Creating Splice Plies

Splice Plies creates splice plies to manage the staggering and the overlapping between the sub-plies (also called cut-pieces).

  1. Select the plies from which you want to create splice plies.
  2. Select a Curve selection mode.

    You cannot select both modes.

  3. Select the Splicing Curves.

    • Intersecting curves are supported.

  4. Optional: Allow extrapolation of the splicing curves or not.
    • When No Extrapolation is selected, partial intersection is not supported. Select curves that fully intersect the ply region, otherwise the splice plies cannot be created.
    • When No Extrapolation is cleared, the selected curves can be extrapolated, and the splice plies can be created.
  5. Define the Staggering Value and the Overlap Value.
  6. The cut-piece curves created are parallel to the curves you have selected. Select the type of parallel to create.

    Computation withParallel planes otherwise geodesic has been improved in 3DEXPERIENCE R2022x:

    • In creation mode, the new computation method is used.
    • If you edit multi-splices computed before 3DEXPERIENCE R2022x, change the Parallel Mode to another value, then select Parallel planes otherwise geodesic again to compute the splicing with the new method.

  7. Optional: Select the Repeat Staggering check box to reuse computed parallels to generate splice plies. Enter a repeat value.
  8. Optional: Select the Offset value check box and enter an offset value.
  9. Optional: Select the Tamp the curves if needed check box to optimize the shape of the cut-pieces.
    All initially generated splicing curves are inspected. Unused curves are removed. The computation formula is updated to create the next curves according to staggering rule and splice plies correctly.
    • When Tamp the curves if needed is cleared

    • When Tamp the curves if needed is selected

    When the check box is selected, when splicing island plies belong to the same sequence, the curves used to create the cut-pieces are not staggered for each plies: the same curves are used for all island plies in the sequence.