Customer Set Up of Brackets

This document specifies in detail a facility that is intended to be used to adapt the bracket standard to the needs of a certain customer.

The final shape of a bracket is affected by a large number of factors, most of them possible to set up rules for. These factors may be related to the shape of the bracket plate, rules for how the bracket should be stiffened and for how it should be connected to the structure surrounding it,

Via Bracket Set Up Facility it is possible for customers to control many of the features of brackets and set up their own standards. This is done by writing definition data in an ordinary text file in a special language based on the Interpretative Language (TIL). The format and the handling of the bracket definition file are described in detail in the current document.

The inithull module has a function by which brackets in the setup file can be modified interactively via a wizard. This module can also be used to create quite new brackets. The result will be an updated bracket definition file that has to be compiled for the new/modified brackets to become available for use.