208 — Reviewing a panel set against the corpus¶

cv-web compares what you draw against every panel in the corpus, while you draw it.

Note

This one has no cv-cad twin. Every other tutorial in the 200 band mirrors a cv-cad lesson. The corpus review exists only in the browser, so there is nothing to compare it against — said plainly rather than left for you to infer.

Note

This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.

Two markers¶


●	the value sits outside the typical range
▲	the value sits outside everything ever recorded

Hover either one to see the observed range and how many panels it was measured from.

Neither one stops you¶

This is the part worth understanding before you trust it. A marker is a prompt, not a grade. Nothing is blocked, nothing is scored, and nothing is corrected for you.

An eighty-kip lift and a panel with no weld connections are both entirely legitimate things to draw. They are also both worth a second look before the panel is cast. That is the whole job of the marker: to put the unusual thing in front of you at the moment you can still decide about it, rather than at the yard.

A project of genuinely unusual panels is not a project drawn badly, and the tool never says otherwise.

What gets checked¶

The dimensions you type — width, height, thickness.

The numbers you never type — panel weight, load per pick point, load per brace anchor, and the count of welds, picks and braces. These are derived from what you drew, and an unusual one is often the first sign that something upstream is wrong.

The project as a whole — the marker beside PROPERTIES reports where the whole set sits. It names the metric and the direction: “widthIn across 12 panels sits at the low end of the corpus.” It does not report a score, deliberately.

If you see no markers at all, nothing is broken¶

Markers only appear when a value falls outside the corpus. On a typical panel there will be none, and that is the tool agreeing with you.

To see one, push a value somewhere unusual — a panel a few inches wide, or a thickness well outside anything a plant would cast — and watch the marker appear beside it.

What to take away¶

The review runs while you work, on everything including the figures you never entered. It tells you where a value sits, and leaves the judgement with you.