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Intergraph Smart 3D Compartmentation

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The Compartmentation task in Smart 3D allows you to define the functional layout of a ship by creating compartments, ship zones, and other volume objects within the ship. Using the Compartmentation task, you can also assign loads and load combinations to volume objects.

Compartments are physical spaces within the ship that cannot overlap, except for some limited cases where one compartment, such as a fuel oil day tank, is completely enclosed by another compartment (such as the main machinery space). In most instances, a compartment is completely defined in terms of topological boundary relationships with a plate system, a deck, a transverse bulkhead, a longitudinal bulkhead, or a hull shell object.

Ship zones are logical spaces within and around a ship that might or might not physically overlap. In most cases, ship zones are defined by a rectangular bounding box. The properties and specifications of compartments, ship zones, and other volumes are defined in the reference data in the Catalog task.

You can define the geometry of a volume object in a variety of ways - by two points, by four points, by other surfaces, or by other volumes. You can also create a volume object in the model by defining a path and projecting a cross-section along the path. In addition to these functions, you can import SAT and IGES files to create compartments.

After creating volumes, you can specify loads that are applied to the volumes. Load folders, spatial loads, unit loads, and load combinations appear on the Analysis tab in the Workspace Explorer.