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Part
I
Basic Training Course
Basic Training Course
- Each training step is explained in a so-called 'Topic' which starts with a picture
(select topic link 'Start situation') of what you should see on your screen after the
accompanied drawing is loaded ("GET"). The name of the topic is the same as
the drawing (view) to be loaded.
- The 'Overview of actions' lists the individual actions to be taken to get the
desired result (which can be viewed selecting the topic link 'End situation')
- In case a certain action has not been explained/described yet in one of previous
training steps, the action is marked as a topic link which will be displayed when
selecting this topic link. To return to the 'Overview of actions' you can use one of
the 'arrow' icons which can be found at the top and at the bottom of the topic
- To switch back and forth between the 'Basic training steps', the 'arrow' icons at
the top and at the bottom of the topic can be used
- In section "Make section available for dashed" we need section 109, this section
is the mirrored section from 108. In this training course we aspect that two person
following this course and one of them is making the section 108 and the other
109 mirror.
Overview of actions:
When the program has started up, it will always ask you to select the name of a
project and a section belonging to the selected project by displaying the panel
"Change directory":
On the left part of this panel you see an overview of the current available projects;
"bnrtraining", "bnrdemo" and "bnrveg1500".
The training project "bnrtraining" is the default project and is shown in the left
upper input box. This project contains three sections, which are presented on the
right part of the panel in a list.
These sections belong to the group 'Hull' as it is presented in the combo box
above the list.
A project can have more groups and only those section will be presented which
are assigned to the active group which can be selected by the combo box.
Please select the section "999" of project "bnrtraining". Now the system is
entering this directory "999".
Overview of actions:
To start a new section, you have to create a new directory. Within NUPAS-
CADMATIC Hull only one person can work at the same time in one section. If you
want to start with a new section, you always enter an existing section of the
project you need to work on. Therefore you have selected the existing section
999 from the project bnrtraining within the previous training step. From this
section 999 you will create a new directory named 108.
To create directory "108" you select "File"Ú"Create directory" from the menu
and enter the directory name 108 in the panel "Create directory":
On the left part of this panel you find the current available sections. This panel
also contains three fields; 'Name', 'Width grid' and 'Height grid'. The new
directory name, which always must be a number, is entered for the 'Name' field.
During this training course you will skip the other fields 'Width grid' and 'Height
grid' and accept the presented default values. After entering the name of the new
section, select the 'OK' button. Now the system creates the new directory "108"
and enters this directory after which you will be presented with the following
panel:
This panel enables you to define an area for the created section, please use the
following values to define this area:
The next step consists of indicating the drawing mode, drawn or dashed, for each
section. For this purpose the panel "Choose sections" is displayed:
In general, only the section where you will be working in should be presented as
drawn. The other sections around this section can be presented dashed if you
want to see them as well.
You will only work in section "108" and will probably need information from the
other sections to be presented as 'Dashed' in your drawings. This can be done by
selecting the group 'Hull' ( all the sections presented in the column 'Sections')
from the Pull-down menu in the 'Dashed' column which already has been set as
default.
In the next step, you can create views. A view has an area in which the
constructions will be shown. The system displays the following message panel:
Please answer this question "Do you want to make views yet?" by selecting the
'YES' button.
The views will be created within the next three training steps.
In the previous training step you have created a new directory 108 and indicated
which sections need to be drawn or dashed. Because you have answered the
question "Do you want to make views yet?" with YES, the system gives you the
possibility to create new views immediately after creating a new directory.
In this training step you will create two top views "Deck 6200 above base" and
"Deck 3500 above base".
Overview of actions:
1. Create top views "Deck 6200 above base" and "Deck 3500 above base"
You will create two new top views "Deck 6200 above base" and "Deck 3500
above base" as part of the directory creation process.
You enter the values for the length, breadth and height of top view "Deck 6200
above base" in panel "Top view section":
This panel contains three obligatory fields 'Height', 'Min. Length' and 'Max.
Length'. Because this view is positioned at 6200 above base, the value for
'Height' is 6200. The 'Min. Length' and 'Max. Length' are determined by
respectively the frame number of the aft border and the frame number of the
forward border with corresponding values 21.5 and 31.5. Since you will only work
on starboard, also the optional fields 'Min. Breadth' and 'Max. Breadth' are filled
in. Because your plate is starting 100 mm on starboard and you also want to see
a part of the port side block, the value of -500 should be given for 'Min. Breadth'.
Unfortunately you don't know the exact value for 'Max. Breadth' at the current
position. If you don't know a value and you want the value to be determined by
the hull line, you don't enter any value and leave it blank.
If you are working on port side, the values for 'Min. Breadth' and 'Max. Breadth'
are just the opposite. You don't enter a value for 'Min. Breadth' but leave it blank
and you enter 500 as value for 'Max. Breadth'.
Below you will find a short explanation of the other optional fields:
· Only one top view of this size exists, therefore the value for 'No. of sections'
has the default value "1";
· The default value "25" for 'Scale' is used;
· The 'Step size frame numbers' with default value "2" is used in combination
with the activated 'Centre line' to display the centerline and to write every
second frame number along the centerline;
· The 'Drawing number' stands for the section number and is automatically
filled in;
· There are four types of views available: Orthogonal, Single slant side view,
Single slant frame view and Double slant;
· Activating 'Show equipment' will display the available equipment from piping;
· Activating 'Show profile flange' will display profile flanges in three line
presentation instead of the default one line presentation;
· Activating 'Show shape' will display the hull line;
· The 'Replace' option will be explained later during this course.
By selecting the 'Next top view' button or 'Create' button, the specified top view
is created. Since you have to create a second top view "Deck 3500 above base",
you select the 'Next top view' button.
After selecting the 'Next top view' button the same panel "Top view section"
appears again with the same values as default with the exception the value for
'Height'.
The second top view you want to create is "Deck 3500 above base" with a value
of 3500 for 'Height'. Now let's check the other values: only the value for 'Min.
Breadth' needs to be changed, because this view is not so wide as the previous
view. Let's modify the value for 'Min. Breadth' from -500 into 3500, meaning 3500
from centerline. Please select the 'Create' button since this is the last top view
that you are creating at this point.
Two top views have been created with their drawing names "108-6200" and "108-
3500".
After the creation of top views the system automatically gives you the possibility
to create one or more side views.
In this training step you will create two side views "Long. section 3960 off cl" and
"Long. section 6600 off cl".
Overview of actions:
1. Create side views "Long. section 3960 off cl" and "Long. section 6600 off cl"
You will create two new side views "Long. section 3960 off cl" and "Long. section
6600 off cl" as part of the directory creation process.
The first side view you will create is "Long. section 3960 off cl" with the following
values:
This side view is positioned at 3960 from centerline with a corresponding value
3960 for 'Breadth'. The values for 'Min. Length' and 'Max. Length' are correct.
Because the view must start from the hull line, no value is entered for 'Min.
Height'. The view should stop just above the upper deck "Deck 6200 above
base" , Therefore you should insert the value 6500 for 'Max. Height' . Because
you will make the side views one by one, please select the 'Next side view'
button.
If you are working on port side, you only have to change the value for 'Breadth'
from 3960 into -3960.
Now the same panel "Side view section" appears again with the same values with
the exception of the value for 'Breadth'. The second side view "Long. section
6600 off CL" is positioned at 6600 from centerline, so the new value for 'Breadth'
is 6600. All the other values are correct. At the moment you will not create more
side views, but finish the creation of side views by selecting the 'Create' button.
Two side views have been created with their standard drawing names "108-3960"
and "108-6600".
After the creation of side views the system automatically gives you the possibility
to create one or more frame views.
In this training step you will create eight frame views "Frame 23" to "Frame 30".
Overview of actions:
You will create eight frame views "Frame 23" to "Frame 30" as part of the
directory creation process.
The eight frame views can be created in one action with the following values:
The value for 'Length' in the case of frame views is not the value from aft
perpendicular, but just the aft most frame number! In this case the aft most frame
number is 23. Officially the 'Min. Height' could be left blank, meaning the view will
start from the hull baseline, but the shape is rather high and you don't need the
lower part of it. As recommendation please enter the value 1500 for 'Min. Height'.
The values for 'Max. Height' and 'Max. Breadth' are correct. Only the value for
'Min. Breadth' must be changed from 3500 into -500, because all eight frame
views will be created in one action. The decision to make the views in one action
means that the values 8 and 1 must be entered for 'No. of sections' and 'Step
size'. Please make sure that the 'Base lines' button is not activated and select
the 'Create' button to complete the creation of frame views.
As you can see in the dialogue window for output, the frame views are created
one by one.
Start situation
As you see, the graphical screen of NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull is still empty. Now
you want to have a look at the created views by loading them. You can load a
view or drawing by selecting the function "GET" from the toolbar.
For instance, load the frame view "Frame 27" with the name "108-27".
Overview of actions:
End situation
After selecting this icon the panel "Choose section" is displayed that enables you
to load a drawing. Loading a drawing means opening and displaying.
You can select the type of view by means of the radio buttons on the top right of
the panel shown below. The drawing number can be selected from the box below
the radio buttons. The default number shown is the current section number. If you
select a different drawing number or click another radio button, all drawings
belonging to that type of view are shown in the column on the left. You can load
one of these drawings by selecting its number.
Please select the drawing "108-27" from the list. The drawing will be displayed on
your graphical screen.
When you load a drawing by using the toolbar icon "GET", the program asks you
to update the view by displaying the following message panel:
Updating a section means regenerating the view to present all previously created
construction parts within the area of the current view which have not been saved
in the drawing already.
Please select 'Do not update' since no construction has been created so far.
Start situation
Now you will start making your first plate. When creating plates it is very important
to determine the right sequence:
Always try to achieve that a new plate refers to other plates!
As it can be seen on the drawing there are two main decks "Deck 6200" and
"Deck 3500" and a longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" in between those
decks. This means that you should create the decks first and later on the
longitudinal bulkhead, which then can be referred to the lower and the upper
deck. These working sequence results in a so called topological connection or
relation between the plates.
That's why you will start with creating the upper deck "Deck 6200 above base".
This deck consists of one plate with a thickness of 8 mm.
Overview of actions:
1. Clear the screen if at this point you already have loaded a drawing. This can
be done by selecting the "Kill all" button from the speed bar.
2. Load drawing top view "108-6200" q
3. Place standard text "Deck 6200 above base" above the view
4. Create plate "Deck 6200" with a thickness of 8 mm but without cutout
Later on you will create the necessary cutout by modifying the plate contour.
End situation
Load drawing top view "108-6200" is similar to load drawing frame view "108-27",
but you have to select "Top" as type of view and "108-6200" as drawing name
within panel "Choose section".
Recommendation: Place standard text at the view before you start creating
any structure!
When there is too little space above the view to place the standard text, the view
needs to be shifted down by using the "PAN" option:
Press this button <Ctrl> and shift the view by means of the mouse and place it at
the desired location.
Now there is enough space above the view to place the standard text by selecting
"TEXT" from the toolbar :
To place standard text above a view you only have to select one of the texts. In
this example please select the text "Deck 6200 above base". The selected text
will appear in the graphical screen. By means of the mouse you can indicate the
position where you would like to have the text placed . You can reposition this text
afterwards by using the hot key <z> or <Z> in combination with the mouse.
Next, you want to have everything back in the full screen. You can use the
function "BOX PLA" from the speed bar for this:
Now you will create your first plate "Deck 6200" without cutout.
One of the most frequently used functions within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull is the
creation of plates. The plate creation function has a considerable number of
options, due to the fact that plates can have very different shapes. During this
training course you will create several plates with increasing level of complexity.
Each plate has a specified thickness and contour.
Within the current application 3D-Contek the plate will always be situated in the
plane of the current view. Within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull plate boundaries must
be defined counterclockwise.
Examples of possible plate boundaries are:
- Hull shape;
- Plates and profiles;
- Local horizontal and vertical limitations;
- Lines and arcs drawn by yourself.
After selecting this icon the panel "Plate thickness and type of material" appears:
This panel contains one obligatory field 'Thickness' and three optional fields
'Thickness direction', 'Type of material' and 'Shift of working plane'. Only
the values for 'Thickness' and 'Thickness direction' will be of concern during
the basic training course. In this case plate "Deck 6200" has a thickness of 8 mm
and the thickness direction is from base. After accepting these values by
selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the plate boundaries or plate
relations by means of the panel "Define a plate contour".
The boundaries of plate "Deck 6200" without cutout will be defined as followings:
· Start with the aft boundary of the plate and select the 'Min. Length' button.
The aft boundary is located 100 mm beyond frame 22 (at the fore ship side).
This value must be entered as 22+100 for 'Min. Length';
· Applying the rule that plate boundaries must be defined counterclockwise, the
next boundary of the plate is the hull line. This boundary can be defined by
giving an indicating point inside the hull at the graphical window;
· The next boundary is the forward boundary of the plate located at frame 31.
Select the 'Max. Length' button and enter 31 as value in the entry box;
· The last boundary of the plate is a line with a parallel distance of 100 mm from
the centerline. Select the 'Min. Breadth' button and enter 100 as value in the
entry box
The following rules can assist you in determining the type of length (minimum or
maximum) for a certain definition:
· If there is material( of the plate to be created) left on the right side of the
definition, like the aft, this definition is considered as minimum length;
· If there is no material(of the plate to be created) left on the right side of the
definition, like frame 31, this definition is considered as maximum length.
After defining all boundaries of the plate "Deck 6200" you can preview the result
by selecting the 'Compute' button. Only by selecting the 'OK' button, plate "Deck
6200" is actually created!
Start situation
Deck 3500 is a deck with two different thicknesses and therefore it must be
created from two separate plates:
· A deck with thickness 10 mm;
· A deck with thickness 12 mm.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Load drawing top view "108-3500" is similar to load drawing frame view "108-27",
but you have to select "Top" as type of view and "108-3500" as drawing name
within panel "Choose section".
Place standard text "Deck 3500 above base" above view is similar to
place standard text "Deck 6200 above base" above view. Please select from
panel "Text menu" the text "Deck 3500 above base".
Option Value
Now you will create the second plate "Deck 3500" with thickness 12 mm but
without cutout.
If you take a close look at the drawing, you will detect a little jut in the contour of
this plate. This jut is located at the upper left corner of the plate:
Due to the jut in the plate contour, the creation of this plate will be more
complicated than the previous rectangular plate.
Let's create the second plate "Deck 3500" by selecting "Create plate" the toolbar :
After selecting this function, you enter the values for 'Thickness' and 'Thickness
direction' in panel "Plate thickness and type of material".
The second plate "Deck 3500" has a thickness of 12 mm and the thickness
direction is from base. After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the
plate boundaries or plate relations by means of the panel "Define a plate
contour".
After defining all boundaries of plate "Deck 3500" you can preview the result by
pressing the 'Compute' button. When the plate looks correct, it can be created by
pressing the 'OK' button.
Note: The creation of this plate illustrates the general rule, that a plate can
contain several minimum and maximum lengths!
Start situation
Now you will create the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" in between
the decks "Deck 6200" and "Deck 3500".
Overview of actions:
Two small corner holes are still missing here. They can be created by using the
toolbar icon "Create corner holes" and the option icon "Corner hole" from panel
"Corner holes". If you use this option, there is one disadvantage: the created
corner holes will not be topological! Therefore it's better to take these corner
holes in the contour of the plate. When the corner holes are part of the plate
contour, they will be topological. This option will be explained later.
End situation
Load drawing side view "108-6600" is similar to load drawing frame view "108-
27", but you have to select "Side" as type of view and "108-6600" as drawing
name within panel "Choose section".
3. Place standard text "Long. section 6600 off CL" above view
Place standard text "Long. section 6600 off cl" above view is similar to
place standard text "Deck 6200 above base" above view. Please select from
panel "Text menu" the text "Long. section 6600 off CL".
When you load a drawing by using the toolbar icon "GET", the program asks you
to update the view by displaying a message panel:
Updating a section means regenerating the view to present all previously created
construction parts within the area of the current view which have not been saved
in the drawing already.
In this situation please select 'Update Active section' in order to see the decks
you have created earlier.
Now you will move up the baseline from the zero level, because the baseline is a
little bit too far away from the hull line. By lifting the baseline up, you don't loose
additional space on the drawing.
Let's shift the baseline by selecting the function "DRAW?" from the toolbar :
After selecting this icon the panel "108-6600" appears. Within this panel select
option 'Base lines' and change the value from 0 into 1500:
After selecting the 'OK' button, the baseline is positioned at 1500 from base.
You can now get the full screen by using the speed bar function "BOX PLA" or
hot key <;>.
Now you will create plate "Long. bulkhead 6600" with thickness 10 mm but
without corner holes.
This plate will be created between the decks "Deck 6200" and "Deck 3500". You
have created deck "Deck 3500" out of two separate plates with different
thicknesses and therefore it contains a step at the position of frame 26 minus 50
mm:
Let's create the plate by selecting the function "Create plate" from the toolbar:
After selecting this function, you enter the values for 'Thickness' and 'Thickness
direction' in panel "Plate thickness and type of material":
This plate has a thickness of 10 mm and the thickness direction is from CL.
Ignore the value for 'Shift of working plane', Select the 'OK' button and specify
After defining all boundaries, create this plate "Long. bulkhead 6600" by selecting
the 'OK' button.
You can check if plate "Long. bulkhead 6600" contains a step by zooming in on
the lower boundary of this plate. But before zooming in, it is recommended to
display background lines by selecting the toolbar icon "Background lines":
Accept the default option 'all plates' within panel "Actual position":
All plates in section are standard displayed as one green line, but with this option
the real thickness lines of plates in section are displayed in blue color, while the
border lines of plates in view are displayed in yellow color.
Now zoom in near frame 26 by using the function "Zoom in" from the speed bar :
Although the speed bar function "Zoom in" and the hot key <1> are both used for
zooming in, there is a difference in usage:
· After selecting the speed bar function "Zoom in", you use the mouse to define
the area on which you want to zoom in by indicating the two points of the
arean;
· Hot key <1> supports interactively zooming in 50%: pressing this hot key
results in zooming in one step. The current position of the cross hair is used as
focus point for the zoom process.
Next, you use the speed bar icon "BOX PLA" or hot key <;> again to get the full
screen.
Now you will create four standard holes with dimensions 850 / 450 mm.
Unfortunately these four holes can not be created in one step, you have to create
them in two steps. First, create the two lower ones and then create the two upper
ones.
Create the two lower holes by selecting the toolbar icon "Create holes":
Select from panel "Holes" the second option icon "Standard hole":
Within panel "Create holes" you enter the position of the first and second hole:
Within this panel the fields 'From frame' and 'From height' are used to
determine the position of the centre point of the first aft most hole and the fields
'To frame' and 'To height' are used to determine the position of the second hole.
You don't have to enter a value for 'To height' because the second hole is
positioned at the same height as the first one. In this case no value is entered for
'Step size' because the default value 1 is the correct value. For additional
information about the field 'Step size' see note. Furthermore no value is entered
for 'Number of items': based on the step size of 1 the number of items will be
automatically calculated as 2.
Notes:If the cursor is already at the right position, you can use the button 'Hole at
current control'. The corresponding values will then automatically be shown
in the panel.
After you have defined the centre point of the first hole, the cursor will
move to this position.
You can check the actual values for 'Step size' and 'Number of items' by
using several times the <Tab> key.
After entering the position of the holes you select the desired type of hole:
Now you enter the dimension of the holes by means of panel "Hole types":
By selecting the 'OK' button, the two lower holes with dimensions 850 / 450 mm
will be created.
You follow the same procedure to create the two upper holes. The only difference
is; the value for 'From height' within panel "Create holes": 5500 in stead of 4300.
To place dimensions in a hole, you select the toolbar icon "Dimension manhole":
As the hint ( "Select where to place dimension") clearly points out , you have to
indicate a point where the dimension should be placed.
You will create three upper holes and three lower holes with radius 50 mm. The
upper holes are so-called de-aeration holes and the lower ones are so-called
draining holes.
Although there are three ventilation holes, due to their positions these holes can
not be created in one action. In this case only two holes can be created in one
action, so you must create the remaining hole separately.
Let's create two ventilation holes in one action by selecting the toolbar icon
"Create draining/ventilation holes":
According to the hint "Indicate the part in which the hole has to be positioned" you
have to indicate just below the upper deck. After indicating this deck, you enter
the position of the aft most and the forward ventilation hole by means of panel
"Create draining/ventilation holes":
Within this panel the fields 'From frame' and 'To frame' are used to determine
the position of the aft most and the forward ventilation hole. Again no values are
needed to be entered for 'Step size' and 'Number of items'. By selecting the 'OK'
button, the two ventilation holes are created.
The remaining ventilation hole is positioned at frame 30 minus 100 mm and can
be created using the same procedure. Within panel "Create draining/ventilation
holes" you only have to enter value 30-100 for 'From frame'. Select the 'OK'
button to create the third ventilation hole.
You follow the same procedure to create the three draining holes. The only
difference is the position of the indicated point: now you have to indicate just
above the lower deck.
Start situation
Now you will return to the upper deck "Deck 6200 above base" to add holes, deck
beams and seams.
Overview of actions:
You will notice that the deck beams at frame 29 and 30 are still missing. You
could make these beams with a fixed value here, but it's better to wait a while
until you have created the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 3960". Then you
can relate the deck beams to this bulkhead.
End situation
5. Dimension holes
The first hole is positioned just forward of frame 29 and the second hole is just aft
frame 31. Nevertheless these holes can be created in one go with the following
properties:
Name of panel Option Value
Note: Usually the step size is one, but between the frame positions "29+100" and
"31-100" the actual step size is less than 2. If you enter value "1" for option
'Step size', the system will modify the value for option 'To frame' from "31-
100" into "31+100", but you don't want this. To force the system to use the
given frame positions, you enter a value "2" for option 'Number of items'
instead of a value for option 'Step size'. By means of the <TAB> key, you
can check later on the value for 'Step size'. The actual value, calculated by
the system, is "1.7142".
10. Create a series of transverse deck beams from FR23 until FR27
Now you will create a series of transverse deck beams from FR23 until FR27
between the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" and the longitudinal
girder at 1320 from cl. Because all these deck beams are equal, you can make
them in one go. The creation process is similar to the
creation of one transverse deck beam at FR28 with the following properties:
This will result in the generation of five transverse deck beams, positioned at
frame 23 until frame 27.
Until now you have selected the next drawing to load from the panel "Choose
section". According to the hint "Indicate part which has to be visible" another
possibility to change between drawings is to indicate a part in the current drawing.
After indicating the part, the system will load the new drawing of this part.
In this case you will return to the upper deck "Deck 6200 above base". By means
of selecting the upper deck, the system will change from side view to top view
"108-6200".
If you zoom in on the aft most hole, you will see that this hole touches the plate
border. Because this situation is not acceptable, you will modify this hole by
shifting it 50 mm forward.
Within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull every 'Create' option has also a 'Change' option
to modify the earlier created part and every 'Change' option has a 'Create' option.
To modify the aft most hole you can directly select the 'Change' button from the
panel "Holes", which is still available on the screen. Besides that, also some
change options are accessible directly from the toolbar like 'Change plates' and
'Change holes'.
To shift the aft most hole select the 'Change' button from panel "Holes" or toolbar
icon "Change holes":
Select from the change panel "Holes" the first option icon "Turn/shift":
By means of panel "Hole selection menu" you select the aft most hole:
From this selection panel the upper part until option 'Highlight' will appear in
many selection panels within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull. The options of this upper
part will be shortly explained here:
Selection
methods:
· Cross hair : only the item(s) you click on is (are) selected
· Conflict : making a box, also items that have been only partially boxed
are included
· Clump : making a box, only items that have been boxed entirely are
included
Selection
treatment:
· Select : item(s) are selected
· Exclude : exclude items to be selected item(s) from the current
selection
Selection buttons:
· All : select all items at once
· Reverse : reverse the current selection
· Highlight : highlight the current selection
Now select the aft most hole . Enter the value 0+50 for 'In length' which means
the hole will be moved over a distance of 50 mm (if the value 50 is inserted
instead of 0+50 it means that de hole would be moved over 50 frame's) . Select
the 'OK' button to shift the hole to the new position.
Now you will create eighteen holes parallel to the hull line with diameter 50 mm.
To create these holes parallel to the hull line, select toolbar icon "Create holes"
again:
Select from panel "Holes" the fifth option icon "Hole parallel to line":
According to the hint "Indicate line at side where to position the hole", you
indicate a few millimeters above the hull line. Afterwards you enter the position of
the holes along the hull line by means of panel "Create holes":
Within this panel the value for 'Parallel distance' stands for the distance
between the center of the holes and the hull line. Furthermore, the fields 'From
frame' and 'To frame' are used to determine the position of the aft most hole and
the last hole to be created towards fore ship. A difficulty for determining the
concerning values for these fields is the irregularity in frame distance at frame 28
from 650 mm into 700 mm. Therefore you will not enter values like 22+325, but
you will use decimal values. The aft most hole is located at a quarter of the frame
distance between frame 22 and frame 23: the value for option 'From frame' is
22.25. The last hole is located at three-quarters of the frame distance between
frame 30 and frame 31: the value for 'To frame' is 30.75. Finally the distance
between the holes is half a frame distance: the value for 'Horizontal distance' is
.5. The total number of holes will be calculated by the system.
Enter a value for diameter of these holes by means of panel "Hole types":
By selecting the 'OK' button, eighteen holes with diameter 50 mm will be created
parallel to the hull line.
Now you will start to make your first deck beam. As you have experienced during
the creation of plates, you should always try to refer as much as possible to other
construction parts. You will do the same for profiles.
If you take a close look at the drawing, you will see the following deck beams:
· At frame 28 a continuous transverse deck beam HP 200 x 9;
· At 1320 from CL a longitudinal deck beam HP 200 x 9, starting at frame 22 and
stopping at frame 28;
· At 1320 from CL a longitudinal deck beam HP 200 x 9, starting at frame 28 and
stopping at frame 31;
· From frame 23 until frame 27 a series of transverse deck beams HP 140 x 8
between the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" and the longitudinal
deck beam at 1320 from CL.
To get the most optimum in referring, at first you will create the transverse deck
beam at frame 28, then you will create the two longitudinal deck beams at 1320
from cl and finally you will create the remaining smaller transverse deck beams
from frame 23 until frame 27.
Generally, all deck beams will be created using the available functions for
profiles. These functions are accessible by means of the toolbar icon "Create
profile":
This panel contains four different options for creating topological profiles:
Topological profiles are profiles which are defined by the position of other
constructionparts and/or the hull. This means that any changes in the position of the
other constructionparts has influence on the concerning profile;
· Vertical profiles
· Horizontal profiles
· Profiles in view
· Arbitrary profiles
Within this training step you will only create vertical and horizontal profiles. The
terms 'Horizontal' and 'Vertical' have nothing to do with the actual position of the
profile itself, but with the position as it is presented in the drawing! During this
course, you will also create profiles in view and arbitrary profiles.
Let's create the transverse deck beam at frame 28. Due to the vertical position of
this beam on the drawing, you have to select the option icon "Vertical profiles":
You specify the type of profile and it's position by means of panel "Create profile":
The available options within this panel will be shortly explained here:
· The type of profile is "HP" or "Bulb" and therefore the following option icon is
selected:
· To select the size of the profile, you have to select the options 'Body size' and
'Thickness'. Each option generates a list of default values from which you
select the appropriate one. In this case you select the value 200 for 'Body
size' and 9 for 'Thickness';
· To determine the position of one profile or a series of profiles, you have to
enter a value for 'From frame' and may enter values for 'To frame', 'Step
size' and 'Number of items'. In this case you will create only one profile at
frame 28, so you only have to enter value 28 for 'From frame';
· To determine how one profile or series of profiles are created, you have to
select one of the presented options for 'Body direction' and 'Thickness
direction':
· If the profile should be created below the plate, you accept the default value
Towards Base for 'Body direction', but if the profile should be created on
top of the plate, you select the other value From Base;
· The thickness direction of the profile depends on the actual position of the
profile with respect to the reversed frame and the chosen value for
'Thickness direction'. For instance, when the profile is located aft from
the reversed frame and the thickness direction is "From reversed frame" the
profile will be created with it's thickness direction pointing to the aft ship.
· The type of material of the profile will be the presented standard material "GR-
A";
· Normally the profile will automatically be attached to the right plate. Only in
exceptional cases you select the plate to which the profile should be attached.
So the 'Choose plate' button is hardly used.
After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the length of the profile by
defining it's first and second relations. Whenever possible, you should define the
first and second relations by referring to other construction parts. Using the
reference method results in a so-called topological profile. It's preferable to work
from lower end to upper end.
Now you determine the lower end of the profile by means of panel "Border value":
The lower end of the deck beam is limited by the longitudinal bulkhead "Long.
bulkhead 6600". Instead of entering a value for 'Breadth value', you will refer to
the longitudinal bulkhead by selecting a position just above this bulkhead. The
option 'Vertical distance' stands for the distance between the beam and the
longitudinal bulkhead. This distance is 40 mm. You also have to define the
Note: In this case you will not select the third and fourth end shape, because
defining the end shape for the flange of a bulb is not very useful.
Now you specify the end cut of the deck beam by selecting type 'A' as the first
end shape:
After specifying the lower end or first limitation of the profile, you determine the
upper end or second limitation of the profile. The same panel "Border value" is
presented with option 'Second limitation' selected:
The upper end of the deck beam is limited by the upper boundary of plate "Deck
6200" which is at a distance of 100 mm from the centerline. Refer to this upper
boundary by selecting a position just below it. At the upper end the vertical
distance from the end of the stiffener until the plate boundary should be 0 mm.
Finally you have to define the end cut of the deck beam again by selecting type
'C' as the second end shape:
This end shape contains a small welding hole in the corner. You can enter the
appropriate radius of this welding hole within panel "End type":
By selecting the 'OK' button, the transverse deck beam at frame 28 will be
created.
After creating the transverse deck beam at frame 28, you will create two
longitudinal deck beams at 1320 from CL:
· A longitudinal deck beam HP 200 x 9, starting at frame 22 and stopping at
frame 28;
· A longitudinal deck beam HP 200 x 9, starting at frame 28 and stopping at
frame 31.
Let's first create the aft most longitudinal deck beam, starting at frame 22 and
stopping at frame 28.
Also for this horizontal profile you specify type of profile and it's position by means
of panel "Create profile". Generally speaking the last used type of profile is used
as the default for the new one. In this situation the default type of profile HP 200 x
9 is the correct one.
Within this panel the available options are quite similar to the presented options
within panel "Create profile" in the case of vertical profiles. The differences are
listed below:
· To determine the position of one profile or a series of profiles, you will now use
the fields 'From breadth' and 'To breath' instead of 'To frame' and 'From
frame';
· The thickness direction of the profile now depends on the actual position of the
profile with respect to the centerline.
In this situation you will create only one profile at 1320 from centerline. This
profile will be located below the deck with a thickness direction from the
centerline.
After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the length of the profile by
defining it's start and end points. We take as start point the aft end of the profile.
Now you determine the aft end of the profile by means of panel "Border value":
The aft end of the longitudinal deck beam is limited by the aft boundary of plate
"Deck 6200". Refer to this aft boundary by selecting a point just in front of it,
inside the plate. At the aft end the horizontal distance is 0 mm; enter value 0 for
'Horizontal distance'. Select the first end shape being end shape type 'C':
Next, enter the radius for the small welding hole in the corner:
By selecting the 'OK' button you have defined the aft relation of the longitudinal
deck beam.
Now the forward end of the profile will be defined by means of the same panel:
The forward end of the longitudinal deck beam is limited by frame 28. Instead of
entering value 28-9 for 'frame numbers', you can also select a point few
millimeters on the left hand side of the deck beam at frame 28. The value "0" for
the 'Horizontal distance' has already been inserted as default. Select the
second end shape being end shape type 'N'. This special type is chosen because
it contains, besides the welding hole, an additional hole to deliver room for the
bulb profile:
By selecting the 'OK' button, the aft most longitudinal deck beam will be created.
Now you will create the forward longitudinal deck beam, starting at frame 28 and
stopping at frame 31, in a similar way.
The properties of this second beam are listed in the following table:
Now you will create three welding seams in plate "Deck 6200".
The plate you have created until now is too big for the cutting machine. It needs
to be divided in smaller parts by creating seams in the plate.
Within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull there are two ways for dividing plates:
1. Splitting plates;
2. Creating seams.
By splitting a plate, you cut the plate into smaller(more) plates. By creating seams
on a plate you do not divide the plate into smaller parts, unless you start to code
this plate. The advantage of using seams during the engineering process is the
fact, that you are able to change the position of the seams on the plate easily,
since the plate is not really splitted. Therefore our recommendation is to use
seams to take care of the following prerequisite: the plate must have an equal
thickness!
Sometimes it is required to make a part of the existing plate thicker or thinner. In
such cases you have to split the plate first and then change the thickness of the
concerning part.
In this case the upper deck "Deck 6200" contains three seams:
· A horizontal seam at 1940 from CL;
· A horizontal seam at 3910 from CL;
· A horizontal seam at 6550 from CL;
First you will make two seams at 1940 and 3910 from CL and then you will make
the remaining one at 6550 from CL. These seams can't be made in one step, due
to a difference in intermediate distance between them.
Now we are going to create the first two horizontal seams in plate "Deck 6200",
which has an equal thickness of 8 mm.
· Seam horizontal
· Seam vertical
According to the hint "Select part in which a welding seam has to be placed" you
select plate "Deck 6200". Enter the location of the first two welds to be created
by means of panel "Create welds":
By pressing the 'OK' button, two soft seams are created at 1940 and 3910 from
cl.
Now let's create the third horizontal weld in plate "Deck 6200". This weld,
positioned at 6550 from cl, is created in a similar way as the previous ones.
Select from panel "Welds" the ninth option icon "Weld symbol":
The system will display an additional panel "Weld symbols", in which you can
select a welding code:
This welding code is not used by everyone. If you don't wish to place a welding
code, you complete the process using the "ABORT" button on the toolbar after
you have indicated the positions whereat the weld symbols should be placed.
Other wise you complete the process with selecting the 'Ok' button of the panel
"Weld symbols'.
Here you will only add weld symbols to the seams without additional welding
codes. Please indicate the desired positions of the weld symbol for all three
seams and complete the process by selecting the toolbar button "ABORT" so that
no welding codes are placed.
As explained before, a plate containing seams will not be divided into smaller
parts, unless you code this plate. You will check the division of plate "Deck 6200"
in four individual parts by coding it.
Coding a plate means creating one or more DXF-output files for Computer Aided
Manufacturing. These output files contain both geometric and production
information of the part and will be imported in a nesting program.
Generally speaking the "Code plate" option is only used for individual
geometrically complex plates to verify if the generated production output is
correct. In real life the entire section will be coded after the section has been
completed
Select "CAM"->"Code plate" from the menu and the system will display panel
"Code part":
Please follow the instruction given by hint "Select the part to be coded" and select
plate "Deck 6200" . The graphical screen will be split up in two parts: one part
contains the original drawing and the other part contains the coded part. With the
'Switch windows' button from panel "Coded part" you are able to switch
between these windows.
Within window "Code part" you see that every plate has it's own orientation
symbol. The cutting lines are displayed in green and the marking lines are
displayed in white. The white marking lines also contain one or more triangles.
These triangles indicate the thickness direction of the connected deck beams.
The plate is shown upside down. As part of the coding process the plate is
automatically turned upside down because of the marking lines, which must be
marked from above on the cutting machine.
Now return to the original plate in 3D-Contek by using the toolbar button "ABORT"
or hot key <Esc>.
You will see that plate "Deck 6200" is still one plate with the seams: the coding
process does not modify the original part but generates an extract from it.
1.10 Frame 28
1.10.1 Basic training steps (11)
Start situation
Now you can check in Frame view the deck beams and soft seams.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Load drawing frame view "108-28" is similar to load drawing top view "108-6200",
but you should indicate the deck beam at frame 28 within the current top view
"108-6200".
You have the possibility to add small welding symbols to the seams in the upper
deck. The location of each seam is illustrated by the following symbol:
Select from panel "Welds" the tenth option icon "Weld symbol":
Follow the instruction given in the hint "Indicate position on line, where symbol
has to be put", you indicate a position just above the blue seam symbol at the
upper deck. The small welding symbols will be created above the location of the
seams.
Start situation
Now you will switch to the application 3D-Show to view the active section in a 3-
dimensional environment.
Overview of actions:
Later on you will practice the creation of construction parts within the application
"3D-Show".
End situation
· 3D-Contek;
· 3D-Show;
· 3D-Ship;
· Hull shape;
· Shell;
· Plantek;
· System Management.
After you have selected the appropriate application, the system will switch to the
new application and present the menu bar, toolbar and speed bar of that
application.
During this course, you will only switch between the applications 3D-Show and
3D-Contek:
1. To switch from 3D-Contek to 3D-Show, you select "Applications"Ú"3D-
Show" from the menu:
Within the application 3D-Show two different options are available to display the
active section:
· The first and quickest option is to select "Presentation"Ú"Show active
section" from the menu;
· The second option is to select the toolbar icon "Retrieve blocks":
In this case, select section 108 and select the 'OK' button.
As a result the system will display the chosen section in the graphical screen.
Within the application 3D-Show you can also display other sections than just the
active one.
To display additional sections, you select the toolbar icon "Retrieve blocks":
After selecting this icon, you choose one or more sections from the list of
available sections. Panel "Get sections" lists all sections, which can be viewed:
By selecting section 102 and then the 'OK' button, the system will retrieve section
102.
In order to see both sections 102 and 108 in the full screen, you use the option
"Full" by selecting the following speed bar icon :
Within the application 3D-Show you can remove sections from the graphical
screen.
To remove or switch off sections, you select the toolbar icon "Switch off blocks":
After selecting this icon, the panel "Remove sections" appears with a list of all
currently displayed sections:
By selecting section 102 and then the 'OK' button, the system will remove section
102 from the graphical screen.
To see the remaining section 108 in the full screen, you select the speed bar icon
"Full":
Within the application 3D-Show you can remove hidden lines from the current
view of presented sections.
To remove hidden lines from one or more presented sections, you select the
toolbar icon "HID":
Within the application 3D-Show you can remove hidden lines from the current
view of presented sections and shade the resulting picture in one action.
To remove hidden lines and shade one or more displayed sections, you select the
toolbar icon "SHA":
Select the toolbar icon "View tool" to see the displayed section(s) from another
direction:
All viewing options can be used in combination with the available options for
removing hidden lines and shading.
If you want to remove panel "View tool" from the screen, you press the 'Close'
button.
Now you will create the lower aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" with thickness 10
mm and two corner holes.
During the creation of this plate, the corner holes will be made in the contour of
the plate. So the corner holes are part of the topology of the plate, meaning that
the corner holes always remain at the corners of the plate, even when one of its
boundaries has been moved.
Let's create the plate by selecting the toolbar icon "Create plate":
After selecting this icon, you enter the values for 'Thickness' and 'Thickness
direction' in panel "Plate thickness and type of material":
This plate has a thickness of 10 mm and the thickness direction is from CL.
Ignore the value for 'Shift of working plane', press the 'OK' button and specify
the plate boundaries.
the 'Min. Length' button and enter value 22+9 in the entry box. The value +9
has to do with the thickness of the aft bulkhead;
· Add the corner hole with radius 50 mm to the aft boundary by selecting option
'Cutout' and entering the value 50 for the radius in the entry box:
· The next boundary is the hull line, which can be defined by indicating a point
near and inside the hull line;
· The next boundary is the forward boundary defined by the maximum length.
Select the 'Max. Length' button and enter value 29+50 in the entry box;
· The last boundaries are the lower decks "Deck 3500", consisting of two deck
plates with different thicknesses:
· First select the forward deck plate by indicating a few millimeters below this
plate;
· Secondly select the aft most deck plate by indicating a few millimeters below
this plate;
· Add the corner hole with radius 50 mm to the last boundary by selecting option
'Cutout' and entering the value 50 for the radius in the entry box.
By selecting the 'Ok' button the plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" will be created.
Now you will split aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" in two smaller plates by means
of "Split plate".
Let's spit plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" vertically at the position of frame 26 minus
50 mm
There is only one option for splitting plates, this is used for horizontal as well as
vertical splitting.
According to the hint "Indicate plate or seam" you select plate "Long. bulkhead
3960" by indicating inside the plate near the hull line. Enter the position of the
weld by means of panel "Split part":
For both horizontal and vertical splitting, you only need to enter one point. By
using two different points, you will split the plate slant wise.
Note: According to the hint "Indicate plate or seam" you can also indicate an
existing seam. In that case the plate will be splitsing the popositionf the
selected seam.
You will the plate at frame 26 minus 50 mm by entering value 26-50 for 'Point 1'
within column 'length'.
By selecting the 'OK' button , the plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" will be split in two
plates.
You will place thickness text including part numbers on all three plates.
Select the toolbar icon "Thickness text" to place thickness text on plates:
follow the instruction given in the hint "Indicate plate" and select either the
forward or mid plate by indicating a point on in the concerning plate.
You have to change the thickness of the mid plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" from 10
into 12 mm.
If you want to modify plates, you select the toolbar icon "Change plates":
This panel contains ten plate modification options. During the basic training
course, you will use the following three options:
· Change thickness
· Change plate
Let's change the thickness of the mid plate by selecting option icon "Change
thickness":
According to the hint "Indicate construction part or bracket" you select the mid
plate "Long. bulkhead 3960". The current thickness of the selected part is
displayed within the hint area: "Thickness of selected part 10".
By means of panel "Select plates" you can change both the thickness direction
and the thickness.
By selecting the 'OK' button, the thickness of the mid plate "Long. bulkhead
3960" will be changed.
Since the aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" has not been created using the option
"Create plate" and is a result of splitting, you have to add the missing corner
hole(see the drawing) at low right corner of the plate afterwards.
You can add this corner hole with radius 75 mm by modifying the aft plate.
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select the aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960".
After selecting this plate you will be presented with an overview of the
boundaries/relations of the selected plate in the panel "Relations overview":
You will also be presented with the panel "Modify a plate contour":
You can select a relation by either pointing at one of the plate boundaries in the
graphical screen or by selecting one from the list of panel "Relations overview".
When a relation is selected by pointing at a plate boundary, it will also be selected
in the list. When a relation is selected from the list, the boundary belonging to this
relation is highlighted on the graphical screen. If applicable the current boundary
For example if you select the aft most plate boundary, relation 4 within panel
"Relations overview" will be highlighted and the concerning properties 'Min.
length' with value 22+9 and 'Cutout' with value 50 are displayed within panel
"Modify a plate contour".
Let's add a corner hole with radius 75 mm to the aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960".
According to the hint "Indicate relation to be changed", you have to select the
relation for modification. Taking in account the general rule that the plate
boundaries have been defined counterclockwise and the desired position of
the corner hole, you select the hull line. The relation will be highlighted in panel
"Relations overview":
You add the corner hole to the selected boundary by entering value "75" for
'Cutout':
You can get a preview of the result by selecting the 'Compute' button, the panel
"Relations overview" will be updated according( see relation 6 ) at the same time:
Note: The corner hole will always be placed at the end of the concerning
relation!
Please select the 'OK' button to accept your modification of plate "Long. bulkhead
3960".
To dimension the small ventilation and draining holes, you should not click inside
the hole but just outside of it. Both the arrow and the dimension will be placed
outside the hole. This functionality will be explained by means of the following
figure:
The arrow with the hole dimension will be drawn from the center of the hole
through the indication point. Thus the arrow direction depends on the indication
point just outside the hole, for example point 1 or point 2.
You can always use the hot key <k> to remove the last placed dimension if you
are not satisfied with the result, without aborting the option itself and you can
directly select a new proper place for the dimension of the hole. Furthermore
during this option you can zoom in or out by using respectively hot key <1> and
hot key <3> or by using the speed bar options.
It is already evident that the thickness of mid plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" has
been changed from 10 into 12 mm, because you have placed the actual
thickness on this plate by using the toolbar icon "Thickness text". Another
possibility to check the thickness, dimensions, etc. of construction parts is to
retrieve parts information by using the toolbar icon "ATT ?".
According to the hint "Select item" you select the mid plate "Long. bulkhead 3960"
by clicking inside this plate. The system displays the panel "3D-Item information"
with geometric information about this plate:
This geometric information is related to the position of the selected item. By using
the 'HIGH' button, you can verify to which item the presented information
belongs: the selected item will be highlighted in the graphical screen.
Start situation
Now you will load to the longitudinal section "Long. section 3960 off CL".
Within this training step you will create the lower part of this view. In contrary with
the drawing, you will follow a different approach in creating this lower part to
practice additional options within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull:
· You will create one aft plate from frame 22 until frame 29 plus 50 mm with a
thickness of 10 mm;
· You will create the forward plate from frame 29 plus 50 mm until frame 31
with a thickness of 10 mm;
· By using "Split plate", you will cut the aft plate in two smaller plates at the
position frame 26 minus 50 mm;
· You will change the thickness of the mid plate from 10 into 12 mm;
· You will add a corner hole to the aft plate with radius 50 mm.
The end result will be the same as shown on the drawing.
Overview of actions:
4. Place standard text "Long. section 3960 off CL" above view q
5. Create aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" with thickness 10 mm from FR22 until
FR29+50
6. Create forward plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" with thickness 10 mm from
FR29+50 until FR31 q
7. Cut aft plate with a hard seam in two smaller plates at position FR26-50
8. Place thickness text and part number on plates
9. Change thickness of the mid plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" from 10 to 12 mm
10. Add corner hole to the aft plate "Long. bulkhead 3960"
11. Create holes with diameter 450 mm q
12. Create ventilation/draining holes with radius 50 mm q
13. Dimension holes
14. Check properties of available parts
By now you have finished the lower part of this view. What still needs to be done
is the creation of the longitudinal bulkhead of 10 mm and the longitudinal girder.
We prefer to make these parts later, because the transfer plate at frame 29 is
continuous. So it's better to make first the transfer plate at frame 29 and later on
refer the small longitudinal plate and the girder to the transfer plate at frame 29.
End situation
Load drawing side view "108-3960" is similar to load drawing frame view "108-
27", with the exceptions that you select "Side" as type of view and "108-3960" as
drawing name within panel "Choose section".
3. Shift baseline
The baseline is lifted up from 0 to 1500 from base by means of shifting, like you
have done within "Long. section 6600 off CL".
4. Place standard text "Long. section 3960 off CL" above view
Place standard text "Long. section 3960 off cl" above view is similar to
place standard text "Deck 6200 above base" above view. Please select from
panel "Text menu" the text "Long. section 3960 off CL".
Option Value
Let's first create four de-aeration holes by indicating the aft most deck plate and
supplying the following properties:
Now create three draining holes along the hull line by indicating the hull line and
To dimension the small ventilation and draining holes, you should not click inside
the hole but just outside of it. Both the arrow and the dimension will be placed
outside the hole. This functionality will be explained by means of the following
figure:
The arrow with the hole dimension will be drawn from the center of the hole
through the indication point. Thus the arrow direction depends on the indication
point just outside the hole, for example point 1 or point 2.
If something goes wrong with this option, you can use the hot key <k> to remove
the dimension, but you still keep inside the option. Thus you can directly select a
new proper place for the dimension of the hole. Furthermore during this option
you can zoom in or zoom out by using respectively hot key <1> and hot key <3>
or by using the speed bar options.
1.14 Frame 29
1.14.1 Basic training steps (14)
Start situation
If you take a look at the drawing, you will see three plates:
· One lower plate with thickness 12 mm;
· Two upper plates with thickness 10 mm.
As far as the upper plates are concerned, you will not create two single plates but
one big plate instead and divide this into two plates by using arrows. These
arrows have the same kind of functionality as placing seams does. This means
that during the coding process the plate will be split according to the used arrows.
This offers you a high flexibility; If the transverse bulkhead should be continuous
instead of the longitudinal bulkhead, you just remove the stopping arrow and
place a continuous one.
Overview of actions:
End situation
The creation of the lower plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" contains the following steps:
Option Value
The creation of plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" with thickness 10 mm is similar to the
creation of plate "Deck 6200" with the following plate boundaries:
Option Value
9. Code plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" to check the division of this plate in two plates
Coding one plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" is similar to coding plate "Deck 6200". You
can verify that this plate is indeed split up into two single plates.
When the current drawing does not contain actual construction parts belonging to
the drawing you want to load, it is of course not possible to load such a drawing
by indicating a construction part. In this case you have to select the drawing from
the menu. To get this menu you just click somewhere in an area on the screen
where no construction exists and the menu appears.
Here you want to switch from side view "108-3960" to frame view "108-29". So far
you have not created any construction part within frame 29 and therefore you
click in an empty area within side view "108-3960". The system will display panel
"Choose section":
Please select 'Frame' in this panel as the type of view and the drawing 108-29
from the list. The system will open this drawing and display it.
Now you will divide the upper plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" into two single plates by
using the arrows of type "Stopping".
This panel contains six types of arrows. During the basic training course, you will
see examples of the following types:
· Continuous
· Stopping
· Egg box
Let's split the upper plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" at the position of 6600 from CL by
selecting option icon "Stopping arrows":
According to the hint "Indicate line" you select the vertical line at the position of
6600 from CL, which represents the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600".
The stopping arrows will be located at the indicated position. You complete the
action by using the 'Abort' button on the tool bar.
When you zoom in on the arrow, you will see that it contains a blue line symbol:
This indicates that the arrow is a 3D arrow, meaning that during coding the plate
will be split.
When the arrow does not have this blue line symbol then it is considered as a 2D
drawing symbol. This type of arrows appear f.i. when you place a stopping arrow
on a plate in section, which divides two plates in plan view with different
thicknesses.
1.15 Frame 29
1.15.1 Basic training steps (15)
As a side step within this training course, you will use "egg box" arrows instead of
"stopping" arrows.
Below you will find an example of what is meant with the egg box system:
This egg box system is mainly used in double bottoms to reduce the number of
parts and to reduce man hours during fabrication.
By means of coding plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29", you will examine the difference
between different types of arrows. By removing the arrows of type "egg box" and
placing arrows of type "stopping", you will return back to the initial situation.
Overview of actions:
Placing arrows of type stopping is already explained within the previous training
step.
Now you will remove the "stopping" arrows belonging to the plate "Bulkhead Fr.
29". The system will automatically remove the contra arrows of type "continuous"
belonging to plate "Long. bulkhead 6600".
To remove construction parts from a drawing, you select the toolbar icon
"Remove construction":
By means of panel "Remove items" you can select the item(s) to be removed:
The upper part of this panel until option 'Highlight' contains the already
explained standard options for selecting items within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull. In
complicated situations it might be hard to select the appropriate items within the
drawing. In order to make it more easier to select items on graphical screen you
can select the type of concerning items to be removed first, by means of the 'pull
down' menu on the panel "Remove items"
By selecting an item type, you make sure that only items of the same type will be
selectable. The default item type is 'Any', meaning that items of all types will be
selectable.
Because it's easy to select the arrows within the drawing, you accept the default
selection method 'Cross hair', the default selection 'Select' and the default item
type 'Any'. Check the selection by using the 'Highlight' button if needed and
select the 'OK' button to remove the arrows.
After removing "stopping" arrows, you will place arrows of type "egg box" within
plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" at the position of 6600 from CL.
Select from panel "Slots" the third option icon "Egg box":
According to the hint "Indicate line" you select the line at the position of 6600 from
CL, which represents the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600". The egg
box arrows will be placed on the indicated line.
By coding plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29" you will understand the use of these egg box
arrows.
To code this plate you select "CAM"Ú"Code plate" from the menu and indicate
plate "Bulkhead Fr. 29". The procedure is similar to coding plate "Deck 6200".
Therefore only the result of the coding process will be explained here.
You see that the bulkhead "Bulkhead Fr. 29" is one plate again, but it has a slot
at the position of the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600".
The longitudinal bulkhead will have the contra slot, so the two plates can be
shifted into each other.
Note: You can check the existence of this contra slot in plate "Long. bulkhead
6600" by coding this plate in the drawing "108-6600" of the side view as
well:
1.16 Frame 29
1.16.1 Basic training steps (16)
Start situation
After the creation of one lower plate and two upper plates, you will add the
following construction parts:
· The upper stiffeners HP 220 x 10 between the decks "Deck 3500" and "Deck
6200";
· The lower stiffeners HP 220 x 10 between the hull and the lower deck "Deck
3500";
· The transverse deck beam HP 140 x 8;
· A bracket between deck beam and transverse bulkhead "Bulkhead Fr. 29".
Finally you will dimension the decks, deck beam, bulkhead and stiffeners.
Overview of actions:
After finishing this view, you will return to the longitudinal section "Long. section
3960 off cl" to finish that view.
End situation
6. Create lower stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL according to the
following properties:
Before you can make the upper stiffeners take a look at the second sheet
drawing. This sheet contains the longitudinal sections 4620, 5280 and 5940 off
centerline with details of the stiffeners on bulkhead of frame 29.
During the creation process of these stiffeners you will deliberately make
some mistakes in order to practice the modification of these stiffeners
afterwards!
You will create the upper stiffeners HP 220 x 10 at 4620, 5280 and 5940 from CL
in one action.
You specify the type of profile and it's position by means of panel "Create profile":
Because you are already familiar with the meaning of the options within this
panel, only the values of these options will be given here:
· The type of profile is "HP" or "Bulb" and therefore the following option icon is
selected:
· The size of the profiles is HP 220 x 10, thus the values for 'Body size' and
'Thickness' are 220 and 10;
· The first and last profile are respectively located at 4620 and 5940 from CL,
thus the values for 'From breadth' and 'To breadth' are 4620 and 5940. Now
you can continue by either entering the step size or giving the number of items.
Of course you can calculate the step size, but it's easier to use the number of
items. So enter value 3 for 'Number of items'. Then the step size will be
automatically calculated by the program;
· For now accept the presented default values 'From reversed frame' and
'Towards CL' for the options 'Body direction' and 'Thickness direction'.
Later on you will verify these directions. If these directions turn out to be wrong,
you will use the profile modification options;
· The type of material of the profiles will be the standard material 'GR-A'.
After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the length of the profile by
defining it's start and endpoint. It's preferable to start with the lower end.
First you determine the lower end of the profile by means of panel "Border value":
According to the hint "Indicate 1st relation" you select the lower deck "Deck 3500"
by indicating a fraction above this deck. Although the vertical distance should be
0 mm, you will leave it at 40 mm. Then you need to select the end shape: the
correct one should be type 'C' but select 'A' for now, please.
Secondly you determine the upper end of the profile by means of panel "Border
value":
According to the hint "Indicate 2nd relation" you select the upper deck "Deck
6200" by indicating a fraction below this deck. The vertical distance is indeed 40
mm. Please select type 'A' as the second end shape.
After selecting the second end shape, three profiles of type HP 220 x 10 will be
created at 4620, 5280 and 5940 from CL.
As you know the three upper profiles HP 220 x 10 have been created with the
following faults:
· These profiles have the wrong direction;
· At the lower end these profiles are too short;
· At the lower end these profiles have the wrong end types.
Now you will modify these profiles by selecting the 'Change' button from panel
"Profiles", which is still available on the screen:
Another possibility is to select the icon "Change profiles" from the toolbar:
This panel contains a lot of modification options. During the basic training course,
you will use the following options:
· Lengthen profile
· Shift profile
· Turn profile
Let's start with the modification of the end types by selecting option icon "Change
end type profiles":
By means of panel "Profiles selection" you select the profiles by using the default
selection method 'Clump':
You make a box around the lower ends of the profiles in such a way that the end
flags are included within this box. After selecting all three ends, you select the
'OK' button.
Now select the correct end type from panel "Change end shapes":
This end shape contains a small welding hole in the corner. You enter the value
"35" for the radius of this hole with in the presented panel "End type":
After selecting the 'OK' button, the lower end shapes of the profiles will be
modified from type "A" into type "C".
You can check if these profiles have been successfully modified by selecting
"Presentation"Ú"Show construction" Ú"One part" from the menu.
According to the hint "Select a plate or profile" you select e.g. the profile at 4620
from CL. The selected profile will be displayed in plan view as here below:
The 'Next' button is used to return from the current profile view back to the
original view. This gives you the possibility to select a second profile or plate.
You must use the toolbar button "ABORT" to leave option "Show construction":
Now you will change the direction of the three created upper profiles HP 220 x 10.
You can see that the profiles are displayed as continuous lines, meaning that the
profiles are located on the aft side of the bulkhead. But when you look at the
drawing, you will notice that the profiles are on the front side of the bulkhead,
which are illustrated with dashed lines.
Within panel "Change profiles", which is still available on the screen, there are
two options for changing the direction of profiles:
The first option is used for profiles in section, like the following one:
The second option is used for profiles in view as illustrated here below:
Since the upper profiles are profiles in view, you select the option icon "Direction
profiles in view" from panel "Change profiles":
By means of panel "Profiles selection" you select the profiles by using the default
selection method 'Conflict':
You select the three upper profiles. After selecting these, the profiles will be
highlighted for a short time.
The lower part of this panel offers two modification options: 'Body direction' and
'Thickness direction' and the 'OK' button to carry out the modification(s).
In this case the thickness direction of the profiles is correct since they are pointing
to CL, but the body direction is not.
Check 'Body direction' and uncheck 'Thickness direction' and select the 'OK'
button to change the body direction of the selected profiles.
Regarding the three upper profiles HP 220 x 10, the length of these profiles is still
wrong. At the lower end these profiles are 40 mm too short.
Within panel "Change profiles" two options are available for modifying the length
of profiles:
· Lengthen profile
The first option "Lengthen profile" modifies the length of the profile with a fixed
value; positive for lengthening and negative for shortening, whereas the second
option "Lengthen profile to line" modifies the length of the profile by means of a
reference line; By selecting a reference line the profile will be extended or
reduced to this line.
You will now select the option "Lengthen profiles to line" from panel "Change
profiles":
You select the profiles by using the default selection method 'Clump' in panel
"Extend profiles":
Because the profiles must be extended at the lower ends, you make a box around
these lower ends in such a way that the end flags are included within this box.
After selecting these profiles select the 'OK' button.
According to the hint "Indicate relation to which should be extended" you select
the upper side of the deck "Deck 3500". And you accept the value "0" for "Vertical
Select the 'OK' button to extend the upper profiles to the lower deck "Deck 3500".
Looking at the lower profiles HP 220 x 10 at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL you will
notice that these profiles have been positioned with 40 mm distance from upper
end to the deck while there should not be any distance between the profiles and
the deck. To fix this situation you are going to use the change options once more
in order to lengthen the profiles by 40 mm.
Select the 'Change' button from panel "Profiles" or the toolbar icon "Change
profiles":
You will use the option "Lengthen profiles" now (which modifies the length of
profiles with a fixed value) instead of the option "lengthen profiles to line".
Select from panel "Change profiles" the option icon "Lengthen profiles":
Now you are presented with the panel "Extend profiles" as here below:
To select the lower profiles you make a box around the upper ends in such a way
that the end flags are partially included within this box. To extend the selected
profiles, you enter "40" as value for 'Extension' and select the 'OK' button to
lengthen the profiles.
The lower profiles HP 220 x 10 will be extended by 40 mm with the result that
they are now touching the lower deck "Deck 3500" now.
Although the lower stiffener HP 140 x 8 at 6600 from CL looks correct, it's
position is not in line with the bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" due to a
difference in thickness direction. The thickness directions of the bulkhead and the
stiffener are defined as respectively "From CL" and "Towards CL".
You can bring the lower stiffener in line with bulkhead by shifting the stiffener 10
mm to starboard :
Select the 'Change' button from panel "Profiles" or the toolbar icon "Change
profiles":
You select the profile by using the default selection method 'Cross hair' within
panel "Shift profiles":
By checking the option 'Profile on plate' you make sure the profile stays on the
same plane as the plate to which it belongs.
To shift the selected profile 10 mm to starboard, you enter value "10" for 'Breadth'
and select the 'OK' button, the profile will be shifted 10 mm to the outside.
Note: After shifting the lower stiffener HP 140 x 8, it will keep all it's relations,
meaning that e.g. the distance to the hull line will remain 40 mm, due to the
fact that this stiffener is topological!
There is still a transverse deck beam to be created. So far all deck beams have
been created in the top view of the upper deck, the reasons for this are; the
possibility to create a series of profiles in that view and also that you should
always try to complete a view as much as possible while you are working on that
view.
Now you will create the transverse deck beam in the current frame view by using
the option "profiles in view" from the "Profiles panel":
Now select the third option "Profiles in view" from panel "Profiles":
According to the hint "Indicate the hull line/plate" you select the upper deck plate.
By means of panel "Create profile" you specify the type of profile and it's
directions:
The selected profile size and the presented directions are correct and therefore
you select the 'OK' button to accept these. Now you are able to define the first
and second relation of this profile.
Since there are no plates or profiles available around centerline that could be
used as relation for the first limitation you need to enter the value 100 for
"Breadth value" in panel "Border value" to define the first limitation at 100 mm
from centreline:
You define the end type for this end by selecting type "C" as the first end shape:
Select the 'OK' button within panel "End type" to accept the first limitation.
Now you specify the second relation by indicating the existing upper bulkhead
"Bulkhead Fr. 29" on the left hand side of it as shown below:
The horizontal distance from the bulkhead within panel "Border value" will be 40
mm:
Finally you define the end type by selecting type "A" as the second end shape:
Now also the second limitation is determined, resulting in the creation of the
transverse deck beam HP 140 x 8.
Note: The option "Profiles in view" has one restriction: you can only create one
profile at a time!
You will now create a standard bracket of type A between deck beam HP 140 x 8
and the upper transverse bulkhead "Bulkhead Fr. 29".
Please notice that the option "Bracket in section" enables you to create a bracket
in section, which means that it also will be presented in section in the view where
it is created:
The system will display panel "Brackets", which contains default bracket types
delivered by NCG:
The "Standard brackets" have fixed dimensions, meaning that the user can only
select the bracket dimensions from predefined lists with standard dimensions.
The following brackets belong to this group:
All the other brackets belong to group "Brackets fit to the situation" and have no
fixed dimensions. The user can either accept the presented default dimensions or
specify his own dimensions.
Now you will create the bracket between deck beam HP 140 x 8 and the upper
transverse bulkhead "Bulkhead Fr. 29". In this situation you need to use standard
bracket "A" with overlapping on one side at the deck beam. On the other side the
bracket will touch the bulkhead.
As the first hint suggests; "Indicate a part (or profile, to where no overlap)" you
indicate the bulkhead at a position just inside of the plate. Then a second hint
"Indicate profile at position where overlap has to be placed" is displayed. Because
the overlap should be placed at the deck beam, you indicate the deck beam at a
position just below this beam.
The locations of both indication points are illustrated in the figure below:
By indicating the bulkhead and deck beam you define the first and second
relation of the bracket. After defining all relations of the brackets, you will be
presented with the main panel for the selected bracket type "Bracket type 750" :
For this bracket type the system automatically calculates the bracket dimensions
according to the profile height, and displays them for 'Enter width of bracket',
'Enter dimension of bracket along overlapping part' and 'Enter thickness of
bracket'. Each standard set of dimensions has a predefined part number, which is
presented as 'Standards'. Please select the 'OK' button to accept the settings for
"Bracket type 750":
The bracket will be created with the part number "2" and the panel number "YA":
You will reposition the standard text "Frame 29" above the view in order to create
enough space for the placement of dimensions as shown on the drawing.
Before you can actually reposition text "Frame 29" the view needs to be shifted
down by using the function "PAN":
Press this button <Ctrl> and shift the view by means of the mouse at the same
time to drag the view to the desired location.
Now there is enough space above the view to reposition text "Frame 29" by using
the following method:
· Select the text by positioning the cross hair over the text and press the
<SPACE> bar: the selected text will be highlighted;
· Press the hot key <z> and move up the text a little bit by using the mouse to
drag the text to the desired position;
Use the speed bar icon "BOX PLA" to get the drawing presented in full screen:
As a side step within this training course, you will check if your colleagues working
at port side have used the same deck beam so that the situation at 100 mm from
centerline fits with each other.
In order to check if your colleagues at port side have used the same deck beam,
you have to check if the same deck beam and end cut has been used at port
side.
Overview of actions:
1. Check properties of deck beam "Transverse beam Fr. 29 Deck 6200" at port
side
You will check if the deck beam at port side has the same dimensions as the one
you have created at starboard and that these deck beams fit to each other.
Please zoom in on centerline by using hot key <1> and you can see that on port
side the deck beams are too short. This is a nice way of checking if sections fit to
each other.
Now you will check if the same dimensions and end types have been used for this
deck beam by using the toolbar icon "ATT?":
According to the hint "Select item" you select the deck beam at port side. The
system displays the panel "3D-Item information" with geometric information about
this deck beam:
It's clear that your colleagues working at the port side have used the same deck
beam dimensions "HP140x8".
To check which end type has been used, you select option 'EXTRA' from panel
"3D-Item information":
In this case the used end type "C" is the correct one.
After checking the deck beam at port side, you return to the full screen again by
Start situation
Now you will dimension longitudinal girder, the longitudinal bulkhead, the
stiffeners and the lower and upper bulkhead from centerline using horizontal short
dimensions. The lower and upper deck will be dimensioned using vertical short
dimensions.
Overview of actions:
End situation
You will provide the longitudinal girder, the longitudinal bulkhead and the
stiffeners with horizontal short dimensions from centerline.
According to the hint "Give item where measure start" you will start with
dimensioning the longitudinal girder by selecting it. The cursor position will snap
to the end of this girder. Then a second hint "Give place from measure position"
is displayed according to which you should indicate a position where the
dimension stops; please indicate a position above the upper deck. Now the
Again the hint "Give item where measure start" is shown, meaning that you can
select the stiffeners and the longitudinal bulkhead one by one . The positions of
these dimensions are based on the given position (second point defined above
the upper deck) during the dimensioning of the first item: all dimensions are
placed in line with the first dimension.
In order to change the position where the dimension stops you should select the
option 'Short measure' in the panel 'Dimension' which enables you to define a
new position for the next following dimensions to be placed.
Note: During dimensioning you can always use the zoom and pan options
including hot key <k>, due to the feature that you will remain within the
selected dimensioning option! The functionality of hot key <k> during
dimensioning is to remove the last dimension, you have added to the
drawing.
You will add vertical short dimensions from the baseline to the lower and upper
deck.
Starting with the lower deck you select the lower deck "Deck 3500" near the end
and indicate the location for the position of the dimension just outside the hull
line.
By selecting the upper deck "Deck 6200" you will place a dimension in line with
the first dimension. Since the position of this dimension is not as it should be you
can remove this by using hot key <k>. Hot key <k> stands for killing the last
command or performed action.
To define a new position where at the dimension stops you should select the
option 'Short measure' in the panel 'Dimension' which enables you to define a
new position for the next following dimensions after which you can start adding
the dimension of the upper deck "Deck 6200" to the drawing.
Start situation
To complete the current drawing, you will add the size of the deck beam and the
stiffeners. You will also practice additional profile dimensioning options, like
adding profile symbols to the lower stiffeners and placing profile part number
symbols.
Overview of actions:
End situation
3. Dimension lower stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off cl in one step
Dimension lower stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off cl in one step is similar to
dimension upper stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off cl in one step.
You will dimension the deck beam HP 140 x 8 by placing a reference with both
the sizes of the deck beam and the part number on this beam.
The following options are available within the toolbar for dimensioning profiles:
"Profile size
perpendicular"
"Profile size parallel"
The main difference between this options is the way how the text is placed:
· Option "Profile size perpendicular" will position the text always perpendicular to
the profile;
· Option "Profile size parallel" will position the text always parallel to the profile.
After selecting one of the toolbar icons "Profile size perpendicular" or "Profile size
parallel" the hint "Select item" appears. According to this hint you can select a
profile or bracket to add it's dimension.
Another possibility of this option is to place user defined text. This can be
achieved by selecting an empty area on the screen and you will be presented with
panel "Place text" as follows:
In case of a selected profile or bracket it's size could be presented along with the
part number and the part number symbol depending on the certain setting
concerning this presentation;
There are two methods by which you could determine whether a part number
symbol should be presented while dimensioning :
1. You can switch the part number symbols on or off for the whole project by
means of the application "System Management";
2. You can switch the part number symbols on or off for a section by selecting
"Settings"Ú"Partsymbol settings" from the menu.
Within this panel you can select the appropriate option and accept it by
selecting the 'OK' button.
Now you will dimension the deck beam according to the drawing by selecting the
toolbar icon "Profile size parallel":
As the hint "Select item" suggests you select the beam and the dimension
appears with the optional part number symbol. The position of the dimension can
be determined by pulling this dimension to the outside of the beam and indicating
a point using the mouse, where the dimension will be placed.
If the angle between the indicated point at the beam and the endpoint of the
dimension line is less than 15 degrees, the pointing arrow will be placed
perpendicular to the dimension line. But in cases where the angle is greater than
15 degrees the pointing arrow will be placed according to the direction of a
straight line between the indication point at the beam and the endpoint of the
dimension line.
The result of selecting each endpoint is shown in the two figures below:
In both situations the end points are located at the right side of the indication
point. It works in the same way if the end points are at the left side of the
indication point; the pointing arrow will be placed perpendicular to the dimension
line if the angle between the endpoint of the dimension line and the indication
point is less than -15 degrees from the vertical line through the indication point.
If you take a look at the upper stiffeners HP 220 x 10 in the sheet drawing, you
will notice that the three stiffeners, located at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL, are
dimensioned by using one dimension text. Now you will practice this option by
dimensioning a series of profiles.
Let's dimension the upper stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL by selecting
toolbar option "Profile size perpendicular":
To dimension a series of profiles you select the fifth option icon "Profile size
series" from panel "Symbol menu":
According to the hint "Indicate starting-point of check-line" you indicate just inside
of the stiffener, located at 4620 off cl. Upon the second hint "Indicate end of
check-line" you indicate just outside of the stiffener, located at 5940 off cl. After
indicating both points you can position the profile dimension by using the mouse.
The result will be as follows:
Warning:Be aware of the fact that all the profiles to be dimensioned should be of
the same type and sizes otherwise you it could cause some confusion,
for example; if dimension all four lower profiles using this option the
system will display as profile size HP 220 x 10 for all stiffeners, although
the profile size of the stiffener at 6600 off HP 140 x 8! Therefore be
careful with this option.
You will dimension the lower stiffener at 6600 off CL by using another option for
dimensioning profiles, which has already been mentioned in one of the previous
topics, namely "Profile size perpendicular".
According to the hint "Select item" you select the lower stiffener, located at 6600
off cl, and drag de dimension to the outside of the hull line. Place the profile
dimension at the desired position by using the mouse-left button:
Another possibility of profile dimensioning is adding only the profile size to the
selected profile without the part number symbol and the part number itself.
Although this option is not shown on the drawing, you will use it to dimension the
upper stiffener HP 220 x 10 at 7250 off cl.
Let's dimension the upper stiffener at 7250 off CL by selecting the toolbar icon
"Profile size parallel":
According to the hint "Select item" you select the upper stiffener, located at 7250
off CL. Now you don't pull the dimension outside of the stiffener like you did
during dimensioning of the deck beam, but you remain on top of the stiffener. By
clicking the mouse-left button at that position, now the stiffener is provided with a
dimension as it is shown in the figure below, without any part number and part
number symbol:
Another profile dimensioning option, not applied on the drawing, offers you the
ability to add a profile symbol to a specific profile. Within this training step you will
add profile symbols to the three lower stiffeners HP 220 x 10 and the remaining
lower stiffener HP 140 x 8.
Select the eighth option icon "Profile symbol" from panel "Symbol menu":
Following the hint "Indicate profile(s) at positions where profile symbols are to be
placed", you indicate the lower stiffeners one by one. Automatically all profile
symbols will be placed at the same height, because all the stiffeners are attached
to the same plate.
Probably the profile symbol will be placed too low in case of the last stiffener HP
140 x 8. To avoid this situation, you select from panel "Draw profile symbols" the
option 'Place symbol at new height':
This option offers you the possibility to add the profile symbol on another position
than the one used for the previous profile symbols. So indicate the lower stiffener
HP 140 x 8 near the midpoint of it.
Finally you will add part number symbols to the upper and the lower stiffeners.
You can choose between options "Fully automatic" and "Semi automatic" by
means of panel "Part number menu":
The default presented option 'All' within panel "Part number menu" is used for
placing part number symbols fully automatically. After selecting the 'OK' button all
part number symbols will appear on the midpoint of the stiffeners. Sometimes the
midpoint of the stiffeners will not be the right spot for these symbols. In such
cases you can choose for placing the part numbers semi automatically.
In order to have more control regarding the placement of the part number
symbols, you select option 'By line' from panel "Part number menu". The option
'By line' enables you to draw a straight line across one or more profiles. The part
number symbol(s) will be placed along side of this reference line crossing one or
more profiles. Thus you have control over the actual position of the part number
symbols.
Note: you can only place one part number symbol per profile using these
options.
Start situation
You will return to side view "108-3960" to finish the upper part of this view by
adding the following construction parts:
Overview of actions:
End situation
Load drawing side view "108-3960" is similar to load drawing top view "108-
6200", but you should indicate the green line at 3960 off cl, representing the
longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 3960", within the current frame view "108-
29".
The creation of upper plate "Long bulkhead 3960" with thickness 10 mm is similar
to the creation of plate "Deck 6200" with the following plate boundaries:
Option Value
6. Place thickness text and part number on plate "Long. bulkhead 3960"
The placement of thickness text and part number on plate "Long. bulkhead 3960"
is similar to the
placement of thickness text and part number on the three lower plates of this view
.
8. Create bracket between the flange of the girder and bulkhead "Bulkhead Fr.
29"
The creation of the bracket between the flange of the girder and the bulkhead
"Bulkhead Fr. 29" is similar to the
creation of the bracket between deck beam and transverse bulkhead within frame
view "Frame 29" with the following properties:
Note: Because the indicated construction parts are not profiles, the system can
not determine automatically a standard bracket with the correct dimensions
from the table of available standard dimensions. Thus the user must select
for 'Standards' the appropriate standard bracket "23". The user can also
alter the presented dimensions if he wishes to, by checking the option 'free'
and change the values for 'Enter width of bracket', 'Enter height of bracket',
'Enter hole radius' and 'Enter thickness of bracket' within panel "Bracket type
752".
By selecting the 'OK' button, the bracket will be created including part number
"23" and panel number "YA".
Now you will create the longitudinal girder with a flange of 150 mm, a so called '
flanged girder'.
A flanged girder and a T-girder (meaning a plate with a face plate) are not
available as standard construction items within NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull. If you
want to create a flanged girder or T-girder, you first need to create a plate and
then add a flange or face plate to that plate, depending on the situation .
Overview of actions:
The dimensioning of the flange with a body size of 150 mm is done in a similar
way as the
dimensioning of the transverse deck beam HP 140 x 8 located at frame 29.
You will create plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" with thickness 8 mm.
During the creation of this plate the left upper corner hole will be made in the
contour of the plate. The dimensions at the left upper corner are presented in the
figure below:
After selecting this icon, you enter the values for 'Thickness' and 'Thickness
direction' in panel "Plate thickness and type of material":
The plate has a thickness of 8 mm and the thickness direction is from CL. Select
the 'OK' button and specify the plate boundaries by means of panel "Define a
plate contour":
· The next boundary is the aft boundary of the plate defined by the minimum
length. Select the 'Min. Length' button and enter value "22+9" in the entry box.
The value "+9" is the thickness of the attached bulkhead that has been taken
to account;
· The last boundary is determined by the lower boundary of this plate. Also in
this case it's better to enter a parallel distance from the upper deck instead of
entering a value for 'Min. Height'. Thus first indicate the upper deck again and
afterwards enter after option 'Parallel' the value of "400" for the parallel
distance in the entry box.
To become a preview of the created plate you select the 'Compute' button. You
can not only visually check the plate contour, but you can also check the defined
relations by selecting the 'Show overview' button. The plate relations will appear
within panel "Relations overview":
Finally you select the 'OK' button to create plate "Long. bulkhead 3960".
After selecting this icon the panel "Create" is displayed with a couple of cutout
types:
By means of panel "Select the cutout" you select one or more profiles by using
the default selection method 'Clump':
To create cutouts you have to make a box around all the deck beams.
After selecting the 'OK' button, the system will create a cutout for each selected
deck beam.
You will add a flange of 150 mm to the already created plate "Long. bulkhead
3960".
To create a face plate or a flange, you select the toolbar icon "Create face
plate/flange":
This panel contains three options for creating face plates and flanges:
· Flange
According to the hint "Indicate the side of the plate where the flange/face plate
should be placed" you indicate a point just below the lower boundary of plate
"Long. bulkhead 3960". Now some arrows appear in the left upper corner of the
plate. Those arrows indicate the contour direction of the plate.
Now you should first define the size of the flange and the direction by means of
the following panel:
In this case the body size is 150 mm and the body direction will be from CL. You
specify the start and endpoint of the flange in a similar way as for normal profiles.
According to the hint "Indicate a construction for the start point", you start with
determining the start point of the flange, taking in to account the contour direction
of the plate to which the flange will be attached. Due to the visible direction
arrows, it will be clear that the start point will be located at the aft end of the plate.
You select the aft end and the text "Starting_point" at the indication point will be
presented . Now you specify the distance from the starting point by entering a
value for 'Distance'. Finally you have to define the end shape for the indicated
starting point. From the three presented end shapes for flanges, you select type
"B" with a variable angle and nose height:
You enter the values for angle and nose height within panel "End type":
Now you determine the end point of the flange as hint "Indicate a construction for
the end point" suggests. The end point is located at the front end of the plate.
Please indicate a point at the front end and the "Ending_point" will be presented
at the indication point :
The end shape with it's properties will be the same as the end shape for the start
point. You select end shape type "B" and accept the default values for 'Angle of
edge' and 'Nose height' within panel "End type". By selecting the 'OK' button, you
have also determined the end point of the flange.
Now both ends of the flange are defined, the flange will be created and added to
the longitudinal girder.
You will add a flag to the created flange in the current side view, which indicates
the type of end shape used. This flag is a 2D symbol and therefore the type of
symbol will not automatically change if the end shape is changed.
This panel contains various modification options for face plates and flanges.
To add a flag indicating the type of end shape used, you select the following
option; "Add end type symbol":
As the hint "Indicate flange/face plate at side where "flag" has to be placed"
suggests, you indicate a point near the end of the flange. A symbol indicating the
selected end shape will be placed at the location of the end shape.
After indicating the end shape at the specified start point of the flange the
following symbol will be placed:
By indicating the end shape at the specified end point, the same symbol will be
placed at the end point.
In order to show the distance between the flange of the longitudinal girder "Long.
bulkhead 3960" and the upper deck "Deck 6200", you will place a vertical
dimension.
To indicate the height of the longitudinal girder, you will use dimension type
'Chain measure'.
The system is asking you by displaying the hint "Give item where measure start"
to indicate a point where the measure starts. In this case that can be either the
lower side of the upper deck "Deck 6200" or the upper side of the flange.
Please start indicating the upper side of the flange. Following the second hint
"Give item where measure stop" you indicate the opposite side, meaning the
lower side of the upper deck. By dragging the dimension line to a desired position
you determine the location where the dimension should be placed.
By coding plate "Long. bulkhead 3960" you will notice that the longitudinal girder
and the flange are added together and have become one part.
To code this plate you select "CAM"Ú"Code plate" from the menu and indicate
plate "Long. bulkhead 3960". Because the procedure is similar to
coding plate "Deck 6200", only the end result of the coding process will be shown
here.
Start situation
You will return to the upper deck "Deck 6200 above base" to add the missing
deck beams HP 140 x 8 at frame 30, which now can be related to the longitudinal
bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 3960".
Overview of actions:
End situation
The outer transverse deck beam at FR30 is created with the following properties:
1
: Because the seam will be ignored, you can indicate the seam in order to select
the longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600".
Looking at the longitudinal girder you have created at 3960 from C.L., you will
only see the plate of the longitudinal girder and not it's flange. The flange is
positioned 400 mm below the deck level of 6200. In this case the visibility
distance is not big enough. By increasing the visibility distance, you will make the
flange visible within the current top view "108-6200".
Let's increase the visibility distance by selecting the toolbar icon "DRAW?":
Select button 'Visibility' to access the visibility settings, presented within panel
"Visibility settings":
You need to change the face plate view distance from the default value 100 into
at least 400. Please enter the value "410" for 'Face plate view distance'. By
selecting the 'OK' button from panel "108-6200" the flange will become visible.
You will create the inner transverse deck beam at FR30 by copying the existing
transverse deck beam at FR29 and shifting it to FR30.
By means of panel "Copy items" you select the inner transverse deck beam at
frame 29:
Because the selected deck beam must be shifted one frame, you select button
'Shift' and specify the properties for shifting within panel "Copy items" tab "Shift":
The deck beam will be shifted in length over one frame, therefore you enter the
value "1" for 'length', which stands for "1FR". Since only one copy will be made,
you don't have to enter a value for 'Amount' and for option 'Step' . By selecting
the 'OK' button, the copy command will be executed. The result will be the
creation of a new deck beam HP 140 x 8 at frame 30 with the same properties as
the existing deck beam located at frame 29.
See Manual 'Detailed Function Descriptions' for a complete description of these copy and
move functions.
1.19 Frame 23
1.19.1 Basic training steps (19)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "108-23" to add the bracket between deck beam HP
140 x 8 and longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600". Afterwards this bracket
will be copied to frame 24, 25, 26, 27 and 30.
Overview of actions:
End situation
5. Create bracket "A 02" between deck beam and longitudinal bulkhead
The creation of bracket "A 02" between deck beam HP 140 x 8 and longitudinal
bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" is similar to the
creation of the bracket between deck beam and transverse bulkhead within frame
view "Frame 29" with the following properties:
You accept the default bracket within panel "Bracket type 750" by pressing the
'OK' button. The bracket will be created including the part number "02" and the
panel number "YA".
First create additional space above the view by shifting it a little bit down using the
"PAN":
Now there is enough space above the view to place the standard text by selecting
the toolbar icon "TEXT":
After selecting this icon, the cursor will be automatically positioned at the position
of the last used standard text at frame view "Frame 29". If you want to have all
standard texts in one line, you can use current control in panel "Text menu" to
achieve this.
Select as standard text "Frame 23" and this text will be placed at the current
cursor position. Now the text "Frame 23" will be at the same spot as the standard
text "Frame 29" within frame view "108-29".
Please use the speed bar icon "BOX PLA" to get the drawing presented in full
screen:
The standard bracket "A 02" also appears on frame 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 30 at
the same position as frame 23. The brackets at these frame positions can be
created by copying the bracket from frame 23. Only the bracket at frame 28 can
not be created by copying the bracket from frame 23, due to a different deck
beam size HP 200 x 9 instead of HP 140 x 8.
Now you will create the brackets at frame 24, 25, 26, 27 and 30 by copying the
bracket from frame 23.
Select the bracket by using the default selection method 'Cross hair' within panel
"Copy items":
The selected bracket needs to be copied and shifted therefore you select the
'Shift' button. The properties for shifting the bracket are specified by means of
panel "Copy items".
All options within the tab "Shift" will be explained using the figure below:
1. 'Shift along axes''; allows the user to enter shift values in all three directions at
once; Length, Width and Height.
2. 'Shift along vector' ; enables the user to enter or indicate a vector defining the
direction in which to copy.
3. 'Shift actions' ; these "action counters" indicate the number of entered actions
and whether they were entered correctly ( ) or not ( ).
4. 'Show overview'; this displays or hides the overview of the copy actions to be
executed (see ' Overview of the entered copy actions').
5. 'Preview' ; this button enables the user to have an impression in the Hull
Viewer of how the copy action will work out (see also 'Previewing the
Copy/Move action').
6. 'Amount'; the number of desired copies can be entered (not available during
moving items). If the desired amount is greater than one, then for at least one
of the copy actions a step should be entered which defines the distance
between the resulting parts.
Now you will specify the necessary copy commands for the selected bracket by
means of panel "Copy items" in two steps:
1. Determine the copy commands for copying the bracket from frame 23 to
frame 24, 25, 26 and 27;
2. Add the copy command for copying the bracket from frame 23 to frame 30.
Step 1: "Determine the ´Shift actions´ for copying the bracket from frame 23
to frame 24, 25, 26 and 27"
Please enter the following specifications in panel "Copy items" tab "Shift":
· Since the brackets are copied in length and the distance between the original
and the first copy is one frame, enter value "1" for 'Length';
· The value for 'Amount' is "4";
· Since the distance between the resulting brackets is "1" frame, enter "1" for
'Step '.
By selecting the 'Show overview' button, the system will present you with an
overview of the defined 'Shift actions' as illustrated in the figure below:
As you can see in the list you have defined 4 'shift actions'.
Step 2: "Add the ´Shift action´ for copying the bracket from frame 23 to
frame 30"
Before starting to define this action you need to change a setting which enables
you to define multiple copy actions at the same time.
· Select the tab 'Settings' and the following panel will be presented (See '
'Influencing the copy result'):
· Select the option 'Accumulate all valid copy actions' which enables you to
define multiple copy actions at the same time(See also 'Multiple copy actions at
the same time').
· Select the tab 'Shift' to enter the new copy values.
· Please change the value "1" to "7" for 'Length' since the distance regarding to
frame 30 is "7" frames.
· The value for 'Amount' should be "1" since this command concerns only one
'shift action'.
· By selecting the button 'Calculate' you accept the copy action and the
concerning action will be added to the list of 'Shift actions'.
Please select the 'OK' button to execute the defined copy actions.
1.20 Frame 25
1.20.1 Basic training steps (20)
You will switch to frame view "108-25" to check if the bracket has been copied
from frame 23.
Overview of actions:
1.21 Frame 26
1.21.1 Basic training steps (21)
Start situation
You will also switch to frame view "108-26" to check if the bracket has been
copied from frame 23.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Place standard text "Frame 26" above view by using "Current Control". This is
similar to place standard text "Frame 23" above view, but now you select as
standard text "Frame 26".
You will add the dimension to the standard bracket "A 02" between deck beam
HP 140 x 8 and longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600". This bracket has
been copied from frame 23.
Let's dimension the bracket by selecting the toolbar icon "Profile size":
As the hint suggests "Select item", you select the concerning bracket by either
using the left-mouse button or the <SPCAE> bar.
"Please notice that the <SPACE> bar can be used instead of the left-mouse
button".
After selecting the bracket, panel "Choose dimension type" will appear:
Please select either the 'Ok' button or the <SPACE> bar to accept the presented
values within this panel .
Now the dimension of the bracket appears together with the part number. Indicate
a position where the dimension should be placed by dragging the dimension and
using the mouse.
Now you will dimension the deck beam with the same dimensioning option.
Start situation
You will return to the upper deck "Deck 6200 above base" to have a look at the
created brackets.
Overview of actions:
After finishing this view, you will create the side views "Long. section 4620, 5280
and 5940 off C.L.". You can find these views at the second drawing sheet. The
creation of these views enables you to make the upper and lower brackets, which
will be related to the stiffeners at frame 29.
End situation
The brackets are not visible within the current top view "108-6200", because
again the viewing depth is not big enough. You will make them visible by
increasing the visibility distance, like you have done for the flange of the
longitudinal girder at 3960 from CL.
Let's increase the visibility distance by selecting the toolbar icon "DRAW?":
Select button 'Visibility' to access the visibility settings, presented within panel
"Visibility settings":
In this case you need to modify the distance behind view from the default value
50 into at least 140. Please enter the value "140" for 'Distance behind view'. By
sing the 'OK' button within panel "108-6200" the brackets will appear in the top
view too.
You can make the brackets more clear to see by displaying the background lines.
Accept the default option 'all plates' within panel "Actual position":
By default all plates in section are displayed as green lines when their thickness is
not bigger than the actual value for visibility setting
"Maximum plate thickness for lines". These green lines are just single lines
representing the plates in section and are the lines which will be plotted. Their
position is calculated depending on the scale of the drawing.
Activating background lines will display the real thickness lines of plates in section
in blue color, while the border lines of plates in view are displayed in yellow color.
This functionality is not only applied for plates but also for brackets, flanges and
shell frames.
In this case activating background lines will display the real thickness lines of the
brackets in section, as shown in the figure below:
You can remove the background lines again by using the toolbar button "ABORT"
or hot key <Esc>.
Note: The visibility setting "Maximum plate thickness for lines" can be accessed
by selecting the toolbar icon "DRAW?" and selecting from panel "108-6200"
button 'Visibility':
In cases where the plate thickness is bigger than the value for visibility
setting "Maximum plate thickness for lines", the plate will be represented
with the real plate thickness and fully coloured.
Start situation
You will create a new side view "Long. section 4620 off cl", save it and add the
following construction parts to this view:
· A bracket of type 763 between upper stiffener HP 220 x 10 and deck beam
HP 140 x 8 at frame 30;
· The floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30" at frame 30;
· A bracket of type 762 between lower stiffener HP 220 x 10 and floor
"Bulkhead Fr. 30" at frame 30.
The two brackets also appear within the next two side views "Long. section 5280
off CL" and "Long. section 5940 off CL". Because the best procedure is to copy
first these two brackets and afterwards create the side views, you will copy the
upper and lower bracket within this training step. During the next two training
steps you will create the side views "Long. section 5280 off CL" and "Long.
section 5940 off CL".
Overview of actions:
End situation
In order to create the lower bracket "762" you need the floor at frame 30 as a
reference. There are two different options by which you can create this floor:
· You can switch to frame view "Frame 30" and create the floor over there;
· You copy the floor from frame 29 and afterwards check if all properties are
correct.
Although the first option may be the best, you will choose the second option to
create the floor.
You copy the floor from FR29 by using the same procedure as you have done for
copying the transverse deck beam at FR29 and shifting it to FR30. Here are the
properties for this copy action :
By selecting the 'OK' button, the floor at frame 29 will be copied to frame 30
including all it's attributes.
By checking the attributes of floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30", you will notice that both the
floor thickness and the stiffeners must be modified. You will change the thickness
of floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30" from 12 into 9 mm within the current training step. The
modification of the stiffeners will be executed later on within frame view "Frame
30", because in frame view all stiffeners can be modified in one action.
10. Copy the upper and lower bracket to side views "Long. section 5280 off CL"
and "Long. section 5940 off CL"
Copying the brackets from the current side view to side views "5280 and 5940 off
CL" is similar to copying the bracket from frame 23 to frame 24, 25, 26, 27 and 30
with the following properties:
By selecting the 'OK' button, the brackets will be copied to side views "Long.
section 5280 off CL" and "Long. section 5940 off CL".
You will create a new side view "Long. section 4620 off cl".
Please select "Create views" from the toolbar to create the new side view:
· Top views
· Side views
· Cross views
· Perpendicular views
Ad 2:If you try to create a new view of the same type, which is currently shown at
the screen, the panel "Selections on hull data" will be shown:
With this panel no new view can be created, but you can add additional hull
lines to your current view.
Let's create the new side view "Long. section 4620 off CL" by selecting the option
"Side views":
Now you will be presented with the panel "Side view section" in order to define
this view:
The new side view is located at 4620 from centerline with a value of "4620" for
'Breadth'. You need to check the other default values: with exception of the value
for 'Min. Length' all values are correct. The value for option 'Min. Length' must be
changed from "21.5" into "24.5". At this moment you will not make more side
views and therefore you select the 'Create' button to finish the creation of side
views.
One side view will be created and displayed in the graphical screen.
You will save the created side view "Long. section 4620 off CL".
After selecting this icon the panel "Save as..." is displayed which enables you to
enter a drawing name and a description:
Usually you will ignore the options 'Drawing name' and 'Description' and directly
press the 'OK' button to save the drawing with the default name.
The drawing name is made up of two obligatory and two optional parts.
The two obligatory parts are automatically filled in by the system and are as
follows:
· 'Drawing number' :indicates the section where the view belongs to;
· 'section':indicates the position of the view which in this cars is the breadth value
"4620";
The optional parts are 'Drawing name' and 'Description' and are used to provide
the view with some additional information by the user.
You will make a connection between the upper stiffener HP 220 x 10 in plan view
and the deck beam HP 140 x 8 in cross section, located at frame 30. For this
connection you will use a bracket of type 763, which can be fitted between a
profile in plan view and a profile or plate in section.
Select "Bracket in plan view" from panel " from panel "Brackets":
According to the first hint "Indicate profile at position where overlap has to be
placed" you indicate the upper stiffener HP 220 x 10. Based on the second hint
"Indicate profile in section, where bracket stops", you indicate the deck beam HP
140 x 8 at frame 30.
After defining the bracket relations, the panel "Bracket type 763" appears on the
screen:
According to the drawing, the values for 'Enter height of bracket' and 'Enter
thickness of bracket' must be changed into "250" and "9". The default value "140"
for 'Enter the nose length of the bracket' is based on the corresponding profile
height of the deck beam. Since this bracket doesn't have a flange and will be
made of standard material, you select the 'OK' button to continue.
Now you have to choose a corner hole type and an overlap type by means of
panel "Corner hole type / Overlap type":
This panel contains two corner hole types and two overlap types:
Please select the 'OK' button to accept the default selection of "Radius" and
overlap type "Parallel".
The upper bracket will be created with part number "0" and panel number "YA".
The position of the upper bracket dimension is not desirable and therefore it
should be to the right position.
According to the hint "Select item" you select the bracket. Now press the
<SPACE> bar to accept the presented dimension type in panel "Choose
dimension type". Please drag the dimension to a new position and conform this
position by using either the mouse or the <SPACE> bar.
You will make a connection between the lower stiffener HP 220 x 10 in plan view
and the floor in cross section at frame 30. For this connection you will use a
bracket of type 762, which can be fitted between a profile in plan view and a
profile or plate in section and which allows the user to specify a gap between the
nose of the bracket and the selected profile or plate in section.
Select "Bracket in plan view" from panel " from panel "Brackets":
According to the first hint "Indicate profile at position where overlap has to be
placed" you indicate the lower stiffener HP 220 x 10. Following the second hint
"Indicate profile / plate in section, where bracket stops", you indicate the floor
"Bulkhead Fr. 30" at frame 30. After defining the bracket relations, the panel
"Bracket type 762" appears on the screen:
According to the drawing, the value for 'Enter height of bracket' must be changed
into "350". The presented default value "10" for 'Enter thickness of bracket' is
correct. Please accept the presented default values for all other options within this
panel by selecting the 'OK' button.
Now you have to select an overlap type by means of panel "Overlap type":
You will create a new side view "Long. section 5280 off cl", save it and have a
look at the created upper and lower bracket.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Save drawing side view "108-5280" is similar to save drawing side view "108-
4620".
You will create a new side view "Long. section 5280 off CL".
If the view to be created has the same area as the current view on the graphical
screen you can then us the function "DRAW?" from the toolbar in order to create
the concerning view.
In the current situation the new side view "Long. section 5280 off CL" will have
the same area as the current view "Long. section 4620 off CL" and therefore the
alternative method for creating views will be used.
Let's create the new view "Long. section 5280 off CL" by selecting "DRAW?" from
the toolbar:
You only have to type in the new value "5280" for 'Breadth' and select the 'OK'
button.
"Remove all incorrect dimensions" and "Remove all incorrect part numbers".
The new side view will be created and displayed in the graphical screen. Also the
standard text is modified automatically into "Long. section 5280 off C.L. SB".
You will create a new side view "Long. section 5940 off cl", save it and have a
look at the created upper and lower bracket.
Overview of actions:
End situation
The creation of side view "Long. section 5940 off cl" is similar to the
creation of side view "Long. section 5280 off cl".
Save drawing side view "108-5280" is similar to save drawing side view "108-
4620".
You will return to the upper deck "Deck 6200 above base" to have a look at the
created brackets. To practice another copy possibility, you will copy a bracket
from PS to SB. First you will remove one of the brackets that you have just
created, for instance the one at 4620 from CL at starboard side. Then you will
copy the same bracket from port side. So at the end of this training step, the end
situation will be exactly the same as the start situation.
Overview of actions:
The subject of the next training steps will be the creation of the lower part of the
floors. These floors are located between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500"
at frame station 23 until 28.
You will copy the bracket, located at 4620 from CL, from port side. In the current
view the brackets at port side are not visible. Therefore you first need to extend
the area of the present top view "108-6200" in order to make the port side visible
as well.
Let's extend the area of the current view "108-6200" by selecting "DRAW?" from
toolbar:
After selecting this icon the panel "108-6200" is displayed with the original area
settings:
Views are defined as an area in which the construction and the hull line is shown.
The values have been specified by the user during the view creation process.
In this situation the area is specified by it's values for the length and breadth.
Within NUPAS CADMATIC Hull three area types can be distinguished:
· Area construction;
· Area shape, meaning the area hull line;
· Area equipment.
By default each area will have the same values for the length and breadth.
You can extend or reduce the area of the current view by modifying the values for
'Min. Length', 'Max. Length', 'Min. Breadth' and 'Max. Breadth' regarding 'Area
construction' and 'Area shape'.
Now you want to see all construction items at port side too. This can be realized
by removing value "-500" for 'Min. Breadth' of the area 'Area construction'. The
following panel "108-6200" lists the modified area settings to show all
construction items at starboard and port side:
Select the 'OK' button to confirm the new area settings. Although the current view
"108-6200" is extended, still only starboard will be visible in the graphical screen.
In order to see the port side as well, you need either to select the function "BOX
PLA" from the speed bar or to use the hot key <;>.
After extending the area of top view "108-6200", you will copy the bracket, located
at -4620 off CL, from port side to starboard.
Select the inner bracket at -4620 off cl by using the default selection method
'Cross hair' within panel "Copy items" (See also Manual 'Detailed Function
Descriptions'):
Select the 'Mirror' button . The bracket should be mirrored in breadth with a
breadth value of zero (meaning the centerline). You define these mirror properties
within panel "Copy items"->Tab "Mirror":
By selecting the 'OK' button, the bracket at port side is copied to starboard by
mirroring it with respect to the centerline.
1.27 Frame 23
1.27.1 Basic training steps (27)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 23" to create the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 23"
between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500". After creating this floor, you will
add the following construction parts:
· The lower stiffeners ST 100 x 10 between the hull and lower deck "Deck
3500";
· The holes with diameter 450 mm.
Because the same kind of floor must be created at frame 24 and 25, you will copy
this floor to frame 24 and 25, including stiffeners and holes. Although this floor
lacks two small welding holes near the seams, you will first copy the floor and
then create these small holes. The main reason for this order of actions is that
these small holes are not topological, meaning that these holes will not be related
to the seams. Copying this floor including welding holes will therefore result in an
incorrect position of these welding holes within frame 24 and 25.
Overview of actions:
End situation
By Selecting the 'OK' button, the floor will be copied to frame views "Frame 24"
and "Frame 25".
Before you create the lower plate "Bulkhead Fr. 23" between the hull and the
lower deck "Deck 3500", it's important to check if there is already a plate present
within the current frame view "Frame 23". Please notice that sometimes NUPAS-
CADMATIC Hull users create two plates on top of each other. Please avoid such
situations by checking on the existence of plates before creating new plates!
You can check if a plate already exists by selecting toolbar icon "Background
lines":
Select second option 'all plates in plan view' from panel "Actual position":
Now only plates and profiles in plan view will be displayed, plates in section will
not be displayed.
In this case the graphical screen will be empty at the location of the floor, which
will assure you that no floor exists within frame view "Frame 23":
You will create two welding holes with a radius of 35 mm around the seams.
These welding holes will be added to floor "Bulkhead Fr. 23".
Let's create these welding holes by selecting the toolbar icon "Create corner
holes":
According to the hint "Select welding symbols" you select the welding symbols by
using the default selection method 'Clump' within panel "Weld hole selection
menu":
After selection of the welding symbols, you have to determine the type of welding
hole within panel "Welding holes":
In this case you select welding hole type "348" and enter in panel "Hole types" for
'Radius' the value "35":
Select the 'OK' button to create the two welding holes around the seams.
1.28 Frame 24
1.28.1 Basic training steps (28)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 24" to complete the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 24"
between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500".
This floor has been copied from frame 23 with it's three stiffeners ST 100 x 10
and two holes with diameter 450 mm. You will make the following necessary
modifications to this floor:
· Change the position of the holes with diameter 450 mm from 3100 into 3000
mm above base;
· Change the left lower corner radius from 100 into 75 mm, which is not created
Overview of actions:
End situation
The position of the holes with diameter 450 mm can be changed by shifting them
-100 mm in height. Shifting these holes is similar to
shifting the aft most hole from Deck 6200, but now you select within panel "Hole
selection menu" the option 'Shift in height' and enter the value "-100". Instead of
using value "-100" you can also use the absolute value for the height by selecting
the 'Abs' button.
6. Create two welding holes with radius 35 mm and one welding hole with radius
75 mm
The creation of two welding holes with radius 35 mm and one welding hole with
radius 75 mm is similar to the
The plate "Bulkhead Fr. 24" between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500"
contains at the left lower corner a corner hole with a radius of 100 mm. This
corner hole is part of the plate contour. You will change the radius of this corner
hole into 75 mm by modifying the plate.
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select the floor. After selecting the floor, the system will display panel "Relations
overview" with the current plate boundaries and panel "Modify a plate contour"
with the plate contour definitions.
According to the hint "Indicate relation to be changed" you indicate the left lower
corner on the graphical screen. The relation will be highlighted in panel "Relations
overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
You change the radius of the corner hole by changing value "100" into "75" for
'Cutout':
By selecting the 'OK' button, the radius of the corner hole will be changed from
1.29 Frame 25
1.29.1 Basic training steps (29)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 25" to complete the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 25"
between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500".
You will copying this modified floor to frame 26 and 27. After copying this floor,
you will create two welding holes with radius 35 mm and one welding hole with
radius 75 mm.
Overview of actions:
75 mm
End situation
The position of the holes with diameter 450 mm can be changed by shifting them
-100 mm in height.
The third hole with diameter 450 mm can be created by copying the second hole.
By selecting the 'OK' button, the copy command will be executed. The result will
be the creation of a new hole with diameter 450 mm located at 5610 from cl.
You will create the floors at frame 26 and 27 by copying the modified floor
"Bulkhead Fr. 25" from frame 25.
By selecting the 'OK' button, the floor will be copied to frame views "Frame 26"
and "Frame 27".
The floor at frame 25 contains three holes of type "manhole" with a diameter of
450 mm. The two inner holes need to be modified into holes of type "creep hole"
with height 600 mm and breadth 450 mm.
Now you will change the type and size of these two inner holes by selecting
"Change holes" from the function toolbar:
According to the hint "Select a hole" you select the two inner holes:
After selecting these holes, you select the 'OK' button after which you will be
presented with the panel "Create holes" to select the type of the holes:
In this case the holes must be changed from type "manhole" into type "creep
hole":
After selecting this hole type, you enter the measures by means of panel "Hole
types":
1.30 Frame 26
1.30.1 Basic training steps (30)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 26" to modify the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 26"
between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500".
Now take a close look at the drawing and you will see that the type and size of the
stiffeners need to be changed from flat bar 100 x 10 into HP 120 x 8. This floor
also contains an additional stiffener of type flat bar 100 x 10, placed below the
bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600".
The best way to proceed is to copy one of the existing stiffeners to the new
position below the bulkhead and modify afterwards the type and size of the
remaining stiffeners:
· Create stiffener ST 100 x 10 below bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600";
· Change end type of this stiffener ST 100 x 10 from type "B" into type "C" with
a radius of 25 mm;
· Lengthen this stiffener ST 100 x 10 with 25 mm, because the upper end of
this stiffener has to touch the lower deck;
· Modify the size and type of stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off cl from ST
100 x 10 into HP 120 x 8;
· Modify the end type of stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off cl from type "B"
into type "A".
Finally you will place both the free text "W.T." and the thickness text including part
number on this floor.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Changing the thickness of floor "Bulkhead Fr. 26" is done in the same way as
changing the thickness of "Long. bulkhead 3960".
You will create the stiffener below bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" by copying
the existing stiffener at 5940 off CL.
By selecting the 'OK' button, the copy command will be executed. The result will
be the creation of a new stiffener ST 100 x 10 below bulkhead "Long. bulkhead
6600".
You will modify the end type of the stiffener ST 100 x 10 below bulkhead "Long.
bulkhead 6600" from type "B" into type "C" with a radius of 25 mm. The
modification of this end type is similar to the
modification of end types, belonging to the upper stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 59
40 off cl within frame view "Frame 29" with the following properties:
Name of panel Option Value
In this case the upper end of the stiffener below bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600"
has to touch the lower deck "Deck 3500". To achieve this, you must lengthen this
stiffener with 25 mm. You can follow the same procedure as you have done for
lengthening the lower stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL within frame view
"Frame 29".
10. Modify end type of stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL
You will modify all end types of the stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL from
the current type "B" into type "A".
Because the plate "Bulkhead Fr. 26" between the hull and the lower deck "Deck
3500" must be watertight, you will remove all three corner holes. These corner
holes are part of the plate contour, therefore you will use the plate modification
options again.
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select plate "Bulkhead Fr. 26". After selection, the system will display panel
"Relations overview" with the current plate boundaries:
This panel shows you that the selected plate "Bulkhead Fr. 26" consists of three
plate boundaries and that each plate boundary contains a corner hole. As you
have seen before, you can change the plate boundary properties by means of
panel "Modify a plate contour":
Now you will remove the existing corner holes one by one.
According to the hint "Indicate relation to be changed" you indicate the upper left
corner hole. The relation will be highlighted in panel "Relations overview":
Remove the current value for the corner radius "50" for 'Cutout':
After changing the plate boundary, you can preview the result by pressing the
'Compute' button. The plate will be recalculated and the first relation will be
updated within panel "Relations overview":
Indeed the upper left corner hole has been removed. Before pressing the 'OK'
button to accept your modification, it's better to remove the other two existing
corner holes too.
For the removal of the remaining two corner holes, you will use an alternative
quicker method:
According to the hint "Indicate relation to be changed" you indicate the lower left
corner hole. Please remove the current value "75" for the cutout radius within
panel "Modify a plate contour". After deleting this value, you indicate the last
upper right corner hole and remove the value "75" for the cutout radius for this
boundary as well.
After removing all corner holes, you select the 'OK' button to finalize your
You have to change the type and size of the existing stiffeners ST 100 x 10,
located at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL, into HP 120 x 8 by using the profile
modification options.
Let's modify the type and size of these profiles by selecting "Change profiles"
from the toolbar :
By means of panel "Profiles selection" you select the profiles by using the default
selection method 'Conflict':
You make a box around the profiles in such a way that each profile is at least
partially included in the box:
Select the following options within the panel "Change profile type":
· The type of profile is "HP" or "Bulb" and therefore select option:
· The size of the profile is 120 x 8, meaning that the value for 'Body size' will be
"120" and the value for 'Thickness' will be "8".
After selecting the 'OK' button, the profiles will be modified into HP 120 x 8.
After the necessary modifications on floor "Bulkhead Fr. 26", you will place the
text "W.T." to indicate that this floor is watertight. To add this user defined text,
you will use a new text option called free text.
To place free text you select the function "TEXT" from toolbar :
In order to place free text, you select option 'Free text' and enter as free text
"W.T.". Because this text must be underlined, you select also option 'Underline'.
Please select he 'OK' button to continue. The entered free text will appear in the
graphical screen. By means of the mouse you can drag the selected text to the
desired position and place it there using the mouse-left button.
1.31 Frame 27
1.31.1 Basic training steps (31)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 27" to modify the floor between the hull and
the lower deck "Deck 3500".
Overview of actions:
By now you have almost finished this floor with exception that there is still a flat
bar 100 x 10 to be created below the bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600". You will
do this by copying the flat bar with the same properties from view "Frame 26",
Please see the next step (32).
End situation
1.32 Frame 26
1.32.1 Basic training steps (32)
You will switch to frame view "Frame 26" to copy the stiffener ST 100 x 10 below
bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600" to frame view "Frame 27".
Overview of actions:
1.33 Frame 27
1.33.1 Basic training steps (33)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 27" to complete the floor between the hull
and the lower deck "Deck 3500".
Because the same floor appears at frame view "Frame 28", you will copy the floor
to frame 28. Please remind that welding holes are not topological and therefore
the best procedure is to copy the floor first and then create the welding holes.
Overview of actions:
End situation
The floor between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500" contains three welding
holes with a radius of 35 mm. But according to the drawing the radius of the inner
welding hole has to be changed from 35 into 75 mm.
Let's change the radius of the inner welding hole by selecting "Create corner
holes" from the toolbar:
In this case the radius of the inner welding hole must be changed by selecting
option icon "Change size user-holes":
According to the hint "Select a corner hole" you select the inner welding hole by
using the default selection method 'Clump' within panel "Corner hole selection
menu":
After selecting the inner welding hole, you select the 'OK' button you will be
presented with the panel "Corner holes" to determine the type of corner hole :
You enter the new corner hole radius by means of panel "Hole types":
Select the 'OK' button and the radius of the inner welding hole will be modified
into 75 mm.
1.34 Frame 28
1.34.1 Basic training steps (34)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 28" to finish the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 28" and
to create a vertical pillar and some brackets.
You will perform the following modifications on floor "Bulkhead Fr. 28":
· Add three welding holes with radius 35 mm in way of the seams;
· Change the radius of the inner welding hole from 35 into 75 mm.
After modification of floor "Bulkhead Fr. 28", you will add the following
construction parts:
· A bracket of type A between deck beam HP 200 x 9 and longitudinal
bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600";
· A vertical pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm at 1900 from cl;
· Double plates Ø 200 x 10 mm on top and below the pillar;
· Two brackets of type D between pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm and deck beam HP
200 x 9;
· A bracket of type D between pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm and deck "Deck 2750".
Overview of actions:
Before you start with the frame view "Frame 30", you will create plates between
the lower deck "Deck 3500" and the upper deck "Deck 6200" in "3D-Show"
application.
End situation
11. Create brackets "D 21" between pillar and deck beam
By pressing the 'OK' button, the bracket will be created including part number "21"
and panel number "YA".
Note: During the creation of a bracket between a pillar and an other construction
part, it is important that you first select the pillar and secondly the other
construction part!
In order to support the upper deck "Deck 6200", you will add a pillar between the
deck "Deck 2750" and the upper deck beam HP 200 x 9. This pillar is positioned
at 1900 mm from cl.
Note: All options for creating and changing pillars are only accessible from the
menus and not directly from the toolbar.
· Vertical pillars
· Horizontal pillars
· Arbitrary pillars
Due to the vertical position of this pillar on the screen, you have to select option
icon "Vertical pillars":
You specify the type of pillar and it's position by means of panel "Create pillars" in
a similar way as you have already done for profiles:
· The size of the pillar is Ø 150 x 10 mm, so the values for 'Diameter' and 'Wall
thickness' are "150" and "10";
· The pillar is located at 1900 from CL, therefore the value for 'From breadth' is
"1900";
· Since 'Body direction' and 'Thickness direction' does not apply to this type of
After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the length of the pillar by
defining it's start and endpoint.
You determine the lower end of the pillar by means of panel "Border value":
According to the hint "Indicate 1st relation" you select the deck "Deck 2750", you
indicating a point above this deck. Taking into consideration the existence of a
foundation plate with a thickness of 10 mm, the vertical distance should be 10
mm. You define the end cut at this position by selecting type "A" as the first end
shape:
Now you determine the upper end of the pillar by means of panel "Border value":
According to the hint "Indicate 2nd relation" you select the upper deck beam HP
200 x 9 by indicating a point below this deck beam. Although the vertical distance
should be 10 mm, you will leave it 0 mm. The reason will be explained later on.
Please select type "A" as the second end shape to continue.
After selecting the second end shape, the pillar with dimensions Ø 150 x 10 mm
will be created at 1900 from CL.
According to the drawing you will add a centerline to the created pillar Ø 150 x 10
mm within frame view "Frame 28".
By selecting on the 'OK' button, the centerline will be added to the pillar.
Now you need to create the plates with dimensions Ø 200 x 10 mm on top and
below the pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm. These plates are so-called double plates.
To create double plates, you select "Construction" -> "Create" -> "Foundations"
from the menu. After selecting this menu option the panel "Foundations" appears
with nine foundation types:
Start with selecting the upper end of the pillar by selecting the 'Select' button
within panel "Foundation type 7" and the following panel will appear:
Select the upper end of pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm by using the 'Clump' possibility of
the "Select" panel.
Select the 'OK' button to get back to the panel "Foundation type 7" in order to
specify the properties of the selected foundation type:
After creating this upper plate, you will create the lower one in a similar way. Be
aware of the circumstance, that the pillar doesn't need to be shortened at the
lower end. Therefore you need to deselect option 'Shorten pillar' within panel
"Foundation type 7". You can enter the "A" for 'Name' again within panel
"Foundation type 7".
After creating these double plates, you can take a close look at one of these
double plates for instance the upper double plate. Please zoom in on this double
plate by using hot key <1> and then activate the background lines by selecting
"Background lines" from the toolbar:
Activating background lines with the default option 'all plates' will result in
displaying the real thickness lines of this double plate in section, as shown in the
figure below:
You can remove the background lines by using the "ABORT" button from the
toolbar or hot key <Esc>.
You will dimension the pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm by placing a reference with both the
size of the pillar and the part number to this pillar. You can use for pillars the
same dimensioning functions as for normal profiles.
According to the hint "Select item" you select the pillar Ø 150 x 10 mm and drag
the dimension outside of the pillar and indicate a point where the dimension
should be placed, by using the mouse.
Using this dimensioning option, the text "Pipe 150 x 10" is placed perpendicular to
the pillar.
Start situation
Now you will switch to the application "3D-Show" to create the upper plates from
frame 23 to frame 28, located between the lower deck "Deck 3500" and the upper
deck "Deck 6200".
All the plates and stiffeners you have created so far, have done in the "3D-
Contek" application. But these construction parts can also be created in "3D-
Overview of actions:
After returning to the application "3D-Contek", you will add the holes and
stiffeners to the upper plates and execute the necessary modifications. Eventually
you can also create the holes and stiffeners by means of application "3D-Show",
but the available options have some limitations. Therefore the application "3D-
Show" is hardly used for making holes and stiffeners.
End situation
You will make a series of upper plates from frame 23 to frame 28, located
between the two decks "Deck 3500" and "Deck 6200".
You are able to create four different types of plates within the application "3D-
Show":
· Horizontal plates
· Longitudinal plates
· Transverse plates
· Slanting plates
After selecting this icon, you will be presented with the following panel:
Because the upper plates must be created from frame 23 to frame 28, you enter
the value "23" for 'From frame' and the value "28" for 'To frame' . In this case you
don't need to enter a value for 'Step size', the default value for this is "1" . The
thickness of the upper plates will be 9 mm and the thickness direction will be
towards reversed frame. Accept the presented default values for 'Type of
material' and 'Shift of working plane' by selecting the 'OK' button.
After selecting the 'OK' button, the view on the graphical screen will be changed
from "iso rear" into "rear view section" at frame "23".
Next you have to specify the plate boundaries by means of panel "Create
topological plates":
The boundaries of the upper plates, located between the two decks "Deck 3500"
In order to create an isometric view of the current section, you select the speed
bar icon "speedbar":
After selecting this icon, the isometric view will be displayed in the graphical
screen.
1.36 Frame 23
1.36.1 Basic training steps (36)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 23" to finish the upper plate "Bulkhead Fr.
23" between the lower deck "Deck 3500" and the upper deck "Deck 6200".
You will add the following construction parts to this upper plate:
· The upper stiffener HP 120 x 8 between the hull and upper deck "Deck 6200";
· One standard hole with dimensions 1200 / 450 mm.
The same upper plate with hole and stiffener should also be created at frame 24.
Since the upper plate is already available at frame 24, you will only copy the
attributes of the upper plate, meaning the hole and stiffener from frame 23. After
copying the plate attributes, you will add the welding holes with radius 35 mm to
the upper plate.
Overview of actions:
After finishing this frame view, you will check if the attributes of the upper plate
"Bulkhead Fr. 23" are indeed available within frame view "Frame 24".
End situation
The upper stiffener HP 120 x 8 at 7400 off CL will be created with the following
properties:
Name of panel Option Value
The hole with dimensions 1200/450 mm will be made with the following
properties:
Name of panel Option Value
You will only copy the attributes of plate "Bulkhead Fr. 23", meaning the hole and
stiffener, to frame 24.
Now you select the item(s) to be copied by means of panel "Copy items":
In order to select only the attributes of a plate, you first select from the list of item
types "All attributes of a plate" instead of the default item type "Any". Next you
select the upper plate "Bulkhead Fr. 23" by using the default selection method
'Cross hair'.
Note: Here it may be easier to select directly the hole and stiffener of the upper
plate "Bulkhead Fr. 23" with the default item type "Any".
Please select 'Shift' to continue. Next you will be presented with the following
panel to specify the distance over which the copying should take place:
Please enter the value "1" for 'Length', which stands for "1FR". If you wish, you
can get a preview of the result by using the 'preview' button .
Please select the 'OK' button to complete the action.
1.37 Frame 24
1.37.1 Basic training steps (37)
Start situation
You will switch to frame view "Frame 24" to check if the attributes of the upper
plate "Bulkhead Fr. 23" are indeed available. To finish the upper plate "Bulkhead
Fr. 24" you will add the welding holes with radius 35 mm.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Start situation
You will switch to the upper deck "Deck 6200" to create the cutout in deck plate
"Deck 6200".
Overview of actions:
End situation
You will create the cutout in deck plate "Deck 6200" by modifying the contour of
this deck plate. The dimensions of the cutout are presented in the figure below:
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select plate "Deck 6200". Next, the system displays a list of all the boundaries of
the selected plate in the panel called "Relations overview" and you are also
presented with the panel "Modify a plate contour".
Now you have to indicate the relation, which needs to be changed. Taking in
account the rule that you should always work in a counterclockwise direction, you
select the upper boundary of the plate, located at a parallel distance of 100 mm
from the centerline. This relation will be highlighted in panel "Relations overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
You will create the cutout in deck plate "Deck 6200" by starting the modification
from the indicated relation. Therefore you select button 'Start adding' to add the
modification, taking in account the following rules:
· The first boundary of the modification is defined by the minimum length. You
could type a value for 'Min. Length', but in this case you select the deck beam
at frame 28 by indicating a point on the right-hand side of the deck beam and
enter the value "50" for 'Parallel' in the panel "Modify a plate contour" which
stands for the parallel distance;
· Add the corner radius of 100 mm to the selected boundary by selecting option
'Radius of curvature' and entering the value "100" in the entry box;
· The last boundary of the modification is defined by the minimum breadth.
Select the 'Min. Breadth' button and enter value "1300" in the entry box:
After defining all boundaries of the cutout, you select the button 'Stop adding'.
Next you have to indicate the relation whereat the modification ends.
Please notice that this is always an existing relation of the plate.
In this situation you select the aft boundary of the plate, located at 100 mm in
front of frame 22.
Please select the 'Compute' button to get a preview of the modified deck plate.
The updated plate relations will appear within panel "Relations overview":
Please select the 'OK' button to modify the deck plate "Deck 6200".
You will make a small platform, which will be an integrated part of the deck plate
"Deck 6200", by modifying the contour of the deck plate, for some extra
exercises. The dimensions of this platform are shown in the figure below:
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select plate "Deck 6200". Next the system displays list of all the boundaries of the
selected plate in the panel called "Relations overview" and you are also
presented with the panel "Modify a plate contour".
You select the upper boundary of the plate, located at a parallel distance of 1300
mm from centerline. This relation will be highlighted in panel "Relations overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
Please add the first corner radius of 75 mm to the selected plate boundary by
selecting 'Radius of curvature' in the panel "Modify a plate contour" and entering
the value "75" for it. Next you select 'Start adding' to add the new boundaries:
· The first boundary to add, is defined by the maximum length. Select the 'Max.
Length' button and enter value "26+20" in the entry box;
· The second boundary is defined by the minimum breadth. Select the 'Min.
Breadth' button and enter value "450" in the entry box;
· The third boundary is defined by the minimum length. Select the 'Min. Length'
button and enter value "25-20" in the entry box;
· Add the corner radius of 75 mm to the current boundary by selecting 'Radius
of curvature' and entering the value "75" for the radius in the entry box.
After defining all relations of the platform, you select button 'Stop adding' and
indicate the relation whereat the modification ends. In this case you select the
upper boundary of the plate, located at a parallel distance of 1300 mm from
centerline.
Now you can preview the created platform by using the 'Compute' button and the
updated plate relations will appear within panel "Relations overview":
Select the 'OK' button to create the deck plate "Deck 6200" with the integrated
platform.
if you are not satisfied with the last modification of the deck plate "Deck 6200",
you can use the undo possibility for plate changes.
Let's remove the platform by selecting "Change plates" from the toolbar :
Next the corresponding deck plate "Deck 6200" will be highlighted for a few
By selecting the 'Yes' button, the last modification of the plate will be undone.
Now you have the original deck plate 'Deck 6200" back, without the integrated
platform.
Start situation
You will switch to the lower deck "Deck 3500" to create the cutout in deck plate
"Deck 3500".
Overview of actions:
6. Modify the cutout by relating the slanted parallel contour to the transverse bul
khead at FR28
7. Undo the last plate modification
8. Create stiffener ST 150 x 10 along the slanted parallel contour of the cutout
End situation
As you can see on the drawing; the cutout in deck plate "Deck 3500" is related to
it's environment by means of parallel relations to the following three bulkheads:
· The longitudinal bulkhead at 6600 from C.L.;
· The transverse bulkhead at FR29;
· The longitudinal bulkhead at 3960 from C.L..
But these bulkheads are not visible within the current top view "108-3500",
because the visibility distance above the deck is too small. Normally within the
application NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull only the plates below a deck will be shown. If
you also want to see the bulkheads above the deck, you need to increase the
visibility distance.
Select button 'Visibility' to access the visibility settings within panel "Visibility
settings". Since the thickness of the deck 12 mm you have to change the value
for 'the distance in front of view' from 6 mm into at least 13 mm:
By selecting the 'OK' button within panel "108-3500" the bulkheads will be
presented in the top view as well.
You will create the cutout in deck plate "Deck 3500" by modifying the contour of
this deck plate. As mentioned before the cutout is related to it's environment by
means of the following three main relations:
· A parallel relation to the longitudinal bulkhead 6600 from C.L. of 100 mm;
· A parallel relation to the transverse bulkhead at FR29 of 250 mm;
· A parallel relation to the longitudinal bulkhead 3960 from C.L. of 150 mm.
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select the forward plate "Deck 3500". Next, the system displays a list of all the
boundaries of the selected plate in the panel called "Relations overview" and you
are also presented with the panel "Modify a plate contour".
Now you have to indicate the relation which needs to be changed. Taking in
account the rule that you should always work in a counterclockwise direction, you
select the boundary of the plate located at frame 31. This relation will be
highlighted in panel "Relations overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
You will create the cutout in deck plate "Deck 3500" by starting from the indicated
relation. Therefore you select within the panel 'Start adding' to add the
modification:
· The first part of the cutout is a small nose, starting at a parallel distance of 20
mm above the longitudinal bulkhead 6600. Start by indicating a point above the
longitudinal bulkhead 6600 to select the deck and entering the value "20" for
'Parallel' . Next, you define an angle of 150º by selecting option 'Angle from'
instead of 'No crossover' and entering the value of "150" for 'Angle from' :
Note: The value for the angle must always be confirmed by pressing the
<ENTER> key.
the front side and enter the value "250" for 'Parallel';
· Add the upper corner radius of 300 mm;
· The fourth boundary is defined by a parallel distance of 150 mm from the
longitudinal bulkhead 3960. Select the longitudinal bulkhead 3960 by indicating
a point below it and enter the value "150" for 'Parallel' ;
· The last part of the cutout is also a small nose with a fixed angle of 30º, ending
at a parallel distance of 20 mm below the longitudinal bulkhead 3960. Because
the exact position of the start point is unknown, you can not use the option
'Angle from'. In such cases you use the alternative option 'Angle to'. Select
option 'Angle to' and enter "30" as value for the angle:
Now select the button 'Stop adding' and indicate the relation whereat the
modification ends. In this case you select the boundary of the plate located at
frame 31.
You can get a preview of the modified deck plate by using the 'Compute' button
and the panel "Relations overview" will be updated:
If you are satisfied with the result, presented on your screen and in the panel
"Relations overview" then you can confirm the modification of the deck plate
"Deck 3500" by selecting the 'OK' button.
You will modify the created cutout in deck plate "Deck 3500" by changing the
existing vertical plate boundary, which is related to the transverse bulkhead at
FR29, in a slanted plate boundary.
Although this modification is not visible on the provided drawing sheets, you will
carry out this modification as an additional exercise. The new dimensions of the
cutout are given in the following figure:
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select the front plate "Deck 3500".Next, the system displays a list of all the
boundaries of the selected plate in the panel called "Relations overview" and you
are also presented with the panel "Modify a plate contour".
Now select vertical plate boundary of the cutout, which is related to the transverse
bulkhead. This relation is highlighted in panel "Relations overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
By specifying a second value for option 'Parallel', you define the current relation
as a slanted relation with respect to the selected item;
The value in the left entry box for 'Parallel' is the distance between the start point
of the current relation and the selected item, the start point is determined by the
intersection of the previous relation with the current relation.
The value in the right entry box is the distance between the end point of the
current relation and the selected item the end point is determined by the
intersection of the next relation with the current relation.
Please notice that the current relation is seen as an strait line to determine the
intersections
According to the figure with the specified dimensions of the cutout, you must
insert the value "300" for 'Parallel' in the right entry box:
After selecting the 'OK' button, the vertical plate boundary of the cutout will be
modified into a slanted plate boundary.
You will modify the created cutout in deck plate "Deck 3500" for a second time by
making the cutout deeper. This can be realized by relating the slanted plate
boundary of the cutout to the transverse bulkhead at FR28. Please notice that the
slanted plate boundary of the cutout is related to the transverse bulkhead at
FR29.
This second modification is an additional exercise to show you the use of the
'Replace' button within panel "Modify a plate contour". After carrying out this
exercise, you will undo this modification.
The new dimensions of the cutout are illustrated in the following figure:
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select the forward plate "Deck 3500". Next, the system displays a list of all the
boundaries of the selected plate in the panel called "Relations overview" and you
are also presented with the panel "Modify a plate contour".
Please select the slanted plate boundary of the cutout, which is related to the
transverse bulkhead. The selected relation is highlighted in panel "Relations
overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
You can replace a relation by a new relation by selecting the 'Replace' button
within panel "Modify a plate contour". After defining a new relation and selecting
the 'OK' button, the existing relation will be replaced by the new one.
In the current situation, you select the 'Replace' button and define your new
relation by indicating the transverse bulkhead at FR28. To get a preview of the
modified deck plate, you select the 'Compute' button. If you are satisfied with the
result you can select the 'OK' button to confirm the modification of the deck plate
"Deck 3500".
You will create stiffener ST 150 x 10 along the slanted plate boundary of the
created cutout in deck plate "Deck 3500".
Although you will find the same profile on the drawing, there is one main
difference: the presented profile on the drawing is a vertical profile, which can
easily be created with the option "Vertical profiles" .
To create this slanted profile, you will use a new profile option called "Arbitrary
profiles".
The stiffener ST 150 x 10 will be created between the start point P¹ and the
endpoint P² along the slanted plate boundary. The exact position of these points
are given in the following figure:
The start point P¹ will be defined as an intersection point between the relations:
· A parallel relation to the longitudinal bulkhead 6600 from C.L. of 40 mm;
· A parallel relation to the slanted plate boundary of the cutout of 15 mm.
Both the first and second end shapes of this stiffener will be of type "B" with an
angle of 60 mm and a nose height of 25 mm.
At first you have to specify the type of profile and it's directions by means of panel
"Create profile". The profile type, body size and thickness are respectively "Flat
bar", "150" and "10". The profile directions will be "Towards base" and "Towards
reversed frame" :
After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the start and endpoint of the
profile and the corresponding end shapes by means of panel "Profile on plate ?
TDB 108":
As basis for the start point of the profile, you will define the following relations:
1. A parallel relation to the longitudinal bulkhead 6600 from C.L. of 40 mm;
2. A parallel relation to the slanted plate boundary of the cutout of 15 mm.
Ad 1. To define the first relation you select the longitudinal bulkhead 6600 by
indicating a point above the plate and entering within panel "Profile on plate
? TDB 108" the value "40" for 'Vertical distance' :
Select the 'OK' button to confirm the definition of the relation. Please note
that all the values concerning a relation should be given before the de
relation is confirmed by means of the 'OK' button.
Ad 2.To define the second relation you select the slanted plate boundary of the
cutout, but if you select this plate, the full contour of the plate will be
highlighted! You will see this also within panel "Profile on plate ? TDB 108",
where the selected type of relation will be 'Complete relation':
To make sure that only the indicated slanted plate boundary is selected, you
have to choose '1 vector' as type of relation from the pull-down menu .
Generally speaking the selected type of relation '1 vector' means that only
the vector of the relation, which is closest to the indicated point will be
selected.
You have defined two relations which are presented as purple lines within the
graphical screen:
The intersection point of these purple lines will determine the start point of the
profile.
According to the hint you have to choose the third and first end shape from panel
"Profile on plate ? TDB 108". Since the profile does not have a flange, you only
have to define the first end shape, which will be of type "B" or a so-called snipe:
Please accept the presented default values for 'Angle of edge' and 'Nose
height' within panel "End type" by selecting the 'OK' button:
As basis for the endpoint of the profile, you will define the following relations:
3. A parallel relation to the longitudinal bulkhead 3960 from C.L. of 40 mm;
4. A parallel relation to the slanted plate boundary of the cutout of 20 mm.
Ad 3. To define the third relation you select the longitudinal bulkhead 3960 by
indicating a point below the plate, next you enter the value "40" for 'Vertical
distance' . Confirm the definition for this relation by selecting the 'OK' button.
Ad 4. You define the fourth relation by selecting the slanted plate boundary of
the cutout and choosing '1 vector' from the pull-down menu the correct type
of relation . Enter the value "20" for 'Parallel distance' and confirm the
definition of this relation by selecting the 'OK' button.
An alternative for selecting the type of relation '1 vector' from the pull-down
menu is by using the right-mouse button after selecting the slanted plate
boundary. The pop-up menu "Select contour interpretation" appears, which
enables you to select the appropriate type of relation:
The defined relations will be presented as purple lines within the graphical
screen. The intersection point of these purple lines will determine the endpoint of
the profile.
According to the hint you have to choose the fourth and second end shape from
panel "Profile on plate ? TDB 108". You only have to select the second end
shape, which will be of type "B" . Accept the presented default values for 'Angle
of edge' and 'Nose height' within panel "End type" by selecting the 'OK' button.
The stiffener ST 150 x 10 will be created between the specified start and
endpoint:
Although you haven't really finished your section, it is time to create a sheet
drawing to have an overview of the views you have created so far. But before you
can create a sheet drawing, you need to be sure that all views are up to date!
Overview of actions:
Please notice that when you modify e.g. a cross view it also can have influence
on top and longitudinal views. Therefore the system enables you to update all the
views of the active section in one action.
Using this panel you can select which type of view(s) and which section(s) needs
to be updated.
Since you will update all the views of the active section "108' you do not need to
change any settings in the panel "Recalculate" and therefore you select the 'OK'
button to continue;
The system shows the progress of the recalculation process by displaying each
type of view being updated, by means of the following panels
At the end of the recalculating process, the system will display the following
message panel:
Although you haven't finished your section, you will create a sheet drawing to
have an overview of your section. A sheet drawing is a drawing, composed of
various views.
Overview of actions:
End situation
You will create a new sheet drawing with paper size A0 and scale 1 : 25.
After selecting this function you will be presented with the panel "Sheet settings"
Please select the 'OK' button to continue, next, a new empty sheet drawing is
created including a title-field of the customer. And you are presented with a panel
as an example how some of the information on the title-field could be provided:
After selecting the 'OK' button, the given information will be processed in the title-
field:
Next you can load views in the sheet drawing. This action will be handled as a
separate action within this training step.
You will select views as part of the sheet drawing creation process. These views
will be loaded in the sheet drawing. The arrangement will be different from the
arrangement of views on the example drawing.
Let's load the specified views in the sheet drawing in the following order:
1. Top views;
2. Side views;
3. Frame views.
You will start with selecting top views by checking the option 'Top' in the panel
"Sheet drawings":
Within this panel you will find list of two available top views. In this case you will
load the views in a manual and arbitrary way, please notice that the options
'Manual' and 'Arbitrary' are selected as default.
Please select the top view "108-6200" from the list and place the view at the
desired position in the sheet drawing. The selected top view will be removed from
the list in the panel.
The second top view "108-3500" will be not placed arbitrarily but below the first
top view. Please select option 'Above/below' :
After selecting the top view "108-3500" from the list, you have to select one of the
views in the sheet drawing as the hint "Select a model" also suggests.
According to the selected placement method 'Above/below', you select one of
the views in the sheet drawing by indicating a point above or below that view.
So indicate a point just below the first top view "108-6200" and the second top
view "108-3500" will be positioned below the first one with a default intermediate
distance.
After selecting top views, you will continue with side views by deselecting the
option 'Top' selecting option 'Side' in the panel "Sheet drawings":
within this panel you will find a list of available side views. From these five views
only two views "108-3960" and "108-6600" will be loaded into the sheet drawing.
First select 'Arbitrary' as the method of placement and then select the side view
"108-3960" from the list and place the view at the desired position in the sheet
drawing. You will position this view just at the right side of top view "108-6200".
The next side view "108-6600" has to be placed next to the side view "108-3960".
So select first 'Beside model' as the method of placement :
Please select side view "108-6600" from the list. Next, you indicate a point at the
right side of the side view "108-3960" in the sheet drawing to define the position
whereat the selected side view should be placed.
Please deselect the option 'Side' and select the option 'Frame' in the panel. Next
you select the placement method 'Arbitrary' to continue:
still
You are now presented with a list of eight available frame views. there is stil some
space available in the drawing sheet, therefore you will load four of the eight
frame views; "108-23", "108-24", "108-25" and "108-26":
· Please select the first frame view "108-23" and place this view below side view
"108-3960" and beside both top views "108-6200" and "108-3500";
· Since the frame view "108-24" should be placed next to the frame view "108-
23" you select the option 'Beside model' . Please select frame view "108-24"
from the list and place this view at the right side of the frame view "108-24" by
indicating a point on that position.;
· The third frame view "108-25" should be placed below frame view "108-23".
Select option 'Above below' and frame view "108-25" from the list. Then select
the frame view "108-23" by indicating a point just below this view;
· The fourth frame view "108-26" should be placed next to the frame view "108-
25" and below frame view "108-24", meaning at an intersection. Now select
placement method 'Intersection' in the panel:
Please select frame view "108-26" from the list. Next, you have to select the
frame view "108-25" by indicating a point at the right side of the view. Then you
select frame view "108-24" by indicating a point just below the drawing. Now
the fourth frame view "108-26" will be positioned beside frame view "108-25"
and below frame view "108-24".
After having loaded all the specified views, you end this function by selecting the
"ABORT" button form the toolbar button.
You will create an isometric hidden line view of your section and add this view to
the existing sheet drawing.
Overview of actions:
End situation
The application "3D-Show" offers you the possibility to save 3D hidden lines
drawings. These 3D hidden lines drawings are created from the selected
section(s), taking in account the actual viewing perspective.
In this case you will create an isometric hidden lines drawing from your section
and save it with drawing number "108" and drawing name "iso-rear". Because the
active section is already shown in isometric view, you don't have to change the
viewing perspective!
Let's save the current section as an isometric hidden lines drawing by selecting
"File"Ú"Save as ..." from the menu. Select from panel "Save as ..." option
'Position and hidden biso' and accept the default values for the 'Drawing
number' and 'Drawing name':
Because there is just a little bit space left at the sheet drawing, you will change
the value for 'Scale' from 25 into 50. You can ignore the optional field
'Description' and select the 'OK' button.
Next you are presented with two panels "Turn model" and "Remove parts" to
enable you to turn the displayed section around one of it's axes and to remove
items from the displayed section.
Because many sections are built upside down, you will also turn your section
upside down. This can be realized by turning the section 180º degrees around the
East-West axis. Click in the entry box of the option 'East-West axis' within panel
"Turn model" and the default value of 180 degrees appears:
By selecting the 'Turn' button, the section will be turned upside down.
In order to get a nice view of your section, you also turn the section 180º degrees
around the Up-Down axis. Click in the entry box of the option 'Up-Down axis' and
the default value of 180 degrees appears:
Select the 'Turn' button, the section will be turned around the up-down axis.
After turning the section, you could remove items from the displayed section by
means of the panel "Remove parts" if you find it necessary:
The purpose of removing items is to get a better view of the actual structure.
Please notice that the items are only removed from the screen and not removed
from the database!
For the current section you don't have to remove any items. So select the 'OK'
button and the hidden line removal will be carried out. The result of the hidden
line removal will be displayed in the graphical screen and the following message
will be appear:
Generally speaking, there are two methods for loading an existing sheet drawing:
Now the system presents panel "Choose sheet" with a list of available sheet
drawings:
By selecting the sheet drawing from the list you get the sheet drawing
presented on the screen.
Let's use the second method to load the sheet drawing "108-1".
When loading sheet drawings, only the following two options from this panel are
of concern:
1. The history box, referenced by number j in the figure above, with a list of
recently loaded drawings. The last loaded drawing is always presented at the
top of this list with one exception: sheet drawings. Therefore in this case the
sheet drawing "108-1" is located at the top of the list.
2. When a sheet drawing exists, the second list box will contain the contents of
this sheet drawing. This list box, referenced by number k, contains all views
which have been added to the sheet drawing. By scrolling through the list,
you could select one of the available views:
Now load the sheet drawing "108-1" by selecting it from the history box. You have
to click twice on filename "108/sheet/108-1" in order to make a selection. The
system will switch to the sheet drawings environment and will open sheet drawing
"108-1".
You will add the 3D isometric hidden lines view to the sheet drawing "108-1".
You can load additional views to an existing sheet drawing by selecting "Load"
from the toolbar:
Using "Sheet drawings" panel you can load the 3D isometric hidden lines view as
follows. :
Select option '3D-Show' as type of view
Within this panel you will find a list of all 3D isometric hidden lines views. Please
select the view "109 and place the selected at the desired position by indicating a
point at lower left corner of the sheet drawing.
Select the "ABORT" button from the toolbar to stop loading views.
Start situation
If modifications are necessary, you will generally not carry out your modifications
at the sheet drawing level but within the individual views, which have been
imported to the sheet drawing.
The general procedure for carrying out modifications, which should be reflected in
the corresponding sheet drawing, consists of two steps:
1. Load the view which must be modified;
2. Make your changes within the view and save it.
The sheet drawing will reflect all your modifications due to the fact that within
NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull the sheet drawing is automatically updated!
To illustrate this modification procedure, you will modify frame view "108-23" by
adding a bracket of type D between the lower deck "Deck 3500" and the
longitudinal bulkhead "Long. bulkhead 6600". Next you will check if the sheet
drawing has been updated by looking for the added bracket.
Overview of actions:
4. Load sheet drawing with drawing number "108" and sheet number "1" to
check if it has been updated q
5. Leave sheet drawings environment
Some modifications can also be performed at the sheet drawing level. For the
sake of completeness, a list of general modifications for sheet drawings have
been added to this training step.
End situation
4. Load sheet drawing with drawing number "108" and sheet number "1" to
check if it has been updated
You will load the frame view "108-23" for modification from the sheet drawing
"108-1", meaning that you are still within the sheet drawings environment.
When you are working within the sheet drawings environment and a sheet
drawing is displayed on the screen, the system offers two different loading
methods:
Now select one of the single views in the sheet drawing. The system will
leave the sheet drawings environment and return to the normal 3D-Contek
environment. The view will be presented on the graphical screen.
2. Select "GET" from the toolbar, while you still have a sheet drawing on the
screen;
Click somewhere outside the sheet in the black area of the screen. In this
case the system will display panel "Choose sheet" with a list of available
sheet drawings. After selecting another sheet drawing from the list, the
current sheet drawing will be saved and the new one will be loaded.
In this case you will load the frame view "108-23" and not another sheet drawing,
meaning that you will practice the first loading method.
After selecting the toolbar icon "GET", you select the desired frame view "108-23"
on the sheet drawing, This will result in loading the frame view "108-23" in the
normal 3D-Contek environment.
You can leave the sheet drawings environment by selecting "Done" from the
toolbar:
After selecting this button, the system will return to the application from which you
had activated the sheet drawings environment.
Although all structural modifications should be carried out within single views,
some modifications can be executed at the sheet drawings level:
1. Change titlefield of sheet drawing; q
2. Add change number to sheet drawing; q
3. Replace views within sheet drawing; q
4. Perform 2D modifications to individual views within sheet drawing. q
For each modification function a brief explanation will be given.
You are able to modify the current values which are presented in the title-field of a
sheet drawing by selecting the "Titlefld" button from the toolbar:
After selecting this button, the system will display panel "Fill titlefield" with the
current values:
After modifying these values, you select the 'OK' button to accept your changes
and to update the information within the title-field.
You can add a revision to a sheet drawing by selecting "Chg.no." button from the
toolbar:
After selecting this button, you can enter information about a specific revision by
means of panel "Enter revision":
The system keeps automatically track of your revisions and comes up with an
appropriate revision value for the option 'Alteration' as a default. Our advise to
you is; give information about this revision by entering your initials for 'Name' and
a clear distinctive description of the revision for 'Description' .
After selecting the 'OK' button, all information about this revision will be added to
the revision list of the sheet drawing, located above the title block.
To replace views within a sheet drawing you select the "Load" button from the
toolbar :
This function has already been mentioned for importing additional views.
Within panel "Sheet drawings" you select option 'Replace' and select the new
view to be loaded in the sheet drawing. Next, you select the view which have
to be replaced by the new one by means of either selecting this view from panel
To enable the modification of individual views within a sheet drawing, you select
the button "Modify drawing" from the toolbar:
Next, you determine the view to be modified either by selecting this view from the
sheet drawing itself or by selecting it from a list of available views in the sheet
drawing in the panel "Selection menu":
By means of the 'Next layer of models' button you are able to modify a drawing
which has been loaded into another drawing.
As soon as you have selected a certain view, this view will be highlighted for a
short time. After selecting the 'OK' button, you will notice that the selected view
will keep it's original colors but all other views will be displayed entirely in blue.
This means that only the selected view can be modified and not the other views.
After modifying the selected view, you can modify several other views by
selecting "Modify drawing" button from the toolbar again. Each time you select a
certain view to be modified, the previous selected view will be saved
automatically.
After executing all the necessary modifications, you select the "SAVE" button
from the toolbar to save your changes to the sheet drawing:
Next, you use the "BOX PLA" button from the speed bar or hot key <;> to get the
whole sheet drawing presented on the screen. You will see that all views of the
sheet drawing are displayed with their original colors again.
You will create a series of ice frames, located between frame 23.5 and frame
30.5. These ice frames can be found on the second sheet drawing. In contrast
with this drawing you will ignore the ice frame at frame 22.5. With exception of the
ice frame at frame 23.5, all ice frames are supported by a flat bar at the lower
end. You will create these flat bars as well.
In order to create these ice frames with supporting flat bars, you will perform the
following actions:
· Create eight additional frame views "Frame 23.5" up to "Frame 30.5";
· Create first ice frame HP 200 x 9 within frame view "Frame 23.5";
· Create second ice frame by copying the first ice frame to frame view "Frame
24.5";
· Create the supporting flat bar ST 150 x 10 of the second ice frame within top
view "Deck 3500";
· Copy the second ice frame and supporting flat bar to frame views "Frame
25.5" up to "Frame 30.5".
Now the position of the supporting flat bars ST 150 x 10 will still be vertical to the
ice frames HP 200 x 9 instead of alongside of these ice frames. To achieve that
the flat bars are positioned alongside of the ice frames, you have to turn them
from their vertical position to the desired position alongside of the ice frames.
This correction must be carried out for each ice frame in the corresponding frame
view and consists of two steps:
· Ask for the angle at the lower end of the ice frame;
· Turn the flat bar to it's correct position alongside of the ice frame.
Overview of actions:
End situation
Let's create these views as small as possible by using the following values for the
listed options:
Name of panel Option Value
For slanting parts and parts not situated at a frame station, it's not possible to
load the corresponding views by selecting the concerning parts. So selecting the
ice frame at frame 24.5 in order to load the frame view "108-24d4" will not work.
In such situations, you have to indicate a point in an empty area after which you
can select a certain view to be loaded, from the list in the panel "Choose section".
You will create the first ice frame HP 200 x 9 at frame 23.5 by using the "profiles
in view" option.
Let's create ice frame HP 200 x 9 by selecting "Create profile" from the toolbar:
Now select the third option "Profiles in view" from panel "Profiles":
According to the hint "Indicate the hull line/plate" you select the hull line by
indicating a point on left-side of the hull line. By means of panel "Create shell
frame" you specify the type of profile HP 200 x 9 and it's directions:
After selecting the 'OK' button, you specify the first and second limitation of this
shell frame.
The first limitation will be the lower deck "Deck 3500". So indicate a point just
above the lower deck and enter value "0" for the parallel distance from the lower
deck:
Select as first end shape the type "C" and accept the default value "35" for the
radius "35" within panel "End type" by selecting the 'OK' button.
The second limitation will be the upper deck "Deck 6200". So indicate a point just
below the upper deck and enter value "0" for the parallel distance from the upper
deck:
Select as second end shape the type "C" with the same radius of 35 mm. After
selecting the 'OK' button, the specified shell frame will be created.
You will create the supporting flat bar ST 150 x 10 of the second ice frame HP
200 x 9 at frame 24.5 by using the "arbitrary profiles" option.
The supporting flat bar ST 150 x 10 will be created between the start point P¹ and
the endpoint P² within top view "Deck 3500". The exact position of these points
are given in the next figure:
The start point P¹ will be defined as an intersection point between the relations:
· A parallel distance to the floor at frame 24 of 25 mm;
· A parallel distance to the top of the ice frame HP 200 x 9 of 0 mm.
Both the first and second end shapes of this stiffener will be of type "B" with an
angle of 60 mm and a nose height of 25 mm.
Let's create this flat bar according to the specified position by selecting "Create
profile" from the toolbar:
You specify the type of profile and it's directions by means of panel "Create
profile":
After selecting the 'OK' button, you have to specify the start and endpoint of the
profile and the end shapes.
As basis for the start point of the profile, you will define the following relations:
1. A parallel distance to the floor at frame 24 of 25 mm;
2. A parallel distance to the top of the ice frame of 0 mm.
Ad 1.You define the first relation by indicating a point at a position in front (right-
side) of the floor at frame 24 and entering the value "25" 'Horizontal
distance' within panel "Profile on plate ? TDB 108":
Ad 2.You define the second relation by indicating the top of the ice frame HP 200
x 9:
Enter the value "0" for 'Vertical distance' within panel "Profile on plate ?
TDB 108":
These two relations are presented as purple lines within the graphical screen:
The intersection point of these purple lines will determine the start point of the
profile.
The default values for the 'Angle of edge' and 'Nose height' within panel "End
type" are correct. By selecting the 'OK' button you have completely defined the
start point of the profile.
As basis for the endpoint of the profile, you will define the following relations:
3. A parallel distance to the floor at frame 25 of 25 mm;
4. A parallel distance to the top of the ice frame of 0 mm.
You define these relations and the second end shape, which will be of type "B'"
with the same default properties, in a similar way as you have done for the start
point.
After completely defining both points, the supporting flat bar of the ice frame will
be created between the specified points:
To position this flat bar along the ice frame, you need to turn it around a specified
angle. Therefore you must know the angle at the lower end of the ice frame by
retrieving information about this ice frame.
Let's get the angle at the end of the ice frame by selecting "Information"Ú"Line
information" from the menu. According to the hint "Indicate a line" you select the
line of the ice frame as illustrated below:
After indicating this line, the system displays panel "Line information" with the
information about the selected line:
The angle at the lower end of the ice frame will be nearly equal to the angle of the
selected line. This angle is rounded off to 50 degrees and consequently the flat
bar must be turned 40 degrees.
You will turn the flat bar ST 150 x 10 to it's correct position along the ice frame HP
200 x 9. Within the current frame view "108-24d5" the flat bar needs to be turned
40 degrees.
Now turn the profile by selecting "Change profiles" from the toolbar :
You select the flat bar by using the default selection method 'Clump' within panel
"Profiles selection":
After selecting the flat bar, you enter "-40" for 'Angle' . In this case you give a
negative value for the angle, because the turning direction is clockwise.
Select the 'OK' button and the flat bar will be positioned along the ice frame:
1.43 Frame 30
1.43.1 Basic training steps (45)
Start situation
You will add the flange with flange size 100 mm to the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30",
located between the hull and the lower deck "Deck 3500". Also three brackets will
be added to this view.
The floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30" has been created by copying the floor "Bulkhead Fr.
29". According to the drawing, you have to make the following modifications to
floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30":
· Add two upper corner holes with radius 50 mm;
· Remove the additional part of the floor, located left of the longitudinal
bulkhead 3960;
· Add the left lower corner hole with radius 75 mm;
· Change the type and size of all stiffeners into ST 100 x 10;
· Modify the lower end types of stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off CL from
type A into type B;
· Add three welding holes with radius 35 mm around the seams;
· Change the radius of the inner welding hole from 35 into 75 mm;
· Add three standard holes with dimensions 850/450 mm.
Overview of actions:
End situation
You can check if the floor is really available by activating the background lines.
You will see that the floor is there, but the upper line is missing. Within NUPAS-
CADMATIC Hull all relations of the plates which are related to other plates are not
shown. This floor is originally related to the lower deck and that's why this relation
is not presented as a line. But now a part of the deck has been removed and the
system is not automatically detecting that the line is missing. In such cases it's
possible to add a line later on.
You can check the type and size of existing stiffeners by means of the
14. Modify the type and size of all stiffeners into ST 100 x 10
15. Modify the lower end types of stiffeners at 4620, 5280 and 5940 off cl from
type A into type B
Now you will add the missing upper line to floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30":
Now let's define the start and end point of the new line and it's dash type by
means of panel "Border value":
You define the first point, where the line should start, by indicating the upper
boundary near the longitudinal bulkhead 6600. But the actual start point P1 will be
the intersection point of the upper boundary and the hull line.
Next, you define the second point, where the line should end, by selecting option
'Second point' within panel "Border value" and indicating the upper boundary
near the longitudinal bulkhead 3960. The end point P2 will be the intersection
point of the upper boundary and the longitudinal bulkhead 3960.
You want to create a solid line, meaning that the corresponding dash type 'Dash'
will be "0".
Both points of the new line are illustrated in the figure below:
After selecting the 'OK' button, the new line will be created at the upper boundary
of the floor:
By selecting the "ABORT" button from the toolbar you can leave the function.
You will create a flange of 100 mm and add this flange to the upper boundary of
the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30". In contrast with the flange of the longitudinal girder
"Long. bulkhead 3960", this flange will not cover the full length of the upper plate
boundary but only a part of it!
Start creating the flange by selecting "Create face plate/flange" from the toolbar:
According to the hint "Indicate the side of the plate where the flange/face plate
should be placed" you indicate a point just above the upper boundary of floor
"Bulkhead Fr. 30".
First you define the size of the flange and the direction by means of panel "Face
plate on plate 29 TDB 108":
The body size is 100 mm and the body direction will be towards reversed frame.
Secondly you specify the start and end point of the flange, taking in account the
contour direction of the plate to which the flange will be attached:
The start point will be located at the left side of the visible part of the deck plate at
the right hand side and can be defined by indicating a point at this end. Accept
the default value "25" for the distance from the start point and select as end
shape type "B":
You accept the default values for angle and nose height within panel "End type"
by selecting the 'OK' button.
The end point will be located at right side of the visible part of the deck plate at
the right hand side and can be defined by indicating a point at this end. You
specify the same distance of "25" and the same end shape, meaning type "B"
with it's default properties, for the end point. By selecting the 'OK' button within
panel "End type" you have also defined the end point of the flange.
Now both ends of the flange are defined. Next you select the 'OK' button to
create the flange on the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30".
You can check if the flange has really been added to floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30" by
coding this floor. First you select "CAM"Ú"Code plate" from the menu and
secondly you indicate floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30". The coded part is displayed below:
You will remove the additional part of the floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30" by modifying the
contour of this floor. The part to be removed is illustrated in the figure below:
Let's change the plate by selecting the function "Change plates" from the toolbar:
According to the hint "Indicate construction part that has to be modified" you
select plate "Bulkhead Fr. 30". Next, the system will display panel "Relations
overview" with the current plate boundaries:
Also the corresponding panel with the plate contour definitions "Modify a plate
contour" will be displayed.
After taking a close look at the picture, illustrating the part to be removed, and the
panel with the current plate boundaries, it will be obvious that the following
relations define the part, which should be removed:
· relation "maximal height at 2785"
· relation "minimal breadth at 3920".
So in order to remove the additional part of the floor, located the left side of
longitudinal bulkhead 3960, you must remove both relations!
According to the hint "Indicate relation to be changed" you select the boundary
with a maximal height of 2785 mm from base. This relation will be highlighted in
panel "Relations overview":
The selected boundary properties are available within panel "Modify a plate
contour":
Now remove in a similar way the other plate boundary with a minimal breadth of
3920 mm.
After removing both boundaries, you select the 'Compute' button to get a preview
of the modified plate. You will see that the plate boundary, which is related to the
longitudinal bulkhead 3960, is automatically extended to the hull line. The result
of your modifications are reflected within panel "Relations overview":
Finally select the 'OK' button to create the modified floor "Bulkhead Fr. 30".
1.44 Appendix A
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1.45 Appendix B
1.45.1 Drawings 'Basic training course'
Note: These two drawings are delivered as separate files in .TIF format.
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Recalculate views 271
Remove construction parts 90
Retrieve line information 302
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Save drawing 180
Set visibility 'Distance behind view' 170
Set visibility 'Distance in front of view' 251
Set visibility 'Face plate view distance' 155
Sheet drawings: Create drawing 273
Sheet drawings: Import views (1) 275
Sheet drawings: Import views (2) 287