About Supporting Beam Fabrication

You can generate the manufacturing features and XML file supported for stiffeners. It supports beams having noncircular or nonclosed sections.

This page discusses:

Feature Creation

The following features support: BSU, Outer Contour, Attachment Line (On connected Plate), Alignment Line, Positive Margin, Edge Preparation, Manufacturing End cut, IBC, Feature transfer.

  1. BSU and Outer Contour Features: generated during update IPMs.
  2. Feature creation with Profile Rules:
    1. Features create on the beam after reading the Profile Rules defined in the PRM.





    2. These rules enable you to create the following features on the beam:
      • Positive margins on the free faces of the beam (web start, web end, flange start, flange end, bottom).
      • Negative margins on the free faces of the beam (web start, web end, flange start, flange end, bottom).
      • Edge preparations on the free faces of the beam (web start, web end, flange start, flange end, bottom).
  3. Opening Rules:

    Opening preparation completes on the profile as per the rule defined in the PRM.

  4. Feature creation with Weld Rules: SDD supports the following types of welds, which involves a beam.



    1. Butt-Beam-Plate
      • In this case, the attachment line creates on the plate and the alignment creates on the beam.
      • Also, depending on the weld rules, cutting features like edge prep, positive margin, negative margin then places on the beam face, which has limits.



    2. Tee-Profile-Profile
      • In SDD, if a beam is created using the Beams and Plane option, then the weld type between them is of type Tee-Profile-Profile.



      • In this case, attachment line + alignment creates on two vertical profiles (SFE/Stiffener/Member).
      • And, the alignment line creates on the horizontal beam.
    3. Butt-Profile-Profile
      • When a beam is created using the option Point to Point, then there is a possibility that the weld type would be Butt-Profile-Profile.
      • In this case, attachment line + alignment creates on two vertical profiles (SFE/Stiffener/Member).
      • And, the alignment line creates on the horizontal beam.



    4. Tee-Profile
      • When a beam welds to an underlying plate, then this scenario arises.
      • Attachment line + alignment line creates on the plate.
      • Alignment line creates on the beam.
      • Also depending on the weld rule, cutting features create on the bottom face.



  5. Features created on the curved beam transfers onto the flattened beam.
  6. Roll lines generate on rolled beams.
  7. IBC generates for bent beams.
  8. Overlength creates on beams.

Feature Edition

  1. BSU is edited by changing to the BSU tab page.
  2. In the same tab page, the cutting length.



  3. The attachment line marked side and marking side can manipulate.
  4. Opening preparation for beams can edit through the opening preparation tab page.
  5. End cuts applied on the beam are in the end cut tab page.
  6. Margins can edit.



  7. If required, edit the Edge prep.



Workshop Documents

  1. Profile sketch generates for beams.
  2. Profile XML and IBC XML generate separately.



  3. A generated XML.