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Surface & Compartment

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 Contents

1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 7
1.1 Aim .................................................................................................................................................... 7
1.2 Objectives ......................................................................................................................................... 7
1.3 Prerequisites .................................................................................................................................... 7
1.4 Document structure ......................................................................................................................... 7
1.5 Using this guide ............................................................................................................................... 7
1.5.1 Process Overview ...................................................................................................................... 8
2 Preparing a design for release ............................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Initial Design Project Tool and Project Association .................................................................... 9
2.2 Releasing Design form Surface & Compartment ....................................................................... 10
2.3 Structural Design Preparation and Considerations ................................................................... 10
2.3.1 Upper Deck .............................................................................................................................. 10
2.3.2 Open Space ............................................................................................................................. 11
2.3.3 Matching RSOs to structure ..................................................................................................... 12
2.3.4 Transom ................................................................................................................................... 12
2.3.5 Superstructure ......................................................................................................................... 13
2.3.6 None planar internal Surfaces ................................................................................................. 14
2.3.7 Importing changes from Database ........................................................................................... 14
2.4 Releasing a Design for Production .............................................................................................. 14
2.4.1 Marking for release .................................................................................................................. 15
2.4.2 Envelopes ................................................................................................................................ 15
2.4.3 Surfaces used as Appendages ................................................................................................ 15
2.4.4 Surfaces ................................................................................................................................... 16
2.4.5 Internal Surfaces (RSOs) ......................................................................................................... 17
2.4.6 Compartments ......................................................................................................................... 17
2.4.7 2D and 3D Curves ................................................................................................................... 18
3 Avoiding problems ................................................................................................................................ 19
3.1 Avoiding problem before release ................................................................................................. 19
3.1.1 Name/Identifiers ....................................................................................................................... 19
3.1.2 Patch boundaries ..................................................................................................................... 19
3.1.3 Patch orientation ...................................................................................................................... 20
3.1.4 Releasing to Design options .................................................................................................... 20
3.2 Avoiding problems after release .................................................................................................. 20
3.2.1 Multiple branches ..................................................................................................................... 20

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 CHAPTER 1

1 Introduction

This document is intended to assist the user of the AVEVA Initial Design Surface & Compartment module to
configure a design before it is released for use in Structural Design or Hull.

1.1 Aim

How to effectively organise and manage the Surface & Compartment design to promote efficient use of the
design downstream within the production applications.

1.2 Objectives

 To understand how to configure a design for release to production.

 To understand the effects of various configurations on the downstream workflows.

1.3 Prerequisites

The reader should be familiar with Surface & Compartment and the Project Tool.

1.4 Document structure

Technical document

1.5 Using this guide

Certain text styles are used to indicate special situations throughout this document, here is a summary;

Menu pull downs and button press actions are indicated by bold dark turquoise text.

Information the user has to Key-in 'will be red and in inverted commas.'

Annotation for trainees benefit:

 Additional information
 Refer to other documentation

System prompts should be bold and italic in inverted commas i.e. 'Choose function'

Example files or inputs will be in the courier new font, colours and styles used as before.

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1.5.1 Process Overview

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2 Preparing a design for release

2.1 Initial Design Project Tool and Project Association

In order for Initial Design data to be used downstream in Hull, it must be released to a Dabacon database.
Releasing information to a Dabacon database requires that an Initial Design project is “associated” with a
Dabacon project. The association is made using the Initial Design Project Tool.

To associate an Initial Design project with a Dabacon database, choose the project in the Project Tool tree
and select the menu option Project > Associate. A dialogue allows the user to provide the name of the
associated Dabacon project and the preferred mdb (Multiple Database).

When a release operation is carried out from Initial Design Lines or Surface and Compartment, a Dabacon
login dialogue will be presented with the associated Dabacon project and preferred mdb. The user must
provide a valid user name and password in order to release the information to the Dabacon project.

An initial Design project can be disassociated from a Dabacon project by deselecting the checkbox in the
“Associated with a Dabacon Project” dialogue in the Project Tool.

Once a Dabacon database is set as the current Marine project an Initial Design project can be associated
with this database. The Marine project will have a subdirectory named navarch, this is where the initial
design files should be placed or created i.e. this should be the Initial Design Project Folder.

For instance when HULL has been

installed on a PC with the supplied
projects, there will be an example
Marine project set up named MAR. So
when creating a new Initial Design
Project Folder we would select the
folder
C:\AVEVA\Marine\Projects12.1.SP3\M
ar\marmar\navarch.

Once the Initial Design project has been

associated with the MAR project the user will
be asked for a user name and password, in
this case it will be:

Username : INDES
Password : INDES

The user is also requested to supply a

preferred multiple database, in this case
INITDES.

From within the Aveva Initial Design Project Tool it is possible to release a design from the current project by
selecting it from the design list and selecting Design > Release form the menu or selecting the Release

Design icon .

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2.2 Releasing Design form Surface & Compartment

When releasing a design (File > Release > Design) the users has the options to release to select:

 Initial Design project (only releases hull-form as DMS file to Initial Design project)

 Dabacon project (releases all geometry marked for release to Dabacon database)

2.3 Structural Design Preparation and Considerations

When modelling surfaces within Surface & Compartment it is worth first considering how these surfaces will
be dealt with downstream from Surface & Compartment, this is largely down to whether they are planar
(made of one or more individual planar surfaces) or curved. Downstream we need to consider two
applications the first is Curved Hull which can process both curved and planar surfaces and Planar Hull that
can only process planar surfaces. Further for a planar surface to be processed by Structural Design or
Planar Hull it must be a RSO. The advantage of using Planar Hull instead of Curved Hull to process a planar
surface is that it has a greater range of functionality than Curved Hull.

2.3.1 Upper Deck

A Structural Design (and Hull) restriction is that the main hull-form surface is open, i.e. it does not return to
the centreline at the top. In order to satisfy this Structural Design requirement, Surface & Compartment, on
releasing an envelope or surface (including a bare-hull), splits the faces into two separate surfaces. One is
the main hull-form surface (named according to the element's ID) minus the faces that constitute the Upper
Deck and the other is the remaining Upper Deck faces (named according to the element's ID appended with
UPDK).

When using a hull-form or editing an envelope definition, Surface & Compartment automatically allocates
certain faces as the Upper Deck. This automatic process may not produce the required set of faces for every
ship and patch arrangement combination and hence there are tools provided for checking and modification.
These tools are accessed via the menu Compartmentation > Hull Design Preparation > Upper Deck

Identify For the selected element, highlights the faces marked as Upper Deck
surfaces.

Add face Used to interactively pick additional faces for the Upper Deck surface of an
element.

Remove Face Used to interactively pick faces to be removed from the Upper Deck surface
of an element

Clear All Faces Used to clear all faces that form the Upper Deck surface of the interactively
selected element

It can be useful for the person carrying out the structural design tasks to have the transom of the envelope
incorporated into the definition deck this can be done as described above by using the Add face function.
The transom may be replaced as a RSO instead of being part of the envelope see below.

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The envelope transom has been added as part of the deck definition for Structural Design, this can be seen
by selecting identify and then selecting the envelope. The surfaces that make up the deck are edged in grey.

2.3.2 Open Space

The surfaces that make up an envelope should not have a free edge, that is, each edge of each surface
should adjoin another surface. In the example below we see a bulwark that has been modelled this should
be modelled as an enclosed space. Enclosing this space does not cause a problem for the production
applications as the additional surface or surfaces can simply be ignored.

Note that measures must be taken in the Hydrostatics module to remove the extra volume/buoyancy from
the hull-form. This extra volume will be modelled as a compartment and subtracted from the hull-form.

 Within the Hydrostatics module to subtract a volume (in the form of a compartment) from the
MAINHULL simply select the compartment type as being Internal and its category as Mainhull.

Free edges on envelope not correct No free edges this is correct

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2.3.3 Matching RSOs to structure

When constructing RSO’s consideration should be given to the structure that they will be associated with
within the Hull application. In Surface & Compartment it would be possible to create a cranked deck so that
a portion of the deck was vertical and represented a bulkhead, this would not be desirable, as the modelling
process in Hull requires separate RSOs for these two distinct structures.

2.3.4 Transom

It may be useful to those using

Structural Design downstream if
the aft end of the vessel is
extended a short distance. If this is
done then the transom needs to be
represented as a bulkhead (RSO).
Again the additional volume will
have to be subtracted in the
Hydrostatics module. The reasons
for doing this are firstly that if the
transom is a planar surface and a
RSO it can be handled in Planar
Hull instead of Curved Hull and
secondly if the hull-form extends aft
then it ensures that the seams
intersect correctly in Curved Hull.

Aft end extended

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2.3.5 Superstructure

It is possible to create superstructure in

Surface & Compartment in the form of a
second envelope. The problem with this
is that the surfaces making up the
superstructure will not be comprised of
RSOs and will have to be dealt with
downstream by Curved Hull even if the
structure is made up entirely of planes.

If the superstructure is planar it could be

created in Structural Design using the
“sketch” function to define RSO’s or by
use of Planar Hull to model the panels.

Superstructure can be created as an additional envelope but

must be processed downstream by Curved Hull.

To facilitate this, limits should be

created for the superstructure in the
form of RSOs. This consisted of
producing a second envelop which is
a box (large enough to hold the
superstructure) and containing six
internal surface. These internal
surfaces (two decks, two transverse
bulkheads and two longitudinal
bulkheads) can be used in Structural
Design or Planar Hull as limits within
which additional RSO’s may be
defined, which may then be used
when creating the superstructure.

Here the internal surfaces of the box envelope can be seen, these
are used in Planar Hull to construct the superstructure.

Alternatively the superstructure could be created in Surface & Compartment in a similar way by creating a
box shaped envelope and constructing the required RSOs within the box. The additional six RSOs required
when using Planar Hull would not be needed with this approach.

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2.3.6 None planar internal Surfaces

It may be necessary at times to have a deck or a bulkhead that is

none planar, the way to deal with this is to create a surface to
represent the deck or bulkhead using the available surface tools
and then copy the surface to a bulkhead or deck. It is important
that the surface extends well beyond the envelope. When the
deck is created from this surface the deck will be trimmed by the
envelope. For production purposes it is necessary to retain the
original surface and ensure that it is available for release, the
reason is that though the deck exists and it can be used for
compartment limits etc it cannot be treat as an RSO in Planar
Hull. The curved surface can however be processed in Curved
Hull.

The surface that is to be used as a deck should extend beyond the envelope

2.3.7 Importing changes from Database

If the position of RSO’s have been altered within the DABACON database by some other application these
changes can be incorporated into the Surface & Compartment design by the use of the File > Use > Design
command. Once the positions of the RSO’s have been updated it will be necessary to use one of the
Regenerate functions to apply these changes to any geometry that has been affected by the change in
position of a bulkhead or deck etc.

2.4 Releasing a Design for Production

From Surface & Compartment the following model data can be released for further uses in Structural Design
and Hull Design.

 Internal surfaces (Reference Surface Object (RSO))

 Compartments
 Envelopes
 Surfaces
 3D curves

 If a 2D curve (which is not a section, waterline or buttock) is required to be released it should first be
copied to a 3D curve. This is done by typing COPY CLINE3D into the command line and then
selecting the curve with the cursor, the 3D copy can then be released.

The User can choose to release any internal surfaces, compartments and surfaces, which aren’t part of an
envelope. For internal surfaces though there is one restriction, all objects will be transferred, the release flag
will only guide the system to mark the internal surfaces as available to work with or to be hidden from the
Structural or Hull Design users.
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2.4.1 Marking for release

To mark an element for release as Design geometry use the Full View tree, ensure each item required is
marked with a tick, , signifying that it should be released. If it is not marked either:

 simply select the box to the right of the name with the mouse or,

 select the object from the tree and use the pop-up menu item Design Status > On (use the
other menu items Off or Toggle to clear the status or switch its current status respectively).

After the required items have been mark for release the design is released by selecting from the main menu
File > Release > Design.

When the File > Release > Design option is selected the user is given the option to release to either or both
of the following:

 Initial Design project (only releases hull-form as DMS file to Initial Design project)

 Dabacon project (releases all geometry marked for release to Dabacon database)

 Note that the releasing of surfaces used as appendages is carried out differently from this, see
below. 2.4.3.

2.4.2 Envelopes

An envelope object is a collection of one base surface (bare hull), a main deck and possibly appendages
that have been trimmed and united to the bare hull. The envelope object can only be released as one entity.

2.4.3 Surfaces used as Appendages

It is possible to release untrimmed copies of the

appendages. It is only possible to release all of these
appendages or none, no individual selection of
appendages for release is possible.

The above restriction has been adopted to maintain data

integrity. By either releasing all appendages or skip them,
it is possible to adjust the envelope object to reflect the
difference on the hull design side.

To mark the appendages for release it is necessary to

select the envelope from the Full View tree and select
Edit from the pop-up menu then in the Envelope
Definition dialog that appears check the Release
appendages to design box.

Check the Release

appendages to design box

 Note that when the Release appendages to design check box is checked then a copy of the bare
hull-form is released as well as the envelope.

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2.4.4 Surfaces

Surfaces are released to the database either

as single surfaces or as part of an envelope
definition.

Surfaces marked for design release will be

written to the database. These are marked by
checking the Design box next to the surface
in the Full View tree.

If a copy of the bare hull-form is required to be released as a surface then see sub-section 2.4.3.

It is worth noting that a surface once released can be used as a Main Deck within Hull. Within Structural
Design a surface can be registered as a Main Deck. This is useful if the deck can’t be represented as a
collection of planes and thus can’t be created within the Internal Surface Editor.

Surface set as the Main Deck within Structural Design

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2.4.5 Internal Surfaces (RSOs)

Internal surfaces or RSOs are always released, the release to design flag in the surface tree only reflects if a
RSO is visible in structural design or not.

 NOTE! Checking one or only a few internal surfaces for release to design will not release only the
selected ones, but also all RSOs, which have been modified since the previous release. The
checked RSOs will be made visible to the Structural, Hull and Outfitting modules and the unchecked
RSOs will be hidden. This is regardless of previous state.

2.4.6 Compartments

Compartments marked for design release will

be written to database. These are marked by
checking the Design box next to the
compartment in the Full View tree. Releasing
the compartments for Calc must be done in
the Compartment View tree.

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2.4.7 2D and 3D Curves

In Surface & Compartment curves can either be

imported together with a lines surface, from a
SAT file or created. For curves imported
together with a hull-form from Lines a reference
to the surface that they are created in is
automatically created.

For other curves a User needs to manually

assign a surface reference to it. A curve that will
be used in a modelling application must have a
surface reference assigned to it for it be
released, further it also needs to be marked for
release to design.

To assign a surface to a curve select the curve

from the Full View tree and from the pop-up
select Select surface and the select a surface
from the list.

Curves released from Surface & Compartment can be used as Seam or Hull Curves within Curved Hull or
Structural Design, therefore the user should take advantage of the Detach Edge function within Surface &
Compartment to extract useful 3D curves such as knuckle from surfaces.

Curve extracted from the intersection of the hull and a bow thruster

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3 Avoiding problems

3.1 Avoiding problem before release

There exist a number of known problems in the Hull applications that can be mitigated by taking pre-emptive
measures while creating the Surface & Compartments design.

3.1.1 Name/Identifiers

Name given to elements of geometry in Surface & Compartment should comply with the following
restrictions, they should:

 start with a letter

 contain only upper case letters or numbers

 contain no spaces or any other none alphanumeric character

In addition to the above restrictions the names should be kept short if it will be used as a prefix in Hull to
create other names. The reason is that there is a fixed maximum name length permitted in Hull and names
are created automatically by Hull by concatenating existing names.

3.1.2 Patch boundaries

When constructing patch boundaries in Lines it is quite natural to wish to use existing orthogonal curves
such as sections but if such a patch boundary happens to coincide with a section view created in Hull, Hull
may struggle to calculate surface normals correctly. It may be helpful if this configuration was avoided by
ensuring that patch boundaries were not placed at position likely to be used in hull symbolic views, such as
frame positions. The type of error that can occur is that the seams symbols passing through the patch
boundary may appear on the inside of the hull-form they are associated with instead of the outside.

Seam symbols on the inside of the hull-form

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3.1.3 Patch orientation

If a hull-form surface is create in the Lines application the constituent patches are so constructed as to
ensure that the directions of the surface normals are consistent over all patches, in short none of the
patches are created inside out. This consistency is based directly on the configuration of the patch
geometry. In some CAD systems if a surface patch has been created inside out a logical attribute is
attached to that patch, this attributed would be checked when certain operation were carried out. If a normal
was created and the attribute indicated that the patch was inside out then the direction of the normal would
be reversed. If a third party hull-form is imported into Surface & Compartment it is obvious if a patch within
that surface is inside out because if the surface is made “single sided” it is only shaded on one side and is
transparent if view from the other side. Within Surface & Compartment a patch can have its inside and
outside reversed, within the code this is achieved by attaching logical attribute. It should be noted that it is
not possible to identify weather a patch is inside out by using Surface Manager, nor is it possible to reverse
the orientation. Problems can occur if a third party hull-form is used within the Hull applications, if any of the
faces are inside out errors may occur. Even if a third party surface is imported into Surface & Compartment
and patches are reversed (as required) by attaching attributes to them these attributes are ignored by Hull.

3.1.4 Releasing to Design options

When releasing to Design (File > Release > Design) the users has the options to release to:

 Initial Design project (only releases hull-form as DMS file to Initial Design project)

 Dabacon project (releases all geometry mark for release to Dabacon database)

If the user wishes to release to the Dabacon database both options should be selected.

3.2 Avoiding problems after release

There may be problems that occur that can’t be pre-empted in Surface & Compartment but action may be
taken within the application the data is released to.

3.2.1 Multiple branches

In Structural Design when creating a shell profile it is possible to encounter the following error message:

Error 20507 signalled when creating profile MTPT287:

The space curve consists of more than one curve branch.!
Change limits box or adjust tolerance/iterations!

This error can occur in regions where the profile may be split by a gap in the surface such as in the region of
the bulb, here for a given X value there are two parts to a section.

To avoid this problem the user must create 2 separate profiles and limit them in the Z plane.

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