About Stiffeners

This topic provides you with a few tips about the placement and orientation of stiffeners.

This page discusses:

See Also
Creating a Stiffener

Support

The selected support must be compatible with the defined category. You can select any of following as a support:

  • Reference planes
  • Structural objects (panel, plate, or stiffener)
  • Curves
  • Sketch
When you select a structural object as a support, the supporting reference plane for the structural object is selected as the support. You can create a plane or a surface to define the support using the commands in Support Toolbox.

Next Solution

The Next Solution button is available only when there are multiple possible solutions for the selected limits and support. The Next Solution button lets you switch from one solution to the next.

In the image below, for the defined limits, there are five possible solutions: S1-E1, S1-E2, S1-E3, S2-E3 and S3-E3.

For a closed plate, with the defined limits, we can get multiple solutions: S1-E1, S1-E2, S2-E1, S2-E2, S1-S2 (if Start limit = End limit) and S2-S1(if Start limit = End limit).

Limits

You can specify start and end limits to the stiffeners. For more information about limits, see About Profile Limits.