SACS Combined Postvue Database is a new way in SACS to combine multiple postview databases into 1 postview database that can be viewed in Precede, and you can review the critical unity checks from across all the analyses that have been combined.
You have transportation, maybe a lift analysis, in-place analysis, and each one of these typically is going to have either different boundary conditions or some sort of different orientation that is going to require a different model. So a lot of times, you’ll end up having multiple models that represent different design phases. BUT each one is going to share a lot of the same elements because you're going to have a topside and a jacket. And then for in-place condition, you're going to have the combined results of both of those.
So, users want to be able to design elements across all the design phases, and in the past, you had to do that by hand checks of one of those analyses or doing some additional post-processing on top of the results that we output. The goal here is to be able to combine ALL these models into one database so that everything can be reviewed in one place.
The combined results database does require using the SQLite database output. It was added to SACS a while ago, where most of the analysis that generates a post view database, users have the option to output a SACS report database. All the results from the combined results database are compiled into one overarching SQLite database that contains all the data of each analysis, so that’s one of the technologies that we are using to enable this feature.
The Combined Postvue database tool is in the Utilities tab of the program launcher in SACS Executive.
How to combine the Postvue Database?
All analyses that will be combined must output a SACS Reports Database so the results can be combined into one database. The additional setup that you need to do before starting to use this feature is to enable the SACS Report Database options in the Analysis Generator for each analysis, as shown below
1. Go to the Utilities tab to launch the "Combine Postvue Databases".
2. Use the "Add Folder" button to add the psvdb. folders. Here, the user needs to navigate to locate the Postvue database folder and grab the folder one by one for each analysis.
But the simpler way is to drag and drop (can be done in SACS 14th onwards). The user can change the Task name for each file for easier reference in Precede afterward. The Task Name is going to be displayed on the postvue results output that we're viewing in Precede.
3. Specify a target path where the user wants the resulting psvdb database, the combined postview database, to be output.
4. Lastly, clicking on the Merge Folders will combine all the PSVDB files. folders.
5. Results:
DISPLAY tab > Display > Current Task - control the display of the model in reference to the task.
DISPLAY tab > Labeling > Labeling Options > Task - control display result labels
Important:
1. Essentially, the unique member names are going to be combined. The user must be aware that combining multiple results means that every member who shares the same member name will be reported as one member. This will typically come up more when you’re working in a tow analysis where we have sea fastening or maybe loadout analysis where we have the grillage/cans that supporting it, and those kind of additional boundaries like a sling or something like that are not going to be in every analysis a lot of times, those kind of elements are going to be skipped anyways, so it’s probably not even going to matter too much, but make sure that the joints are going to be named differently by convension, whenever you do this combined results.
2. Make sure the psvdb. folder created by enabling the SACS Reports Database option in the Analysis Generator.
3. ERROR - Selected Folder is not a Postvue Database. Create a new run file for each analysis that failed to be added in the tool, and outputting the new postvue database folder will resolve the error.