Creating Stacking Texts on Plies

This task shows you how to add information to several Composites stacking entities, for example to enhance Laser Projection Export.

Open the ManufacturingData1.CATPart document.

Click Stacking Texts on Plies in the Manufacturing toolbar.
Select the parent of the stacking text.
It can be a stacking, a plies group, a sequence, a ply, a cut-piece or a flatten body.
Stacking text on Plies on unfold feature in not supported.
Select 3D as the type of text.
Then select the type of Anchor: Seed point/Geometrical center or Point.
You have to select or create the point with the contextual menu.
Alternatively, select On flatten as

and choose a category from the list.
Possible choices are No Category, Markers or Texts.
Then select the type of Anchor: Location point of flatten feature or Best fit (automatic).
Best fit (automatic) is a one shot positioning. It is not updated if the ply shape or orientation are modified.

Define the text.
Stacking Text on Plies supports all characters as well as the following key words.
In the resulting text, whenever possible, a keyword is replaced by the corresponding value.
Otherwise, it remains as is in the resulting text.
The interpretation of a keyword depends on its position on the stacking, as shown below.

- Stacking Plies Group Sequence Ply Cut-Piece

%PARTFILENAME% Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

%PARTNUMBER% Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

%PLYGROUP% No Yes Yes Yes Yes

%SEQUENCE% No No Yes Yes Yes

%PLY% No No No Yes Yes

%CUTPIECE% No No No No Yes

%PLYORCUTPIECE% No No No Yes Yes

%PLY_CUTPIECE% No No No Yes Yes/No

%MATERIALNAME% Yes if only 1 material in Stacking Yes if only 1 material in Ply Group Yes if only 1 material in sequence Yes Yes

%MATERIALID% Yes if only 1 material in Stacking Yes if only 1 material in Ply Group Yes if only 1 material in sequence Yes Yes

%DIRECTIONNAME% Yes if only 1 direction in Stacking (unlikely) Yes if only 1 direction in Ply Group (unlikely) Yes if only 1 direction in sequence Yes Yes

%DIRECTIONVALUE% Yes if only 1 direction in Stacking (unlikely) Yes if only 1 direction in Ply Group (unlikely) Yes if only 1 direction in sequence Yes Yes

Define the orientation of the text.
Along ply orientation

Along X axis of flatten plane

Best fit (automatic): The text is rotated to fit in the ply/cut-piece shape.
Define the Size of the font.
Click OK.
The stacking text is created under the chosen category
and depending on its type, under Stacking Text

or under the Flatten Body