Structure Functional Design

Getting Started

Entering the Workbench

System Creation

Tooltips in the Specifications Tree

Stiffener Creation

Face Plate Stiffener Creation

Opening Creation

Organizing Your Document

Saving Documents

Working With Systems

Creating a System

Plane System and Grid

Creating Plane Systems

Creating a Plane System Grid

Synchronizing Hull and Plane Systems

Synchronizing the Hull

Synchronizing the Plane Systems

Creating a Plate

Creating a Shell

Creating a Deck

Creating a Bulkhead

Creating a Web Girder

Defining Orientation

Managing Multi-Intersections

Creating Multiple Plates

Using the Advanced Plate Command

Creating Stiffeners

Creating a Deck Longitudinal Stiffener

Creating a Deck Transverse Stiffener

Creating a Stiffener Along a Plane

Creating a Stiffener Using a Curve as a Support

Using the Stiffener Dialog Box

Defining Orientation

Creating Multiple Stiffeners

Managing Discontinuity

Using Section Manipulators

Creating Free Edge Stiffeners

Creating a Face Plate Stiffener

Creating a Coaming

Defining Orientation

Splitting Objects

Organizing Seams and Breaks

Creating a Seam on a Plate

Creating a Seam in a Stiffener

Creating a Break on a Plate

Creating a Break on a Stiffener

Modifying Seams

Updating Object Names

Creating Beams and Pillars

Creating a Beam Using Point and Length

Creating a Beam Using Point and Limit

Creating Beams Using Point to Point

Creating Beams Using a Curve

Creating Beams Using Beams and a Plane

Creating Pillars Using Reference Planes

Defining Orientation for Pillar/Beam

Defining Small Assemblies

Defining Support Geometry

Adding Small Assemblies

Placing Brackets

Defining Detail Features

Defining End Cuts based on a User Defined Feature

Defining Built-in End Cuts

Creating a Bitmap Image

Defining Slots based on a User Defined Feature

Adding Detail Features

Placing End Cuts

Placing End Cuts on Multiple Profiles

Editing and Deleting End Cuts

Editing and Deleting Slots

Creating Scallops

Editing and Deleting Scallops

Creating Scallop on Axis

About Advanced Copy

Creating Advanced Copy

Working with GVS Editor

About GVS Editor

Editing GVS File

Creating an Opening Using a Sketch

Creating an Opening with a 3D Object

Creating an Opening with a Standard Opening

Effect of Openings on Stiffeners

Functional Volumes and Planning Breaks

Creating a Functional Volume Set

Creating a Functional Volume

Preparing for Planning Breaks

Editing a Planning Break

Using the Planning Break Manager

Rules for Computation

Estimating Weight and COG

Managing Structural Objects in Geometrical Sets

Using Finite Element Modeling

About Finite Element Models

Generating Finite Element Models

Constraint Management and Proxy CATPart

Creating Mesh Parts

Mesh Parts, Properties, and Materials

Additional Information

Drawing Production

Using Generative View Styles

Graphic Replacement for Reference Plane Systems

Graphic Replacement for Stiffeners

Graphic Replacement for Beams

Graphic Replacement for Plates

Graphic Replacement for Openings

Graphic Replacement for Slots

Graphic Replacement for Scallops

Adding Categories to Structural Objects

Generating Shell Expansion Drawings

View Generation Modes

Creating FTA View

Creating an Advanced Front View

Creating a Logical View

Creating a Shell Expansion View

Edit/Query Object Properties

Edit/Multi-edit Objects

Edit or Display Properties of an Object

Filter Shown Properties of an Object

Creating Reports

Defining the Report Format

Generating a Report

Knowledgeware Capabilities

Using Knowledgeware Packages

Analyzing Designs

Viewing Related Objects

Analyzing Connections

Analyzing Interferences

Material Management

Defining Material for Profiles

Defining Material for Plates

Editing Material for Profiles

Editing Material for Plates

Using Reference Plane Browser

Basic Navigation

Using the Formulas

Accessing the Browser

Computed Attributes

List of Attributes

Copying and Pasting Objects

Copy and Paste in Same Place

Changing One Input

Customizing Settings

Setting Options

Conventions and Parameters

Defining Molded Conventions

Defining Project Parameters

Project Reference Hull

Project Reference Planes

Project Resource Management

Using the PRM Command

Understanding Project Resource Management

Checking a PRM File for Errors

Organizing Resources in PRM File

List of PRM Resources

Feature Dictionary: Creating Classes and Attributes

Defining User Names for Classes and Attributes

Object Naming Rules

Modifying the Object Naming Rules

Add Computed Attribute to Object Name

Managing User Sections

Sketching Profiles for User Sections

Defining Anchor Points for User Sections

Creating a Simplified Representation

Section Parameters Explained

Creating a Specifications Catalog (Structures)

Creating a Standard Opening Catalog

Using the Structure Detailing Features Catalog

Adding Slots, End Cuts and Small Assemblies Templates to a Catalog

Adding Resolved Sections to Profile Families

Generating Resolved Parts from Parametric Parts

Finding Sample Data on Various Platforms

Managing Structure Settings via a VB Macro

Workbench Description

Structure System Toolbar

Structure Drafting Toolbar

Functional Volume Set Toolbar

Functional Objects Toolbar

Seam Definition Toolbar

Detailing Features Toolbar

Grid Tool Toolbar

Functional Volume Toolbar