Flexible Templates

This section describes a special run mode of the template module that may be used to generate information for a special type of flexible templates, used in general in the Chinese shipbuilding industry. These templates are constructed of a flexible template part and a stand with a sight mark (for a schematic picture, see the picture below).

These flexible templates may be generated and used in two different ways:

1. The templates are generated in principle as standard frame templates but the output information is somewhat special.

2. The templates are generated as a special type of normal templates with some similarity to the Normal templates described in Normal Bending Templates.

The ordinary templates of both kinds may be completed with special edge seam templates. The output will for all consist of table information for the setting-up of the flexible templates.

There is no special input for these types of templates, rather they are selected by certain settings in the default file.