Parameters

A parameter is a special kind of variable which can be used when defining views and construction. When defining a parameter, an argument can be provided as input to which views and construction can be referred. An argument can be as easy as a single value, or as sophisticated as a complicated mathematical expression.

In short, this functionality allows you to use these parameters to define critical attributes of a ship in such a way, that the ship can be radically and consistently altered by making a simple change to a parameter value.

Critical attributes of a ship can be the main deck, tween decks, tanktop, fore and aft peak bulkheads, engine room bulkhead, and so on.

Parameters are defined in a block of a reference surface group, using the Parameters function in the HiLTop application.