Developed Plate

Purpose:

To create a view of a developed plate, and see if it is possible to manufacture such a plate.

Prerequisites:

A current drawing must exist, and developed plates and/or seams.

Instructions:

If a developed plate is already selected, a developed plate view will be made of it. If no developed plate is selected the user is prompted to indicate seams (3 - 5 seams must be indicated). The seams should form the boundary of a possible plate. When Operation Complete is given the system will make a temporary developed plate from the indicated seams. Before development there is a possibility to give additional data to refine the plate definition. If Cancel is given on the Indicate Seam prompt the user is instead prompted to indicate an existing developed plate, to present in a view.

It is possible to store a temporary plate using Store. If the plate shall be stored it will have to be given a name.

Options:

If Options is given at the prompt for the indicating, a form will appear containing plate development default values.

Result:

The developed plate is presented in a view of its own containing also the smallest possible raw plate contour with dimensions, the gap/overlap measures, the baseline and optionally the roll axes.