Developed Plate

Purpose:

To create views of one or more developed shell plates, and see if it is possible to manufacture the plates.

Prerequisites:

A current drawing must exist.

Instructions:

If a shell plate is already selected, a developed plate view will be made of it. If no shell plate is selected, you are prompted to indicate seams (3 - 12 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 shell plate from the indicated seams. Before development there is a possibility to give additional data to refine the plate definition (see Create Shell Plate). If Cancel is given on the Indicate Seam prompt you are instead prompted to indicate an existing shell plate, to present in a view.

It is possible to store a temporary plate using Select Submenu - Apply. If applied the plate will have to be given a name.

Options:

If Options is given on the indicate prompt, 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.