Composites Design

 

This page deal with options concerning:

Load Material Catalog

When selected, loads the material catalog along with the CATPArt.
  By default, this option is not selected.
 

Producibility Default Behavior

The selected option determines the default behavior of Producibility.
This behavior can be modified in the Producibility dialog box, until plies are selected.

  By default, Create a new producibility under all plies or ply is selected.
 

Export Format

You can choose between two default Excel file formats to export or import data:

  • Excel (.xls)
    The default format to import or export Excel files will be a Excel (.xls).
  • Extended Excel (.xlsx)
    The default format to import or export Excel files will be a Extended Excel (.xlsx).
  By default, Excel (.xls) is selected.
 

Command Availability

You can disable non-applicable commands. This improves the general performance.
  By default, this option is selected.

Ply Data Export

You can force the export of data to IGES 3D format, even for flatten 2D geometries that are normally exported to IGES 2D format.
This option impacts the behavior of Ply Data Export.
To illustrate the explanations below, the have used a model like this one.
  • When Force generation of IGES 3D file whenever IGES 2D (flatten geometries) option used is cleared:
    • When IGES 3D (3D contours) is selected, 3D contours of plies are exported to IGES 3D standard .igs format.
    • When IGES 2D (flatten geometries) is selected, flatten geometries, if any, are exported to IGES 2D standard .ig1 format.
    • When DXF (flatten geometries) is selected, flatten geometries, if any, are exported to DXF standard .dxf format.
  • When Force generation of IGES 3D file whenever IGES 2D (flatten geometries) option used is selected:
    • When IGES 2D (flatten geometries) is selected, flatten geometries, if any, are exported to IGES 3D standard .igs format.

  By default, this option is not selected.
 

Grid and Virtual Stacking

You can optionally display

  • The number of layers for all orientations thickness laws.
  • The cell information.
By default, these options are not selected.
 

Additional command behaviors

When working with a grid approach, you can get alerts when overlapping plies are found.
  By default, this option is selected.
 

Additional display for Tree

In the specification tree:
  • You can identify plies generated from a virtual stacking. Those plies are linked to the virtual stacking and are re-synchronized whenever the virtual stacking is updated.
  • Provided the manufacturing stacking is created with all specs, you can show content of the preliminary design node in the manufacturing stacking.
    The content of the preliminary design can be extended laminates and zones and transitions zones.
By default, these options are not selected.

Plies Group Consistency Check

When selected, checks the consistency between the draping direction and the reference surface in plies group.
Whatever the status of this option, an inconsistency mask is displayed in the specification tree, and a check is done when updating or editing a plies group.
Likewise, the diagnosis cannot be disabled in commands where inconsistent inputs lead to incorrect or unexpected results.
  By default, this option is selected.
 

Ramp Specifications

Allow Centered Ramp Supports (Not Recommended) gives access to the Centered Ramp Supports option when specifying Ramp Definitions. It is not a recommended option, but it can be useful in cases like legacy purpose.

Show Ramp Definitions created by Grid Angle Cut displays the Angle Cut Ramp Definitions node in the specification tree.

By default, these options are not selected.