Levels

Production > Work Breakdown Structure > Levels

Define the work breakdown (WBD) structure. The work breakdown structure is used for creating Work Breakdown 3D Sketches and in Hull Viewer.

The WBD structure uses the logistical fields defined in the Logistical Database Layout as the levels. In the Levels dialog, the levels are order from the top level down to the lowest level. Each level represents a step in the assembly process.

Four levels have been pre-defined by default: Block–Sectionnumber, Panel–Panelname, SubPanel–PanelExtension and Part–Partnumber.

Levels can be added and deleted, and the order of the levels can be changed. The maximum number of levels is 16.

Adding, modifying and deleting WBD levels

Important: Clicking Reset will delete all defined WBD levels.

Adding levels

To add a new WBD level, do the following.

  1. Click Select log. field, and select the desired logistical field from the list that opens.

  2. This will fill in the Description and Field type fields.

    Level name will be 000 and Area/weight will be 0 automatically. You can enter different values if needed. See Available fields below.

    You can close the Logistical fields dialog by clicking the cross at the top right corner.

  3. Click the Open folder icon to select the report layout to be used for this level. By default a report layout by the same name as the Description is used.

  4. Click Add. The new level appears as the last level.

  5. If necessary, move the new level up to the desired position by clicking Shift up.

  6. Click OK to close the Levels dialog.

Modifying levels

To modify an existingWBD level, do the following.

  1. Select the level that you want to modify.

  2. Click Select log. field, and select the desired logistical field from the list that opens.

  3. Change the Level name and Area/weight if so desired by enering new values.

  4. Click Modify.

  5. Click OK to close the Levels dialog.

You can move levels up or down clicking Shift up or Shift down.

Deleting levels

To delete a WBD level, do the following.

  1. Select the level that you want to modify.

  2. Click Delete.

  3. Click OK to close the Levels dialog.

Available fields

Description and field type

The first two fields Description and Field type come from the logistical database layout.

  • Description is a unique descriptive name of the logistical database field as defined in the logistical datase layout.

  • Field type is the logistical database field type. This the "answer" to the Description filed. For example, for Block, the answer is the block number or name.

Level name

Defines if a WBD level will be skipped when WBD sketches are generated, depending on the Description/Fieldtype value. WBD sketches will not be generated for the parts in the skipped WBD level.

For example, if 012 is set as the Level name value for the Block/Sectionnumber level, parts in block number 012 (which have 012 as the Block/Sectionnumber value) will not get WBD sketches. With the default value 000 in the default WBD structure, no WBD levels will be skipped.

All levels will be visible in the tree structure in Hull Viewer.

Area/weight

Defines if some parts in WBD skeches will not get a label.

Parts in the WBD branch which have a weight smaller than the value defined here will not get a label in WBD sketches.

If the Area logistical field is defined in the logistical database layout, parts which have a smaller area value than defined here will not get a label.

Report layout

The table listing the construction items in the WBD sketches in this level use the report layout selected here. Click the Open folder icon to select the report layout to be used for this level.

The layout is a standard report layout created with the Production > Reports > Report Layout function.