Control Information for Cross Templates

The following IPs are used when calculating cross bending templates:

Note: No special IP is needed in order to make bending templates of the type cross templates.

DISTTOEDGE, <integer value>,

The distance between the first template and the edge of the plate. This is only valid for plate edges without edge templates. If there is an edge template, the calculated spacing between templates will be used to get the distance from the edge to the first (interior) template.

MAXDISTTOTEMPLATE, <integer value>,

The maximum allowed distance (spacing) between to adjacent templates.

MINHEIGHTOFTEMPLATE, <integer value>,

The minimum allowed distance between the base plane and the plate edges. This will also affect the height of all templates.

MIN_TEMPLATES, <integer value>,

The minimum allowed number of templates including edge templates in each direction (that is, parallel to the base plane v-axis or u-axis). Using the cross template dialog instead, this number can optionally be separately set for each template direction.

AUTO_TEMPL_SIDE ,{inside | outside | concave | convex},

The side of the plate for which the templates should be created.

SPLIT_PLATEEDGE_NO, <integer value>,

In case the shell plate has three edges, one of the edges must be logically split in two parts before it can be processed by the program to make cross bending templates. Note that this IP is unique to cross templates and that the value of parameter <integer value> should be in the range 1-3 corresponding to edges with these numbers. If omitted the default is 1.

SPLIT_PLATEEDGE_RATIO, <real value>,

Unique to cross templates and optionally used together with SPLIT_PLATEEDGE_NO. This IP instructs the program where to logically split one of the edges of a shell plate with three edges. <real value> should be in the range 0.00-1.00 and if the IP is omitted the default is 0.50.

THICKNESSOFTEMPLATE, <thickness>

Cutouts are generated for templates at intersections with other templates. The thickness value determines the width of each cutout.