Project: HiCAD Steel Engineering

Elongated Plates

Steel Engineering > New > Standard > Elongated plates

Use this function to insert elongated plates.

Elongated plates combine the properties of beams and plates. They can therefore be processed by Steel Engineering functions for beams and/or for plates.

When you call the function, the Elongated plate dialogue window is displayed.

1. Specify the thickness of the plate.
2. Select the type of the plate, i.e. its material.
3. Specify the width of the plate.
4. Close the dialogue window with OK.

HiCAD prompts you to specify the start point while displaying the Insertion options (as HiCAD would do for the fitting of beams and profiles). What dialogue is displayed after specification of the start point depends on the selected insertion options.

Elongated plate, (1) Thickness, (2) Width

Please note:

• The processing functions for plates can be found in the Steel plate context menu that you activate by a right-click on a plate.
• You can also create entire groups of elongated plates. To do this, you fit the individual plates and apply the Define multi-part standard beams to them. In this way, you can fit, for example, welded plate I-profiles, plate box profiles, or plate cross-profiles with constant cross-section, and change them with the processing functions for beams. The individual plates of the part group will retain their Steel Engineering part character in the process. For the fitting of multi-part standard beams, select the corresponding function via Steel Engineering > New > Standard .
  
  
• For elongated plates that have been inserted along a 3-D composite edge, the dimensions are determined by means of the (internally) developed part (blank). This also means that, for example, the width shown in the Part attributes mask needs not necessarily be identical with the width of the part in the model drawing. The image below shows such a case: An elongated plate with a width of 200 was initially placed along a C-edge. A subtraction via translation was then applied to the part, which changed the width of the part.

Insert Beams (3-D SE) • Insertion Options for Beams and Profiles (3-D SE) • Steel Engineering Functions