The “Cylindrical plate” tool allows drawing curved cylindrical
You can access the tool at the “Plate” drop-down menu. Let’s examine it, by creating two standard plates and uniting them into one employing this tool.
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
Create a plate with dimensions of 1000x1000mm. Choose an arbitrary profile
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
Rotate the view in the way to copy the plate vertically by the Z-axis: select the initial plate, press Ctrl+C and drag it at 400mm vertically. Make sure the orthogonal regime is switched on.
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
Select the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool.
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
In the dialog window appeared, indicate the snapping type “By Faces”,
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
If all operations have been carried out correctly, then you have got an
Note that initially, we had two plates as two separate objects.
After using the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool, the
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
Let’s exercise using the tool by activating the “By Parts”
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
Allocate the second plate perpendicularly to the initial one.
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
To create the second plate, select the top points of the initial object
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
As a result you will get two perpendicular not intersecting with each
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
Go to the “Plate” tool drop-down menu and select the “Create cylindrical bent plate” option, activate the “By parts” snapping type, and set the radius value of 50 mm into the adjacent box.
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
If you carried out all the operations correctly, then your results are
Present Tekla Structures version is not available on the “Create cylindrical bent plate” tool
In practice, this manipulation is substituted with the M-beam profiles. The object’s parameters are similar to standard plate variables.
