Limits

Seam

• Name: Name of active seam

• <List Box>: List of seams; click a seam name to activate it

• Add…: Add a seam by indicating graphically

• Remove: Remove active seam from list

• Clear: Remove all seams from list

• Move Up: Move active seam up in the list

• Move Down: Move active seam down in the list

• Group with next at development: Whether the active seam and the next one in the list belongs to the same group (to handle plates with more than four sides as four-sided)

Excess

• Type: Type of excess

• <The fields to the right>: Excess values

Compensation

Compensation value

The Compensation fields: Compensation for each of the plate edges.

Compensation will extend the plate by a linearly increasing or decreasing value depending on the sign of the value. A positive value causes the extension to increase from zero at the start of the edge, to the given value at the end of the edge in the circulation direction of the plate. A negative value causes the extension to decrease from the given value at the start of the edge to zero at the end of the edge.

Examples

The figures below show the effect on a top edge with the start point to the right.

Figure 2:47. Plate with positive compensation.

Figure 2:48. Plate with negative compensation.

Bevel

• Code: "Code" Part of bevel code

• Variant: Variant part of bevel code

• E-Measure: E-Measure part of bevel code

• Use bevel defined in seam: Whether the bevel code for the active seam should be used.

• Custom: A custom bevel code can be specified

• Angle to Plate: Angle between this plate and a neighboring plate that share the active seam. The angle is used to adjust the bevelling if needed.

• Plate Name: Type the name of the neighboring plate, or click "…" to indicate it graphically; "Angle to Plate" will be calculated when the plate is created.

• Bevel Code: Resulting bevel code

  Note: that the Drafting default value HATCH_SCL_MODE should be set to 0 (zero) to make a sensible hatching.