Creating a Reinforcement

You can create reinforcements for external strength. It adds material to the outside of material volumes that it intersects.

See Also
About Reinforcements
Creating Functional Features
Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context
  1. From the Create section of the action bar, click Reinforcement .
  2. Select the profile to be used. It can be an open or closed profile.

    Tip: If no profile is defined, click Positioned Sketch to sketch the profile.

  3. To define the ceiling, enter a value in the Length box under ceiling. This sets the distance from the sketch plane up to the ceiling.


  4. To define the opening, enter a value in the Length box under Opening. This sets the distance from the sketch plane up to the opening.
  5. In the Width box, enter a value to define the width of the reinforcement. The width is distributed equally to both sides of the profile.
  6. In the Fillet tab, select the Ceiling radius check box to fillet the top of the profile and enter a value to define the ceiling radius value.

    Tip: If the rest is to be shelled, you can select the Constant wall thickness check box under Wall which propagates the fillets into the shell, thus maintaining a constant wall thickness.

  7. To define the wall, you can set one of the two options available from the Type list under Wall:

    Important:
    • You can control whether the wall is constructed inside or outside of the selected profile. The default is an inside wall thickness.
    • The width of a wall should be more than twice the shell thickness for the creation of a reinforcement feature.

    The reinforcement is created. Reinforcement.x is added to the tree in the Solid Functional Set.x node.