Planning Break Management Dialog Box

The Planning Break Management dialog box appears when you click Planning Break in the Operation toolbar. It generates the planning breaks inside the main assembly.

This dialog box contains controls for:

Related Topics
Initializing a Design Unit
Calculating Weight and Center of Gravity


Geometry

Select a geometry to define the physical boundary of the design unit.

A selection is also highlighted in the graphics area and also in the specification tree.

Note: If you change the geometry during the design, the old planning breaks will be removed. A message will appear listing the impact of replacing the old geometry by a new.

Status

After selecting the geometry, a list of all the structural objects gets displayed in the Name column of the Status tab. The System Status column displays the current status of the object with respect to the selected geometry. You can change the status of the objects using the contextual commands.

  • OUT: Sets the object to be outside a design unit.

    Note: The object is listed under the Excluded Element node in the specification tree.

  • IN with Planning Break: Sets the object to be inside a design unit with planning breaks.
    • If the status of the object is ACROSS, then it indicated that the planning breaks are defined for the proxy.
    • If the status of the object is OUT or IN, then it indicated that the planning break is not defined for the proxy. However, you can define them explicitly.

      Note: If the status of the object is OUT, then it will be listed under the Excluded Element node in the specification tree. If the status of the object is IN, then it will be listed under the Included Element node in the specification tree.

  • IN fully included: Sets the object inside a design unit. The proxy has no planning break defined whatever is its status.
  • Reset to system status: Removes all exceptions on this object. The proxy and its planning breaks are removed from the exception management.
  • In addition, other commands available are:
    • Center graph
    • Reframe On
    • Hide/Show.

The change status gets displayed in the Overridden column.

Tips:
  • If the status of the parent object (panel) is overridden to IN or OUT then the status of the child object (stiffener) is also overridden to IN or OUT respectively.
  • If you try to override the status of the child object (stiffener) before overriding the status of the parent object (panel), a message appears indicating to override the status of the parent object (panel) before overriding the status of the child object (stiffener).
  • If the parent object (panel) has overridden status as PB and if it is reset to the system status, the overridden status of the child object (stiffener) is also reset to system.

You can filter the object displayed for the ease of selection.

Filter
Select the appropriate type of structural object in the Filter list.

You can select:

  • All: Displays all type of structural objects.
  • Panel: Filters all panels.
  • Stiffener: Filters all stiffeners.
  • Beam: Filters all beams.

status
Select the appropriate type of status in the status list.

You can select:

  • All: Displays all objects.
  • OUT: Filters all objects with OUT status.
  • IN: Filters all objects with IN status.
  • ACROSS: Filters all objects with ACROSS status.

Exception
Select the appropriate type of exception from the Exception list.

You can select:

  • All: Displays all objects.
  • OUT: Filters all objects with OUT exception.
  • IN: Filters all objects with IN exception.
  • PB: Filters all objects with PB exception.
  • (Blanks): Filters all objects having no exception.

Filter
In the Filter box, you can key-in alpha numeric query for filtering. It is used to sub filter the above query results.

Note: This filter is case sensitive.

No Of Elements
The No Of Elements displays the count of total number of objects filtered to total number of objects available for filtering.
Filter 3D Viewer
Select the Filter 3D Viewer check box to see the filter result in the graphic area.

Estimate

The Estimate tab contains the following options:

Compute Report
Click Compute Report to generate a report.

The computed weight and the COG values are displayed in the area below.

Notes:

  • While computing the report all the objects referred by the design unit are considered.
  • You can set the unit for weight and COG at Tools > Option > General > Parameter and Measure > Units tab. For more information, refer to Infrastructure User's Guide.

Export Measures

Click Export Measure to make all properties persistent in the representation of the design unit. Also a geometrical point is created at the location of the COG.

Note: Each time Export Measure is clicked, a point is created.