Creating a New Stacking Area in the Virtual Stacking

You can create new stacking areas in the Virtual Stacking.

Note: This task is available in Composites Design.

  1. Set View mode to Stacking areas.
  2. Select New Stacking Area from the Tools Palette.
  3. From the Initialize from list, select the stacking area used to initialize the new one.
    The Stacking sequence list is updated accordingly.
  4. In the work area, select the cells that will be part of the stacking area.

    Multiselection is available.

  5. Right-click the stacking sequence and decide to add or remove a ply.

  • The Virtual Stacking is updated with a new stacking area (new plies are listed).
  • If a sequence contains more than one ply, the name is SA.i where i is the number of plies.