USER'S GUIDE - ShipWeight

Estimating Weight and CoG
3.9 Starting a new project based on the results
from the estimation
When the weight activity turn from estimation into a weight take off (WTO)
activity, we establish a new project.
There are two philosophies for the weight control activity;
start with an empty project and enter weights toward 100 %
start with the estimate and continuously replace weights with more exact
(reliable) ones.
In the last-mentioned case, we will always have 100 % in the database.
In both cases it will be useful to reuse a certain amount of the information
stored in the estimate database.
An import function is available by selecting Import -> ShipWeight 10.0
database… from the Project menu item.
First you select which project database and then project you want to import
information from. When you click OK, the Import dialog will open.
In the Import dialog you specify what kind of information you want to import.
If you just want to import the parameter-values from the design project, you
just select Parameters from the list and then click the Import button. If you
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ShipWeight – User’s Guide, version 10.0, April 2011