Creating a Member-Driven Plate

Member-Driven Plate lets you create a plate whose position and orientation are determined by the catalog member geometry, plate geometry, or clip angle geometry.

  1. Select a positioning point on the neutral axis of a catalog member, a plate, or a clip angle.
  2. In the Member-Driven Plate dialog box, select the shape of the plate and specify the dimensions of the plate.

    Tip: You can use the dimension manipulators in the 3D area to modify the dimensions of the plate.

  3. To position the origin of the U, V axes of the plate relative to the host column, select any one alignment point.

    Note: The alignment points that can be selected are displayed in the work area.

  4. Click Snap Rotation To Next Plane to change the orientation of the plate and link it to another plane relative to the host member.
  5. Align the plate in the U and V directions.
  6. Select the thickness orientation of the plate.
    OptionDescription
    Front side Applies the thickness on the positive side of the UV plane.
    Back side Applies the thickness on the negative side of the UV plane.
    Both sides Applies the thickness centered on the UV plane.
  7. Click Member-Driven Plate Options and specify the offsets for the plate in the U, V, and W directions.

    Notes:
    • You can click to reset the offset values.
    • You can select the Show additional alignment points check box to display the additional alignment points that can be selected.

  8. Click Ok .

 

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