Modify User Defined Ancillary Geometry

The Supports application allows you to create a set of ancillary standards with their own geometry. Configuration of standards dimensionally is covered in Ancillary Data.

The user defined ancillary standards comprise a number of support types. The table displays the user defined ancillary types that have been created that can be configured geometrically:

The ability to create the user defined ancillary types is achieved by supports being configured to use a blank set of ancillaries, so that users can complete their own geometry. A user project called MDU is created; a hierarchy /MDU prefix is used instead of the /MDS prefix where applicable. The example displays how this is implemented into a supports project environment.

The MDU project has the geometry and point sets pre-created and linked into the Multi Discipline Supports (MDS) catalog and specification. The geometry sets are empty and the point sets have the minimum p-point requirements. You can then create the geometry within the MDU project and set up any design parameters required for the component. The MDU project only stores geometry, point and data sets for the types and ranges detailed earlier.