AVEVA Marine Drafting

For the creation of marine design and

production drawings
Even the most technologically advanced shipyards in the world rely
heavily on drawings to communicate information during the design
stage or, later, for production. In order to avoid costly inconsistencies,
it is vital for shipyards that those drawings accurately reflect the
3D ship model used for design and production. This means that any
modification to the 3D ship model should be easily propagated to,
and highlighted in, the relevant drawings.
AVEVA Marine Drafting is an application for the creation of drawings using
the model data in the model database. The application contains extensive 2D
drafting functionality for general drafting, and special model drafting functions
for reading the model database, in order to create marine drawings with
symbolic views, in line with shipbuilding design practices.

Business Benefits
Reduced design man-hours
and time:
z Built-in knowledge of marine
standards and practice
simplifies design work for
the creation of drawings, and
reduces the risk of errors and
the need for rework.
z The use of the common
model database as the
single, integrated, stored
data reference for all
drawings enables better
communication across all
design disciplines.
z Integrated drawing
generation and modelling
reduces the risk of errors.

Steel workshop drawing

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Key Features
z An essential part of the drafting functionality is the

graphical workspace concept for all interaction with the

model database. The graphical workspace is built up from
the model or a part of the model. Drawing views of the
model can contain subviews, can overlap each other,
and can have annotations, dimensions and texts. The
designer freely creates views in his drawing with defined
positions and orientations in the model. These views
remain connected to the model and can be automatically
updated when model changes are made. This feature
ensures consistency between the model database and
the related drawings, reducing time spent documenting
the design.

z The model can be displayed in two different types of

view, either with a symbolic representation of hull parts

such as stiffeners, seams, notches and drain holes, or
with full three-dimensional representation. The symbolicstyle views are traditional for classification and hull
workshop drawings, while the full representation can be
used for assembly and erection drawings.

Drawing of a hull block with both 3D and hull expansion views

z AVEVA Marine Drafting contains numerous convenient

functions for interactive drawing development. Features

provided by the drawing functions include:
- General 2D drafting
- Model view generation
- Access to, and viewing of, all types of model objects
- Dimensioning facilities
- Hidden line removal
- Generation of shaded images
- Advanced annotation features
- User-definable line types
- Associative dimensions
- Multi-select functionality
- Pan and zoom functionality
- Standard details.

General arrangement drawing

z A range of marine-industry-specific functions are included

in AVEVA Marine Drafting:

- Automatic creation of hull symbolic-type views from

the model on a user-defined plane
- Automatic section details of model parts such as
bracket connections
- Frame and longitudinal position rulers
- Centre line and base line
- Shell profile mounting angles.
z AVEVA Marine Drafting provides input and output links in

2D DXF and IGES formats. There are also export links to

SVG, CGM and TIFF formats.

AVEVA Marine Drafting is one of

AVEVAs Design products, which create
3D models for detailed design and
produce all associated deliverables

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product development, such information is subject to change without prior notice and is related to the current
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Information in this datasheet relates to product version 12.1 unless otherwise stated.

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