About Advanced Copy

The Advanced Copy command enables you to copy or move one or more element ( panels, plates, stiffeners, members, openings, parametric plates) along reference planes.

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Creating Advanced Copy

The copy and paste capability enables you to duplicate the data, but it fails in carrying out the complex copy and pasting operation where multiple specification changes happen. Using Advanced Copy, you can move or copy the structural elements successfully along the reference planes.

The objects are copied or moved taking into account the following:

  • The position information of the original object and its parent products
  • The position information of the target parent products
  • Reference planes:
    • The source and destination planes in case of the Translate mode
    • The symmetry plane in case of the Symmetry mode
Important: While performing advanced copy on positioned objects, you must do one of the following:
  • Isolate links to external elements.
  • Copy all the linked external elements together.

The following principles show how the translation and symmetry are performed:

Principle for Advanced Copy Command in Translation mode

Translation is the displacement of an element from one position to another position.

An element x has several inputs like Plane Xn (plane number n in the family X) and Plane Ym. If the plane Xn is translated by z planes, it is possible to change or replace the input of the element x to reflect the transformation and obtain the following:

The specification for each element changes while performing translation operation.

  • If the specification of a plate is a reference plane that belongs to the same selection set along which it is translated, the new specification are rerouted.
  • If the specification does not belong to the selection set along which it is translated, the specifications are not changed and the object is not modified.

Principle for Advanced Copy in Symmetry mode

Symmetry is an operation in which an element is transformed by mirror symmetry with respect to a reference plane. In the Symmetry mode, each input of an element x gets replaced by its symmetrical part.

For example, LONG.1 becomes LONG.-1, if the symmetry plane is the CenterLine plane.

Move or Copy Elements

Select one or more structure objects to be moved or copied. The following columns are updated:

  • Element Name: Displays a list of the selected object.
  • Type: Displays the type of the selected object.
  • Status: Displays if the selected object is compatible to be moved or not.

    If the status is:

    • OK: The selected objects can be moved.
    • Same: The selected object is same and the inputs are not modified.
    • Out of Bound: The selected object is using a specification for which no reference plane is available. It indicates that selected input is incorrect and needs to be changed.
    • GSD Objects Found: The selected object is using wireframe object (plane, line, sketch or 3D axis) as input. If the Automatic Copy and Reroute of GSD Objects is cleared, you need to manually reroute the wireframe object.
    • Error: The object after advanced copy or move is in error and needs to be rerouted.
To analyze the rerouting of the elements, right-click and select Reroute Analysis. The Reroute Analysis dialog box appears.

Reroute Status

Displays the computed status where each input will move. The different statuses are:

  • Automatic: the current element is automatically rerouted.
  • In Selection: the current element is selected and will be translated.
  • Same: the same element is used for copied objects.
  • GSD Automatic: the current element is a wireframe object and the Automatic Copy and Reroute of GSD Objects check box is selected.
  • GSD Manual: the current element is a wireframe object and the Automatic Copy and Reroute of GSD Objects check box is cleared. To manually reroute this object, right-click the GSD Object row and select Copy GSD Element.
  • Manual: the current input is changed to the proposed input.

The Proposed column displays the manually selected input that replaces the current input while performing advanced copy or move. To define a proposed input, click in the Proposed column in the required row and select the input in the 3D area. The selected input appears in the Proposed column and the status is changed to Manual.

Global Reroute: Indicates whether the input is rerouted locally or globally. Only if the current input is used in multiple objects that are selected for advanced copy, the Global Reroute check box is available.

Notes:
  • If the current input is used in multiple objects, you can replace it with the proposed input by selecting the Global Reroute check box. By default, the Global Reroute check box is selected.
  • If you want to replace the current input with the proposed input for the selected element, clear the Global Reroute box.
  • To reset the proposed input, right-click in the Proposed column and select Reset.