Composites Design and Composites Manufacturing Preparation

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Grid Design Section

Zones Design Section

Plies Design Section in Composites Design

Plies Design Section in Composites Manufacturing Preparation

Skin Swapping and Ply Extensions Section in Composites Design

Skin Swapping and Ply Extensions Section in Composites Manufacturing Preparation

Solids and Top Surfaces from Plies Section

Producibility and Splicing Section in Composites Design

Producibility, Flattening and Splicing Section in Composites Manufacturing Preparation

Composites Collaboration Section in Composites Design

Composites Collaboration Section in Composites Manufacturing Preparation

Review Section

Shape Tools Section in Composites Design

Shape Tools Section in Composites Manufacturing Preparation

Predefined Queries

Introductory Concepts

About the Import/Export of External Data

About Composites Geometry

About Power Copy and Composites Parameters

About Draping Direction and Reference Surface Consistency

About Rosette and Rosette Transfer Type

About Composites Fiber Modeling

About On the Fly Information

About Generative View Styles for Composites Design

About Staggering Edition

About Drop-Off

About Drop-Off Pattern

About Plies Creation from Virtual Stacking

About Composites Design Import

About Iso-Thickness Areas

About ITP Height

About Laminates

About Limit Contours and Limit Contour Groups

About Modified Stress Data

About Material Excess

About Merging Plies

About Merging Stacking

About Estimated Cut-Pieces

About Flatten Body Categorization

About the Mirror Representation

About Plies Creation from Slicing

About Skin Swapping

About Stagger Origin Points

About Variable Core

Tutorial - Grid Approach

Defining the Panel

Creating the Grid

Generating the Virtual Stacking

Creating Physical Plies from the Virtual Stacking

Creating Multiple Core Samples

Creating an Exploded View of Plies

Creating the Top Surface

Import, Export, and Manage External Data

Preparing for Import/Export of Files

Defining the Composites Parameters

Adding a Domain to a Material

Upgrading Models to Extended Laminate Data Representation

Adding Materials

Adding Directions

Adding Laminates

Adding Rosettes

Defining a Main Stacking Sequence

Adding Ramp Definitions

Upgrading Models to Ramp Definition

Creating the Preliminary Design

Creating a Contour

Defining a Zones Group

Defining a Zone

Defining a Transition Zone

Refining a Transition Zone

Importing a Laminate

Creating an ITP

Creating an ITP Height

Running the Connection Generator

Analyzing Zones Bridges

Creating a Stack-up File From Zones

Creating a Stack-Up File from Core Samplings

Creating a Solid or a Top Surface From Zones

Creating an Associative Solid From Zones

Updating the Solid

Creating a Drop-Off

Slicing a Solid

Creating Plies

Defining a Plies Group

Creating Plies From Zones

Creating Plies from Slicing

Creating Plies Manually

Modifying Plies

Moving Plies

Creating a Core

Creating a Ply Table

Importing a Ply Table

Limit Contours

Creating a Limit Contour

Editing Limit Contours and Limit Contour Groups

Creating Limit Contours from an Input File

Creating Rounded Corners on Contours

Creating a Symmetric Plies Stacking

Creating/Deleting Symmetric Plies

Merging Plies

Creating a No Drop-Off Area

Creating Darts

Adding Material to Plies

Adding Material to Plies Manually

Using the Material Addition Wizard

Merging Stackings

Removing Ply Shells

Creating Top Surfaces and Solids

Creating or Editing Iso-Thickness Areas

Using the Iso-Thickness Junction Wizard

Creating Iso-Thickness Junction Lines Manually

Creating the Solid from Iso-thickness Areas

Creating a Solid From Plies

Taking Variable Cores into Account in Solids or Top Surfaces

Creating a Top Surface from the Virtual Stackings

Exporting Content

Exporting Ply Data

Exporting to XML

Creating a Ply Book in Drafting

Creating a Ply Book in 2D Layout for 3D Design

Reviewing

Displaying Information on the Fly

Using the Stacking Management

Using the Stacking Management 2D Viewer and Options

Selecting Plies in Stacking Management

Selecting Core Samples in Stacking Management

Reviewing Area, Length and Center of Gravity

Displaying Information in the Stacking Management

Filtering Rows in the Stacking Management

Editing Rows in the Stacking Management

Moving Rows in the Stacking Management

Performing Cut/Copy/Paste in the Stacking Management

Previewing Entities in the Stacking Management

Using the Stacking Management in Selection Mode

Performing a Numerical Analysis

Checking Contours

Creating Plies Sections

Retrieving the Properties of a Beam Section

Exploding Plies

Creating Core Samples

Editing Core Samples

Previewing the Rosette

Creating a Rosette Transfer Curve

Manage the Traceability of VPM Documents

Splice Zones

Creating a Butt Splice Zone

Creating a No Splice Zone

Creating a Gap Offset on a Splice Zone

Creating Splice Plies

Creating Splice Plies from Producibility

Creating Manufacturing Stacking

Preparing for Synchronization

Creating a Manufacturing Stacking

Synchronizing a Manufacturing Stacking

Swapping Skins

Swapping the Skin

Swapping the Skin with Wrap Curve

Managing Skin Swapping Groups

Defining the EEOP or the MEOP

Defining the Material Excess

Adding a Stagger Origin Point

Producibility and Flattening

Managing Producibilities

Creating a Producibility for Hand Layup

Creating a Producibility for Fiber Placement

Editing Producibility Parameters from the Producibility Table

Inspecting the Producibility

Flattening Plies

Categorizing Flatten Body Elements

Transferring a Geometry from 2D to 3D

Displaying the Fiber Direction

Unfolding Entities

Creating a Mirror Representation

Creating a Mirror Representation

Synchronizing a Mirror Representation

Preparing for Collaboration

Creating Additional Geometries

Creating Stacking Texts

Creating Stacking Texts on Plies

Working in Collaborative Mode

Merging Grid Definitions

Assembling Plies Groups by Merging Plies

Creating Plies with a Grid Approach

Defining the Panel

Defining the Grid

Managing the Virtual Stacking

About the Virtual Stacking Management

Using the Virtual Stacking 2D Viewer and Options

Using Virtual Stacking Context Menus

Highlighting Data in the Virtual Stacking

Using Miscellaneous Virtual Stacking Tools

Recomputing the Virtual Stacking from the Grid

Maximizing the Symmetry

Merging Domains in the Virtual Stacking

Creating a New Stacking Area in the Virtual Stacking

Checking Ply Rules in the Virtual Stacking

Editing Rows in the Virtual Stacking

Valuating Cells

Applying a Laminate from a Main Stacking Sequence

Managing Modified Stress Data

Generating the Plies from the Virtual Stacking

Checking Plies Groups for Coincident Edges

Specifying a Ramp Definition

Creating Ramp Supports

Creating Multi-Parallel Curves

Swapping Edges

Rerouting Plies

Creating a Local Drop-Off

Managing Drop-Off

Managing Angle Cuts

Creating Angle Cuts Manually

Initializing Angle Cuts

Using the Grid Angle Cut Wizard

Synchronizing Stacking and Virtual Stacking

Relimiting Plies from Panel Limits

Importing the Design

Exporting the Design

Using Composites Link

About Composites Link

About Composites Link Import Zones

About Composites Link Export Plies

About Files Created by Composites Link

About Composites Link Batch Export

Composites Link - Importing Zones

Composites Link - Importing Plies

Composites Link - Exporting Plies

Composites Link - Exporting Files in Batch Mode

Using Shape Tools

Defining an Axis System

Creating Points

Creating a Point Using Coordinates

Creating a Point on a Curve

Creating a Point on a Plane

Creating a Point on a Surface

Creating a Point Using the Center of a Circle/Sphere/Ellipse

Creating a Point Tangent on a Curve

Creating a Point Between Two Points

Creating Lines

Creating a Line Between Two Points

Creating a Line Using a Point and a Direction

Creating a Line Normal to a Curve

Creating a Line Tangent to a Curve

Creating a Line Normal to a Surface

Creating a Line at the Bisection of Two Lines

Creating Planes

Creating a Plane Offset From another Plane

Creating a Plane Parallel to a Plane and through a Point

Creating a Plane Normal to another Plane

Creating a Plane Through Three Points

Creating a Plane Through Two Lines

Creating a Plane Through a Point and a Line

Creating a Plane Through a Planar Curve

Creating a Plane Normal to a Curve

Creating a Plane Tangent to a Surface

Creating a Plane Using an Equation

Creating a Mean Plane Through Points

Creating a Plane Between two Planes

Creating Circles

Creating a Circle with a Center and a Radius

Creating a Circle with a Center and a Point

Creating a Circle with Two Points and a Radius

Creating a Circle with Three Points

Creating a Circle with a Center and an Axis

Creating a Bitangent Circle (with Two Elements)

Creating a Bitangent Circle (with at least a Point)

Creating a Tritangent Circle

Creating a Circle with a Center Element and a Tangent Curve

Managing Geometrical Sets

Smoothing Curves

Joining Curves or Surfaces

Healing Geometry

Extracting Elements

About Geometry Extraction

Simplifying Surfaces

Unfolding a Surface

Splitting Geometry

Transferring Elements

Working with Drafting

Creating a Drawing

Creating Drawings with Generative View Styles

Linking an Annotation to Composites Design

Reference Information

Composites Design, Composites Manufacturing Preparation, Composites Fiber Modeling Composites Forming File-Based Design Import

Composites Design, Composites Manufacturing Preparation, Composites Fiber Modeling Composites Forming Database Design Import

Composites Exposed Types

Quality Rules Management