Outline for Initial Training Sessions

Session #1 Goals for initial training.

A. Become familiar with the use of screens for an existing job:

Job Screen, Job Data Screen,
Flow Tree
Site Plan
Fab. Steel & Cast Iron Screen
            Grate, Cover and Height
Pipe Screen
             Range of possibilities

B. Become familiar with the use of screens for a new job:

All above plus…..

Structure Screen
            English Reference Jobs
                        Storm only: 24”d, 36”d, 3’x 3’, 4’x 4’,5’x 5’, 6’x 6’
                        Sanitary & Storm mixed: 48”, 60”, 72”

             Metric Reference Jobs
                        Storm only: 1200mm, 1500mm, 1800mm, 2400mm, 3000mm
                                              600mm x 1200mm DIs, 600mm x 600mm DIs     
                                              600mm x 600mm CBs, M-Boxes
                        Sanitary only: Sanitary

Automatic Stacking Screen
            Review Build Height Calculations
            Goodness Criteria
            Description-Only bases may have two lines

Plan View
Elevation View
Rollout View
Butterfly View

Reports Screen
            Choices of Structures
            Choices of Reports
                        BOM, BOM Summary, Custom Piece, Structure Drawing

C. Create, stack and print structure reports
            Red River Example:                         Do five or six structures
            Real Life Example #1:            Structure #1, Structure #2

Session #1 Review

Part #1 –Main Screen
File

Screens
Screen names

Help
Screen Icons

Part #2 – Job Setup

Job Screen, Job Data Screen

Part # 3 – Input with Red River Example

Flow Tree/Site Plan, Fabricated Steel, Pipe, Structure, Notes

Part #4 - Viewing

Status Screen
Site Plan, Plan View, Elevation View, Rollout View, Butterfly View

Part #5 – Automatic Stacking

Automatic Stacking Screen

Part #6 – Reports

Report Screen

Part #7 –Almost Nothing about Reference Jobs

Structure Design Screen

Part #8 – How to select/create a job

Job Screen, Job Data Screen

Part #9 – How to enter Structure Data

Flow Tree/Site Plan, Fabricated Steel, Pipe, Structure, Notes

Part #10 – How to stack a structure

Automatic Stacking screen

Part #11 – How to view Plan and Elevation views on-line

Plan View and Elevation View Screens
Rollout and Butterfly Views

Part #12 – How to create reports

Report Screen

Session #1 Homework

Several hours of practice should be spent on the above topics, doing the practice
example on Page 5 and then on representative simple structures of the type that your company will manufacture.  Keep a list of questions.  Do not use the Structure Design Screen.  The relationship of Reference Structures, Build Heights and Reference Jobs
will be handled in Session #2.

Session #2 Goals for initial training session #2.

Part #1 Understanding Structure Design, Build Height and Reference Jobs

Part #2 Using the Stack Editor

Session #3 Goals for initial training session #3.

Optional Review of Selected Topics

Part #1 Unlinked Data

Part #2 Archiving Data

Red River Example  Training Problem – English Measurements (in feet and inches)

Red River Example  Training Problem – Metric Measurements (in meters)