVEVA Marine Hydrodynamics Copyright 1974 to current yea
286. uide Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Functional Structure Menu Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 193 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 28 Curved Panel Holes in Input Model 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 194 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 29 Base Line Position Ruler 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 e Dimension gt 3D gt Distance to Plane gt Leader gt 4 BL e Dimension gt 3D gt Distance to Plane gt Box gt 4 BL e Annotate gt Position Ruler gt Base Line Benefits Makes it possible to have different Base line and take automatic measure from that
287. umber Je a Session User gordon smith Database Name CTBXTEST DESI Tees Session No 2 Database Name CTBXTEST DESI Since Stamp Session No 2 Comment Danley p session comment C High ght Differences 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 258 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 25 3 2Revert Elements Command A new command can revert an element or hierarchy of elements to a previous state gt REVert ELEment l l HIERarchy lt selele gt AT BEFore lt comparison gt gt where the lt comparison gt syntax is similar to that following the SINCE keyword in the DIFFERENCE and OUTPUT CHANGES commands gt lt date time gt LATEST t EXTRACT seXENOS Sse extname STAMP lt name gt 4 t gt 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
288. umbers 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Detailed Design Manufacturing Production Program Interface Automatic Naming of Production Sketches Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Production Programs Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 144 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 15 21 Find Documents Related to Production Parts 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 dis
289. units include inch cm ft metre etc Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 17 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Name of Dimension HashCode Database other specific units comment Word units AbsPressure ABSP pascal bar atm PSI torr mmHg Pressure may be inHg absolute or gauge Acceleration ACCL m s2 gforce gravity Angle ANGL degree radian grade arcmin arcsec Angular Frequency ANGF rpm AngularMomentum ANGM N m s Area SQDI mm2 acre hectare Bore BORE mm in Range limited to mm and inch and Finch Capacitance CAPA farad Charge CHAR coulomb Conductance COND siemens Content PCUD mm 3 Currency CURY USDollar UKPound Euro Current CURR ampere Density DENS kg m3 DensityMANDB MAND kg mm3 Densities stored in MANU database ElectricConductivity CNDT Si m ElectricField EFLD V m2 EMF EMF volt Energy ENER kiloWatthour joule BTU cal EnergyDensity EDEN kg m3 Force FORC newton poundal dyne kgF IbF FoulingFactor FFAC m2 K W Frequency FREQ hertz rpm GaugePressure GAGE pascal bar atm PSI torr mmHg Pressure may be inHg absolute or gauge HeatCapacity ENTR J m HeatingValue HVAL J m3 HeatTransferCoeff HTRA W m2 K Impedance IMPE ohm Inductance INDU henry Inertia INER kg m2 KinematicViscosity KVIS m2 s Length DIST millimetre m in ft cm km mile yard micron thou angstrom LinearDensity
290. use drag amp 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 amp 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 190 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 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 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 191 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 26 RSO Default Colours Description An RSO is given a default colour related to the type of RSO The following c
291. uthentication x V Propagate Link Documents gt Data Access Control p Initialise Location E B gt B gt Locking amp Isolation RTE OAS SAMA WT RT ee T 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 Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 40 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin Create Database 5 x Dsatose Creste w TEAMDiunset Owning Team Nane Descroton lt TEAM gt TEAMA Cris Team lt TEAM gt TEAMB Equpment Team lt TEAM gt TEAMC Steetwork Teas lt TEAM gt TEAMD Pipework Team lt TEAM gt TEAME Mangers And Supports Team lt TEAM gt TEAMF Repecer Team lt TEAM gt TEAMG isocraR Team Hi lt TEAM gt TEAMH Cissner Team lt TEAM gt TEAMI HVAC Team xj Sort by Nave v Filter P Descrp on meet C
292. utside the Framework 2 5 Global 2 6 The Upgrade Process 2 6 1 Locking the Project 2 7 Extract Hierarchies 2 7 1 Working Extracts 2 7 2 Offline Locations 2 8 International Characters Unicode 2 9 Units of Measure 2 9 1 Units in Outfitting 2 9 2 Units in Hull and Drafting 2 10 Schematics Functions 3 Configuration 3 1 Operating Environment 3 2 PC Hardware Configuration 3 3 Microsoft Windows 3 3 1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 3 2 Microsoft Office amp Fonts 3 4 Graphics Cards 3 5 Environment Variables 4 General System Changes 4 1 Unicode Character Handling 4 1 1 Restrictions 4 1 2 Textual File Handling Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin ooo wonvnoanenndbdAaaa4 gqg fF an a a a N CC CC M a a M M M A Coe roe CC aow h qq A A A wWwowWo wo OY OOO AVEVA Marine 12 1 4 1 3 Filenames and PML 4 1 4 Using Forms and Menus 4 1 5 Using TTY Mode 4 1 6 Graphical Output 4 2 Units of Measure 4 2 1 Supported Dimensions and Units 4 2 2 Other UNITS Commands 4 2 3 Upgrading to use new Units 4 2 4 Units set up for Hull and Drafting 4 3 Enhanced Password Protection 4 4 Status Control 4 5 Report generation 4 5 1 New Reporting Add in 4 5 2 Classic Reporting 4 6 GML Performance Database changes 5 1 New Database types 5 1 1 Engineering Database 5 1 2 Design Reference Database 5 2 Access to Databases 5 3 Increase in Number of Databases 5 3 1 Admin GUI 5 4 Duplicate Names 5 5 Flexibility of
293. vidual views in PACE Benefits This makes fairing easier when the scale difference is large between individual views Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide nitial Design Lines Screen Based Reference Guide Patch and Curve Editor Graphics View Control Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 60 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 3 Lines Macro Editor in PACE Description The Lines macro editor is now available in PACE and can be used in a similar fashion as in Lines Recording of macros however should be avoided as not all PACE actions will generate corresponding macro commands Benefits There is now a possibility to run macros without interaction without having to switch to Lines Compatibility Constraints None For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Lines Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 61 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 10 4 Lines Clines Project Limits PMB and Mid Ships Description Cline projection limits have been extended to include a general Midbody limit In this way giving e g the upper limit as Midbody a pline would stop at either the FOS FOB or PMB Aft curve whichever is the aft most point Create New Curve Planar Non Planar Points Non Planar Projected Design Curve Cline Source i Type Pline v
294. w Uh A D o O pA g a a OIiMmioionit FIL RTrim onr m 2 M 3 M M 5 M 6 M 8 M 0 F e Benefits Improved administration of surfaces Compatibility Constraints None For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Project Menu Surfaces Affected Programs Structural Design Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 111 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 13 Block Recreate All 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 For More Information See User Guide Hull Structural Design Functions Overview Functions in the Project Menu Block and AVEVA Space Management Functions Overview Functions in the Project Menu Block Affected Programs AVEVA Marine Structural Design AVEVA Marine Space Management Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 112 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 14 14 Right Click Menu on Blocks 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 recreat
295. word AUTO_CHAIN with values Yes or No system default The system will compare the start and ending points of a new contour with the ones of existing contours structurally belonging to the same component as the created one If any of them coincides with the start ending points of the new contour it will be chained to the new contour Note that at most two contours can be chained to the new geometry one in the beginning and one in the end The criterion for an existing contour to be chained to the created one is thus e AUTO CHAIN is set to Yes e The existing contour belongs to the same component as the created one e The existing contour is not closed e The start or ending points of the existing contour coincides zero tolerance with the start ending points of the created contour The Automatic Chain concept is implemented in the following functions e Insert Polyline e Insert Staircase 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 For More Information See User Guide Marine Drafting Appendices Drafting Default File Keywords Miscellaneous Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 178 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 15 Dimensioning UI Improvements Description A Reset bu
296. ws 19 24 Inspect Drawing 19 25 Draw Assemblies 19 26 RSO Default Colours Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 151 152 153 153 154 155 156 156 157 158 160 161 162 163 163 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 189 190 192 vi AVEVA Marine 12 1 19 27 19 28 19 29 19 30 19 31 19 32 19 33 19 34 19 35 19 36 19 37 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 20 AVEVA Outfitting Draft 20 1 20 2 20 3 20 4 20 5 20 6 20 7 Extended Hatch Patterns Line Styles Line Widths System Defined Line Styles User Defined Line Styles Minimum Line Width Plotting User Interface 20 7 1 DRAFT Plotting Options Form 20 7 2 DXF General Options 20 8 20 9 20 10 20 11 20 12 20 13 20 14 20 15 20 16 20 17 20 18 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 amp DWG Export Configurable DGN Export AVEVA Isometric ADP 21 AVEVA Marine Migration
297. x labelled Integrated Schematics and Engineering determines whether or not the Hull amp Outfitting user will also have read access to the SCHEmatic and ENGIneering databases This option is relevant to customers who also use one of AVEVA s 2D products AVEVA Diagrams or AVEVA Engineering Checking this option allows users to access to these data and is necessary in order to use the Schematic Integrator Addin during the session AV VA HullDesign login MARINE Project mar 5 Username PHULL Planar Hull User v Password soooo MDB PLANARHULL For Planar Hull User v Options Integrate Engineering and Schematics C Open Read Only C Restore Views 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 amp Outfitting A saved view consists of three elements e The current drawlist e View properties e g view direction e Asnapshot 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
298. ymbolic view The restriction could be e an existing contour e a contour created interactively or e 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 Create View Plane Limits Select Outfit Misc Limits Minimum Maximum 2 Fae Jem v Depth Before 100 000 w Behind 100 000 Restriction 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 187 AVEVA Marine 12 1 For More Information Only noted here Affected Programs Hull Design Marine Drafting Copyright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd User Bulletin 188 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 19 24 Inspect Drawing Description In some cases text will not be displayed properly on drawings migrated from Tribon M3 to AVEVA Hull amp Outfitting 12 One reason could be that the codepage used to encode multibyte text has been changed to UTF 8 in AVEVA Hull amp Outfitting 12 The Inspect Drawing function has been exten
299. yright 1974 to current year AVEVA Solutions Ltd 247 AVEVA Marine 12 1 User Bulletin 23 17 Auto Hide Option for Shape Text for Short Connectors Description Two new options have been introduced to keep diagrams nice and clean where text will be displayed on connectors only when some criteria are met The options described below are valid for pipelines instrument lines and HVAC lines e Auto hide text by leg length This option allows to determine a minimum size for the tallest connector leg where text will be visible If the tallest leg of a connector will be shorter than the default then the text will be automatically hidden and the system will notify about this in the System Message Log It is possible to use metric as well as imperial units to determine the distance value To disable this option set it to 0 or just use blank Diagrams Options Defaults Attribute Presentation General options System configuration Settings stored in drawing Annotation settings Pipe Dimensioning Instrumentation Dimensioning HVAC Dimensioning Dialogues Catalogue search settings Auto formatting rules options Sy Element options a gt Valve options Inline instrument options Fitting options Pipe destination options E Shape text options Text Offset longitudinal reference Offset longitudinal Offset perpendicular reference Offset perpendicular Text colour Font Show Text on first segment only Annotations for
300. zed for Engineering data The Engineering product also includes Schematic Model Manager which is no longer sold as a separate product 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 amp Schedules and related data Some of the more prominent features and functions of the Tags module are as follows e Easy to use User Interface Familiar Microsoft Office 2010 like Ul See pictures overleaf e 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 e 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 e Navigation In addition to the list editing it is also possible to navigate the engineering or system hierarchy to find and edit individual items e 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 e Change Highlighting It is possible to highlight and report on changes made by different users and disciplines This als

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