ASL Admin Guide PDF
ASL Admin Guide PDF
ASL Admin Guide PDF
Administrator Guide
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Access platform, Stairs and Ladders Administrator Guide
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Contents Page
Administrator Guide
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
Who Should Use this Guide? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
Product Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
How to Use this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2
1 Introduction
This guide introduces the AVEVA Access platforms, Stairs and Ladders (ASL) application. It
identifies the different types of user who would need to read this guide and sets out what
knowledge they will need before they start. The section provides an overview of the main
functionality that the application introduces.
1.3 References
This section lists other documents that provide supporting or complementary information to
this guide.
Access platform, Stairs and Ladders User Guide.
Structural Design User Guide.
AVEVA Product System Requirements.
Getting Started explains how to get up and running quickly with the
ASL application.
The ASL application is a PDMS DESIGN application for the DESIGN module that provides a
bespoke database architecture of ASL elements comprising of the administrative elements
below;
• Stair Tower (STRTWR)
• Stair Flights (STRFLT)
• Stair Landings (STRLNG)
• Ladder (LADDER)
• Platform (PLTFRM)
• Handrail (HANDRA)
These elements are the high level administrative elements that are owned by the existing
STRU hierarchy element, these elements with their easily identifiable element type
definition supports the ‘Assembly’ type concept employed throughout the application where
all of the detailed modelling is represented using the existing steelwork objects such as
Gensec, Panel, Template and Fixing. For a detailed explanation of these elements, refer to
the Structural Design User Guide. Throughout the application the workflow associated with
the creation and modification of these elements follows a consistent format through a
common user interface.
The ASL application builds on the existing database concepts and provides 3D model data
in an integrated environment, enabling quick and easy browsing and reporting on that data.
The descriptions and functions of these elements will be explained in the following sections.
These objects have been architected to suit specific functionality and workflow to provide
definite engineering purpose and their attribute set accurately mirrors the engineering
criteria for that object. The attributes are evaluated by the system in response to the user’s
interaction with the 3D model environment and the relevant attributes are managed through
the database hierarchy by the ASL application.
The Elements available are administrative elements allowing applications to organise data
storage areas of design objects that are not part of the design itself, but supplementary
objects used to create and maintain the model. They will not be accessed (unless
specifically instructed to do so) when performing model queries such as clashing, mass
properties, collections and they are similar to catalogue and in particular Template
definitions.
The current set of VALIDValues available for the owning DDAT are the set whose
VALRULes either are unset, or evaluate to TRUE. Those that are not available are those
whose VALRULes either evaluate to FALSE, or whose evaluations generate errors.
3 Getting Started
This section describes the application pre-requisites and the administrator responsibilities to
provide the DESIGN user with the necessary data to create assemblies in the 3D model.
To access ASL functionality, launch the DESIGN module and select
Design>Structures>Access, Stairs & Ladders.
The general user however will not see the setting for Standards as it is an administrators
responsibility.
The basic workflow for Creating, Copying or Deleting Standards is managed by this form
and the activities are separated into three tasks;
• Standards
• Secondary Standards
• Properties
3.1.4 Standards
assemblies all store and use references against the standard (ASLStandard), secondary
standard (ASLSbStandard) and assembly reference (AssTmpReference) with which they
are defined so deleting the standards or assemblies will delete these references.
3.1.6 Properties
Having created the standard and secondary standard; the properties need to be created or
modified depending on the method of creating the Standard/Secondary standard. The
properties manage the engineering criteria against the appropriate attribute for the relevant
ASL object. The engineering criteria of the ASL objects such as STRFLT, Ladder are
defined and managed by the Design Data Set (DDSE) which is owned by the APPLDA. The
DDSE corresponds to an ASL element type which has a separate Tab for managing the
values against the attribute property (Description field).
The Description field is a listing of the attributes against the STRFLT element. The DDAT
stores the engineering criteria in the form of an expression, Real, Max/min or VVAL, it is this
data in the DDAT elements that effectively parameterises the assembly and what the rule
checking engine performs its analyses against. Indicated below are the expressions the
'Relationship between rise and going' DDAT element stores;
The figure above left shows how the Selections form manages the visibility of the Assembly
elements and provides the functionality for the administrator to promote the Stair Flights and
other ASL assemblies, to the Assigned elements grid. The elements visible in the lower
potion of the form under the heading Assembly elements are not visible to the ASL Design
application and hence the user. This form allows the administrator to assign only those
assemblies that have been authorised for use on the project.
The Db structure on the Application Data World indicated above right shows the database
explorer and the location and hierarchy associated with the Standards, Secondary
standards and the Assembly data. Notice that both the standards information and the
assembly data are located in adjacent APPDAR under the same APPLDW.
The application allows for both Project and User selection settings to be created and the
Description gadget is autonamed based on the Setting type which can be either Project or
User and the autoname is not a hard-coded naming convention so the administrator can edit
the name to a more appropriate name.
The User and Project Selections are saved to the following directory and files;
The user settings are stored in the PDMSUSER directory and the Project settings are stored
in the Project Default path directory, for example; SAMDFLT folder, BASDFLT folder.
Upon creation of the Stair Flight the system will analyse the horizontal (Overall Going) and
vertical (Overall Rise) distances between the Lower and Upper Work Points (LWP/UWP)
and validate these positions against the engineering criteria of the Stair Flight to the criteria
of the current specification. If the system analysis validates the values against the
engineering criteria the system will create the Stair Flight and populate the attributes with
the appropriate data.
Index
A Create
ASL Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:5
Access Set (ACCSET) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2 ASL Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
ACCSET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2 New Secondary Standard . . . . . . . . 3:4
Administrative New Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7
preconditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:3 New Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Administrator Standards (Engineering Criteria) . . . 3:2
access permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
APPDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
D
APPLDW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:3, 3:1 Database Hierarchy
APPLICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:3 ASL Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Application Data and Templates . . . . . . . 2:4 Ladder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
Application Data Area (APPDAR) . . . . . . 3:3 Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
Application Data Worlds (APPLDW) . . . . 2:3 Stair Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
ASL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1 Stair Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:1
default storage area form . . . . . . . . . 3:2 DDAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1 DDSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4
hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2 Delete
ASL Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2 Selected Secondary Standard . . . . . 3:4
hierarchical relationships . . . . . . . . . 2:2 Selected Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7
simplified parameterisation . . . . . . . . 2:2 Selected Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
ASLADMIN team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1 Description
ASLCONFIG database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1 Handrail Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:1
ASLSbStandard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4 Ladder Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
ASLStandard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4 Platform Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
Assembly Data World (APPLDW) . . . . . . 3:1 Stair Flight Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:2
Stair Tower Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2
C Description field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:5
Design Data Set (DDSE) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4
Cage Segment (CAGSEG) . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2
CAGSEG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2
Copy
E
Selected Secondary Standard . . . . . 3:4 Extension to Design Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
Selected Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4 External Frame (EXTFRM) . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
EXTFRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2 P
Platform
G Database Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
General Route Path Element . . . . . . . . . 2:5 Feature (PLFEAT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
General Routing Path (RPATH) . . . . . . . 2:5 Grid (PLTGRD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1 Opening (PLOPEN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
Platform (PLTFRM) Assembly . . . . . . . . 7:1
PLFEAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
H
PLOPEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
HANDRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:1 PLTFRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
Handrail PLTGRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
Database Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:1 POS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2
Handrail (HANDRA) Assembly . . . . . . . . 8:1 POSTSE - Post Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:3
How to Use this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2 Product Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
HRFEAT - Handrail Feature . . . . . . . . . . 8:2 Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4
HRGATE - Handrail Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:2 PTOLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
HRKPSE - Handrail Kick Plate Set . . . . . 8:2
HRPANE - Handrail Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 8:2 R
HRPNSE - Handrail Panel Set . . . . . . . . 8:1
HRPOST - Handrail Post . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:3 RAIL - Rail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:2
RAILSE - Rail Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:2
RATTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
I
RATTA - Route Attachment . . . . . . . . . . 8:2
Internal Frame (INTFRM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
INTFRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2 Route Attachment (RATTA) . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1 RPATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:5
Rung Set (RUNGSE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
K RUNGSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
T
Tower Steel (TWRSTL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2
TREAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:3
Tread (TREAD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:3
Tread Set (TREADS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:3
TREADS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:3
TWRSTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2
U
USER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:3
V
Valid Value attribute (VALIDV) . . . . . . . . 2:4
VALRULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
VVALUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
additional attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:4
W
Who Should Use this Guide? . . . . . . . . . 1:1