Cutouts and Inclined Profile Penetrations

When cutouts are made in plates or profiles for penetrating profiles the cutouts will automatically adjust to the type, size and orientation of the penetrating profile. This means for example, that the cutout should consider the angle between the profile and the plane of the penetrated plate / profile. Normal consequences are that the height of the profile and the width of the flange in the section are bigger than the nominal values and that the angle between the web and flange might be different from the normal 90 degrees.

This is to be taken into account when the geometry of the cutouts are generated. This is done automatically by the External Cutout Definition facility but is the responsibility of the customer when writing geometry macros for cutouts.

However, there is also another aspect that might have to be taken into consideration, namely the thickness of the penetrated plate / profile. The options supported by AVEVA Marine are described below.