Working with NAPA

Before you can use the integration with NAPA®, you must install the interface and set up your environment. To ensure successful integration, verify the correct settings for the NAPA Steel program in its user manual.

• Working with NAPA
  • Importing 3D spaces from NAPA
  • Installing the NAPA interface
  • Creating a NAPA Agent area
  • Setting up the NAPA integration profile
  • NAPA commands
  • Systems in NAPA integration
  • Hole requests in NAPA integration

Importing 3D spaces from NAPA

You can use the 3D-Import Manager tool to import compartments and assemblies of compartments from NAPA Steel, even without installing the NAPA interface.

For more details, see Settings for importing geometry as 3Dspaces.

Installing the NAPA interface

The Plant/Outfitting installation program includes an option for installing the NAPA interface.

If Plant/Outfitting is already installed without the NAPA interface, you can modify the installation from the Apps > Installed apps list in Microsoft Windows.

Creating a NAPA Agent area

The NAPA interface requires a special agent area that manages the integration.

Use the CADMATIC desktop to create an area of type 'NAPA Agent'.

After creating the NAPA Agent, start it in Plant Modeller mode for first-time configuration, as described in Setting up the NAPA integration profile.

Later on, you can start or stop the agent by selecting the desktop icon and then choosing Object > Start Napa Agent or Object > Stop Napa Agent, respectively.

Setting up the NAPA integration profile

After creating the NAPA Agent, you must start it as Plant Modeller for the first time to set up the integration profile.

Select the desktop icon and choose Object > Start Plant Modeller. The following message appears.

After clicking OK, you are prompted to define the integration settings.

You can edit this profile later via the NAPA commands in Plant Modeller.

NAPA commands

When the NAPA integration has been installed, the Tools tab of Plant Modeller includes the related commands.

• Request complete hull
• Request hull in blocks
• Send outfitting geometry
• Sync spaces
• Sync coordinates – Allows the reference coordinates of the project to come from NAPA.
• Edit profile – Opens the NAPA integration profile for editing.

Systems in NAPA integration

After setting up the NAPA integration, starting the Plant Modeller will create the following systems. When objects are imported from NAPA, they are assigned to these systems.

If other systems are already using these IDs when the NAPA integration is activated, the imported objects will be assigned to those systems, even if they already contain other types of objects.

Hole requests in NAPA integration

Hole requests can be sent to NAPA Steel in a similar way as they are sent to CADMATIC Hull. However, unlike in the Hull integration, the request does not automatically appear for the hull plate. Instead, the NAPA designer must either accept or reject the hole request.

Every time a designer sends a hole request to NAPA, the request is locked and cannot be edited with Hole Manager until it has been given one of the following NAPA statuses: APPROVED, STIFFENED, REJECTED or APPROVED_STO.