Standard Templates

The standard templates have the following special features:

• They should always be mounted at a right angle to the plate surface (see the figure below).

  Standard templates are set perpendicular to shell plate surface

  

• They are distributed in an optimal way over the surface of the plate (optimized distance between them and also optimized orientation, for example, like a fan if the plate is not close to rectangular).

The advantage of this type of templates are:

• The number of templates is automatically optimized.

• The templates are independent of the orientation of the plate.

• The templates are not sensible to minor inaccuracies in their placing/tilting.

A disadvantage may be that their position must be specified, either by separate marking traces or by measurements in the plate sketch.