Creating Slots and Collars

You can create slots and collars on plates and stiffeners for the free passage of stiffeners.

Before you begin: Open a structure to create slots and collars. The structure must contain:
  • Penetrated elements that can be panels or stiffeners.
  • Penetrating elements that can be stiffeners.
See Also
About Slots and Collars
Editing and Deleting Slots
About Connection Sets
Managing Slots and Collars
In Other Guides
Content for Structure Apps
  1. From the Detail section of the action bar, click Slot .
    The Slot dialog box appears.
  2. In the Penetrated Element box, select a panel or a stiffener.

    If more than one penetrated element are selected, the Penetrated Element box displays the number of selected elements.

  3. In the Penetrating Element box, select stiffeners.

    If more than one penetrated element are selected, the Penetrating Element box displays the number of selected elements.

    Tips:

    • Click each stiffener manually in the work area. The selected element gets highlighted in the Slot dialog box.
    • To select all the stiffeners attached to a plate, select the plate. All the attached stiffeners get selected.

  4. Select the rows, right-click the Slot column, and select Define/Edit Slot to define slots.
    1. In the Define Feature and Parameters dialog box, select a slot type from the Slot Type list.
    2. In the Slot Name list, select the required slot.

      If no Resources Catalog or Resources Library resource is set in Data Setup, the Slot Type list becomes unavailable and you can click More... in the Slot Name list:

      • To select the required slot reference from the catalog or library, if the Structure Reference Catalog or the Structure Reference Library resource is set in Data Setup.
      • To search the required slot reference in the database, if no Structure Reference Catalog or Structure Reference Library resource is set in Data Setup.

      The slot parameters, collar parameters, and collar material and orientation are displayed under the Parameters area. The public parameters of slot and collar are displayed in respective tabs.
      Important: If the selected slot section does not contain any collar, the collar parameters tab is dimmed.
    3. Select the Linked to reference check box to link the instantiated slot with its slot reference.
  5. Optional: Right-click the Forming Mode column to select the required mode.
  6. Click OK.
    The slots and collars are created.
    Slots with collars

    Slots without collars

    Slots on stiffeners

    Here the deck transverse stiffener is penetrating the deck longitudinal stiffeners.



Important: The slots are represented by a positioned contour in the 3D area.