Curvature of Tightly Connected Profile Endcuts

By applying a specific rule, the endcut may be adapted to the curvature of the part it is connected to. The current stiffener may be connected to a shell profile or directly to the shell. The curvature of the connected part is approximated by a circle segment with calculated amplitude and the original endcut geometry of the web is intersected by this circle segment. The resulting geometry represents the adapted endcut geometry.

The adapted endcut geometry will be drawn in all sketches. The amplitude approximating the curvature of the connected part will be reported in production documents.

The figure below shows the endcut curvature of a stiffener tightly connected to a shell profile.

The customer specifies that a specific endcut type may adapt to the curvature of connected parts by setting up a rule in a file in a special TIL-format. The rule is written on the following format:

CUT, <endcut type> /CUR;

Example of a file defining endcut adaptation to curvature of connected parts:

CUT, 11 /CUR;

CUT, 21 /CUR;