To add a frame or frames you first need to select one or more sections to specify the position of the frames. Note that if you do not have sections at the location where you require them, you can use the Grid Spacing command to move or add sections to the required locations before using the Add Frame command.

If the sections are not visible on the hull, use the Contours command from the Display menu to turn on the display of sections.

To select a section

Ø        Click on the section

The section will be drawn with a bold line to indicate that it is selected.

To select a number of sections

Ø        Hold down the shift key while clicking on each section

Ø        or Drag a selection rectangle around the sections to be selected

To select all of the sections in the design

Ø        Choose Select All from the Edit menu or drag a selection rectangle around all of the sections

To add frames at the selected sections

Ø        Choose Add Frame from the Frame menu

A dialog will appear allowing you to specify the shape of the frames:

If there is not an appropriate material available in the pop-up menu, you will need to use the Edit Materials… item from the Edit menu to add the required material to the library before using the Add Frame command.

Ø        Choose the frame's material from the Material pop-up menu

The Frame dialog displays information for the whole frame. The Frame Clipping parameters define the limits to which the frame will be drawn.

Ø        Check the check boxes of the clipping limits you wish to set for the frame

Ø        Type in the dimensions of any limits you wish to set

At the intersection between the frame and each plate seam you can add a mouse hole of specified radius by selecting the checkbox under Mouse Holes.

The current opening is the opening selected in the list on the left. You can add new openings by clicking the Add button. You can delete the current opening by clicking the Delete button.  You can edit the current opening by clicking on the Edit button. When the Add or Edit button is clicked, the Frame Opening Properties dialog box will appear (see the “Adding a Frame Opening” section below).

You can choose which surfaces will be used to form the frame.  To do this you need to click on the Set Frame Boundary Surfaces button in the Frame Properties dialog box.  The Frame Boundary Surfaces dialog will then appear; here you select the surfaces to be used for forming the frame.

Toggle surfaces that you wish to use for forming the frame. This information will be stored with the frame and if the properties are copied to another frame the surface association will remain.

·   Click OK to confirm the selected boundary surfaces

After clicking OK in the Frame Properties dialog, an approximate shape for each frame will be calculated and displayed in the drawing windows. Initially, Workshop just calculates the exterior shape of the frames, not taking into account any cutouts or fillet radii. The final frame shape will be calculated when you use the Calc All Frames, Calc Selected Frames or Calc All Parts commands. Frames work with trimmed surfaces if trimming is turned on and frames will be calculated using the currently visible surfaces.

If you do not turn on any attributes, the frame will be a simple bulkhead with no internal cutouts and extending to the limits of all of the visible surfaces.

If you do turn on any attributes, you can type in the dimensions of these parts of the frames. The frame and opening limits are all specified as locations relative to the zero point of the design. These limits can have positive or negative values and use the usual Maxsurf coordinate system as follows:

Use of the frame limits allows you to have a number of frames at one location. You can add a number of frames at one longitudinal position by repeatedly selecting a section and using the Add Frame command. This allows you to build up complex frames as a combination of frames.

Frames may also be added where you have defined inclined sections. When the inclined sections have been defined use them in the same way as normal sections to make frames.  Only web-openings are available for inclined frames.

Other frame procedures:

·   Adding a Frame

·   Adding a Frame Opening

·   Calculating Frames

·   Frame Visibility

·   Deleting Frames

·   Modifying Frames

·   Moving Frames

·   Copying Frames