Working with NAPA
Before you can use the integration to NAPA®, you must set up your environment. CADMATIC installation program has the option NAPA Interface. If CADMATIC is already installed without this interface, modify the installation from the Installed apps list of Microsoft Windows. To use the integration successfully, check the correct settings for the NAPA program from the NAPA user manual.
Create NAPA Agent Area from CADMATIC Desktop
After creating the agent, you can do the following:
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Start the agent in Plant Modeller mode by selecting the icon and then Object > Start Plant Modeller. See NAPA Integration profile.
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Start the agent by selecting the desktop icon and then Object > Start Napa Agent.
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Stop the agent by selecting the icon and then Object > Stop Napa Agent.
NAPA Integration profile
When the NAPA Agent area has been created, it must be started as Plant Modeller for the first time to set up the integration profile.
The following message appears.
Define the integration settings.
The profile can be edited later via NAPA Commands in Plant Modeller.
NAPA Commands
If NAPA Integration has been installed, the Tools tab of Plant Modeller includes NAPA connection commands.
- Request complete hull
- Request hull in blocks
- Send outfitting geometry
- Sync spaces
- Sync coordinates – Allows reference coordinates of the project to come from NAPA.
- Edit profile – Allows editing the NAPA integration profile.
Systems in NAPA Integration
NAPA Integration creates the following Systems when Plant Modeller is started. Importing objects from NAPA assigns the objects to these Systems. If some other System is already using one of these IDs when you start using NAPA Integration, integration objects will be assigned to that System, even if it already contains other objects.
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System ID |
System Name |
|---|---|
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6100 |
NAPA Default |
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6101 |
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6102 |
NAPA Hull Stiffeners |
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6103 |
NAPA Hull Frames |
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6104 |
NAPA Hull Decks |
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6105 |
NAPA Hull WT Bulkheads |
|
6106 |
NAPA Hull Bulkheads |
|
6107 |
NAPA Hull Brackets |
|
6108 |
NAPA Hull Double Bottom |
|
6109 |
NAPA HolesRequests |
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6110 |
NAPA Insulations |
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6193 |
NAPA Compartments |
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6194 |
NAPA Fire zones |
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6195 |
NAPA Flooded volumes |
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6196 |
NAPA Outfit areas |
|
6197 |
NAPA Super blocks |
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6198 |
NAPA Blocks |
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6199 |
NAPA Sub blocks |
Hole Requests in NAPA Integration
Hole requests can be sent to NAPA in a similar way as to CADMATIC Hull, but the request does not automatically appear in the hull plate like it does in CADMATIC Hull integration. The NAPA designer needs to accept the hole request or reject it. Every time a designer sends a hole request to NAPA, the hole request is locked and cannot be edited with Hole Manager until the hole has been given one of the following NAPA statuses: APPROVED, STIFFENED, REJECTED or APPROVED_STO.
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Status in CADMATIC Outfitting |
Operation in CADMATIC Outfitting |
Status in NAPA |
Operation in NAPA |
Hole in steel model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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New |
Hole has been created. |
- |
Hole is not visible because it has not been sent to NAPA yet. |
Hole is not in the steel model. |
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Modify |
Outfitting designer is editing a hole that has earlier been requested to the steel model. |
NEW or INPROGRESS |
Previously approved hole is visible in NAPA. |
Previous hole is in the steel model. |
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Delete |
This folder is always empty, the user has deleted the new hole request. |
- |
Hole request was deleted before sending it to NAPA. |
Hole is not in the steel model. |
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NewRequested |
New hole has been sent to NAPA, it cannot be edited in CADMATIC Outfitting. |
NEW or INPROGRESS |
NAPA designer can see the hole and a new row is created for it. |
Hole is not visible in the steel model. |
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ChangeRequested |
Modified hole has been sent to NAPA, it cannot be edited in CADMATIC Outfitting. |
INPROGRESS |
Hull designer can see the hole and its row can be edited. |
Previous hole is still visible in the steel model. |
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DeleteRequested |
Outfitting designer has sent a hole request to delete a hole from the steel model. |
NEW |
Hull designer can see the hole with deleted text in the middle. |
Hole is in the steel model until hull designer approves deletion of the hole request with status APPROVED. |
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NewAccepted |
Hole has been sent back to CADMATIC Outfitting from NAPA. |
APPROVED |
- |
Hole is visible in the steel model for the first time. |
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ChangeAccepted |
Hole has been sent back to CADMATIC Outfitting from NAPA. |
APPROVED or STIFFENED |
- |
Last version of the hole is visible in the steel model. |
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DeleteAccepted |
This folder is always empty. |
- |
Hole request for deleting the hole has been approved. |
Hole has been deleted from the steel model. |