About Power Copy and Composites Parameters

Below is some information about using Create Power Copy and Instantiate from Selection to quickly reuse and edit materials, rosettes, laminates, ramp definitions or the whole Composites Parameters from another 3DShape into the current one.

See Also
Defining the Composites Parameters

For more information, see Managing Power Copies in Generative Shape Design User's Guide.

You can create Power Copy features for a whole set of Composites Parameters or for individual ones (Materials, rosettes, laminates, ramp definitions) but not for Main Stacking Sequences.

Instantiation is done as follows:

  • Instantiation of the whole set of Composites Parameters: They are created with replacing input parameters as selected by you. All the individual parameters are created similar to the source Composites parameters.
    Note: Instantiation of the whole set of Composites Parameters is impossible if a set of Composites Parameters already exists in the 3DShape.
  • Instantiation of individual parameters requires that a set of Composites Parameters already exists in the 3DShape.
  • For materials:
    • If the name of the instantiated material is not already present in the current 3DShape, the material is created with this name.
    • If the name of the instantiated material is already present in the current 3DShape (For example Carbon 0.4), the material is created with its name changed to <materialname>(Number of Occurrence). In our example, Carbon 0.4(2)
  • For rosettes:
    • Select the mandatory inputs (Axis System and transfer curve if the source rosette is defined with 0/90 degree guided by the curve).
    • The rosette is instantiated in the existing Composites Parameters, similar to the source rosette but with the replacing mandatory inputs.
  • For ramp definitions:
    • Select the mandatory inputs (For example geometry selected for clearance geometry field, or start and end curves for Between two curves type of ramp definitions).
    • The ramp definition is instantiated in the existing Composites Parameters, similar to the source ramp definition but with the replacing mandatory inputs.
    • If an automatic name is defined on the source ramp definition, the name of the instantiated ramp definition is modified accordingly.
  • For laminates:
    • Select the mandatory inputs (Materials and orientations).
    • If the name of the instantiated laminate is not already present in the current 3DShape, the laminate is created with this name.
    • If the name of the instantiated laminate is already present in the current 3DShape (For example TL.1), the laminate is created with its name changed to <Laminatename>(Number of Occurrence). In our example, TL.1(2).
    • Power Copy of a source laminate that contains a MSS layer information is created without the MSS Layer information. The laminate is instantiated by replacing the material and orientation corresponding to your selection and with its type defined as Stacking Sequence (SS).
  • Orientations are not supported, We recommend you create them.
  • For Main Stacking Sequences:
    • They are not supported.
      Recommendation: Export the Main Stacking Sequence from the source document and import it in the current one.
    • MSS layer information associated to the laminate in SS-MSS mode are lost during the power copy of laminates.
      Tip: Use the Power Copy of a Composites Parameters feature in a 3DShape without existing Composites Parameters.