Overview
Using This Guide
What's New?
Getting Started
Entering the Workbench
System Creation
Tooltips in the Specifications Tree
Deck Creation
Stiffener Creation
Face Plate Stiffener Creation
Beam Creation
Opening Creation
Organizing Your Document
User Tasks
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
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
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 Endcuts
Defining Slots
Adding Detail Features
Placing Endcuts
Editing and Deleting End Cuts
Placing Slots
Editing and Deleting Slots
Openings
Creating an Opening Using a Sketch
Creating an Opening with a 3D Object
Creating an Opening with a Standard Opening
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
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 Connections
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
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
Comparing Feature Dictionaries
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
Catalogs
Resolved Sections Catalog: Overview
Creating a Specifications Catalog (Structures)
Creating a Standard Opening Catalog
Using the Structure Detailing Features Catalog
Adding Slots, Endcuts and Small Assemblies Templates to a Catalog
Generating Resolved Parts from Parametric Parts
Finding Sample Data on Various Platforms
Workbench Description
Structure System Toolbar
Functional Volume Set Toolbar
Functional Objects Toolbar
Seam Definition Toolbar
Detailing Features Toolbar
Grid Tool Toolbar
Functional Volume Toolbar
Glossary
Index