About Space Hierarchy

Space hierarchy publishes space cells as spaces. You can organize these spaces as required and filter other design objects using published spaces.

See Also
About Standard Space Structure
Creating Space Cells Using Cutting Elements
Publishing Space Cells and Generating Space References

Consider an example where a hull is divided by three horizontal (deck) cutting elements and one vertical (molded support) cutting element. It creates two fire zones on each deck.



The following data is transferred from the space manager to the space hierarchy:

  • External Space: It defines the base volume to build the space concept.
  • Family of cutting element: Cutting elements of the same family cannot intersect one another. The order of the family in the space hierarchy decides the order of the space concept structure. In the given example, the family of molded support is selected first (Family 1) in the space hierarchy and then the family of decks (Family 2). As a result, spaces with respect to fire zone (FZ0 and FZ1) are created at the first level in the space concept root and spaces with respect to decks (D3D2_FZ0, D1_FZ0, D3D2_FZ1, and D1_FZ1) are created at the second level under the respective fire zone spaces.

    If the bounding box is not used for creating the space cells, the cutting families are not considered while publishing the space cells. As a result, the space concept nodes are listed in a flat structure under the space concept root.



Note: Depending on the input, the same deck can be viewed differently under the space concept.

With these inputs, the space concept can be created. In this case, the spaces are published and the publications are created. All space references are aggregated under the space folder node. The space references are created using the publication of space cells.



The space manager performs the cutting job only once. The space hierarchy captures your intent of how to build a view (space concept) from the existing space cells cut by the space manager. Different space hierarchies can refer to the same space cell.