New Features in ShipWeight  13.0

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New Features in ShipWeight  13.0

What's new

New Features

 

Main window

Possibility to summarize and estimate on secondary WBS

Possible to change field order in Main Window

See all items in preview in main window

Select source for weight group value

New visualization chart for weight

 

Item window

Function to see totals of selected items in Item Window

Mark editing cells stay marked

Paste values only to certain columns

Duplicate Row

SQL-operation as option to change on field values

 

Permission control

Possibility for a user to belong to several user groups

Easy way of adding group permissions to several projects at once

 

Other New Features

New 3D window

Improved Compare Window

More “Save As” options

Sort Projects/Revisions in Folders

Adding a Correction Weight to Adjust a Summary

Main window

Possibility to summarize and estimate on secondary WBS

You can select any of your custom codes that has a hierarchy structure and view this in the main window along with the main WBS as a secondary WBS.  You can also do parametric estimation on this secondary WBS.  This allows you to set up a parametric estimation as a matrix.

SecondaryWBS

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buttonSet up a Secondary WBS in ShipWeight

buttonDefine the WBS Codes and set up SystemCodeVariables

buttonDefine the Secondary WBS Structure

buttonGiving a Name to the New WBS

buttonActivating the New WBS

 

Possible to change field order in Main Window

You can change the order of the column in the main window.  In version 12 you could turn visibility on and off by right clicking in the main window treeview and select “Show fields”.  New in version 13 is that you can now also rearrange the order by dragging and dropping the items in the list.

ChangeFieldOrderInMainWindow

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buttonSet which Fields to Show and Field Order in Main Window

 

See all items in preview in main window

All items can now be shown in the preview area of the main window, in addition to the existing option that shows only items for the current selected weight group.

AllItemsInMainWindow

 

Select source for weight group value

The source for the weight and CG of the weight group may now be selected by the preference of the user.  This means that we now can save weight and CG for the weight group from several sources.  The sources are

Subjective (freely set)

Estimate (from parametric estimation), “Items” (sum of item details)

Percentage (calculated as % of another group)

Summarize (sum of subgroups)

Not defined

All options may contain values, but it is only the option selected by the user that will be included and calculated in the treeview.

MainWindowSource

New visualization chart for weight

A new tabsheet for “Chart” has been added to the main window.  You can now select any of the weight groups in the treeview in the main window and the chart will show the distribution of weight for the subgroups of the selected weight group.

ChartMainWindow

Item window

Function to see totals of selected items in Item Window

You can now select several rows in the item window and hover the mouse pointed over these rows to display a tool tip that will give you the weight and CG summary calculated from the selected items.

ItemWIndowTotalMarkedItems

Mark editing cells stay marked

The “Mark Edited Cells” option will let you have changed cells stay marked even if you leave the row.

ItemWIndowMarkEditedCells

Paste values only to certain columns

This function will allow to specify which columns to paste to from the clipboard.  Pasting will happen to existing items and from the selected row and below (depending on how many rows are in the clipboard).  Picture below shows how to do this in the table:

ItemWIndowPastToCertainColumn

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buttonPaste Values to Certain Columns

 

Duplicate Row

A function for easy duplication of a row into any number of copies.  

ItemNo can follow the copied one, adding on a suffix to the item 3136_1, 3136_2, 3136_3,…

GUI shown here:

ItemWIndowDuplicateRow        

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buttonDuplicate Row

 

SQL-operation as option to change on field values

The “Execute operation” dialog that can be opened from the Item Window has changed name to “Change Field Values…” and has a new option allowing for much greater flexibility than the Add/Subtract/Multiply/Divide options in version 12.

The new option “SQL Operation”, allows the user set a calculation formula to update a field.  The calculation formula may refer to other fields.  The simple example below shows setting LCG_max values for the selected items to the LCG value plus 1 meter (LCG +1).  Note that these expressions should always be set in SI/metric units, even if project is in imperial units.

ChangeFieldValuesSQLOperation

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buttonChange Some Data Values by Calculation

Permission control

Possibility for a user to belong to several user groups.

There has been a change to the permission system such that a user can belong to several user groups.  This will align with how users and groups works in Windows OS.  Below shows the change in the User permission window in ShipWeight, new checkboxes indicates which groups the user belongs to.

PermissionControl-OneUserMultipleUserGroups

Easy way of adding group permissions to several projects at once

In ShipWeight 13 there is a new tabsheet in the user group property window that lets you easily set which project the user group settings should apply to.

UserPermissionsSetSeveralProjectsATOnce

 

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buttonPermission Settings

buttonUser Permission Setup

buttonThe Users Tab

buttonThe Groups Tab

buttonThe Password Policy Tab

buttonThe Create New User Window

buttonChange your Password in ShipWeight

buttonThe User Group Window

buttonPermission Settings per Custom Code

buttonDeploying Permissions to Other Projects

Other New Features

New 3D window

A new 3D window is included to give a graphical user interface of the items in the ShipWeight database, allowing you to click on items to display their properties, slice through the model, colorize particular items and find weight items in the list and show the highlighted in the 3D View.

New3DWindow

Improved Compare Window

The Compare Window has several new functions, and the possibility to save the setup you have defined.  These settings can be imported and exported between various projects.

Among the new features will be the option to display different weights in different columns as percentage, shades of green/red to signal small/large deviation, as well as import function for items.

ImprovedCompareWindow

The calculated values in Compare Window are now saved in a temporary table in the project database, and this feature improves the speed when opening the window. Another new feature to increase speed is that it’s now possible to update only one revision at the time.
 
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buttonCompare Projects at Weight Group Level

buttonComparing Projects

buttonTree view in Compare Dialog and Total CoG Impact from Changes

buttonColumn for Checking Change Impact

buttonEnhanced Compare Dialog

 

More “Save As” options

ImprovedSaveAs

 

“Copy Log” – check this to copy the log data from the existing project and to the new one

“Copy Permissions”- if this box is checked, the permission settings for user-groups for this project should be copied to the new project so there is no need to set new permissions.

“Freeze current”  should set all user-groups to be “Read-only” in the project you are saving from.

“Delete workset” – when you start a new revision and you want to start with a clean set of worksets.  

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buttonOpen and Save a Project Copy

buttonThe Extra “Save As…” Options

 

Sort Projects/Revisions in Folders

Create folders to organize your projects and revisions.

ShipWeight 13 has a connection between the project structure in the “Project folder” and the “Open project” window such that the organization is reflected both places.  This has by adding a new list in the open project window that can be used to browse your folders.
 
FoldersForProjects

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button Setting up a Catalogue Level in ShipWeight

 

Adding a Correction Weight to Adjust a Summary

Sometimes you want to adjust a summary to make it a specific set of values.  As an example, you want to adjust the Lightship weight and center of gravity to match the results from a displacement and inclining test.

ShipWeight has a function to let you automatically accomplish this.  First, right-click the weight group you want to adjust, and select “Correct Weight” in the submenu that appears.

CorrectionWeightWindow

In the “Add Correction” window that pops up, in row A; fill in the values (weight and CG) you want the summary  to have after correction.

AddCorrectionWeightWindow1

In row B, make sure it displays the correct summary that you want to change.  If not correct, click the cell to change the to the correct weight group from the droplist.

In row D, ShipWeight is suggesting to add the correction to the remainder group.  If you want the correction to be added to a different weight group, change this here by clicking the cell and select the desired weight group from the droplist.

AddCorrectionWeightWindow2

Next, still in row D, set if all or only parts of the correction should be applied to the selected group in row D.  The default is 100 % - that the full correction will be applied to the group.  Click “Apply” button to transfer the calculated values to the main window.

AddCorrectionWeightWindow

The main window is now updated with the corrected weight.

AddCorrectionWeightWIndow4

 

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buttonAdjust Total in the Main Window

buttonAdding a Correction Weight to Adjust a Summary