USER'S GUIDE - ShipWeight

2.7.2 Using Worksets with the Playground Area .............................................................. 2-39
2.7.3 Checking a Workset with Weight Items out to the Playground ............................... 2-40
2.7.4 Working with Checked Out Items in the Playground Area ...................................... 2-40
2.7.5 Reviewing Worksets (Rejecting or Approving Worksets) ........................................ 2-41
2.7.6 Running a Report of the Net Changes .................................................................... 2-42
2.7.7 User Permission Settings for Playground Area ....................................................... 2-42
2.8 Making the project ready for export to the ship database ....................................... 2-43
2.8.1 Filling in missing parameters ................................................................................... 2-44
2.9 Exporting to the ship database ................................................................................... 2-45
2.10 Log activities and results .......................................................................................... 2-46
2.11 Reports and documentation ...................................................................................... 2-47
2.11.1 Standard reports .................................................................................................... 2-47
2.11.2 Special reports: The ShipWeight Reports dialog .................................................. 2-51
2.11.3 Weight tracking report ........................................................................................... 2-57
2.11.4 Modular Weight Distribution Report ...................................................................... 2-61
2.12 Adding comments to specific weight groups .......................................................... 2-62
3 ESTIMATING WEIGHT AND COG ............................................................ 3-1
3.1 Starting a new estimation .............................................................................................. 3-1
3.2 The estimation dialog ..................................................................................................... 3-2
3.2.1 The graph area in the estimation dialog .................................................................... 3-3
3.2.2 Explanation to the standard selection coefficients .................................................... 3-5
3.2.3 The plotted ships list in the estimation dialog ........................................................... 3-5
3.2.4 The estimation area in the estimation dialog ............................................................ 3-6
3.2.5 The comparison area in the estimation dialog .......................................................... 3-7
3.3 Filtering the coefficients in the graph .......................................................................... 3-8
3.4 Graph options ............................................................................................................... 3-10
3.5 Saving your settings in the estimation window ........................................................ 3-11
3.5.1 Quick Load/Save of Estimation Settings ................................................................. 3-12
3.5.2 Importing estimation settings .................................................................................. 3-13
3.6 Taking uncertainty into account ................................................................................. 3-14
3.7 Using the Remainder group in estimation ................................................................. 3-15
3.7.1 Combining known and estimated weights ............................................................... 3-15
3.7.2 Dynamic Remainder: Freezing the above weight-group ......................................... 3-15
3.8 Automatic Calculation of Weight Groups as Percentage of other Weight Groups 3-16
3.9 Starting a new project based on the results from the estimation ........................... 3-18
4 ADDITIONAL FEATURES......................................................................... 4-1
4.1 Weight distribution ......................................................................................................... 4-1
4.1.1 Weight Distribution Calculations in ShipWeight ........................................................ 4-5
4.1.2 Individual Station Settings in Weight Distribution Dialog ........................................ 4-11
4.1.3 Creating a SAWE RP12 station profile .................................................................... 4-11
4.1.4 Inserting a Vessel Profile from a JPG file ............................................................... 4-12
ShipWeight – User’s Guide, version 9.0, March 2010